THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine Program #712: (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Program I.D. #02-F72-00047 There will be no "NewsWrap" segment on "This Way Out" next week (11/26), nor on programs to be distributed on 12/24 and 12/31/01. ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:"Queer Vinyl": a "Sweet Woman" and 2 guys who are "Out" & "Glad To Be Gay"; Notorious Egyptian club raid leads to hard labor sentences, a gay Iranian teen wins Swedish refuge, battle lines are forming over sweeping Western Australia rights bills, Queensland's Rights Commissioner calls for law reform, and lesbian fertility access is debated in Victoria, while the U.S. Salvation Army retreats from partner benefits, and other global GLBT news * In "NewsWrap": 23 of the "Cairo 52" - men arrested in a May raid on a gay-friendly Nile riverboat club - are sentenced in an Egyptian Security Court to from one to five years hard labor for contempt of religion and obscene behavior, and the 29 acquitted remain behind bars pending a prosecution appeal... a young gay Iranian national who'd criticized the treatment of gays and lesbians in his homeland wins refuge in Sweden... legislation dealing with discrimination against gays and lesbians and particularly lesbian access to fertility treatment tops the news in the Australian states of Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria... in the U.S., the national leadership of the Salvation Army bows to intense pressure from Christian conservatives and overrules its Western Division's move to offer employee domestic partner benefits... and other GLBT news from around the world [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and JON BEAUPRE].(about 10:15) * The explosion of music by and about gays and lesbians in the past several years has roots that go back as far as the 1920's. In this week's second installment of a special 3-part series called "QUEER VINYL", CHRIS WILSON & J.D. DOYLE, the hosts of This Way Out's monthly "AudioFile" segment, continue to explore our lesbigay musical heritage: from his extensive private collection, J.D. is picking his ten choices for the most influential gay and lesbian music ever recorded, which he and Chris discuss and play [produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM]. This week's selections span the 1970's: "Out" by STEVEN GROSSMAN, "Sweet Woman" by CRIS WILLIAMSON, and "Glad To Be Gay" by the TOM ROBINSON BAND.(about 16:00)
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