This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

Untangling this week’s U.S. Supreme Court military trans ban ruling; old bible stories get new life in Janet Mason’s “They”; Angola sheds its “vices against nature” law, Japan Supremes uphold forced trans sterilization for legal identity changes, queer Brazilian lawmaker Jean Wyllys flees death threats while Hoosier Pete Buttigieg’s gay hat is tossed into the U.S. presidential campaign, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Rainbow artists seek Grammy glory; the annual Women’s March traverses “intersectionalities”; Lithuania’s top court finds residence rights for queer foreign marrieds, but an El Salvador court deals a marriage equality setback, a renewed Chechen purge nets 40 and kills 2, U.S. Christian haters oppose an inclusive anti-lynching bill, Pences pout over grade school bias, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

LGBTQ history is safe in the hands of ONE; Hollywood celebrates a rainbow of Golden Globe Awards; Chechnya continues its anti-queer purge, homophobic Dutch Christians issue an “unclean” manifesto, Israeli doctors are barred from “curing” same-gender attraction, a U.S. federal judge dresses down Drag Queen Story Time plaintiffs, a biased Colorado baker adds a trans layer to his cake crimes, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

The secret life of a gender-bending jazz giant; Do labels help or hurt us? Same-gender couples in Japan and Hong Kong challenge marriage inequality, Austria rings in the New Year with lesbian wedding bells, Jamaica’s major queer rights HQ burns down, Pakistan’s first Trans Pride marchers push for progress on legal reforms, Canada coins a 50-year commemoration of sex law repeal, and more LGBTQ news from around the world! © 2019 Overnight Productions (Inc.)

On this week’s special program, through our “NewsWrap” coverage beginning in 2009, and with comments by Indian activists and an out gay Indian-American comic, “This Way Out” looks back at one of the most important LGBTQ stories of 2018 — the fall of India’s repressive law against consensual adult same-gender sex: Penal Code Section 377! [“NewsWrap” returns next week!]

On this week’s special program, Barry McKay’s “Australian Marriage Chronicles” begins in August, 2017 and charts the struggle for matrimonial equity through the final vote in the Australian Senate in November, with copious comments by top government officials, pundits, and leading campaigners, and lots of thematic music! [“NewsWrap” returns on the “This Way Out” program to be distributed January 7, 2019; Next week: Our coverage of arguably the biggest queer news story of 2018: the final repeal of India’s anti-queer “sodomy” law!]

Preserving a ONE of a kind Archive; electoral math and the future of queer rights; Bermuda files a final appeal to preserve inequality, Israel’s top court says a parent is a parent, homophobic violence tops the challenges of sexual and gender minorities in a Kenyan refugee camp, “Brokeback Mountain” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” each make cultural history, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Suzanne Bartsch tops New York nightlife; tuneful queer time travel traces holiday traditions; Chile’s Supreme Court rules that marriage is a human right, South African lawmakers stop marriage officials from “opting out” of equality, Hungary and Poland quash a queer-inclusive E.U. declaration, Trump picks a new Justice mouthpiece from an anti-gay hate group, a fundamentalist Iowa fire-bug is charged for queer kids book-burning, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

A former "ex-gay" Australian challenges “conversion therapy”; Europe’s human rights court slams Russia for banning Pride, a West Sumatra city joins Indonesia’s anti-queer crackdown, Hong Kong lawmakers reject a same-gender couples recognition bill as one sues for housing rights, Bermuda and Taiwan continue marriage equality wrangling, a Puerto Rican lesbian couple spruces up Rockefeller Center, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

SYDNEY CORRESPONDENT BARRY McKAY CHATS WITH AUTHOR AND LIBERATION THEOLOGIAN ANTHONY VENN-BROWN ABOUT A NEW BOOK HE’S PUTTING TOGETHER CALLED “THE QUEST TO CURE QUEERS” ... [:11 TEASE] THE CASE AGAINST SO-CALLED “CHANGE THERAPY”, AND HOW YOU CAN HELP THE CAUSE — NEXT TIME ON THIS WAY OUT!