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This Way Out
Friday, August 15, 2008
SEGMENT #1:
"NewsWrap": HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men, and the failure of many countries to include that high-risk group in prevention programs because of legal/societal bias against them, is a significant focus at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Indian Health Minister Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss and others urge an end to such discrimination, while the Center for Disease Control reports an alarming increase during the past two decades in the rate of HIV infection among U.S. gay and bisexual men; the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference of the 77-million-member global Anglican Communion wraps up in London with no resolution of the contentious debate over the ordination of openly-gay clergy in the U.S. and the blessing by some U.S. and Canadian congregations of same-gender couples and the revelation that the denominations spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had previously written that faithful gay and lesbian unions were "comparable to marriage" in the eyes of God; Amsterdam, Brighton, and Belfast celebrate Pride, while festivities in Vancouver are tempered by a deranged mans hammer attacks on several revelers, but Stockholm police arrest 3 teens for stabbing a gay couple during EuroPride events last week; the U.S. Olympic Committee orders the Northwest Bears gay mens social group to remove all "Olympic" references from their annual summer campout, but the Federation of Gay Games salutes 11 openly-lesbigay athletes who are currently competing in Beijing.
SEGMENT #2:
This "RAINBOW MINUTE" celebrates ground-breaking openly-lesbigay Olympians as "3 SHINING STARS" (produced by JUDD PROCTOR & BRIAN BURNS at WRIR-FM in Richmond, Virginia & read by DUSTIN RICHARDSON).
SEGMENT #3:
"Running With Scissors" author AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS is dining with less-than-dear-old-dad in his latest offering. "This Way Out" queer lit commentator JANET MASON couldn't wait to hunt down "A WOLF AT THE TABLE".
SEGMENT #4: The subtle twists and turns of orientation and relationship power the plot of Australian JEFFREY JAY FOWLER's play, "HOPE IS THE SADDEST." "This Way Out" correspondent JOHN FRAME in Brisbane has a cross-continental chat with Fowler about the ramifications of his themes, and queer life in PERTH.
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