********************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #571 (Distributed 03/08/99) ********************************************************* Another homophobic hate murder stuns the U.S., a Chinese gay student group fights backlash, and consent may finally be equalized in Britain 250+ events in every U.S. state will show that "Equality Begins At Home" For "Parody Romantic" "That`s Forever" "Know The Code" from the "AudioFile" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRSS issued an "impairment" notice for this program; please be advised that the "impairment" consists of a slight fuzziness in the spoken word portions of the last segment, about 20:30 - 26:40; the rest of the program is fine. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Opening Theme Music/Intro Continuity [no teases this week] >................................ :35 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Another grisly gay-bashing murder -- Billy Jack Gaither in Alabama -- again stuns the U.S. [with brief comments by the Nat`l Gay & Lesbian Task Force`s TRACEY CONATY], even as Wyoming and New Mexico hate crimes bills are killed; Lou Sheldon`s Traditional Values Coalition uses blatant lies in ad campaign attacking California student protection bill; China`s newly-formed first-ever gay and lesbian campus group stands up to immediate backlash; a Cairo college bans gay Moroccan`s novel; Britain`s House of Commons overwhelmingly approves age of consent equality -- again; the U.K. will count same-gender couples in its next census (2001); gay taunts disrupt British pro soccer match; popular transgender Thai kickboxer Parinya Klatbusaba announces a change of careers; bisexual singer Dusty Springfield dies of breast cancer at the age of 59, while openly-gay Tony-award-winning director Jose Quintero loses his battle with cancer at the age of 74, and former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, best known for authoring the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling upholding abortion rights, but who also wrote a strong dissent to the Court`s 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision chiding his colleagues for their knee-jerk homophobia, dies at the age of 90 [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, MARTIN RICE, REX WOCKNER, CHRIS AMBIDGE, GREG GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by LEO GARCIA and CINDY FRIEDMAN] ............................ 10:50 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for EBAH + AudioFile [:10] + When two Alabama men confessed this week that they had bludgeoned BILLY JACK GAITHER to death because he was gay, Coosa County authorities were quick to recognize that the murder was clearly a hate crime -- except for one thing: Alabama`s hate crimes law does not include crimes against gays and lesbians. Shocked residents of the rural community have been cooperative in helping to solve the crime, which has stunned a nation still reeling from the hate-motivated killings of James Byrd, Jr. and Matthew Shepard. Pacifica Radio`s VERNA AVERY BROWN's report includes comments by Sylacauga deputy AL BRADLEY and DAVID WHITE of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance of Alabama [3:55] + "TWO" I.D. by Tom Robinson (with an excerpt from TRB`s "Glad To Be Gay") [:30] >.............................................................................. >................................................................... 4:35 SEGMENT #3 - AudioFile billboard [:15] + "EQUALITY BEGINS AT HOME" is a first-ever coordinated series of actions and events for lesbigay equal rights during the week of March 21st. Upwards of 250 events already planned in every U.S. state, D.C. and Puerto Rico range from legislative lobbying to barnstorming bus tours. TRACEY CONATY of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and GINA REISS of the Federation of Statewide GLBT Organizations provide the whys and wherefores, along with "more info" contact numbers*, in conversation with This Way Out`s GREG GORDON [4:15] >.............................................................................. >................................................................... 4:30 [*EBAH coordinator Paula Ettelbrick in NYC: 212/633-9775; PEttelbrick@ngltf.org; website: www.equalitybeginsathome.org] SEGMENT #4 - Electronic, acoustic and rock-edged music newly-out on CD are in this month`s "AUDIOFILE", as CHRIS WILSON & PAM MARSHALL [with production by CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM] preview "Know The Code" (CYPHERE), "Parody Romantic" (ERNEST DAVID LIJOI) and "That`s Forever" (DEBBIE CLEMMER) >.......... 6:10 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY >.............................................................................. >.................. 1:10 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME >.............................................................................. >.................................. 27:50 -----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at: TWOradio@aol.com ------------------------------thanks! -------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON “THIS WAY OUT”, HOMOPHOBIA MOTIVATES ANOTHER U.S. HATE MURDER, A CHINESE GAY STUDENT GROUP STANDS UP TO BACKLASH, AND THE THIRD VOTE MIGHT BE THE CHARM FOR AGE OF CONSENT REFORM IN BRITAIN ... OVER 250 LOCAL RIGHTS EVENTS ARE PLANNED ACROSS THE U.S. LATER THIS MONTH TO SHOW THAT "EQUALITY BEGINS AT HOME" ... AND NEWLY-OUT ELECTRONIC, ACOUSTIC AND ROCK-EDGED CDs ARE PREVIEWED IN THIS MONTH`S "AUDIOFILE". SO TUNE IN TO“THIS WAY OUT:THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE”, _________________________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON _____________________________________ [STATION] ==========================*============================== Some "THIS WAY OUT" operating expenses are funded by grants from THE GILL FOUNDATION, THE C.P. 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