#1500: Generation T.W.O.!

World-changing events from India and Samoa to Australia to the U.S.A. and Canada with reflections from some of the stalwart volunteer correspondents who covered them, and an all-star guest list of LGBTQ notables including Kate Bornstein, Barney Frank, Tony Kushner, Deepak Kashyap, Rufus Wainwright, Janis Ian, Levi Kreis and Tinky Winky highlight this celebration of the 1500th episode of This Way Out!

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Canada's “Queer Decade”!

Part One of an award-winning radio documentary recalls the first equality case that kicked off Canada's Queer Decade: 1995 -2005. Produced by veteran This Way Out correspondent Heather Kitching for CiTR - Vancouver, B.C., it features comments by pioneering human rights attorney Barbara Findlay and national gay lobby leader Lawrence Aaronovitch.

Queer Life and Lit Commentator Janet Mason leafs through books about an Aussie drag queen (From Darkness to Diva by Skye High) and a trailblazing New York Times HIV/AIDS reporter (Dying Words: The AIDS reporting of Jeff Schmalz by Samuel G. Friedman with Kerry Donahue).

Team LGBT has Olympic moments of glory and ingloriousness this week in Rio!

And in NewsWrap: Belizean Chief Justice overturns anti-gay law against "carnal intercourse,” Georgia's president vetoes marriage equality referendum, Alabama’s Roy Moore may be less again, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Jessica Andrea (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Appropriate Bi-havior!

Bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan talks about Appropriate Behavior with our Entertainment Correspondent Steve Pride.

After reading Out of Orange and Bettyville, our Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason finds that memoirs are made of those.

And in NewsWrap: smoke bombs scatter Ukrainian activists in Odessa, Chelsea Manning punished for expired toothpaste and Caitlyn contraband, White House hires its first trans staffer, out pro American baseball and British rugby players get sporting chances, equality glitter spooks an Aussie Senator's staff, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Wenzel Jones and Chrisanne Eastwood (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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Christopher and His "Kitty"

Week of July 21, 2014
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Portrait artist Don Bachardy talks about The Animals, a collection of love letters from his 33-year relationship with literary giant Christopher Isherwood (part 1 of 2, with Charlie Bauer, PhD).

Queer Life and Literature Commentator Janet Mason discovers a lesbian truth in the fiction of S. Renee Bess (The Rules) and the essays of Judith K. Witherow (Strong Enough to Bend).

Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) signals another homophobic U.S. presidential run in a Right Wing Watch-flagged conversation with conservative radio talk show host Dave Garrison.

And in NewsWrap: Russia plays spy games with LGBT activists, Turkey's top court slams "p" word, Kenyan trans group wins NGO status, U.S. federal court blasts Colorado's civil marriage ban, Stonestreet snubs Santorum, and more news reported this week by Chrisanne Eastwood and Michael Allan (produced by Steve Pride).

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"Modern" Marriage & "Same Love" Remake

Week of May 5, 2014
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As television fans await the impending nuptials of Modern Family's "Mitchell and Cameron," actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet have a bachelor party on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Hip-hop's Angel Haze freestyles against homophobia over Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' hit of Grammy wedding fame.

Commentator Janet Mason loves the literature of love in the pages of The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray (Mitzi Szereto) and Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction (Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane, eds.).

And in NewsWrap: Brunei's deadly penal code gets Sultan's blessing, Japan's First Lady floats message of Pride, Russian repression enters Crimea, Uganda targets "homo-promoting" NGO's, the United Church of Christ challenges North Carolina's equality ban, and more news reported by Carole Meyers and Rick Watts (produced by Steve Pride).

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Michael Cunningham By Nightfall

The Pulitzer Pride-winning novelist discusses his creative process and his latest work with our Steve Pride, including a reading from the By Nightfall audio-book by Hugh Dancy, and music performed by Harry Connick, Jr.

Plus: Walt Whitman, The Inspiration profiles his pioneering gay British admirer Edward Carpenter in a Rainbow Minute (produced by Judd Proctor & Brian Burns and read by Mike Hinerman).

And in NewsWrap: Euro-Parliament gets "Bothered" about LGBT rights; Australia lifts roadblock to overseas marriages; Ecuador cracks down on "cure" clinics; trans-woman takes office in Bogota; U.S. marriage equality advances in Washington, Maryland and Maine; and more news reported by Tanya Kane-Parry and John Torres (produced by Steve Pride).

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