"THIS WAY OUT":
Staying a Step Ahead of the Marriage Story...and the Bill Collectors!
These are both promising and perilous times for the LGBT community around the world. Around "This Way Out’s" home base in California, a sweet victory for marriage equality in the state Supreme Court is being threatened by a richly financed ballot initiative, hyped by its religious right proponents as the Armageddon of the culture wars in the US. We’re committed to keeping you informed about this campaign – not to mention the marriage-related initiative battles in Florida and Arizona – and we have a couple of exciting announcements about how we’re going to provide you with the latest news from these and other LGBT hot spots all over the globe.
From the world’s first legal lesbian/gay wedding in the Netherlands, to the roads to marriage equality in Canada and Massachusetts, to San Francisco’s daring challenge to marriage discrimination and the court’s subsequent ruling, "This Way Out" has brought you the sounds of those momentous events. We’ve collected all of those on-the-scene reports into a special 2-CD set called "Altared States." We know this unique "wedding gift" will inspire and activate you as you engage your friends and family to rally around the cause – and challenge you to see that this vital radio show stays on the air.
And not just on the airwaves! Our second – and for many of you anxiously awaited – announcement is that "This Way Out" is now available as a podcast. To subscribe, use the podcast link above, or point your browser to http://feeds.thiswayout.org/SeriesPodcastThisWayOut. We’re delighted to be able to expand our service to you in this way!
With all the promise these fantastic announcements hold, "This Way Out" is also facing tremendous financial peril. Our former streaming audio licensor, OutInAmerica.com, still owes us $8,250 – and has yet to respond to a demand from our attorney. That money represents a substantial portion of our annual operating budget, and we are now running deeply in the red. Surely this is no time for a major LGBT information source to be in such jeopardy! It’s time for you to step forward for equality around the world, and for a radio show that promotes all the political and cultural values that make our community strong.
We’re asking you to "marry" "This Way Out" and support us with the cost of a California marriage license – a $70 donation. As a token of our appreciation, we’ll send you the 2-CD set, "Altared States."
For you "pod-people," consider giving "This Way Out" a donation of just $26 – that’s only 50 cents a week. The podcast is free, but producing the program is not. Now that we have no online licensor, contributions from our loyal listeners are more important than ever!
The clock is ticking for equality in California, Florida, and Arizona. It’s ticking for LGBT people who risk their lives for human rights in the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It’s ticking for artists and activists from Canada to New Zealand who long to share their work and ideas with our global audience. Will this audio organizing tool that has made such a difference for two decades still be available to broadcast and inspire their efforts?
Don’t delay! "Marry us" for a donation of $70 or more and receive your 2-CD wedding gift, "Altared States." Subscribe to our new podcast so you won’t miss any of the earth-shaking action of the next few months – and chip in an additional $26 or more in celebration of our technological milestone! Other special offers are described below. Make your tax-deductible contribution by clicking on one of the PayPal "Donate" links here, or send a check to P.O. Box 38327, Los Angeles, CA 90038. Please feel free to write to us with any other questions or comments at TWORadio@aol.com.
Thanks for your support as always!
P.S. - If 25 enthusiastic fans of "This Way Out" each gave a gift of $330, it would fill the hole left by the OutInAmerica deal. We’ll send you "Altared States," any or all of the other premium gifts listed below, and we’ll thank you on the air (with your permission, of course)!
AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW
Chris Wilson and JD Doyle, orchestrated by production guru Christopher David Trentham, again managed to narrow a year's worth of outstanding LGBT music down to seven favorites for their annual "Audiofile Year in Review." Sample selections from 2007 CDs by Levi Kreis ("The Gospel According to Levi"), The Cliks ("Snakehouse"), Bluehouse ("One More Kiss"), Joshua Klipp ("Won't Stop Now"), Jennifer Leitham ("The Real Me"), Brian Glenn ("Original Intent"), and Ari Gold ("Transport Systems"). Enjoy this keepsake gender-and-genre-bending half-hour "soundtrack" to the ups and downs of queer life in 2007!
