2025 Queer Year in Review (Part Two) | This Way Out Radio Episode #1970
We continue our review of some of the news and feature stories on This Way Out during the past 12 months, including trans lawmakers defending drag and their own dignity, celebrating a venerated Aussie activist, challenging anti-queer laws in the Caribbean, marching for gender rights in the U.K., greeting a drag virtuoso violist, analyzing a major setback at the U.S. Supreme Court, and reviewing the upcoming season at what used to be the The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Those stories and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out.”
[NOTE: “NewsWrap” and the “Rainbow Rewind” segments return on our week of 12 January 2026
Hosted this week by Brian DeShazor and produced by Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon. The 2025 Queer News and Features in Review feature was produced by Greg Gordon, with archival news and features reporters David Hunt, Melanie Keller, Tanya Kane-Parry, Michael LeBeau, Barry McKay, John Dyer V, Brian DeShazor, and Ava Davis. Theme music: Kim Wilson. Additional music: the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir, No Greater Time Collective, Thorgy Thor, Eric Borchard, and from “Camelot”, “Mrs. Doubtfire: The Musical”, and “Chicago”.
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