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[This Way Out]

 "THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,173 - distributed 9/20/10
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)
An Oklahoma trans-woman's place is in the House;
What's so queer about being pink?
Israel's high court orders Jerusalem gelt for a gay community center,
an abducted Russian activist resurfaces, dozens are detained in Nepal
for identifying a problem, a lesbian U.S. Air Force nurse goes to court
to out-Witt "Don't Ask Don't Tell", and more global LGBT news
  
- In "NewsWrap": Israel's Supreme Court rules that the Jerusalem municipal government must provide funding to the LGBT Open House because the city funds other community groups and because anti-gay bias "has no place in the 21st century"... United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for the repeal of all laws around the world that discriminate against lesbians and gay men... in a still-unfolding story, leading Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseyev is abducted from a Moscow airport by unidentified officials, followed by contradictory media reports about what happened to him... Nepal's only openly-gay lawmaker Sunil Pant is among 70 demonstrators detained at a protest outside the P.M.'s office demanding a "third sex" option on national identification documents for transgender people, while Australian Defense Force chief Angus Houston announces the end of a ban on military service by transgender people, and a second high-profile federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy begins in the state of Washington... lesbians from across Europe gather in Eressos, Lesbos for the Greek island village's 10th annual International Women's Festival... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN TORRRES and ROBERT LEBLANC) + A late-breaking Alekseyev update.
  
- What's so queer about being pink? Prompted by writer Sherry Wolf's "SEXUALITY AND SOCIALISM" (Haymarket Books), "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON ponders an earlier era of high-flying political epithets. 
  
- Democratic OKLAHOMA political candidate BRITTANY NOVOTNY was the guest of honor at a recent fundraiser in the WEST HOLLYWOOD home of actor and voice-over artist Ben Patrick Johnson. Novotny is running for Oklahoma House District 84 against notorious Republican homophobe SALLY KERN, who says homosexuals are the number-one threat to America. If elected, Novotny will become the first transgendered American elected to a state legislature. Her platform is focused on local issues - jobs, transportation and schools - while Kern seems more obsessed with the "Homosexual Agenda." "This Way Out" correspondents STEVE PRIDE and LINDA BIRCH chat up fundraiser guests, eat hors d'oeuvres, and interview the candidate (includes audio of some of Kern's more infamous pronouncements [www.brittany4hd84.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.
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