THIS WAY OUT * THIS WAY OUT * THIS WAY OUT OUT Since 1988, Public Radio's Only Weekly National Voice For Gays & Lesbians TO: ALL STATIONS, especially PROGRAM, NEWS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORS DATE: Monday - November 7, 1994 RE: "THIS WAY OUT - the international gay & lesbian radio magazine": Content Description and Segment Times for this week's program Program I.D. #94-F72-00045 ("T.W.O." Program #345) FEEDS EVERY MONDAY 14:30-14:59 E.T. 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: * Kenya kicks out some foreign queers; * "Lambda" presses for constitutional reform in Poland; * Celebrated historian/author Dr. John Boswell says the Ancient Greek and Romans DIDN'T have a word for it ... ... and more! ******RUNDOWN****** OPENING TEASES/THEME MUSIC/INTRO CONTINUITY .............. 1:20 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: A gay Australian, Netherlander & U.S. citizen are expelled from Kenya because homosexuality is "morally unacceptable" there; 12 staffmembers of Britain's Children's Society resign to protest the Churchof England-run charity's policy against same-gender foster parents; gay male couple together for over 45 years file appeal to Canadian Supreme Court over denial of federal spousal pension benefits; Connecticut's Lambda Amateur RadioClub gains generous benefits in out-of-court settlement of discrimination lawsuit against The American Radio Relay League over the League's refusal to run the Club's classified ad in its monthly "QST" magazine; organizers of Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade file appeal with U.S. Supreme Court over lower court's ruling requiring them to allow Irish queers to march, which led to their cancelling this year's parade rather than complying with the lower court order; U.S. Federal Elections Committee files suit demanding fines of over a million dollars against The Christian Action Network for violating election laws with its homophobic anti-Clinton political ads; open lesbian Christina Schenk joins open gay Volker Beck in the German Bundestag; U.S. Immigration Service grants asylum to openly-gay Turkish man--second such action this year recognizing queers as a persecuted social group; U.S. Public Health Service sets up two toll-free AIDS info hotlines (1-800-HIV-8440 for treatment options info; 1-800-272-4787 for free computer access to National Library Of Medicine AIDS treatment database); in Philadelphia, a real-life AIDS discrimination lawsuit ironically parellelling last year's film starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks is settled out of court--plaintiff will go to work for the law firm that represented him; Richardson, Texas School Board refuses $250 prize from The AIDS Resource Foundation charging that the organization is "a subsidiary of the gay and lesbian lifestyle"; and an openly-gay man and an open lesbian are Homecoming King and Queen at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point -- but which one's the queen? [compiled & written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to JASON LIN & RON BUCKMIRE, and anchored by BRIAN NUNES and CINDY FRIEDMAN] ...................... 9:30 SEGMENT #2 - Brief thanks to some recent individual "TWO" financial donors [voiced by CINDY & BRIAN] (intro sfx from "Money" by PINK FLOYD; segues under to music from "Thank you Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin" by SLY & THE FAMILY STONE) [1:00] + "TWO" I.D. by lesbian-feminist performance artist Monica Palacios [:10] .............................................................................. ............. 1:10 SEGMENT #3 - "Lambda", a coalition of gay & lesbian groups in Poland, is emerging full force to press the government (and the highly-influential Catholic Church) to include sexual orientation anti-discrimination protections in the country's new constitution early next year; from Poland, reporter MARY McGAREN [from BBC Radio 5's "Out This Week"] talks with some local activists about the battles they and the country's estimated 2 million other gays & lesbians face in their day to day lives .............................................................................. ....................... 5:00 SEGMENT #4 - "TWO" I.D. by Digital Queers Co-Chair Tom Rielly [:10] + Yale University History Professor DR. JOHN BOSWELL (author of 1980's highly-acclaimed "Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality" and this year's "Same Sex Unions In Pre-Modern Europe") discusses attitudes towards gays & lesbians in the pre-Christian Greek and Roman societies in this first installment from a presentation he made at a Symposium sponsored in part by the New York Council For The Humanities in 1987 [tape courtesy of Pacifica Program Service] (intro/outro music--starts under back I.D. outroing previous Segment--and runs under concluding :40 promo for next week's installment--from "It Ain't Necessarily So" by BRONSKI BEAT) .............................................................................. ........ 10:20 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY ........................................................ 1:10 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME ........................................................................ 28:30 --------------------- Please note ----------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to send them directly to "T.W.O." 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