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This Way Out
Friday, May 9, 2008

SEGMENT #1: "NewsWrap": The Australian Government announces plans to reform about 100 laws that financially discriminate against same-gender couples, but keep marriage out of the equation [with brief comments by ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT MCCLELLAND and OPPOSITION LEADER BRENDAN NELSON], while the Australian Capital Territory remains at loggerheads with the feds over civil unions, but Uruguay finally sees its first civil union more than 3 months after the first such law in Latin America creating them came into force; Blue Diamond Society leader Sunil Pant becomes Nepal's first openly gay candidate elected to Parliament, but Britains Brian Paddick, the world's highest ranking out police official, loses his bid to become Mayor of London; delegates at the annual United Methodist Church General Conference vote to retain policy that homosexual acts are "incompatible with Christian teaching," while openly lesbian minister Jane Spahr's censure for marrying same-gender couples is lifted by the high court of the Presbyterian Church USA because such ceremonies "cannot be a marriage"; 3 Lesbos islanders are suing the advocacy group Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece demanding that only residents be allowed to define themselves as "lesbian"; and the first telephone helpline for lesbians in China starts taking calls.

SEGMENT #2: It's getting harder and harder to find a bookstore like VANCOUVER, B.C.'s LITTLE SISTER'S BOOK AND ART EMPORIUM. As the legendary landmark celebrates its 25th anniversary, many of its kind are no longer in business despite their pivotal role in the development of both the early LGBT literary scene and burgeoning queer movement. In this first of a multi-part series, "This Way Out" correspondent HEATHER KITCHING ["Queer FM"/CiTR-Vancouver] commemorates Little Sister's silver milestone with co-founder JIM DEVA.

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