This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

Producer-political activist-straight ally Alfre Woodard is on "Fire" for James Baldwin's birthday, Baja California misses marriage equality – twice, the Cayman Islands pass the queer couple recognition ball to the U.K. Privy Council, Ketchikan, Alaska bans bias after a wedding flowers flap, an Arizona county reverses bias in adoption services, queer-trans Michigan teacher Owen Bondono gets an A+, Atlanta’s “gayborhood” honors U.S. civil rights icon John Lewis, and more global LGBTQ news!

Black Lives Matter to young queer activists; saying “so long” to bigoted Jeff Sessions; the homeless young “Uganda 20” sue over jail abuse, Israeli lawmakers move to outlaw conversion therapy, Brazil’s “too macho for masks” president tests COVID-19 positive again, the U.S. sanctions Chechnya’s queer purge leader, U.S. states sue Trump to protect LGBTQ patients, Trump’s H.U.D. wants to train shelter workers in transgender bias, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

The multi-talented Roger Q. Mason emancipates Abraham Lincoln — and more; Poland’s homophobe-in-chief wins re-election, Russian lawmakers follow Putin’s path to inequality, Sudan stops executing sexually active gay men, Colorado’s governor signs 4 pro-LGBTQ bills, Maine and Oregon expand gender marker options, Trump’s lesbian niece analyzes her family dysfunction, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Black comic Wanda Sykes remembers “The Annual Reminder”; queer youth court the path to equality; Thailand’s Cabinet proposes civil partnerships, the Dutch House moves to constitutionalize LGBTQ rights, Germany plans compensation for wronged queer vets, religious belief trumps worker rights at the U.S. Supreme Court, racism forces the resignation of a homophobic Alabama mayor, the real life “Mitchell” starts his own “Modern Family,” and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

LGBTQ pioneers and the fire *that* time; pre-Stonewall activism shines in “A Queer Serial”; Russians elect Putin for life and embed inequality, Gabon’s Senate seconds the lower house’s sodomy law repeal, E.U. member-seeking Montenegro enacts civil partnerships, India opens the door for transgender cops, rainbows wave with Pride in a defiant Spanish town, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Australia’s DJ Sveta beats the odds; Romanians revolt against the government’s gender studies ban, Gabon lawmakers move to dump their year-old sodomy ban, 3 gay friends die in a Reading knife attack, Australia’s Northern Territory gets the nation’s first Indigenous gay parliamentary speaker, queer legal eagles sue Trump for his trans healthcare rollback, Harvey Milk’s “unsung” successor Harry Britt dies, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Queer workers get justice from the U.S. Supreme Court; the United Nations calls for a global ban on conversion therapy, protesters confront Poland’s propaganda-prone president, U.S. gay dads win their baby’s citizenship rights, Missouri Episcopalians consecrate their first Black gay bishop, a Spanish crooner sings “out” loud, a Chilean basketballer is now “proud and free”, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Australian DJ Sveta spins house music and activism; Larry Kramer’s ACTing UP lives on; a Dutch report reveals the continuing costs of conversion therapy, a Japanese prefecture outlaws “outing”, the U.S. Republican Party peddles Trump’s anti-queer record as Pride, Wheeling, West Virginia elects the state’s first transgender official, U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe joins other LGBTQ notables in Black Lives Matter support, and more news from around the world!

Black queer lives join the anti-racism front lines; Swiss lawmakers finally talk marriage equality, while Panama lawsuits languish in limbo, a Japanese judge rejects a murdered gay man’s spouse survivor benefits, Putin plays the queer card in his latest power play, Puerto Rico’s new Civil Code concerns rights activists, a French village elects the country’s first transgender mayor, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Honoring the life and legacy of writer/ACT UP co-founder Larry Kramer; China and Hong Kong queer couples seek inheritance rights, a Malaysian man challenges the enforcement of Islamic anti-gay sex laws, a well-known Turkmen actor is among several men sentenced to prison for being gay, Zambia’s president pardons a harshly-sentenced gay male couple, a Black gay bird-watcher clips a dog-walking racist’s wings in Central Park, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!