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[Greg Gordon]

=================== * FINAL APPEAL * ==================== If you haven't already done so…It’s never too late to thank the volunteers ofOvernight Productions (Inc.)/"This Way Out"during our annual nonprofit fundraising campaign: www.thiswayout.orgCheck out the new promotional video there for“From Outlaws To In-Laws”!Please! We need your help!You can also use POB 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078 USA= Thank you, and Happy New Year from our family to you and yours! ========================== * ================================ (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)A film critic reviews the serendipitous success of Wolfe Video;India's same-gender loving citizens remain outlaws in the New Year,Greek lawmakers open civil partnerships to gay and lesbian couples butSlovenian voters vanquish marriage equality, adoption rights advance inNew Zealand and Italy, Malawi gays escape jail but their Tunisian andSenegalese peers are not so lucky, and more global LGBT news!
- In "NewsWrap" - Lawmakers refuse to repeal India’s antiquated sodomy law; Greek lawmakers okay civil unions, but Slovenian voters overturn a parliament-passed marriage equality law… a gay man files suit in China to be able to marry his male partner, while a gay Hong Kong government worker legally married in New Zealand sues to secure spousal healthcare benefits for his husband… a gay couple wins a landmark joint adoption ruling in New Zealand, while a groundbreaking ruling by an Italian appeals court upholds a lesbian couple’s second parent adoption… gay sex charges are dropped against 2 men in Malawi after an international outcry, but Tunisia jails 6 similar "offenders", and 11 men are arrested in Senegal for attending a "gay wedding”…a petition to put an initiative on the California ballot requiring people to use the public bathroom of their birth gender fails to gain the required number of signatures, but an Indiana lawmaker introduces a similar so-called "bathroom bill" in the state legislature… and more LGBT news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG GORDON, and reported this week by WENZEL JONES and JOHN DYER V).
- The 2015 edition of "PRIDE ON SCREEN", award-winning entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE’s usual annual countdown of his favorite queer films, becomes instead a sit down this time with two of his favorite people behind what Steve calls an exciting year in queer cinema. In this week’s Part One, he chats with KATHY WOLFE, founder and CEO of WOLFE VIDEO, now in its 30th year in business, about the ever-changing world of queer film distribution (with intro music from "Movies Is Magic" performed by BRIAN WILSON with VAN DYKE PARKS, and instrumental intro/outro music from the film "Tiny Heroes" composed and conducted by ALAN WILLIAMS, and ending with a brief promo/tease for next week’s "Pride On Screen 2015" Part 2 with now "out" actor and Hollywood icon TAB HUNTER).[www.wolfevideo.com]========================= * ================================"This Way Out" is a U.S. tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit under the corporate name of OVERNIGHT PRODUCTIONS (INC.), and is supported by the Yavanna Foundation, a bequest from the estate of Christopher David Trentham, and donations from our listener-supporters.Thank you!=> Please log on to thiswayout.org to add your support [a tax-deductible charitable donation in the U.S.].  We truly can't go on without you!***************************************************************On the air since April 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio news magazine. The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world, globally distributed at www.radio4all.net, to Pacifica Radio station affiliates in North America, and in Australia via the Community Radio Network.  Listeners can also hear "This Way Out" through our podcasts at thiswayout.org; on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher; across Europe, Africa/the Middle East, and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Networks (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 PO Box 1065, Los Angeles, CA 90078, USA.********** Thank you for $upporting "This Way Out"! **********