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                           The week of 01/16/06 on
                          T H I S    W A Y    O U T
   (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
 An innuendo-armed collector shares more that's "Stranger Than Straight";
A crackdown in India raises human rights and HIV concerns, a Jamaican man
 drowns fleeing an anti-gay mob, Australia speaks now but withholds peace
 from its gay man's Dutch wedding, adoption rights follow UK partnership
     legalization, New Jersey extends rights to same-gender couples,
 prosecution of Polish Pride marchers is proscribed, and more GLBT news

* In "NewsWrap": India's government faces renewed pressure from human rights 
groups and UNAIDS over its colonial-era sodomy law on the heels of the arrests 
of 4 gay men in an Internet "sting" and increasing harassment at gay 
venues... a man being chased by an anti-gay mob to his death is the latest in the 
continuing violence against queers in Jamaica... Australia's government refuses to 
certify the "single" status of its overseas lesbigay citizens who need that 
document to marry their same gender partners in countries where it's legal... 
adoption rights for unmarried hetero and queer couples become official in 
England and Wales, while in the U.S. two bills enhancing lesbigay couples' rights 
are overwhelmingly approved by the New Jersey state legislature... courts in 
Poznan, Poland refuse to charge queer rights demonstrators for "illegally 
gathering" at a Pride march there in November... there's "Brokeback Mountain" 
screening strife in Utah and Queensland... and other GLBT news from around the world 
(written this week by Greg Gordon and Jon Beaupre and reported by JON BEAUPRE 
and CHRISTOPHER GAAL).

* The legendary American DJ known as "Dr. Demento" raised audio kitsch to an 
artform.  As "NURSE PIMENTO," Southern California gay activist and radio 
producer DAVID FRADKIN added his own kind of spice in pursuing the peculiarities of 
popular culture.  We got a nice dose of the late Fradkin's unique collection 
of music, film, and comedy recordings on last week's show.  The practitioner 
makes a follow-up visit to conclude the early 80's presentation he called 
"STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT" (Part 2 of 2, this week featuring a brief musical snippet 
by EDIE GORME, an obscure song of uncertain origin by DANNY KAYE, the words of 
Holocaust teen diarist ANNE FRANK, a witty ditty by the ever-so-sophisticated 
NOEL COWARD, a Sandy Dennis/George Segal film clip from "Who's Afraid of 
Virginia Woolf", and BESSIE SMITH singing and her niece RUBY talking with Chris 
Albertson about an especially entertaining "Buffet Flat").
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