This Way Out

On the air since April 1988, This Way Out is the multi-award-winning internationally distributed weekly LGBT radio news magazine. The program currently airs on more than 200 local community radio stations around the world. For more information, go to www.thiswayout.org.

also on KFAI
Fresh Fruit, on air since 1978 and the longest running queer radio show in the country airs
Thursdays from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM CST

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5/20/2012 This Way Out

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5/13/2012 This Way Out

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Charting a journey that started in harmony and led to unity ‘Twas a short stay for “Romney’s gay”; Kenya’s governmental human rights agency wants to legalize gay sex, Russian opponents of laws banning “gay propaganda” are busted in St. Petersburg, Methodists remain United against “incompatible” homosexuals, hetero kissing is nixed in a Copenhagen gay bar, more!

5/6/2012 This Way Out

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A prominent think tank measures LGBT political power; North Carolinians get an earful on marriage equality; U.S. trans workers win rights under sex discrimination rules, DADT-discharged vets are drowning in paperwork, civil unions take a step down the Colorado Senate aisle, marriage equality foes team up for the Maine event, pop star Anthony Wong comes out “tongzhi”, more news

4/29/2012 This Way Out

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An updated memoir recalls a 1950s L.A. “Gay Bar”; There’s Democratic “platformance anxiety” over marriage equality; Museveni denies Uganda’s deadly discrimination; A Budapest court prefers Pride to police, “gays and tom-boys” are barred from Saudi schools, but Israel’s Conservative Jews okay lesbian and gay rabbinical students, and more global LGBT news

4/22/2012 This Way Out

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A Silver Lake ceremony marks the “Hay Day” of the movement; Gambia goes after gays and lesbians, a drunken Dubai dalliance draws stiff jail time, Budapest cops and Hungarian lawmakers want to silence
LGBT people, Russia’s delegation decries a G8 rights declaration,
studies show homophobes doth protest too much, a “reparative therapy” supporter repudiates his research, and more global LGBT news

4/15/2012 This Way Out

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Multiple U.S. marriage cases close in on DOMA; Celebrating Mexico City civil unions in a “Rainbow Minute”, and an iconic lesbian-feminist poet who made the world a Richer place, A hate group threatens the liberty of LGBT Liberians, activists are attacked for “gay speak” in Yaounde and St. Petersberg, Malaysia pushes TV back in the closet, Chile finally bans anti-LGBT bias, and more news

4/8/2012 This Way Out

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America’s Human Rights Campaign doles out honors and draws outcries;
Russian lawmakers catch “no promo homo” contagion, a Serbian “death to gays” inciter goes to jail, Albania’s P.M. defends parade rights,
second-parent adoptions are rejected in Slovenia, the torture death of a young gay Chilean prompts national soul-searching, same-gender
couples illegally marry en masse on two continents, and more LGBT news

4/1/2012 This Way Out

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Ugandan activists sue a U.S. missionary for anti-gay persecution; U.S. feds “school” Minnesota educators on bullying; The Nazis burn a German gay pioneer’s library in a “Rainbow Minute”; A Chilean lesbian mom’s custody win is an Inter-American Court first, the Euro-Court rejects co-parenting & marriage equality, New Hampshire lawmakers defeat a marriage equality repeal bill, and more LGBT news

3/25/2012 This Way Out

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A veteran activist takes on “Gay, Incorporated”, and looks beyond the “Gay Agenda”; LGBT advocacy becomes illegal in St. Petersburg, Ugandan activists sue an “inflammatory” American missionary, Clementi’s webcam snoop is convicted of hateful privacy invasion,
Tennessee hushes its “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Denmark plans June same-gender weddings, an ice cream appellation honors Britain’s marriage proposal, and more global LGBT news.

3/18/2012 This Way Out

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The UN Secretary-General blesses an anti-violence conference;
Maryland’s Governor charts the future of marriage equality; Ellen speaks from her “Bully” pulpit; LGBT voices “Want To Know What It’s Like” to be in a hate-free world; Iraqi militia target LGBT youth for death, Roman Catholic anti-equality crusades continue, and more LGBT news from around the world