Before Representative Liz Cheney took on Trumpism, even before her dad was playing President Bush’s Darth Vader, her novelist mom dreamed of pioneering queer “Sisters” (read by Cindy Friedman).

Before Scooby-Doo’s Velma Dinkley came out of the closet, televangelistic gaydar zeroed in on the Teletubbies’ Tinky Winky (featuring Cindy Friedman and Leo Garcia).

Before the Springfield, Missouri City Council was to vote on anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in October 2012, the Brentwood Christian Church’s Reverend Phil Snider gave a shocking testimony.

Plus lesbian-feminist poet-activist Pat Parker performs “For the Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays (But Wish They Wouldn’t Be So Blatant).”

And in NewsWrap: Slovenia’s Parliament passes marriage equality legislation that includes the right to adopt children, Brazil’s federal elections deliver wins to two trans candidates and a run-off between leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro, scandal-plagued Georgia Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker’s gay conservative son is done with his dad’s hypocrisy, a Texas federal judge rules for the state against federal guidelines for LGBTQ anti-bias job protections, Jon Stewart has a problem with trans-phobes, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by David Hunt and Elena Botkin-Levy (produced by Brian DeShazor).

All this on the October 10, 2022 edition of This Way Out!

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