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As the new year began, Pride On Screen 2011 featured some of our award-winning entertainment reporter Steve Pride's favorite queer-themed TV characters and shows, and his Top 10 LGBT Movies of the Year, including clips from and comments by the filmmakers of "The Topp Twins: Unstoppable Girls", "We Were Here", "Gun Hill Road", "Beginners", "Weekend", and "Pariah".
The case against accused Wiki-leaker U.S. Army Private 1st Class Bradley Manning, variously described as gay or "gender confused" and charged with orchestrating the largest intelligence breach in American history, was analyzed by gay activist and former Army Lt. Dan Choi, Bradley Support Network co-founder Jeff Patterson, and R. Clarke Cooper of Log Cabin Republicans, while "Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning)", a song written and performed by James Raymond and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash, capped off that coverage.
Pioneering gay performance artist Tim Miller talked about the collision of art and politics.
Paul Canning of the UK-based "LGBT Asylum News" reported on gay and bisexual Kenyan men being tricked into the sex slave trade in the Persian Gulf.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham discussed his most recent work, "By Nightfall", and his life as an openly gay writer.
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly and George Takei starred in excerpts from the Los Angeles stage reading of "8", based on the actual U.S. District Court trial transcripts of the 2010 lawsuit challenging California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8.
You heard comprehensive on-scene coverage from San Francisco and Los Angeles of the February 7th ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding District Judge Vaughn Walker's August 2010 ruling that Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution, including comments by the lead plaintiff couple Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, their 17-year-old son Spencer, co-counsel Ted Olson, and American Foundation for Equal Rights Board President (and new Human Rights Campaign President) Chad Griffin.
Minnesota's Susan Allen, the first openly lesbian American Indian to win a seat in a state legislature, talked about her road to St. Paul, and being on the front lines in the battle to defeat Minnesota's "Marriage Protection Amendment" at the ballot box in November.
We had an on-scene report from New Delhi as India's Supreme Court began hearing challenges to a lower court ruling that the country's 148-year-old ban on so-called "unnatural offenses" was unconstitutional.
Gay "cyber-preneur" Scott Seitz described his development of the new "dot-gay" domain, and his hopes for its future applications.
Documentarian Tim Wolff and interview subject Albert Carey discussed how "The Sons of Tennessee Williams" led a gay civil rights revolution in New Orleans a half-century ago.
We featured extended excerpts from Washington Governor Christine Gregoire's exuberant bill signing remarks making her state the 7th in the U.S. to open civil marriage to same-gender couples; comments by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie explaining his veto of marriage equality legislation in the Garden State; and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's prediction that the marriage equality law he signed in his state will be supported in a likely challenge to it at the ballot box in November.
An entertaining conversation about his life and work with groundbreaking openly gay Off-Off Broadway playwright Robert Patrick ("Kennedy's Children", "The Haunted Host", "T-Shirts", "Michelangelo's Models", and many more) included an in-studio performance of one of his original songs.
You heard Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks opening a historic United Nations Human Rights Council discussion on eliminating bias and violence against LGBT people.
Ellen DeGeneres urged an MPAA ratings change from "R" to "PG-13" for "Bully", to allow this important documentary to be screened in middle and high schools, where advocates say it most needs to be seen. (After a few "naughty words" were cut, the film got the PG-13 rating.)
Diverse young LGBT voices hoped for a bigotry-free future in a dramatic reading of poet/filmmaker Ryan James Yezak's "I Want To Know What It's Like."
Veteran human rights-AIDS-labor activist and Harvey Milk protege Cleve Jones looked beyond the "Gay Agenda" to a broader vision of queer political activism -- and took on "Gay, Incorporated" for good measure.
"Out" Minnesota parent and teacher Jefferson Fietek discussed the out-of-court settlement of a landmark Department of Justice anti-LGBT bullying lawsuit against the Anoka-Hennepin School District.
Attorney Pam Spees of the (U.S.) Center for Constitutional Rights explained how Ugandan LGBT activists are suing rabidly-homophobic American missionary Scott Lively in U.S. district court for anti-gay persecution.
