This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

What's the thing about "Tiger King"? Her gender dysphoric voice challenges a brave young trans-woman; readers are abducted by Steve Abbott’s “Beautiful Aliens”; Costa Rica jumps its last marriage equality hurdle, Albania bans conversion therapy, COVID-19 infects Chechnya’s queer purge-leading despot, Hungary outlaws documented gender changes, U.S. Supremes nix Idaho’s bid to stop an inmate’s transition surgery, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Pride goes virtual to overcome COVID-19 lockdowns; Irish marriage equality still smiles on its fifth anniversary; reports reveal European queer rights decay, gay Seoul nightspots are blamed for a COVID-19 comeback, Brazil’s Supreme Court frees gay and bi men to donate blood, charges are dropped and the “Uganda 19” are surprisingly released, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

A gay Aussie indy revisits the music of "1998"; Germany protects minors from "conversion therapy", Indonesian exorcists claim queer cures, an acclaimed Egyptian actor televises support for his trans son, Turkey cracks down on kids’ COVID rainbows, Hungary lifts its ban on blood donations by gay and bisexual men, two Black U.S. gay writers bag Pulitzers, Sulu's phaser stuns "Breitbart" homophobes, and more global LGBTQ news!

An AIDS survivor answers COVID questions; "Outcasters" become in-casters under lockdown; Tunisia flip-flops on imported marriage equality, a Japanese nonprofit offers employers proof of same-gender relationships, one in five Russians favor queer "elimination", Uganda forces 19 men to stay jailed for alleged COVID violations, a Kenyan court refuses to free "Rafiki", and more global LGBTQ news!

Sydney activist “Breko” lights up the pandemic; sing a song of social distance with Emma’s Revolution; European Justice punishes an Italian homophobe, an Israeli printer’s anti-LGBTQ bias fades in court, Finland finalizes its first adoptions by same-gender couples, U.S. librarians condemn queer books bans, the U.N. warns against rights rollbacks, a gay Polish couple distributes rainbow face masks in “LGBTQ Free Zones”, and more global LGBTQ news!

Before they asked and after we told; a “Rainbow Minute” recalls dastardly “Undercover Gays” in the U.S. Navy; Boston and San Francisco Gay Men’s Choruses put on a show; Chile’s top court “civil-unionizes” a lesbian couple’s Spanish marriage, Poland moves to criminalize sex education, Virginia leads the U.S. South in LGBTQ rights protections, Peru pulls gender-based lockdown rules, and more global LGBTQ news!

An Aussie drag star penetrates the COVID quarantine; the Inter-American Court finds Peru guilty of queer torture, Panamanian trans people fall between COVID-19 quarantine cracks, gay Irish P.M. Leo Varadkar re-joins the medical register to fight the pandemic, more U.S. activists are lost to the virus, lesbian/woman Phyllis Lyon climbs her last “Ladder”, Malaysian condom factories re-open as “essential businesses” during the pandemic lockdowns, Dr. Anthony Fauci praises queer AIDS activists, and more global LGBTQ news!

Is COVID-19 the AIDS of a new generation? Honoring the movie poster master who passed before his time; A salute to the child who refused to salute; Singapore’s High Court rejects 3 “gross indecency” challenges, an Ankara court re-clears the way for Pride, the SPLC reports an uptick in anti-LGBTQ U.S. hate groups in the age of Trump, queer COVID updates, and more global LGBTQ news!

More “Queering the Beeb”; two U.S. queer icons and a hero fall to COVID-19, the 2020 International AIDS Conference goes virtual for safety, 17 Senators and GLAAD push the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to allow blood donations by gay and bisexual men, U.K. LGBTQ help line calls surge with isolation concerns, COVID-19-forced border closures separate rainbow families, Trump’s Justice Department backs a ban on trans girl athletes, and more global LGBTQ news!

The BBC's History Manager looks back at the national broadcaster's queer coverage; U.S. lawsuits target Trump’s rights rollbacks, a trans attorney is on track for the Cook County bench, Tennessee and Alabama lawmakers move against transgender teens, Ghana’s top imam uses the pandemic to condemn gay people, COVID-19 strikes down LGBTQ events worldwide, but “saves” kids from Drag Queen Story Hours, and more global LGBTQ news!