Joe Biden liberates U.S. transgender troops; a “Rainbow Minute” chronicles how Dr. Tom Dooley won in Vietnam; Honduran lawmakers protect constitutional marriage inequality, Singapore activists fight anti-trans policies and a gay sex ban, Taiwan judges draft a policy to okay foreign queer marriages, gay men are caned for sex again in Aceh, the EuroCourt upholds rights of Romanian trans men, and honored Australians protest a homophobe’s top award! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

A rainbow review of the Biden/Harris Inauguration; David Kato remembered as Musevini maintains power; President Biden orders federal LGBTQ job rights on his first day, Buttigieg “refreshes” Senators at his confirmation hearing, other Cabinet nominees support queer equality, a trans person is tapped for a first-ever federal post, Biden’s White House website reflects gender diversity … and oh, those Bernie mittens memes! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

A Black lesbian writer unmasks child sexual abuse in “Love with Accountability”; one final words-and-music “salute” to the “Orange Menace”; Latvia legislates bias against queer families, a Czech court rejects gay dads’ U.S. adoptions, LGBTQ Congress members activate Trump’s impeachment, Biden’s queer scorecard climbs, a Canadian Catholic school district pulls “porno” LGBTQ online resources, and Israel eases legal gender change! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Queer teens get support to navigate the dating years; the loving culture of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict fills more than a “Rainbow Minute”; the U.S. political crisis features queer foes and justice fighters, a Cayman Islands Tribunal grants gay spousal residency status, an N.H.S. agency challenges the U.K. High Court trans teen treatment ruling, there’s a gay “first” in Greece and two trans “firsts” in India, and “Global Citizen” Elton John gets another honor! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

On this week’s special show, a pair of selections from the marathon Global Queer Read-In we presented online last June (produced by Brian DeShazor with Rebecca Drapkin) that speak to the theme of “Coming Out & Making It Real”: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sophie B. Hawkins performs her own “Not Beating Around The Bush” and reads a selection from “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf; and Broadway star, community activist and "Man of the World" Anthony Wayne performs a selection from “Men Of The House: A B-Boy Blues Novel” by James Earl Hardy! Elegant words of note to start the new year this week when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture! (“NewsWrap” returns next week. Happy 2021!)

From 1993: Deb Price’s syndicated column changed attitudes back when printed newspapers actually did shape public opinion; two LGBTQ movement legends, Harry Hay and Jim Kepner, got together in 1975 to discuss the beginnings of what came to be called “queer theory” — listen through this “gay window”; capped by her live reading of a classic poem by Pat Parker! (“NewsWrap” returns on our week of 11 January 2021 show. Happy New Year!)

Remembering trailblazing lesbian newspaper columnist Deb Price; Cole Porter goes from Bulldog to Broadway in a “Rainbow Minute”; 1983’s Sydney Gay Liberation Quire helps make the yuletide – well, you know; The Therapy Sisters help us wish you “Happy Whatever You’re Having”; Swiss marriage equality is threatened by a referendum, U.K. reforms ease blood donations by gay and bisexual men, and Biden taps Buttigieg for U.S. Transportation Secretary! Those stories, and much more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture!

Life behind the music at Olivia Records; Bhutan decriminalizes same-gender sex, a Singapore gay activist renews his sex law challenge, Bolivia creates “free unions” for queer couples, Tlaxcala joins Mexico’s marriage equality states, U.S. courts affirm trans rights in Oregon and Nevada, and Drag Queen Story-timers sue one of Australia’s leading homophobes for defamation! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture!

U.S. election wins boost queer youth confidence; Maupin’s memoir matches his well-told “Tales”; a “Rainbow Minute” celebrates “Lesbians That Led Long Lovely Lives”; Switzerland takes another slow step to marriage equality, South Australia overrules the “gay panic” defense, the U.K. High Court blocks trans kids puberty treatment, a Chopin revelation confounds anti-queer Poland, and an LGBTQ band thanks Macy’s for inclusion! All that, and more this week, when you find “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture!

On this special show, two misfits of a certain age -— a gay HIV-poz, long-term survivor and a former nurse at St. Vincent’s Hospital during the height of the AIDS crisis -— meet in the lobby of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and swap AIDS stories. They laugh, they cry, and promise never to forget in the world premiere of “Camping at the Met”, produced for “This Way Out” by Lucia Chappelle.