We paid tribute to iconic lesbian-feminist writer of poetry and prose Adrienne Rich, who passed away earlier this year just a few weeks shy of what would have been her 83rd birthday.
We were on the scene for the Silver Lake (Southern California) celebration honoring trailblazing activist/Radical Faerie Harry Hay on what would have been his 100th birthday, and the dedication ceremony naming the path leading up to his home The Mattachine Steps, where the first meetings of that fledgling gay rights group were held in the early 1950s.
The constitutional challenge to the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) reached a federal appeals court for the first time in early April; our report on the proceedings in Boston featured comments by attorneys for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and Lambda Legal, and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
We excerpted an interview by CNN International's Christiane Amanpour with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni about his country's proposed so-called "Kill the Gays" bill.
You heard excerpted comments on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa about President Obama's continuing "evolution" on the issue of marriage equality, and a possible plank in this year's Democratic Party platform supporting the freedom to marry.
Historian Will Fellows discussed his expanded edition of the remarkable 1957 memoir by Helen Branson, a straight woman who ran a "Gay Bar" in Los Angeles during what was probably the most anti-gay decade in American history.
Legal eagles - and the chief U.S. Census taker - gathered at a major think tank to measure LGBT political power. We had a comprehensive on-scene report from the Williams Institute's annual "Update" Conference in Los Angeles.
We reviewed the pro's and con's of North Carolina's relationship equality-banning Amendment 1 prior to the May 8th vote by sampling TV political ads from each side. (Sadly, the measure was approved by some 61% of the electorate.)
The Sweet Inspirations sang background vocals with a host of pop and rock legends, including Elvis Presley. "Out" Inspiration Estelle Brown charted a journey that started in harmony and led to unity -- her co-founding of and ministry with the African-American LGBT-welcoming Unity Fellowship Church.
Less than 2 weeks after he was named Foreign Policy and National Security spokesman for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, conservative "out" Republican Richard Grenell bowed to far right outrage and bowed out of the campaign. Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" skewered Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association for celebrating his "pro-family" group's "victory".
President Barack Obama finally "evolved" to support civil marriage equality in an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" -- hastened by Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan each announcing his own support. We covered their comments, and provided extended excerpts from the Obama interview, along with analysis by Evan Wolfson of Freedom To Marry; Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker; and longtime North Carolina lesbian couple Lennie Gerber & Pearl Berlin; all capped by "out" gay singer/songwriter Sean Chapin performing "You Say You Want An Evolution."
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A CONVERSATION WITH HARVEY MILK
In March 1978 now-"This Way Out" Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon traveled to Northern California to interview newly elected San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. Their conversation covered civil rights activism, politics, and some of the gay personalities of the day. The Oscar-winning movie generated renewed interest in this historic figure. And, as you'll hear in this illuminating and highly entertaining half-hour interview with the pioneering LGBT civil rights hero, much of what Harvey had to say still resonates today.
AUDIOFILE 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW
With bluesy/jazzy/country/pop/rock from the personal to the whimsical to the political, the music of Sonia & disappear fear ("Blood, Bones & Baltimore"), Ryan States ("Strange Town"), Roger Mapes ("House of Joy"), Kevin Wong ("The Pink in the Grey"), Sean Wiggins ("Naked Thursdays"), Avi Wisnia ("Something New"), Kristie Stremel ("Color of Stars") and Mike Rickard ("Sweat") is proudly featured in the "AUDIOFILE 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW" (written, produced and hosted by JD Doyle, Chris Wilson, Pam Marshall and Christopher David Trentham).
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2011
On an annual "This Way Out" tradition, award-winning entertainment journalist Steve Pride recalls some of the LGBT moving images that moved him most during the past year with his "Pride On Screen 2011" - including more multi-dimensional TV characters like "Max Blum" on "Happy Endings" (with an audio clip), and proliferating couples like the partnered hunky but unhappy ghosts on "American Horror Story" (another audio clip); then Steve counts down his picks for the Top Ten LGBT Movies of 2011 (from #10 to #1, with audio clips from each and comments by their makers): "The Wise Kids", "The Topp Twins: Unstoppable Girls", "We Were Here", "Gun Hill Road", "August", "Leave It On The Floor", "With You: The Mark Bingham Story", "Beginners", "Weekend", and "Pariah". So butter your popcorn and dim the house lights when you ask for this illuminating "thank you gift" CD.
STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT
The legendary American DJ known as "Dr. Demento" raised audio kitsch to an artform. As "Nurse Pimento", the late Southern California gay activist and radio producer David Fradkin added his own kind of spice to pursuing the peculiarities of popular culture in this early 1980s half-hour production, which features some offbeat queer words and music from Carroll "Archie Bunker" O'Connor, Groucho Marx, Perry Como, Laurel and Hardy, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Tommy Smothers, Martin Mull, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Noel Coward, the poignant self-aware words of Holocaust teen diarist Anne Frank, Bessie Smith singing, and her niece Ruby telling interviewer Chris Albertson about, their especially entertaining visit to a "Buffet Flat" -- and more!
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THE NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR LESBIAN & GAY RIGHTS RADIO DOCUMENTARY
This "audio scrapbook" of the first-ever national LGBT march and rally in the U.S. capital on October 14, 1979, produced by "This Way Out" Associate Producer Lucia Chappelle and Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon, illuminates the problems and the passion of the first demonstration of its kind. As rich with the music and culture of the period as it is with the politics, the hour traces the event from the initial planning conference and some activists' heartfelt and sometimes humorous cross-country trip to D.C. on a "Freedom Train" to the big day itself, and its coverage (or lack thereof) in the conventional media.
DIMINISHED CAPACITY
Alive with the sounds from the streets, this documentary, produced by "This Way Out" Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon, captures the enormous impact on the queer community of the November 1978 assassinations of openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and gay-friendly Mayor George Moscone. The "diminished capacity" defense (since eliminated legislatively) made it possible for former Supervisor Dan White to receive a very lenient sentence for the dual murders, a decision that sent shockwaves through the Castro District and led to what became known as the "White Night Riots." This fast-paced hour tracks the entire story through and including White's eventual suicide, with comments by many leading lesbian and gay activists and journalists of the time, and riveting thematic music by the Tom Robinson Band.
THE BIGGEST QUEER NEWS OF 2003
A keepsake collection of more than an hour of "This Way Out" reports during a landmark year for LGBT progress, with the voices of many of the activists involved, covering the advent of legal same gender marriage in Canada, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning state sodomy laws, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision opening legal marriage to queer couples, and a P-FLAG mom's "on scene" account of and sound from the historic consecration of openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson.
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LGBTIQ Youth Resources:
The Trevor Project is a 24-hour, national help line for gay and questioning teens: U.S. toll-free phone#: 866-4U-TREVOR; website: www.thetrevorproject.org.
Angels and Doves is a U.S. anti-bullying non profit organization: www.AngelsandDoves.com.
The National Center for Bullying Prevention promotes awareness and effective ways to respond to bullying: www.Pacer.org/bullying.
The Matthew Shepard Foundation runs Matthew's Place, an online community and resource center for LGBTQ youth: www.matthewsplace.com.
GLSEN (the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network) also works to eradicate bullying and bias in U.S. schools: www.glsen.org.
PFLAG: Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays - www.pflag.org.
"This Way Out" Associate Producer Lucia Chappelle:
Music Features Producer JD Doyle:
Music Features Producer/"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Chris Wilson:
"Pride On Screen" Reporter Steve Pride:
"NewsWrap" Co-anchor & Features Producer Jon Beaupré:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Christopher Gaal:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Tanya Kane-Parry:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Sheri Lunn:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Rick Watts:
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"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Michele Pleasant:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Ben Caron:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Robert LeBlanc:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Vash Boddie:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Natalie Peoples:
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As the new year began, Pride On Screen 2011 featured some of our award-winning entertainment reporter Steve Pride's favorite queer-themed TV characters and shows, and his Top 10 LGBT Movies of the Year, including clips from and comments by the filmmakers of "The Topp Twins: Unstoppable Girls", "We Were Here", "Gun Hill Road", "Beginners", "Weekend", and "Pariah".
A CONVERSATION WITH HARVEY MILK
