Big Gay Ice Cream & New Queer CDs

Now playing ... week of August 30, 2010

A frosty gay flavor-fest fascinates the Big Apple, where Sheri Lunn gets the scoop from the co-founder of New York City's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, Doug Quint. Then Jane Wiedlin sings the "Big Gay Ice Cream Song."

Get some samples of Anye Elite's homo hiphop ("Sneak Preview"), The Kinsey Sicks' dragapella beautyshop ("Each Hit & I"), and Jason Antone's electronic pop ("Start To Move") as JD Doyle, Chris Wilson and Christopher David Trentham bring you this edition of Audiofile.

And in NewsWrap: marriage equality gives Australian Greens the electoral edge, self-outings shake up U.S. and U.K. politics, Pentagon asks military spouses insulting "Don't Ask Don't Tell" questions, Nepal's gay M.P. leads international parade atop proud pachyderm, and more news reported by Christopher Gaal and Rick Watts.

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Coming August 30th:

Where else can you say "I'd like a salty pimp, please" in public? How about adding toppings like olive oil, sea salt, and wasabi pea dust to your soft serve? Where else but in the "Big Apple" at the BIG GAY ICE CREAM TRUCK? "This Way Out's" SHERI LUNN got this scoop with the truck's co-founder DOUG QUINT in NEW YORK CITY (with "The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Song" performed by JANE WIEDLIN).

NewsWrap for the week ending August 28, 2010

SUMMARY

Green Growth - the minority party's surge in Australia's national elections bodes well for LGBT people and their allies ...

Internalized Homophobia Poster Boy - one of the architects of the 2004 Bush campaign's anti-gay strategy and former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman comes out ...

British Pol Breaks Out - U.K. coalition government's Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt leaves his wife of 20 years and also comes out ...

Will Your Spouse Shower With One? - Pentagon surveys spouses of military personnel in its year-long "study" of how to best implement repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" ...

Proud on a Pachyderm - Nepalese activists and their allies celebrate progressive equality at the Himalayan nation's first international LGBT Pride parade ...

Marriage Advice - New York City Council tells marriage-minded same-gender couples where to go ...

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22 Years and Still Growing!

Thanks to you, and with longtime support from the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, we're approaching the distribution of Program #1,200 of This Way Out! We bring you global LGBT news and explore LGBT culture around the world during our internationally-distributed half-hour community radio show each and every week.

And we're still growing! New stations have joined our carriage list in recent weeks, including Rainbow 95 in Cowlington, Oklahoma, and four additional stations in Australia: 2RRR in Gladesville, New South Wales; 3UGE in Alexandra, Victoria; 5PBA in Salisbury, South Australia; and 8CCC in Alice Springs, Northern Territory (the town made famous in "The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert"). See the list of Affiliate Stations tab at our website to find a local station near you -- or as always, you can listen to each week's show via our free podcasts. You can now also find us on iTunes!

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Melbourne Cafe Days Ca. 1951

Now playing ... week of August 23, 2010

Historian Ruth Ford shares fond memories with 3CR's Marian Prickett about trailblazing lesbian Val Eastwood and the Melbourne coffee shop that liberated uptight 1950s Australia.

Plus a Rainbow Minute salutes "Deborah Sampson - The First Woman to Join the [U.S.] Army as a Man" (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns; read by Jeff Schultes).

And in NewsWrap: U.S. appeals court leaves California couples waiting at the altar, Mexico City marrieds gain adoption rights, German partners win inheritance tax breaks, court action shields a DADT discharge-threatened top gun, and more news reported by Sheri Lunn and Greg Gordon.

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 21, 2010

SUMMARY

Prop 8 Appeal News - The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stays enforcement until at least December of District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that found California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 a violation of the U.S. Constitution, with the critical question of who, if anyone aside from the state (whose officials have refused to defend the measure) has legal standing to appeal Walker's edict, and Imperial County's Board of Supervisors arguing that as a government entity it has standing if Prop 8 backers don't ...

Clergy Shield Law - sponsored by openly gay state Senator Mark Leno, California's Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act, which protects clergy from being forced to conduct wedding ceremonies for same-gender couples if it violates their faith beliefs, appears headed to Governor Schwarzenegger for his expected signature ...

Put Up or Shut Up - legal team behind the challenge to Prop 8 files a motion to demand that its supporters pay their legal costs if the measure is ultimately found to be unconstitutional ...

Parental Right Adopted - Mexico's Supreme Court endorses adoption rights for same-gender couples as the final part of its ruling that found Mexico City's marriage equality legislation to be constitutional ...

Cardinal Offense - Mexico City's mayor sues Guadalajara's Roman Catholic Cardinal for defamation after the cleric claimed the politician had bribed the high court to secure the equality rulings ...

UK Catholics Under Law - U.K. Charity Commission rules that the Church-funded Catholic Care adoptions agency must comply with laws that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation ...

German Inheritance Equality - Germany's Federal Constitutional Court orders legislation to equalize the inheritance rights of surviving spouses in same-gender registered partnerships, and the Justice Minister says those couples should also be treated equally by the country's income tax laws ...

Court Covers Top Gun - highly-decorated U.S. Air Force combat pilot Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach wins a temporary reprieve from what he believed was his imminent discharge under "Don't Ask Don't Tell" ...

Tokyo Pride - 4,000 celebrate LGBT Pride in Tokyo for the first time in three years ...

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Billy the Clown

Now playing ... week of August 16, 2010

A Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey gay circus boy shares his "clowning" achievements with Entertainment Reporter Steve Pride.

