This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

Healing hatred 140 characters at a time; Serbia’s President picks a lesbian P.M., British election results May leave queer equality in limbo, trans rights advance across Canada and in Oregon, Texas enacts a law giving even state-funded adoption agencies the right to reject gay & lesbian applicants based on “sincerely held religious beliefs”, queer choirs serenade Seoul, and more LGBT news from around the world!

Pride joins the Resistance; Germany welcomes its first gay Chechen asylum-seeker, a federal court clears but condemns a hate-exporting U.S. evangelical, Scottish Episcopalians choose marriage equality over schism threats, U.S. Methodists unite around a gender non-conforming deacon, and more LGBT news from around the world!

Homophobic hatred and horror infect Indonesia; McGregor volleys Court’s bigoted serve Down Under; a gay Irish-Indian will be Ireland’s next P.M., a U.S. federal appeals court finds the trans-boy’s bathroom, fundamentalist violence stops Moldovans from marching "Without Fear", France welcomes its first gay Chechen refugee while Macron pressures Putin, progressive German Muslims challenge Merkel on marriage equality, and more LGBT news from around the world!

Our merry meeting with a satirical sodomite; a "Rainbow Minute" honors "British Power Boat Racer Marion Carstairs"; Taiwan’s top court mandates marriage equality, financial mismanagement dooms Miami’s World OutGames, attacks on LGBTQ people escalate in Indonesia, Human Rights Watch confirms Chechen government complicity in the Russian region’s gay genocide, and more LGBT news from around the world!

The 20th anniversary of Tasmania’s triumph teaches timely tactics; a "Rainbow Minute" celebrates "Boy from Oz" icon Peter Allen; Chechen genocide continues amid denials and denunciations, 27 young gay men are netted in the raid of a Bangladesh community center and a young gay Indonesian couple faces 85 lashes for private consensual lovemaking, while IDAHOT is observed around the world — not always peacefully, Chelsea Manning is finally a free woman, and more LGBT news from around the world!

Drag goes wild at L.A.s "Ru-fest"; a "Rainbow Minute" finds the first queer use of "The Word ’Gay’"; Chechnya’s gay purge continues unabated, South Korea’s new president sends queerly mixed messages, Singapore bans foreigners from Pink Dot after local funding restrictions, Pride blossoms in Cambodia and Tokyo, the Mormon Church divorces the Boy Scouts of America, and more queer news from around the world!

"Ru-vealing" the secrets of Pandora Boxx; a "Rainbow Minute" sings the praises of woman-loving-women British composer and suffragist Ethyl Smyth; Putin promises to probe Chechnya’s gay purge, Indonesian police raid a "gay sex party", Bermuda’s High Court rules for marriage equality, a French appellate court rejects alternatives to "male" and "female", the U.S. Supreme Court rejects "conversion therapy", and more queer news from around the world!

Ellen's proud "Puppy" celebrates 20; Chechnya's gay holocaust triples its victims and concentration camps, an HIV-positive gay Russian man fights for U.S. asylum, a gay Hong Kong couple wins civil service benefits, Japan nixes an LGBT-inclusive public school curriculum, a marriage equality foe makes the presidential run-off in France, Canada's world pole vault champ comes out, and more queer news from around the world!

East London dragsters discover high drama in high heels "Dressed As A Girl"; refugee voices describe anti-gay terror in Chechnya while its leader pleads "not guilty"; homophobic crackdowns resume in Nigeria and Iran, tributes pour in for the gay activist police officer killed in the latest Paris terror attack, Trump picks an anti-LGBT bigot to lead the U.S. Army, a basketball legend has some "Magic" words for the parents of nonconforming LGBTQ kids, and more queer news from around the world!

From the ballet to Broadway to "Boys in the Sand" and beyond, wading into Wakefield Poole’s art, sex and life; silence surrounds Chechen gay concentration camps, India outlaws HIV bias, the Euro-Court condemns mandatory sterilization of trans people, the U.S. Justice Department flushes its federal lawsuit against North Carolina's HB2, Russia outlaws distribution of a photo-shopped Vladimir Putin in drag, and more queer news from around the world!