This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

The Vatican’s bait and switch confounds queer youth; trans sports enemies fumble, but is Joe Biden his time? Gertrude & Alice’s canine connection is revealed in a “Rainbow Minute”; Uganda targets queers in its clarified Penal Code, the first gay dads are allowed to adopt children in Croatia, Tonga mourns a murdered trans and HIV activist, and homophobia quashes an honor for T.J. Osborne! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Six Queer Music picks in Focus; a New South Wales trans expert debunks a biased bill; opponents force Swiss marriage equality to the ballot box, a Czech bill for queer mates advances, Biden’s speech backs trans kids and the Equality Act, Alabama, West Virginia and Florida ban trans student athletes, and Montana forges a faith-based "license to discriminate”! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Toilet training lessons from North Carolina’s bathroom bill five years ago this week; thoughts on gender identity definitions for would-be “Saviors”; a German NGO and Russian LGBT group target Chechnya's purge, a Namibian judge splits gay dads’ family, Tennessee and Arkansas advance trans bathroom restrictions, but two U.S. governors veto trans school athlete bans, and Australian activists fight a trans schools erasure bill! Those stories, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Texans testify against terrifying trans bans; how Rachel Carson moved the Earth; remembering the retreat of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; anti-queer thugs kill a Ugandan trans man in a Kenyan refugee camp, the U.K. LGBT Advisory Panel dissolves in acrimony, U.S. state bills batter trans youth, and Shelton to take Aussie hate the extra Nile! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

How adult support can be key to bullied queer kids’ survival; a pioneering activist turns the tables on J. Edgar Hoover; Joe Biden sends reinforcements for U.S. state anti-trans wars; Ghana activists fight online as the latest anti-queer raid nets 22, Arkansas bans trans treatment for minors, the Uniting Church names Australia’s first trans pastor, Ireland’s gay Irish Deputy P.M. gets “credible” death threats, and the “China Southern Cabin Boy” sues for back pay! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

U.S. state anti-queer legislation rages on a rinse-repeat cycle; Istanbul protesters are arrested supporting rainbow students, Poland proposes an anti-queer family rights treaty, Cameroon trans women are jailed for “attempted homosexuality”, Georgia okays the nation’s first gender identity change, Japan is pressed on pre-Olympics LGBTQ protections, and a new U.K. 50-pound note honors persecuted gay World War 2 codebreaking hero Alan Turing! Those stories, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Toasting the world’s 20-year equal wedding anniversary; the U.K. High Court rethinks trans kids treatment, Chechnya’s purge tightens around gay brothers, the U.S. Senate confirms its first trans person to a federal post, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee ban trans student athletes, South Dakota’s governor “defends” women from trans rights, a queer Black state rep fights Georgia voter suppression, and arson destroys a rainbow lifeguard tower! Those stories, and more this week, as “This Way Out” begins its 33rd year being the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture!

A Missouri dad and a Washington daughter defend trans rights; queer Grammy wins break records; the Vatican nixes same-gender blessings, a Japanese district court rules for marriage equality, a Tunisian queer democracy activist is arrested, a transwoman anchor makes news in Bangladesh, and Maddow’s Spoken Word blows out the Grammys! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Queer youth calculate “Rainbow Capitalism”; remembering the first since ’91 LGBTQ-inclusive New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Cruz clouds confirmation hearings with an anti-equality ploy; a “no promo homo” bill is promoted in Ghana, anti-cult Nigerian cops nab “suspected gay party” guests, new adoption laws threaten queer Panamanian and Polish parents, and Sydney’s COVID-safe Mardi Gras celebration eggs on thugs! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Quarantined queer music-makers create “Sunday, Someday”; current U.S. state lawmaker attacks on LGBTQ rights recall North Carolina’s fiasco; a “Rainbow Minute” goes “Over the Rainbow”; Rachel’s show wins cable TV’s rating wars; queer parents are welcomed by the largest evangelical adoption agency based in the U.S., Polish women are acquitted of “rainbow Mary” charges, and Mexican beach-goers rescue gay kissers from Quintana Roo cops! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.