Series Podcast: This Way Out

Queer Aussie faith activist Anthony Venn-Brown takes down toxic texts; a “Rainbow Minute” finds post-World War II lesbian history in the fine print; Chile climbs one Senate step closer to marriage equality, Hungary's Orban rejects E.U. threats with an anti-queer referendum, young trans athletes are saved in Louisiana and West Virginia, a trans model of color Blooms on Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit cover, and professional hockey’s Prokop skates out of the closet! Those stories, and more this...

Teaching AIDS history to empower queer kids; growing up trans with “Jack and Yaya”; Georgian protests mount in Tbilisi anti-Pride violence aftermath, the E.U. tightens screws on homophobic Hungary and Poland, Israel opens fertility services to same-gender couples, and Cameroonian "attempted homosexuality" trans women are released pending appeal! Those stories, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Tracing the tricky timeline of the U.S. trans troop rollout; the gay story behind an iconic 1960’s pop graphic is revealed in a “Rainbow Minute”: Tblisi anti-Pride mobs target "promo homo" journos, tens of thousands rise in Spain against a gay-bashing death, queer China student WeChat outlets are suddenly shut down, the Euro rights court sides with a Russian trans mom, and Ohio okays “moral” objections to LGBTQ healthcare! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the...

Queen Latifah and Lil Nas X come out best at the BET Awards; Gavin Grimm’s win lifts trans kids’ rights; California adds 5 more anti-queer states to its “no official travel” list; Miss Nevada becomes the first trans contestant at the Miss USA Pageant; Pride returns to the White House as Biden signs the Pulse Memorial bill; Honduras is held accountable for a trans woman’s murder, and Malawi’s first Pride parades for equality! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the...

Sportsmen come out and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff plays dad; U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken backs global queer rights; an early 1969 radio show for “homosexuals” forecasts the Stonewall Rebellion; E.U. leaders slam Hungary’s “no promo homo” law, banned Istanbul Pride marches into a violent police response, and Anheuser-Busch Pride duplicity goes flat at the Stonewall Inn! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and...

Singing the praises of Ari Gold and Alix Dobkin; a “Rainbow Minute” charts the history of the Stonewall Inn; the Bidens honor the brave and the proud; Hungary outlaws queer content in schools and media, the top U.S. court rules for the Church without apparent LGBTQ rights impact, and two more Mexican states approve marriage equality! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Singing “Stronger Together” in Sydney; an Indian High Court Justice orders major pro-LGBTQ reforms, queer detainees are finally out on bail in Uganda and Ghana, Australia’s right-wing party of homophobes is pooping out. the U.S Senate feels the Pulse, San Antonio elects Texas' first Black gay city council member, and V.P. Harris walks with Pride in D.C.! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

The "Outcasting Overtime" crew considers Pride and community; Uganda blames COVID on a big queer shelter bust, Chile’s Pinera finally endorses marriage equality, DeSantis greets Pride with a “war on Florida's LGBTQ community", Wisconsin’s Evers issues queer-supportive orders, Utah’s Cox proclaims that state’s first Pride month, and Google doodles Franklin Kameny and donates millions to queer causes! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for...

OutLoud raises proud voices; Lil Nas X liberates his agenda; submerged subversives celebrate World Oceans Day; Ghana busts 21 LGBTQ activists-in-training, queer couples sue Namibia for marriage portability, a trans rights bill dies in Spain, and families and doctors sue Arkansas over its trans kids treatment ban! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Of God, toilets, and U.S. Republicans – May, 2016; penguin lesbian families grow proudly at a London aquarium; Namibia to nix its old sodomy laws, the U.S. grants citizenship to married queers’ foreign-born children, Serbia recalls its ambassador for offending anti-LGBTQ Poland, Tennessee enacts a trio of anti-trans laws, and the NCAA commits unforced errors in 3 “hate states!” Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and...

