2025 Queer Year in Review (Part One) | This Way Out Radio Episode #1969
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Twenty-twenty-five’s queerest news and feature stories in review; this week’s Rainbow Rewind remembers Frank Kameny, Ma Rainey and key late December happenings; quick-study Kazakh Senators pass a “no promo homo” bill, Trump’s vile war on trans kids escalates, Congressional Republicans criminalize trans kid caregivers, a North Carolina County disbands its library board over a trans kid picture book, and St. Petersburg, Florida counters demolished rainbow crosswalks with multi-colored bike racks...Those stories and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out.”
[NOTE: “NewsWrap” and the “Rainbow Rewind” segments return on our week of 12 January 2026 program.]
Credits: Hosted this week by Brian DeShazor and produced by Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon. “Rainbow Rewind” written and hosted by Sheri Lunn and Brian DeShazor and produced by Brian DeShazor, with music by Ma Rainey. The 2025 Queer News and Features in Review feature was produced by Greg Gordon, with archival news reports by Wendy Natividad, David Hunt, John Dyer V and Ava Davis. Theme music: Kim Wilson. Additional music: from “Peter and the Wolf”; and by Triumph, Melanie Safka, and Chappell Roan.
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NewsWrap
A summary of some of the news in or affecting LGBTQ communities
around the world for the week ending December 20th, 2025
Kazakhstan’s Senate approves the Central Asian nation’s version of a bill to outlaw so-called “LGBT propaganda” after it sails through the lower house; Robert F. Kennedy’s U.S. Health and Human Services Department virtually bans federally-funded gender-affirming healthcare for trans patients under the age of 18; the U.S. Food & Drug Administration warns breast binder makers and sellers that they could be violating laws against pediatric gender-affirming care; the Republican-controlled U.S. House passes Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill to criminalize parents and caregivers who provide pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, while Congress members also advance a measure to prohibit Medicaid from paying for gender-affirming care for trans patients under the age of 18; the Randolph County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners disbands its 9-member Library Board for approving for the children’s shelves a picture book about a trans boy coming to terms with his true gender identity entitled “Call Me Max”; and St. Petersburg, Florida lawmakers proudly respond to state and federal orders to demolish all rainbow crosswalks by installing multi-colored bike racks (written by GREG GORDON, TANYA KANE-PARRY and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported this week by NICO RAQUEL and MICHAEL LEBEAU).
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