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[Greg Gordon]

THIS WAY OUTthe international LGBT radio magazine Program #1,456, distributed on 02/22/16(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)The life and crimes of Justice Antonin Scalia;Australia's marriage ban crosses Jordan's awesome axis;Indonesia's homophobic "moral panic" escalates, politics and pietystall Italy's civil unions, Panasonic propels Japan's queer couples,religious bias passes for freedom in Mississippi and Georgia, trans-phobic bills plague other U.S. state legislatures, and more news!
- In "NewsWrap" - Indonesia's government and Muslim leaders escalate their attacks on LGBT rights… yet another civil unions proposal stalls yet again in Italy's legislature, but Japan's electronics giant Panasonic offers spousal benefits to its same-gender-partnered workers… Mississippi and Georgia each advance so-called "religious freedom" bills, while South Dakota leads America's growing war on transgender people… a Republican Texas state School Board candidate claims that President Barack Obama is pro-gay because he was a gay sex worker in his younger days… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by JOHN DYER V & WENZEL JONES).
- JORDAN RASKOPOULOS of the Australian comedy trio AXIS OF AWESOME was clearly not joking with a special announcement released on YouTube February 14th.  Partners Lee Naimo and Benny Davis joined Raskopoulos with their own endorsement at the end of the video entitled "What Happened to Jordan's Beard". And as she told Channel 10's "The Project", Australian law would force Jordan to throw her biggest backer under the bus.[http://www.insert-coin.com; www.youtube.com/user/axisofawesome]
- The accolades abounded as the U.S. Supreme Court's arch-conservative firebrand was memorialized this week. But "GAY USA's" ANN NORTHROP and ANDY HUMM come to bury JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA, not to praise him (with music from  "Dies Irie" from Mozart's "Requiem" performed by the BERLIN PHILHAROMINC conducted by CLAUDIO ABBADO).[www.gayusatv.org]=========================================================="This Way Out" is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit as OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and has been supported by grants from the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, the Yavanna Foundation, a generous bequest by the estate of Christopher David Trentham, voluntary PROGRAM ACQUISITION PAYMENTS FROM YOU, OUR STATIONS, and by tax-deductible donations from our listeners.Please visit www.thiswayout.org to contribute via PayPal.>Thank you for your financial support to keep our program on the air!<------------------------------------------------------------------On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly LGBT radio newsmagazine.The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, is globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, www.indymedia.org, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America via Audioport, and in Australia via the Community Radio Network. Listeners can also hear "This Way Out" via our podcasts at www.thiswayout.org, or on iTunes or Stitcher; across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network (www.wrn.org); and on postal-mailed audio CDs by subscription.For lots of other information about "This Way Out" please visit www.thiswayout.org, email TWOradio at aol.com, or write to PO Box 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078, USA.************************************************************Thanks for $upporting THIS WAY OUT!************************************************************