THIS WAY OUT : THE INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN RADIO MAGAZINE, PROGRAM NO. 732 (April 8, 2002)

THIS WAY OUT the international gay & lesbian radio magazine Program #732. (hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle) Program I.D. #02-F72-00014 ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: How Third World queers coalesce for success to form "Different Rainbows"; Tracking Western lesbians' & gay men's disparate roads to liberation; Another Mugabe ally is ousted in a Zimbabwe gay sex scandal, six men are busted in Missouri for "deviate" sex, a sperm donor's court victory angers Australian lesbians, a post-Rosie poll shows a now bare majority of Americans favor adoptions by gays & lesbians, and other global GLBT news * In NewsWrap: Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief Alum Mpofu, another prominent ally of the country's virulently homophobic President Robert Mugabe, is ousted in a gay sex scandal, while in the U.S., six men in Jefferson County, Missouri are charged with violating the state's law against "deviate sexual intercourse with another person of the same sex"... in Australia, a Melbourne, Victoria Family Court has fueled controversy by giving a gay sperm donor increased visitation rights with the child he fathered for a lesbian couple... back in the U.S., a post-Rosie poll by ABC News shows a bare majority of Americans now support adoption rights for gays & lesbians... a harassed Montreal couple wins their human rights complaint, but it remains to be seen if the perpetrators pay... Vietnam Pride draws poisonous press... and other GLBT news from around the world [written this week by LUCIA CHAPPELLE and anchored by DEAN ELZINGA & LUCIA CHAPPELLE].(about 9:30) * The growing and dynamic queer liberation movements in the Third World have their own unique national and regional histories and developing identities. PETER DRUCKER, a U.S. activist recently based in the Netherlands, has edited an anthology of essays by several Third World activists called "DIFFERENT RAINBOWS" (Gay Men's Press). In last week's first of a 3-part conversation, This Way Out correspondent MICHAEL SCHEMBRI [2SER-FM/Sydney's "Gaywaves"] talked with Drucker about the influences of globalization and the West on Third World queer struggles for equality. This time, the discussion explores the unique "patterns" being created by Third World queer liberation movements -- their successes, their challenges, and their confrontations with religion and post-colonial mindsets.(about 5:30) * Lecturer JANE WARD, who's taught lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender history at the University of California-Santa Barbara, tracks the often-disparate paths that Western gay men and lesbians have taken on the road to liberation over the past few hundred years, using history - and a sense of humor as her compass. (about 10:00)