Plus a Rainbow Minute inhabited by lesbian lions, gay geese and bisexual beetles. (Produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns and read by Dustin Richardson.)

And in NewsWrap: Mexico's high court orders national recognition of its capital city's same-gender marriages, Costa Rica's top court quashes majority vote on minority rights, complications abound in Prop 8 litigation, Mass. appeal draws the next steps in Obama's DOMA dance, gay top gun flies his "Don't Ask Don't Tell" mission into U.S. federal court, Pentagon troop survey about repeal may be bombing, and more news reported by Rick Watts and John Torres.

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 14, 2010

SUMMARY

Mexican Marriages Good - Mexico's Supreme Court rules that the same-gender marriages in Mexico City that they said last week are constitutional must be recognized across the country ...

Costa Rican Minorities Protected - Costa Rica's Constitutional Court rejects a proposed civil unions ballot measure sponsored by Roman Catholic groups because a majority cannot be allowed to vote on the rights of a minority ...

Prop 8-legged Leviathan - additional legal wrangling over the federal constitutionality of California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 continues ...

GOP H8s Liu - Republican Senators are blocking the presidential nomination of liberal legal scholar Goodwin Liu to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the next battle in the Prop 8 fight is taking place ...

Equality Winning - new CNN poll shows first-time national majority support in the U.S. for same-gender marriage equality ...

Attorneys Defend Marriage - American Bar Association's House of Delegates recommends that all legal barriers to civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples be removed ...

"Fierce Advocate" Alert - Obama administration has 60 days to appeal a federal court ruling in Massachusetts that overturned key provisions of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans U.S. government recognition of legally-married same-gender couples ...

Request For Back-up - Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. military officer currently facing the boot under "Don't Ask Don't Tell," files a first-ever federal lawsuit to prevent his discharge ....

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Prop 8 Unconstitutional

Now playing ... week of August 9, 2010

A U.S. federal judge flunked California's Proposition 8 on the grounds that it violates due process and equal protection provisions of the Constitution. Reports from Pacifica Radio's California Evening News, MSNBC, and This Way Out's Sheri Lunn include comments, analysis and reactions from:

• anti-Prop 8 lead attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson
  
• San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese Stewart
  
• American Foundation for Equal Rights leader Chad Griffin
  
• Jeff Zerillo representing one of the plaintiff couples
  
• marriage equality activist and plaintiff Robin Tyler
  
• Republican Mayor of San Diego Jerry Sanders
  
• L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti
  
• Rabbi Denise Eger of Congregation Kol Ami
  
• Bill Kaiser of the ONE Archives
  
• recently-out country music star Chely Wright
  
• White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod

And in NewsWrap: Mexico City marriage equality withstands Supreme Court challenge, marriage rights bill gets chilly reception in Chile, cross-dressers get the lash in Sudan, Uganda's "kill the gays" bill reportedly comatose in parliamentary committee, clown mayor of Reykjavik drags out Pride launch, and more news reported by Jenn Mahoney and Michael LeBeau.

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NewsWrap for the week ending August 7, 2010

SUMMARY

Prop 8 Flunks - In a comprehensive ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker declares California's marriage-banning Proposition 8 to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution ...

Mexican Revolution - Mexico's Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Mexico City's marriage equality law

Chilean Long Shot - pundits don't think a new bill to eliminate references to gender in Chile's marriage laws will pass ...

Sudanese Bust - 19 young men in Sudan are publicly lashed for wearing womens' clothing at a party raided by police ...

"Kill the Gays," Not - Uganda's draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill is stalled in a parliamentary committee and may not even come up for a vote during the current legislative session ...

Rudy the Second - Reykjavik, Iceland's Mayor Jon Gnarr shows how LGBT Pride celebrations can be a real drag ...

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Wong Way on Marriage & Alec Mapa's View

Now playing ... week of August 2, 2010

Loyalties collide for Australia's lesbian Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong, who took sides with the Labor Party against marriage equality. Pragmatic politician or sell-out?

Comic actor Alec Mapa schmoozes with the crew on ABC's "The View."

And in NewsWrap: Jerusalem Pride marches from mourning to commitment, Zimbabwe activist goes free despite Mugabe's new diatribe, Argentina's first equal knots tied, couples court rights in four U.S. states, and more news reported by Jon Beaupre and John Torres.

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NewsWrap for the week ending July 31, 2010

SUMMARY

Jerusalem Pride Remembers - Thousands march in a subdued Pride procession in Jerusalem that remembers the bloody massacre at Tel Aviv's LGBT community center almost exactly a year ago ...

GALZ Staffer Freed - Ignatius Muhambi, one of the staffmembers of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe arrested during a raid on the group's office in May, is acquitted of pornography charges ...

Argentineans Wed - two gay couples wed under Argentina's new marriage equality law sooner than had originally been predicted ...

Suing NJ - six lesbigay couples file suit against the U.S. state of New Jersey demanding full marriage rights to replace inferior civil unions ...

Suing AZ - federal judge issues a temporary injunction to prevent the removal of domestic partner benefits for same-gender-partnered Arizona state government workers ...

Suing MT - seven gay and lesbian couples sue the state of Montana for some form of legal recognition of their relationships ...

Suing HI - six same-gender couples sue the state of Hawai'i for rights equivalent to marriage following Republican Governor Linda Lingle's veto of a legislature-approved civil unions bill ...

NOM Skulls - "One Man, One Woman" bus tour targeting key political U.S. battleground states sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage prompts questions about the anti-gay group's motives ...

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