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"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,186 - distributed 12/20/10
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcasts at
http://www.thiswayout.org
(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" surrenders in the U.S. Senate, British couples
seek double equality, toxic phobia mushrooms in Africa, and more news;
Celebrating Gertrude and Alice's "Secret Historian";
Saluting an unsung hero of the FDR era in a "Rainbow Minute";
Fondly remembering former "This Way Out" News Director Cindy Friedman;
And an "out" singer/songwriter offers "Hare Krishna Xmas" greetings

- In "NewsWrap": "Don't Ask Don't Tell" heads to the dustbin of history with its repeal in the US Senate... an attorney for eight British couples prepares a lawsuit to challenge the UK's dual bans on same-gender marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships, but civil unions are increasingly being favored over marriage by heterosexual couples in France... Human Rights Watch details extensive state persecution of LGBT people in Iran, while attacks on sexual minorities are on the rise in many parts of Africa, but the US seeks the restoration of sexual orientation to the named targeted categories in a UN anti-violence resolution... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by CHRISTOPHER GAAL and RICK WATTS).

- "This Way Out" queer lit commentator JANET MASON celebrates the biography of a "shameless" friend of lesbian royalty ("SECRET HISTORIAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAMUEL STEWARD: PROFESSOR, TATTOO ARTIST AND SEXUAL RENEGADE" by JUSTIN SPRING).

- Saluting the lesbian "little general" of a venerable U.S. first family in a "RAINBOW MINUTE" ("MARY DEWSON SHOWS HER STRIPES", produced by JUDD PROOCTOR & BRIAN BURNS and read by DIANA WESTBROOK).

- Associate Producer LUCIA CHAPPELLE delivers a fond remembrance of our beloved friend, queer radio colleague, and former "This Way Out" News Director, the late CINDY FRIEDMAN, who would have been 60 years old this week (with a February 1999 report written by Cindy, co-anchored by LEO GARCIA, and with "comments" by televangelist "JERRY FALWELL" and arguably-gay "Teletubby" TINKY WINKY).

- "Audiofile 2010 Year in Review" promo (voiced by JD DOYLE & CHRIS WILSON, produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM, and with a brief musical preview by one of the 8 featured artists) + Our show-ending holiday greetings via a whimsical seasonal ditty, "HARE KRISHNA CHRISTMAS", performed by "out" singer/songwriter ROBIN RENEE.[www.audiofile.org; www.robinrenee.com]
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On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio newsmagazine.The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America, and "Down Under" through distribution by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's ComRadSat.  Listeners can also hear "This Way Out"  on short wave via Costa Rica-based global station RFPI (Radio For Peace International/www.rfpi.org), across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network (www.wrn.org), and on audio CD by individual subscription.For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to P.O. Box 38327, Los Angeles, CA 90038-0327.
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