This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

Why "Butch Is Not a Dirty Word"; India’s High Court privacy rights ruling signals sodomy law repeal, Finland retains its infertility rule for legal gender change, trans U.S. troops enlist in lawsuits to fight Trump’s service ban, Australia’s plebiscite on love predictably descends into hate, Ugandan activists defiantly celebrate Pride underground, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Tracing the troubling Trump trail back to Orlando’s Pulse; religion preys on 3 queer writers; there’s no High Court road to marriage equality in Northern Ireland, Pakistan lawmakers ponder protections for trans people, the Texas Speaker re-flushes the Governor’s "bathroom bill", skinheads pepper spray St. Petersburg Pride-sters, Iceland asexuals expand the queer acronym, and more LGBTQ news from around the world; plus trailblazing U.K. singer/songwriter Tom Robinson is still "Glad To Be Gay"!

Aussie activists go postal over a mail-in marriage equality plebiscite; the U.S. President’s North Korea saber rattling temporarily trumps his trans military ban, Kuwait deports gay men in a massage parlor rub-out, a "gay-looking" Russian wins a rare job bias lawsuit, Canada’s Defense Minister dances on Vancouver’s Pride of Bollywood float, Ireland’s gay P.M. eating a Belfast Pride breakfast gives Northern Ireland’s governing D.U.P. heartburn, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Australia's marriage equality "simmer" boils over; a police raid nets 42 Nigerians at a safe sex workshop, Haiti's Senate outlaws queer rights support, Trump's trans military ban buckles, Pride escapes threatened violence in Jerusalem, Rentboy.com's CEO gets 6 months behind bars, a decision in Dublin frosts a religious discrimination cake complaint, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Trump trashes trans military service in a Twitter tirade; a Chinese trans worker wins the country’s first job bias lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department opposes queer civil rights protections, Taipei grants parental leave to same-gender families, New Jersey protects trans people from doctors, insurance companies and unsafe schools, Rhode Island recovers from reparative therapy, a religious zealot sues Congress for separation of homosexuality and state, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

The real life of a gay Iraqi-Canadian novelist parallels his fiction; the U.K. punk-pop Rocking Horse Club takes on privilege; Germany’s marriage equality law will make October more festive, a privacy case in India’s High Court could bring sodomy law repeal, ten in Tel Aviv are arrested in an adoption rights protest, the Kremlin defends the Chechen president’s "gays are not people" remarks, the ACLU challenges North Carolina’s "undead" HB2, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

The many hard lessons of "How To Survive A Plague"; a young gay man considers the "queer" in his ear; a "Rainbow Minute" serenades British composer Sir Michael Tippett; Chechnya’s gay purge engulfs lesbians and trans-people, Malta’s Parliament makes marriage equal, the Church of England damns "the cure" and blesses the trans, peaceful prides prevail in Seoul and Tallinn, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

"Supreme" American anxiety clouds the queer crystal ball; Russia’s Chechen purge resumes with no rebuke from Trump, his Pentagon stalls on new U.S. transgender enlistments, Madrid hosts millions at World Pride, stringent security shrinks Singapore’s Pink Dot, East Timor’s P.M. applauds his tiny nation’s Pride debut, Kiwi lawmakers apologize for past consensual adult gay sex convictions, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

Yankee Be Steadwell’s soulful sounds sweeten Sydney’s EqualiTea; German and Maltese marriage equality advocates race to cut the cake, but Australia’s Turnbull still insists on a wasteful plebiscite to get there, Tanzania’s president vows to "bulldoze" queer advocates, Belgrade Pride celebrates Serbia’s first lesbian P.M., the U.S. Supreme Court orders the state of Arkansas to list both same-gender married parents on their children’s birth certificates, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

A gay Bangladeshi blogger flees for his life; rejected Muslim and queer minorities rally around revolutionary love; a "Rainbow Minute" special delivery celebrates Sweden’s Pride postage stamp; Europe’s human rights court slams Russia’s "no promo homo" law, a U.S. federal appeals court green-lights Mississippi’s "religious freedom" law, peaceful Prides prevail in Sao Paulo, Kyiv and Beersheba, but rubber bullets stop attempted Pride celebrants in Istanbul, while Berlin’s mosque for everyone inaugurates Friday prayers, and more LGBT news from around the world!