This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

A gay imam makes peace with Islam; a Day against queer phobias strikes a global chord, undercover Cameroon cops crash the capital’s gay venues, Russia tells the UN that there were no gays in Chechnya to purge, Hong Kong sneaks around its spousal visa rule during the Immigration Department’s queer exclusion appeal, Trump traps trans inmates in "biological sex" prison cells, Vermont liberates solo loos, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

A gay Muslim cleric reads the Quran with a queer consciousness; Northern Ireland’s marriage equality impasse withstands Commons sense, Pakistan’s sweeping trans rights bill awaits presidential assent, Portugal’s president vetoes a trans teen I.D. bill, Greece allows gay and lesbian foster parenting, U.S. Methodists remain muddy on LGBTQ inclusion, a hip-hop mogul’s lesbian mom makes music history, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

The "Rainbow Guys" share "Oscar’s Letter to Bosie" and Janet Mason sees "Oscar’s Ghost"; "Outcasting Overtime" asks "Was Alexander the Great Gay?"; Dusty Springfield’s Margie Adam cover reveals the 60’s pop star’s "Beautiful Soul"; a Belfast baker’s cake case mirrors a top U.S. court controversy, Trump’s new "faith initiative" preys on queer rights, Hong Kong’s top court nixes support by top banks, law firms, and Amnesty International for a lesbian seeking a visa for her British wife, America’s top teacher trolls Trump with Resist-wear, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Hosts Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon "Oscar" more radio heroes to cap the show’s month-long 30th anniversary party; Thailand proposes civil unions for same-gender couples, a severed gay Japanese widower sues his "sister-outlaw", queer rights turn partisan in Paraguay, Venezuela, Chile, and Lebanon, India’s government is still roiled by sex law reform, Indonesia’s Parliament slows its slide into “married only” sex statutes, U.S. trans healthcare protections get "Trump’d", and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

A lesbian folksinger builds an indigenous bridge from Canada to Australia; the British government urges sex law reform in its recalcitrant Commonwealth countries, activists Twitter-bomb China’s gay ban plan, advocates’ poll shows rising support for Czech marriage equality, a rights group, large banks, and major law firms join a lesbian couple’s Hong Kong immigration case, student-led Pride in Pence-town demonstrates diversity, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Play along for our 30th Anniversary! Just what is “This Way Out” all about?

Heralding radio heroes for making "This Way Out" what it is; Trinidad & Tobago’s top court jettisons anti-sodomy laws, Portugal liberates official gender labels, Ugandan MPs seek to revive the life-in-prison "Anti-Homosexuality Act", Carnival Cruises joins the campaign against Bermuda’s marriage equality repeal, Senator Booker pumps U.S. Secretary of State nominee Pompeo on protecting LGBT rights internationally, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

This Way Out Associate Producer Lucia Chappelle brings 30th Anniversary cupcakes to Lynn H. Ballen of KPFK-Los Angeles’ Feminist Magazine, and talks about three decades of broadcasting LGBTQ news, culture and life around the world.

East meets West in queer musical collaboration; conflicted Costa Rican courts contend with marriage equality; New Zealand clears convictions for consensual gay sex, four more face caning for gay sex in Indonesia’s Aceh province, Russia blocks a website that "promos homos", Singapore "unweds" a couple after one’s post-nuptial transition, Anchorage voters reject anti-trans bias, U.S. doctors decry the Trump’d up "study" on trans service members, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!