Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: This Way Out

The week of March 11, 2002 on THIS WAY OUT, the international gay & lesbian radio magazine.

ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:

(hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)

Gay Latinos take a glossy look at unity and diversity in "QV";
The Shepard family's story comes to network television;
A Papal spokesperson shifts child abuse blame to gay priests, "no gays in Uganda," claims Musveni, California arson murder fires hate crimes debate,
problems for parent-partners in Nebraska and Scotland, Quebec's "Quatre Veufs" case yields pension cash for surviving queer partners, & other news
In NewsWrap?: A Papal spokesperson blames a recent flood of priestly child molestation cases on gays, saying they should not be allowed in the priesthood, and those who've already been ordained should be annulled, while Uganda's President Yosweri Musveni claims that there are no gays in his country, and a California man, saying that his victim "deserved to die", is charged with pouring gasoline on and burning a gay man to death as he slept... Nebraska's State Supreme Court rejects a lesbian's bid to co-adopt her partner's biological child, while in Scotland a gay male sperm donor is awarded full parental rights over the objections of the recipient lesbian couple, whom the court rules does not constitute a "family unit", but the Quebec Court of Appeal awards government pensions to surviving members of gay & lesbian couples... a U.S. visit by Egypt's Mubarak prompts gay rights demonstrations but not much else... and other GLBT news from around the world [written by CINDY FRIEDMAN and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN & DEAN ELZINGA].
It takes real machismo to confront the stereotypes that plague the many and varied gay Latino communities, but the two men behind a national U.S. magazine are doing just that. CINDY SALAZAAR chats with Publisher PETER GONZAGA and Editor-in-Chief DEMETRIO ROLDÁN of "QV" to find out "which way" Latino gays are going.
On March 16, 2002 NBC will air "THE MATTHEW SHEPARD STORY", based on the true story that shocked the world and devastated a family. It stars Stockard Channing of "The West Wing" and Sam Waterston of "Law & Order" as Judy and Dennis Shepard. Toronto-based SHANE MEIER plays Matthew. This Way Out's STEVE PRIDE has preview clips, and talks with the young actor about his role and with the real JUDY SHEPARD about her journey into activism.

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On the air since April, 1988, "This Way Out" is the multi-award-winning internationally-distributed weekly gay and lesbian radio newsmagazine. It currently airs on over 125 community radio stations around the world, who receive it via satellite in the U.S. on the Public Radio Satellite System and Pacifica's KU band, in Australia via the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's ComRadSat?, across Europe on World Radio Network's WRN1, worldwide via the A-INFOS Internet Project at www.radio4all.org, and on tape from the producers. Listeners can also hear "This Way Out" online on PlanetOut? at www.planetout.com, on shortwave via Costa Rica-based global station RFPI (Radio For Peace International) and on cassette by individual subscription.

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