======================================== To listen to the current "This Way Out" online copy/paste into your browser www.outinamerica.com/arts/two.asp, click on the OIA link at www.thiswayout.org, or check the stations link there for our 150+ local broadcast affiliates ======================================== THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine RUNDOWN for Program #986, distributed 02/19/07 (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Meet the man in the middle of the Anglican crisis: openly gay New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson; Nigerian lawmakers play politics with horrifying anti-queer legislation, Putin proclaims respect for Russia's sexual minorities, engaging Valentine actions mark the 10th annual U.S. Freedom To Marry Day, an Argentine lesbian couple "courts" marriage equality, more news Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . :57 SEGMENT #1 - "NewsWrap": A committee of the Nigerian House of Representatives holds public hearings on what may be the most draconian, homophobic legislation ever proposed anywhere in the world, while Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first-ever public comments about gays and lesbians; queer Valentine's Day actions include same-gender couples seeking marriage licenses across the U.S. on the 10th annual Freedom To Marry Day, a lesbian couple in Argentina being denied a marriage license in Buenos Aires vowing to take their case to court, more than 100 couples holding an "engagement party" in Mexico City's central plaza in advance of a civil unions law taking effect there in mid-March, and a half-dozen lesbians and gay men demonstrating for marriage equality in Beijing; an estimated 12,000 people, including the Prime Minister, opposition leader and several MPs, celebrate Auckland, New Zealand's seventh annual Big Gay Out, while New Zealand's Georgina Beyer, the world's first transsexual member of a national parliament, says she's leaving office this month (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to LUCIA CHAPPELLE, GRAHAM UNDERHILL and REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and DON LUPO). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:58 SEGMENT #2 - GENE ROBINSON may have hoped that the election of Katherine Jefferts Schorri would take him out of the spotlight, but it didn't work out that way. When the EPISCOPAL CHURCH USA made Jefferts Schorri its first female presiding bishop, her gender and her staunch support of openly gay bishop of New Hampshire Robinson did nothing to cool the rage of the conservative Anglicans threatening schism. Jefferts Schorri is in the hot seat this week at a world conference of Anglican bishops in Tanzania, where conservatives have refused to take Communion with her and are demanding that both she and the U.S. church be disciplined for elevating Robinson. The meeting may go down as the most fractious in modern Anglican history. Meanwhile, Bishop Robinson has been occupying a different kind of hot seat. As one of the stars of "For the Bible Tells Me So," a documentary about LGBT families and the impact of religion, he was among the most popular celebrities at this year's Sundance Film Festival. When you sit down and talk with him face-to-face, as This Way Out correspondent VIVIAN MARIE did, it's hard to figure out why this warm, loving man scares the vestments off his Anglican peers (with a "TWO" I.D. by transsexual New Zealand MP GEORGINA BEYER over instrumental intro music, intro and transition music from "Down At Stonewall" by JALLEN RIX, a :43 "TWO" I.D. by ELLEN DEGENERES and re-intro at about 8:07 into this segment/19:02 into the program, and outro music from "Come Out and Go Forth" by MARSHA STEVENS). . . . . . . . 16:20 [www.nhepiscopal.org] Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:33 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:48 ================================ * =============================== STATION PROMO COPY: ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," MEET THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ANGLICAN CRISIS: OPENLY GAY NEW HAMPSHIRE EPISCOPAL BISHOP GENE ROBINSON... AND IN THE NEWS, NIGERIAN LAWMAKERS PLAY POLITICS WITH DRACONIAN ANTI-QUEER LEGISLATION, PUTIN PROCLAIMS RESPECT FOR RUSSIA'S SEXUAL MINORITIES, ENGAGING VALENTINE ACTIONS MARK THE 10TH ANNUAL U.S. FREEDOM TO MARRY DAY, AN ARGENTINE LESBIAN COUPLE "COURTS" MARRIAGE EQUALITY, AND BRAVE BEIJING ACTIVISTS DEMONSTRATE FOR WEDDING RIGHTS. ALL THAT - AND MORE THIS WEEK - WHEN YOU TUNE IN TO "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE", ______________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON __________________________. 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