THIS WAY OUT * THIS WAY OUT * THIS WAY OUT * -Since 1988, Public Radio's Only Weekly National Voice For Gays & Lesbians- TO: ALL STATIONS, especially PROGRAM, NEWS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORS DATE: Monday - October 31, 1994 RE: "THIS WAY OUT - the international gay & lesbian radio magazine": Content Description and Segment Times for this week's program (T.W.O." Program #344) FEEDS EVERY MONDAY at 14:30-14:59 ET on CHANNEL 12 = AIR THE ENTIRE HALF-HOUR AND/OR USE SELECTED SEGMENTS = FREE OF CHARGE! USAGE LIMITED ONLY BY TIMELINESS OF NEWS CONTENT! ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: * Consensual gay sex quietly decriminalized in war-torn Serbia; * Russian Duma requires AIDS testing of all foreigners, and expulsion for all those testing HIV positive; * 7,000 pounds restores the Halls of Radclyffe; * Zimbabwe-born, Kiwi-raised and Phoenix-based singer/songwriter Jess Hawk Oakenstar "Leaves A Little Light Behind" ... ... and more! ******RUNDOWN****** OPENING TEASES/MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY ...........................1:10 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: According to the Serbian gay & lesbian group Arkadia, consensual sex between men above age 14 has been quietly decriminalized there; members of Albania's recently-formed gay & lesbian group, Shogata Gay Albania, have been suffering increased beatings and jailings by police; Russia's lower house of Parliament, The Duma, has voted to require HIV tests for all foreign residents and to expel all those who test positive; a Delhi-based gay AIDS organization, AIDS Bedbhav Virodhi Andolan, has filed a court challenge to India's sodomy statute, Penal Code Section 377; meanwhile, India's Human Resources Ministry has scrapped plans for school classroom sex and AIDS education; a People's Republic of China major 50-day sex education exhibit, which among other breakthroughs treats homosexuality in factual, non-judgemental fashion, has been drawing crowds in Beijing; a Brazilian gay activist is badly beaten by police while trying to hand out condoms to street transvestites; Canada Customs' announcement that it will no longer intercept imported materials depicting anal sex fails to impress Vancouver's Little Sisters Bookstore, which is currently challenging customs seizures in the B.C.Supreme Court; former New Zealand TV3 anchor Lindsay Perigo comes out publically as a gay man, although he says "no one's ever asked me!"; Australia's Labor Party endorses open lesbian Susan Harber for a New South Wales seat in Parliament; Australian soap hunk GUY PEARCE says he attended Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras for inspiration as he prepared for the role of "Felicia" in the hit movie about 3 disco drag divas' trek across the Australian outback, "The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert" (excerpt from Pearce's comments to the BBC's "Out This Week"; intro music from "I Love The Nightlife", from the movie soundtrack, by ALICIA BRIDGES); and researchers 10,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean intrude on two male octopuses having sex! (intro/outro music from "Octopus's Garden" by THE BEATLES) [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to JASON LIN and RON BUCKMIRE; anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & BRIAN NUNES] ............................................................ . 9:55 SEGMENT #2 - "TWO" I.D. by lesbian-feminist comic Kate Clinton [:15] + Thanks to a one-woman quest, after several years of falling into disrepair, the Highgate Cemetery tomb of lesbian writer Radclyffe Hall ("The Well Of Loneliness") has been lovingly restored, and was formally dedicated on October 7th, the 51st anniversary of her death [DAVID COOK/BBC Radio 5's "Out This Week" reports from London] (intro/outro music from "Sweet Friends" by MARGIE ADAM) ..................................... 5:35 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by national U.S. lesbian/gay rights leader Urvashi Vaid [:20] + promo for "TWO" audio cassettes [LUCIA & GREG; background music from "Waves" by MARGIE ADAM] .............................................................................. .............................. :55 SEGMENT #4 - Lesbian-feminist singer/songwriter JESS HAWK OAKENSTAR was born in Zimbabwe, spent the 1980's in New Zealand, and is now based in Phoenix, Arizona. She talks with TWO's JEAN FREER about the variety of venues at which she's performed, and discusses some of the cuts from her first solo album "LEAVE A LITTLE LIGHT BEHIND" [on Hallows Records] (includes excerpts from "Gold In The Tapestry", "Heroes", "Leave A Little Light Behind" and "Dear Gertrude Stein") .............................................................................. ..................... 10:15 [info provided at end of segment: contact Oakenstar's manager Dianne Post by phone at 602/258-7985; or write to 1826 East Willetta; Phoenix, AZ 85006-3047] CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ..................................................... 1:00 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME .................................................................... 28:50 ------------------ Please note -------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to send them directly to "T.W.O." 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