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• live coverage from the Sydney Lesbian & Gay Mardi Gras and Ireland’s marriage equality referendum
• Rentboy.com’s Hawk Kincaid on Homeland Security’s bizarre raid
• Leonard Glover of Ghana’s House of Rainbow
• “Loo-liberating” transman Michael Hughes
• Bi Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan
• Intersex/trans activist Trucker Patti Spangler
• Outright Action International’s Jessica Stern

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This Way Out’s 2015 Highlights

What a year it's been!!! Enjoy this "look back" ... and remember how This Way Out has kept you in touch with the worldwide LGBT movement, our brave activists, and our precious artists. It wouldn’t be possible without the financial support of our listeners.

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From Outlaws to In-Laws

A 65-minute audio CD compilation of feature reports on the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in the Lawrence v. Texas sodomy law case and the Proposition 8 and Obergefell marriage equality cases, as well as the “marriage equality resistance syndrome” suffered by the right in response. Includes the voices of plaintiffs John Lawrence, Edith Windsor, James Obergefell and Kris Perry; attorneys Kate Kendall, Ted Olson, Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto; GOP presidential hopefuls Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump; U.S. President Barack Obama, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, ACLU Exec. Dir. Anthony Romero, and many more!

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Queer Courtesies & Rebel Religion!

The author of Steven Petrow's Complete Book of Gay and Lesbian Manners chats with our Steve Pride about how LGBTs and allies can “do the right thing” and learn the true meaning of "respect”!

Three queer-positive books about LGBT people and religion get literary commentator Janet Mason’s blessing: Gay Conversations with God (James Alexander Langteaux), The Peace Seeker (Susan E. Gilmore), and Coming Out in Faith: Voices of LGBTQ Unitarian Universalists (Susan A. Gore and Keith Kron, eds.)!

Plus music by Melanie Amaro and Dave Hall!

NewsWrap Holiday: In the headlines this week, Greek lawmakers okay civil partnerships, a gay man sues for civil marriage equality in China, Malawi drops gay sex charges against two men, Tunisia jails six “offenders” for three years — and we’ll have details on those stories and more international LGBT news when NewsWrap returns on January 4, 2016!

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Of Disabilities & Dixie!

There are no handicaps for QDA: A Queer Disabled Anthology contributors David Cummer and Lucas Scheelk (interviewed by correspondents Dixie Treichel and John Townsend).

The writers featured in Crooked Letter I: Coming Out in the South wrestle with U.S. Southern inhospitality (reviewed by Queer Life & Literature commentator Janet Mason).

Remembering some LGBT luminaries we lost this year in an extended Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns, read by Mary Wallace).

And in NewsWrap: an activist/attorney renews the challenge to Jamaica's "buggery" law, out candidates score electoral firsts in Venezuela and Australia, the U.K. and U.S. each set out the welcome mat for LGBT Syrian refugees, a 4-year old Swiss boy demands the legal recognition of both his dads in the European Court of Human Rights, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Carole Meyers (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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This Way Out gets its primary financial support from people like you who value the program. Now is the time to make your donation to help us continue broadcasting for another year!
Click here to contribute to our Year-End Campaign 2015!

Visit our website, thiswayout.org, for local community radio affiliate stations, CDs and more!

Like us on Facebook ...

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Our online archive is available at Radio4All (Show them some love!)

This Way Out was funded this week by the Kicking Assets Fund of the Tides Foundation, the Yavanna Foundation, the estate of Christopher David Trentham, and by our generous listeners. Donate today to help support our work -- and the free distribution of the show to non-commercial radio stations -- at thiswayout.org.