A novel threesome upends gender in “Detransition Baby”; Hughes and Whitman hide in plain sight in a “Rainbow Minute”; the U.K. Queen’s Speech renews the promise of a conversion therapy ban, his family’s “honor killing” ends a young gay Iranian’s life, Cameroonian trans women get 5 years for “dining while trans,” and the U.S. tops a yearly record for anti-LGBTQ laws in 4 months! Those stories, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and...

The Vatican’s bait and switch confounds queer youth; trans sports enemies fumble, but is Joe Biden his time? Gertrude & Alice’s canine connection is revealed in a “Rainbow Minute”; Uganda targets queers in its clarified Penal Code, the first gay dads are allowed to adopt children in Croatia, Tonga mourns a murdered trans and HIV activist, and homophobia quashes an honor for T.J. Osborne! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer...

Six Queer Music picks in Focus; a New South Wales trans expert debunks a biased bill; opponents force Swiss marriage equality to the ballot box, a Czech bill for queer mates advances, Biden’s speech backs trans kids and the Equality Act, Alabama, West Virginia and Florida ban trans student athletes, and Montana forges a faith-based "license to discriminate”! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Toilet training lessons from North Carolina’s bathroom bill five years ago this week; thoughts on gender identity definitions for would-be “Saviors”; a German NGO and Russian LGBT group target Chechnya's purge, a Namibian judge splits gay dads’ family, Tennessee and Arkansas advance trans bathroom restrictions, but two U.S. governors veto trans school athlete bans, and Australian activists fight a trans schools erasure bill! Those stories, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”:...

Texans testify against terrifying trans bans; how Rachel Carson moved the Earth; remembering the retreat of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; anti-queer thugs kill a Ugandan trans man in a Kenyan refugee camp, the U.K. LGBT Advisory Panel dissolves in acrimony, U.S. state bills batter trans youth, and Shelton to take Aussie hate the extra Nile! Those stories, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

How adult support can be key to bullied queer kids’ survival; a pioneering activist turns the tables on J. Edgar Hoover; Joe Biden sends reinforcements for U.S. state anti-trans wars; Ghana activists fight online as the latest anti-queer raid nets 22, Arkansas bans trans treatment for minors, the Uniting Church names Australia’s first trans pastor, Ireland’s gay Irish Deputy P.M. gets “credible” death threats, and the “China Southern Cabin Boy” sues for back pay! Those stories, and more this...

U.S. state anti-queer legislation rages on a rinse-repeat cycle; Istanbul protesters are arrested supporting rainbow students, Poland proposes an anti-queer family rights treaty, Cameroon trans women are jailed for “attempted homosexuality”, Georgia okays the nation’s first gender identity change, Japan is pressed on pre-Olympics LGBTQ protections, and a new U.K. 50-pound note honors persecuted gay World War 2 codebreaking hero Alan Turing! Those stories, and more this week, when you choose...

Toasting the world’s 20-year equal wedding anniversary; the U.K. High Court rethinks trans kids treatment, Chechnya’s purge tightens around gay brothers, the U.S. Senate confirms its first trans person to a federal post, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee ban trans student athletes, South Dakota’s governor “defends” women from trans rights, a queer Black state rep fights Georgia voter suppression, and arson destroys a rainbow lifeguard tower! Those stories, and more this week, as “This Way...

A Missouri dad and a Washington daughter defend trans rights; queer Grammy wins break records; the Vatican nixes same-gender blessings, a Japanese district court rules for marriage equality, a Tunisian queer democracy activist is arrested, a transwoman anchor makes news in Bangladesh, and Maddow’s Spoken Word blows out the Grammys! All that, and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.

Queer youth calculate “Rainbow Capitalism”; remembering the first since ’91 LGBTQ-inclusive New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade; Cruz clouds confirmation hearings with an anti-equality ploy; a “no promo homo” bill is promoted in Ghana, anti-cult Nigerian cops nab “suspected gay party” guests, new adoption laws threaten queer Panamanian and Polish parents, and Sydney’s COVID-safe Mardi Gras celebration eggs on thugs! All that, and more this week, when you discover “This Way Out”: the...