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[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,181 - distributed 11/15/10
Airs on more than 200 local stations around the world... or
Listen now via our free podcasts at
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
A trans activist facilitates workplace diversity;
"The Tomb of the Royal Manicurists" is opened in a "Rainbow Minute";
Colombia's high court is deaf to marriage equality, Mexico's House
benefits same-gender partners, 200 Spaniards pucker up for a papal
visit, marriage is on the menu in 3 Australian states, U.S. Supremes
are deaf to a Don't Ask injunction, and more global LGBT news
  
- In "NewsWrap": Colombia's Constitutional Court refuses to hear a marriage equality lawsuit, while Argentineans celebrate their country's recently-enacted marriage equality legislation at Buenos Aires Pride, and Mexico's House of Representatives approves partner benefits for same-gender couples... hundreds of gays and lesbians greet anti-gay Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Barcelona, Spain with a flashmob-style "kiss-in"... marriage equality legislation is on the move in the states of South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria; the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to lift the 9th Circuit Court's stay of a lower court's injunction that would have banned enforcement of Don't Ask Don't Tell, while the ACLU sues the Air Force over equal separation pay for a service member who was honorably discharged under the policy... new lawsuits challenge the Defense of Marriage Act in two federal courts... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JENN MAHONEY and ROBERT LEBLANC). 
  
- This "RAINBOW MINUTE" tells the story of Egypt's "TOMB OF THE ROYAL MANICURISTS" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia and read by JOHN DEBOER).
  
- JAMISON GREEN is an educator, author, speaker, advocate, and internationally sought after corporate consultant on transgender and transsexual issues. He's the author of "Becoming A Visible Man", which received the 2004 Sylvia Rivera Award for Best Book in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE took Jamison's workshop at the recent Out & Equal Workplace Summit in Los Angeles and had the chance to chat up this amazingly-accomplished man [www.jamisongreen.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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