This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

For a quarter of a century, the unfettered voices of LGBT people have been broadcast around the world on "This Way Out." The award-winning internationally is distributed weekly on over 200 local community radio and online stations around the world (carriage list at thiswayout.org), can be heard via podcast (thiswayout.org and iTunes) and direct satellite (World Radio Network) and is available on CD by subscription. With only modest funding from foundations, Overnight Productions, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) has remained true to its commitment to provide this high-quality LGBT programming to a global audience -- and to offer the program free of charge. Follow us on Soundcloud to hear the weekly show … and maybe some surprises! Archived programs available at http://bit.ly/dduN0p. For our whole story -- including how you can contribute -- please visit our website at http://thiswayout.org!

Episodes

Jennie Arnau: A Rising Tide

October 21, 2025 • 28 mins
Jennie Arnau discovered her passion for music in her childhood home of Greenville, South Carolina, a place that called her back at a time of loss and grief. She’s now living and working in New York City, ending a self-imposed break from songwriting and performing with her new album, A Rising Tide (interviewed by David Hunt). Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” pays tribute to the Matthew Shepard Foundation and celebrates historic queer Oct...
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Podcast Extended Edition with Lover of Men filmmaker Shaun Peterson

October 15, 2025 • 56 mins
Extended 50-minute interview with Shaun Peterson’s about his film documentary that investigates the evidence that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, would today be considered bisexual or queer (interviewed by Brian DeShazor).
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Lincoln, “Lover of Men” (Pt. 2)

October 14, 2025 • 28 mins
Shaun Peterson’s “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” goes beyond investigating the love live of the 16th U.S. President to examine how the study of history evolves (interviewed by Brian DeShazor, part 2 of 2). Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” crosses generations to find outspoken October-born advocates and digs down to the roots of National Coming Out Day. And in NewsWrap: the United States Supreme Court hears the cas...
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Lincoln, “Lover of Men” (Pt. 1)

October 7, 2025 • 28 mins
Shaun Peterson’s film documentary investigates the evidence that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, would today be considered bisexual or queer (interviewed by Brian DeShazor, part 1 of 2). Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” lists notable LGBTQ+ dates in October, and recalls the murder of Matthew Shepard 27 years ago this month. And in NewsWrap: Slovakia’s legislature approves a constitutional amendment declaring m...
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Circa: One Institute’s Queer Histories Festival

September 30, 2025 • 28 mins
The venerable historical preservation organization celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month with an LA County-wide programming series where the past and the future intermingle. One Institute Executive Director Tony Valenzuela talks about the trailblazing histories and vibrant cultural contributions around the festival theme “Reclaiming Freedom” (interviewed by Jason Jenn). And in NewsWrap: a report from the international track and field go...
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Powell Speaks for LGBTQ Refugees

September 23, 2025 • 28 mins
With seven years experience as CEO of Rainbow Railroad, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow at the Carr-Ryan Center at Harvard and Refugee Council USA board member Kamahli Powell is uniquely qualified to discuss the world’s refugee crisis and specifically how LGBTQ people are disadvantaged in seeking help when their countries, communities and sometimes even their homes are unsafe (interviewed by David Hunt). Plus: gay novelist, scr...
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Jessica Stern’s Queer Diplomacy

September 16, 2025 • 28 mins
For more than two decades, activist, educator, diplomat Jessica Stern has worn a variety of hats in her efforts to advance LGBTQ human rights around the world, always at the forefront — unafraid, unapologetic, speaking truth to power. Currently serving as Senior Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Fellow at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, Stern talks about her pioneering work at the United Nati...
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Podcast Extended Edition with Jennifer Knapp

September 10, 2025 • 44 mins
On her journey from Kansas to Oz and back, Jennifer Knapp’s spiritual rock and roll harmonizes “Christian” and “lesbian" with the unifying power of music - a 40+minute extended feature interviewed by David Hunt.
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Allan Bérubé: Queer Media Pioneers

September 9, 2025 • 28 mins
The late historian Allan Bérubé documented in Coming Out Under Fire (1990) how queer soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines have always been a vital part of military readiness. He revealed in a 1983 talk that the first queer news source in the United States was published at an airfield in the deep South more than 80 years ago (produced by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: Burkina Faso’s military junta outlaws same-gender sex for the fi...
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Jennifer Knapp: Lesbian-Christian Singer-Songwriter

