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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 2009 YEAR IN REVIEW
From songs about romance or heartbreak to the whimsical or political, CDs by Kate Reid ("I'm Just Warming Up"), Levi Kreis ("Where I Belong"), Jay Brannan ("Goddamned"), Julie Clark ("Change Your Mind"), Matt Alber ("Hide Nothing"), Pansy Division ("That's So Gay"), Coyote Grace ("Ear to the Ground") and Bettina Schelker ("The Honeymoon is Over") are proudly featured in the tune-filled "Audiofile 2009 Year in Review", hosted by JD Doyle & Chris Wilson and produced with Christopher David Trentham.
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2009
Award-winning "This Way Out" entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE reviews the queer moving images that moved him most on big and small screens during the past 10 years in the 2009 edition of his "Pride On Screen" –“ with excerpts from U.S. television programs including "Survivor", "Queer As Folk", "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and "Glee"; comments about "Queer As Folk" by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment for the "Showtime" network and by John Carroll of "Survivor/Season 4: Marquesas"; and an excerpt from out "Glee" actor Chris Colfer as gay outcast "Kurt Hummell" singing "Defying Gravity"; then Steve's personal clips-filled picks for the Top 10 LGBT-themed films of the past 10 years: 2004's "Tarnation" (including comments by writer/director Jonathan Caouette), 2001's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (with writer/director John Cameron Mitchell), 2006's "Quinceanera" (co-writers/directors Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland), 2006's "TransAmerica" (comments by star Felicity Huffman), 2006's "Shortbus" (writer/director John Cameron Mitchell), 2002's "Far From Heaven" (director Todd Haynes), 2009's "A Single Man" (writer/director Tom Ford), 2008's "Chris & Don" (co-writers/directors Guido Santi & Tina Mascara and subject Don Bachardy), 2008's "Milk" (director Gus Van Sant), and 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" (director Ang Lee).
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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"This Way Out" Associate Producer Lucia Chappelle:
"Audiofile" Co-Producers JD Doyle & Chris Wilson:
"Audiofile" Co-Producer Christopher David Trentham:
"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:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Leigh Moore:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor John Torres:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Pam Marshall:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Michele Pleasant:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Ben Caron:
"This Way Out" Correspondent & Host of "QueerFM" on CiTR/Vancouver Heather Kitching:
Queer Lit Commentator Janet Mason:
News & Arts Correspondent Bryan Goebel:
"Rainbow Minute" Producers Judd Proctor & Brian Burns:
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A CONVERSATION WITH HARVEY MILK