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007
Another tumultuous year in the global struggle for LGBT equality was also reflected in the movies and on television in 2007. Our award-winning entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE has consummate clips, and comments by their creators, as he recalls some of the queer moving images that moved him most in "PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007." Part 1 covers television, and includes clips from "Desperate Housewives," "Ugly Betty," "Dirty Sexy Money," "Greek," "As The World Turns," and "Torchwood," with comments by "Torchwood" creator Russell T. Davies; the much longer Part 2 reveals Steve's picks for the Top 10 films of 2007: "East Side Story," with a clip and comments by writer/director Carlos Portugal; a clip from "Camp Out"; a clip from "Amnesia – The James Brighton Enigma," and comments by director Denis Langlois; "Fat Girls," with a clip and comments by writer/director/producer/actor Ash Christian; "Puccini for Beginners," with a clip and comments by writer/director Maria Maggenti; "Colma: The Musical," with an excerpt from one of its songs, "Maybe This Time" and comments by writer/star H.P. Mendoza and director Richard Wong; "The Bubble," with an excerpt from the film's "The Man I Love" and comments by writer/director Eytan Fox; "Boy Culture," with a clip and comments by writer/director Q. Allan Brocka; director Daniel Karslake's "For the Bible Tells Me So," with a clip and comments by co-writer/co-producer Helen Mendoza; and 1986's reissued "Parting Glances," with clips and comments by the landmark film's openly gay star Richard Ganoung.
Also still available:
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2005
From "Walk On Water," "Gay Sex in the 70s," and "Capote" to "Mysterious Skin," "Transamerica," and "Brokeback Mountain," Steve Pride offers clips and comments by many of the filmmakers themselves in his review of the most memorable moments on big and small screens in 2005, unquestionably a high-water mark for queer cinema.
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!
And our special coverage of some of the historic events in the queer community is still available:
THE BIGGEST QUEER NEWS OF 2003
A keepsake collection of more than an hour of "This Way Out" reports, with the voices of many of the activists involved, covering the advent of legal same gender marriage in Canada, the historic 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 consecration of openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson.
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 Riot." 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 NATIONAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR LESBIAN & GAY RIGHTS RADIO DOCUMENTARY
This "audio scrapbook" of the October 14, 1979 march and rally in the U.S. capital, 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.
$25
Please select *one* of the following 4 choices: AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW or PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007 or PRIDE ON SCREEN 2005 or STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT
$50
Please select *two* of the following 4 choices: AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2005
STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT
or select *one* of the following: THE BIGGEST QUEER NEWS STORIES OF 2003 or DIMINISHED CAPACITY or THE 1979 MARCH ON WASHINGTON DOCUMENTARY
$100
All 4 "Queer Culture" CDs: AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW and PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007 and PRIDE ON SCREEN 2005 and STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT
$150 OR MORE
All *three* "Queer History" CDs: THE BIGGEST QUEER NEWS STORIES OF 2003 and DIMINISHED CAPACITY and THE 1979 MARCH ON WASHINGTON DOCUMENTARY
$200 OR MORE
All *seven* of these Outstanding Queer Culture & History CDs: AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007
PRIDE ON SCREEN 2005
STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT
THE BIGGEST QUEER NEWS STORIES OF 2003
DIMINISHED CAPACITY
THE 1979 MARCH ON WASHINGTON DOCUMENTARY
"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 Erica Springer:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor DonnaAnn Ward:
"NewsWrap" Co-Anchor Leigh Moore:
"This Way Out" Correspondent & Host of "QueerFM" on CiTR/Vancouver Heather Kitching:
Queer Lit Commentator Janet Mason:
News & Arts Correspondent Bryan Goebel:
What is "This Way Out"?
"This Way Out" is the award-winning internationally distributed weekly GLBT
radio program, currently airing on over 150 local commmunity radio stations around the world. The half-hour "magazine"-style program is produced in Los
Angeles and distributed via the Public Radio Satellite System and Pacifica Radio's KU satellite to stations in North America, and via satellite in Australia on the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's ComRadSat. "This Way Out" is also heard via direct satellite to home and cable outlets across Europe, South America, and in the Middle East/Africa and Asia/Pacific regions on the World Radio Network, and is heard globally on short wave station Radio For Peace International and online at Out in America. The program is also postal-mailed to non-satellite stations and to individual subscribers.
Despite the limitations of a "tattered shoestring budget", "This Way Out" programming has been honored with multiple awards from the U.S. National Federation Of Community Broadcasters and the Radio and Television News Association, by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Parents, Families and Friends Of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG), the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), and internationally by Tupilak (the organization of lesbian and gay cultural workers in the Nordic area).
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AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW
Interviews With Authors & Performers
