Happy Birthday to “This Way Out”! Thailand’s marriage equality bill passes the lower house in a landslide, Houthis to crucify nine for “immoral acts” in Yemen, Wyoming cancels pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, a Texas judge extends her block of A.G. Ken Paxton’s P-FLAG probe, a trans darts champ’s twin wins get protested, and a bomb threat in Pennsylvania closes a drag queen’s story book. Those stories and more this week as we begin our 36th year helping you find “This Way Out”, the world’s audio oasis for LGBTQ+ news and culture.
Produced and hosted this week by Greg Gordon and Lucia Chappelle. “NewsWrap” reported this week by Joe Boehnlein & Melanie Keller and produced by Brian DeShazor. Archival correspondents: Tim Richardson, Robin McCall, Christopher McPherson, Andrew Ross Exler, Barry Wick, Anthony Price, Robb Atkinson, Alan Ross, John Zeh. Theme music: Kim Wilson. Additional music: Stevie Wonder, Teresa Trull, from “Peter and the Wolf”, Re-Flex, Holly Near, Diana Ross, Bob Marley, The Bobby Fuller 4, Janice Leber & Chopped Liver Productions, and Mary Watkins, with poetry by Pat Parker.
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