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                             THIS WAY OUT
                the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                    Program #985 - the week of 02/12/07
       (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A bisexual triad of comic opera proportions in "Puccini For Beginners";
 "Running" with Augusten Burroughs could cause "Possible Side Effects";
 Profiling pioneering US lawmaker Barbara Jordan in a "Rainbow Minute";
  Colombia's top court codifies shared asset rights of queer couples,
Italy's cabinet settles on a civil unions bill, Aussie feds ACT against
       a territorial partners proposal, and more global GLBT news

*In "NewsWrap": Colombia's highest court rules that they should have the same 
rights to shared assets as heterosexual couples, while Portugal's lesbigay 
couples gain healthcare and immigration rights, and the coalition government 
cabinet of Italian P.M. Romano Prodi finally settles on legislation to establish 
a form of civil unions... Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock nixes a 
new "Civil Partnerships Bill" even before it's been debated in the Australian 
Capital Territory... a transgender woman in Nepal has won the historic right to 
show her gender as both male and female in citizenship records... former U.S. 
National Basketball Association player John Amaechi becomes the first pro in 
his sport to come out as a gay man... and other GLBT news from around the 
world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JON BEAUPRE and RICK 
WATTS).

* The DVD of "Running With Scissors," the controversial star-studded movie 
based on his best-selling book, has just been released.  And This Way Out 
literary commentator JANET MASON says that prominent queer author AUGUSTEN 
BURROUGHS's new collection of essays, "POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS" [St. Martin's Press] add 
to his reputation as being "horrible" -- though to be fair, she admits that 
she's "horrible," too.

* Trailblazing U.S. lawmaker "BARBARA JORDAN: STATESWOMAN AND ORATOR" is the 
latest queer-storical figure profiled in the "RAINBOW MINUTE" (produced by 
JUDD PROCTOR and BRIAN BURNS at the studios of WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and 
read by CANDACE GINGRICH).

* Twelve years after the groundbreaking lesbian teen romance "The Incredibly 
True Adventure of Two Girls in Love," writer/director MARIA MAGGENTI tries her 
hand at a bisexual romantic triangle in "PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS" [Strand 
Releasing].  This "incredibly true adventure of two girls (and a guy) in love," a 
hit at Sundance and LGBT film festivals around the world in 2006, is finally 
opening at multiplexes in selected North American cities this month.  This Way 
Out's STEVE PRIDE has a preview, and asks Maggenti what took her so long 
[www.PrideOnScreen.com].
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