This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

Syrian refugees are not all created equal; Ireland bans bias against gay schoolteachers, the Belfast High Court weighs partnerships versus marriage, civil unions are created in Cyprus and renewed in Queensland, Austrian kids sue for their parents' marriage rights, Uganda cracks down on LGBT-supportive NGOs, trans-phobia and anti-choice killings make a creepy Cruz cocktail, and more global LGBT news!

On this week's special World AIDS Day commemoration – with production assistance by Steve Pride and some music from the heart of the epidemic – our Rick Watts explores the past, present and future of HIV/AIDS with Dr. Michael Gottlieb, one of the first practitioners to identify and treat the disease (with excerpts from "They Are Falling All Around Us" by Michael Callen with Cris Williamson & Holly Near; "Until the Balance Tips" by John Bucchino; and "Friend in My Pocket" by Joe Bracco). [Note: There's no "NewsWrap", our weekly international LGBT newscast, on this week’s show — returns next week.]

A liberated librarian questions the original Radical Faerie; Irish eyes smile at the country's first weddings of lesbian and gay couples, adoption reform expands Portugal's same-gender-parent-headed families, Kenyan lawmakers reject a "kill the gays" bill, the world observes the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a North Carolina school suspends all student clubs rather than allow an LGBT support group on campus, and more LGBT news from around the world!

GOP hopefuls woo a "Kill the Gays" gadfly; same-gender families and friends lead a new Mormon migration; the Australian Senate pans the government's marriage equality plebiscite, Ukraine bans job bias to placate the EU, Utah foster moms battle a bigoted judge for their baby, Starbucks stakes out Seattle Safe Places but critics condemn their "un-Christmas-y" cups, and more LGBT news from around the world!

HERO's defeat repeals rights in Houston; yes but no to another Northern Ireland marriage proposal, Israeli LGBT activists petition for civility, Mormons shut the door while Reform Jews open a window, Colombia's highest court opens adoptions to same-gender couples but a Missouri appeals court upholds the right to anti-gay workplace harassment, Taiwan breaks two LGBT records in Asia, and more LGBT news from around the world!

"Trucker Patti" Spangler travels the transformation trail; a Zimbabwe Labor Court rules in favor of a gay man's employment rights, Ireland formalizes marriage equality, criminalized Malaysian trans-women fight escalating arrests, high-profile conferences discuss "family values" in Rome and Salt Lake City, a defrocked Polish priest appeals to the Pope to mend the Church's "violently homophobic" ways, and more LGBT news from around the world!

Outright Action International (formerly the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission) counts global equality gains and losses; the real story behind the queer anthem "(Something Inside) So Strong"; Canada's Liberal Party landslide ushers in the second Trudeau era, Slovenia's High Court forces a referendum on marriage equality, civil unions begin in Chile, Russian lawmakers want to criminalize coming out, a global doctors group supports trans rights, and more LGBT news from around the world!

IGLHRC becomes OutRight for global activism; One Million Moms stir a plot of Campbell's; Catholic Italy considers civil unions, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church votes for inclusion, Russia unexpectedly jails 6 violent homophobes, bogus "cures" continue to be peddled in China, the U.S. government wants to ban such "therapy" nationwide, and more LGBT news from around the world!

LGBT issues strain an already-conflicted Catholic Synod on the Family; new lesbian lit of note includes a historical couple's bio and a censored French classic; a British appeals court denies same-gender couple pensions parity, a pro-equality Obama resists endorsing the Equality Act, transgender people suffer setbacks in Malaysia and Poland, a government leader and an NCAA basketball coach make coming out news, Kim Davis gets an offer she'll probably refuse, and more LGBT news from around the world.