September 2, 2025 • 28 mins
On her journey from Kansas to Oz and back, Jennifer Knapp’s spiritual rock and roll harmonizes “Christian” and “lesbian" with the unifying power of music (interviewed by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: a court in Kenya orders lawmakers to protect the rights of transgender people for the first time on the African continent, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is cheered as a hero for resigning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a...
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Queer News in TikTok Times

August 26, 2025 • 28 mins
As the world turns away from traditional news sources, gay journalist Enrique Anarte is building trust — and an audience — on social media (interviewed by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: the United Kingdom’s first transgender judge Victoria McCloud is taking her country’s Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of “woman” to the European Court of Human Rights, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must immediately release ga...
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Planet Queer Turns 13

August 19, 2025 • 28 mins
Every month at AKBAR, a small neighborhood LGBTQ+ bar on the east side of Los Angeles, queer artists of all kinds find a place to play in a unique cabaret. Executive Director Travis Wood, Creative Director Ian MacKinnon, and performers Lore Randolph (aka Fleur The Tease) and Ari (aka Odious Ari) celebrate 13 years of Planet Queer — with a nod to the late playwright Robert Patrick (produced by Brian DeShazor). And in NewsWrap: a pa...
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Sex Law Victory in St. Lucia

August 12, 2025 • 28 mins
Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in the Caribbean has been difficult, but the winds of progress are blowing strong in Saint Lucia. ECADE, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality, just won its fourth court victory since 2022 over long prison sentences for same-sex intimacy. Executive Director Kenita Placide talks about the legal tempest sweeping across the islands (interviewed by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: the early ...
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Podcast Extended Edition with Jamison Green and A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States

August 7, 2025 • 23 mins
In more than three decades as a proud transgender activist, Jamison Green has moved from making history to writing it as one of the authors and editors of a new book, “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States, From Margins to Mainstream” — an important contribution to the discussion during these times of growing intolerance (interviewed by David Hunt) and presented here in a 20-minute extended version of the 14-minute...
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Jamison Green and the History of Trans Medicine

August 5, 2025 • 28 mins
In more than three decades as a proud transgender activist, Jamison Green has moved from making history to writing it as one of the authors and editors of a new book, “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States, From Margins to Mainstream” — an important contribution to the discussion during these times of growing intolerance (interviewed by David Hunt). Belgium’s DJ Mistiek brings out “I Became Me,” a new queer anthem...
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Podcast Extended Edition homo-centric: BANNED Camp

July 30, 2025 • 40 mins
A special Podcast Extended Edition of Episode 1948 | homo-centric: BANNED Camp. PEN America teams up with queer Los Angeles writers for readings from some of the most targeted works threatened by the rise in book bans (correspondent /participant Jason Jenn interviews organizer Hank Henderson and author Abdi Nazemian). Followed by readings from the event by poet Steven Reigns reading from Maya Angelou's ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird S...
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“homo-centric: BANNED Camp”

July 29, 2025 • 28 mins
PEN America (see last week’s This Way Out) teams up with queer Los Angeles writers for readings from some of the most targeted works threatened by the rise in book bans (correspondent/participant Jason Jenn interviews organizer Hank Henderson and author Abdi Nazemian). And in NewsWrap: police in the Malaysian state of Kelantan are investigating themselves after raiding an official HIV/AIDS prevention event they thought was a “gay...
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Podcast Extended Interview with Allison Lee of PEN America Los Angeles on Banned Book

July 23, 2025 • 29 mins
Banned books across the USA have risen dramatically in the past three years. We present here an extended interview with Allison Lee, Managing Director of PEN American Los Angeles from This Way Out Radio Episode 1947 (interviewed by Jason Jenn). This is part one of two reports about banned books inspired by a special reading event called homo-centric: BANNED CAMP that took place during West Hollywood's 2025 WeHo Arts Pride Festiva...
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PEN: Mightier Than the Book Bans

July 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Just how far is it from book bans to bonfires? PEN America’s Los Angeles Director Allison Lee tracks the alarming censorship trend across the U.S. and how to stand up against it (interviewed by Jason Jenn). And in NewsWrap: a gay male Ukrainian couple wins recognition as a legal family in a Kyiv district court, the Church of England votes to stop teaching prospective clergy that so-called “homosexual practice” is “especially disho...
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Harvard’s Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program

July 15, 2025 • 28 mins
While Harvard University faces off with the Trump administration over its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, director Diego Garcia Blum of its John F. Kennedy School of Government Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program counts its first year accomplishments (interviewed by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: same-gender couples in Hong Kong who have legal recognition from abroad could get health-rela...
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