THIS WAY OUT
the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
RUNDOWN for Program #1,090, distributed 2/16/09
via Pacifica Radio's satellite and Audioport, and free online
downloads at www.indymedia.org and www.radio4all.net
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Scenes from life of the absurd with playwright-who's-gay Edward Albee;
Brisbane's Archbishop damns welcoming as sin at St. Mary's;
Moscow gays court presidential intervention, Iranian lesbigay refugees find safety in the UK and Canada, the US Congress gets a bill to unite binational couples, Freedom to Marry Week spreads love across America, New Zealand's PM boogies with drag queens, and more global LGBT news


=> Program #1,090 RUNDOWN <=


Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity. . . . . . . . . . .  1:13


SEGMENT #1 -  "NewsWrap": Moscow Pride sues Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the European Court of Human Rights for failing to intervene in their rights dispute with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov;  a survey by Ireland's Health Ministry reports that 80% of the country's LGBT people have experienced homophobic abuse, with almost 20% attempting suicide as a result, but an Iranian lesbian wins asylum in the U.K., and a gay male Iranian couple finds refuge in Canada;  a bill to allow American gays and lesbians to sponsor their foreign partners for residency in the country is again introduced in Congress, while same-gender couples and their supporters mark the annual Freedom to Marry Week with a variety of actions across the U.S., and Hawai'i's House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill that would give gay and lesbian couples almost all the rights of marriage except the name;  and Police Chief Christine Nixon of the Australian state of Victoria and about 30 of her officers are cheered as they march in St. Kilda's 14th annual Pride Parade, while New Zealand Prime Minister John Key boogies with drag queens at Auckland's 10th annual Big Gay Out  (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and GREG GORDON) [10:57]  +  billboard for "Rainbow Minute" and Edward Albee interview [:06]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11:03


SEGMENT #2 ­  LGBT Catholics and their liberal compatriots have had plenty of bad news in recent weeks, including Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas message comparing lesbigay equality and gender rights to environmental degradation, the pontiff revoking the excommunication of an illegitimately ordained bishop who denies that there was a Holocaust, and promoting a priest who proclaimed that Hurricane Katrina was divine retribution on LGBT-friendly New Orleans.  Now the spotlight has fallen on the SOUTH BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA congregation of ST. MARY'S, where Archbishop John Bathersby has fired progressive parish priest Peter Kennedy.  Among Father Kennedy's "sins" are allowing lay p
eople -- including women -- to preach, and cultivating a community that openly welcomes lesbians and gays. "This Way Out" correspondent MARK JEFFERY (from "Queer Radio"/4ZZZ-FM/Brisbane, with transmittal thanks to JOHN FRAME) commiserated with St. Mary's Community Council Gay and Lesbian Representative VINCE KNAUTH  (with intro/outro music from "Show Me" performed by CHRISTIAN ANDREASON) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   
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SEGMENT #3 ­  Coming up with a brief but clever introduction for EDWWARD ALBEE is no doubt a fool's errand.  America's leading Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright provocateur, author of "The Zoo Story," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and so many others, calls his plays "a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."  Albee had a delightful conversation about being gay ­ not to mention art, life and death - with "This Waay Out" correspondents DIXIE TREICHEL and JOHN TOWNSEND (from "Fresh Fruit" on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis-St. Paul)  [with brief intro/outro music from composer NED ROREM's Cello Concerto (2002), Movement VII "Valse Rappetee" performed by WENN­SINN YANG with the ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONNAL ORCHESTRA conducted by JOSE SEREBRIER]. . . . . . . . . . . . .   7:20


Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1:20


TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .  28:54
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ANNCR:  NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT," EDWARD ALBEE PLAYS FOR KEEPS, AND


BRISBANE'S ARCHBISHOP FINDS SIN AT ST. MARY'S... IN OTHER NEWS, MOSCOW


GAYS COURT PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION, IRANIAN LESBIGAY REFUGEES FIND


SAFETY IN THE U.K. AND CANADA, THE U.S. CONGRESS GETS A BILL TO UNITE


BINATIONAL COUPLES, FREEDOM TO MARRY WEEK SPREADS LOVE ACROSS AMERICA,


AND NEW ZEALAND'S P.M. BOOGIES WITH DRAG QUEENS.


THOSE STORIES ­ AND MORE THIS WEEK ­ WHEN YOU DISCOVER "THISHIS WAY OUT:


THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE",


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