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

Isherwood Reading Isherwood | This Way Out Episode #1973

January 20, 2026 • 28 mins
Christopher Isherwood’s own stories of pre-War Berlin; remembering Renee Nicole Good; U.S. top court hears trans student sports ban cases, a new survey confirms pediatric transgender healthcare can be life-saving, Malaysian authorities shut down an empty “gay friendly” hotel, the latest Human Rights Campaign U.S. queer quality of life poll finds deterioration under Trump, and billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates 45 mi...
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Sophie B. Hawkins reads from Woolf & Hawkins + LGBTQ news | This Way Out Radio Episode #1972

January 13, 2026 • 28 mins
Sophie B. Hawkins performs “Not Beating Around the Bush” (recording of her original song made exclusively for “This Way Out”) and reads an excerpt from “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf. SOPHIE B. HAWKINS is a U.S.-born singer-songwriter whose commercial success has been matched by her passionate advocacy for animal rights, and the equality of women and the queer community. In 1925, VIRGINIA WOOLF introduced the world to “MRS. DALL...
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2025 Queer Year in Review Part Three

January 6, 2026 • 28 mins
We continue our review, highlighting of some of the news and feature stories on This Way Out during 2025. [NOTE: “NewsWrap” and the “Rainbow Rewind” segments return on our week of 12 January 2026. In our 38th year satisfying your weekly minimum requirement of LGBTQ news and culture! Now more than ever, your financial support of our U.S. 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit will help keep us in ears around the world! (and we’ll acknowl...
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2025 Queer Year in Review Part Two

December 30, 2025 • 28 mins
We continue our review of some of the news and feature stories on This Way Out during the past 12 months, including trans lawmakers defending drag and their own dignity, celebrating a venerated Aussie activist, challenging anti-queer laws in the Caribbean, marching for gender rights in the U.K., greeting a drag virtuoso violist, analyzing a major setback at the U.S. Supreme Court, and reviewing the upcoming season at what used to b...
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2025 Queer Year in Review | This Way Out Radio Episode #1969

December 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Twenty-twenty-five’s queerest news and feature stories in review; this week’s Rainbow Rewind remembers Frank Kameny, Ma Rainey and key late December happenings; quick-study Kazakh Senators pass a “no promo homo” bill, Trump’s vile war on trans kids escalates, Congressional Republicans criminalize trans kid caregivers, a North Carolina County disbands its library board over a trans kid picture book, and St. Petersburg, Florida count...
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Portland Queer Poets

December 16, 2025 • 28 mins
Portland, Oregon’s twice monthly live open mic performance event, Slamlandia, yields the work of three queer poets: Joshua Merritt, Evey Rothwell and Ret (produced by Brian DeShazor). Plus December birthdays including anthropologist Margaret Mead and historic queer moments from the declassification of homosexuality as a disease to the dawn of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on the Rainbow Rewind (written and produced by Sheri Lunn and Bri...
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The State of Queer Journalism

December 9, 2025 • 28 mins
What life is like in the newsrooms and on the beat for LGBTQ+ reporters in a time when there’s too much news and fewer jobs, according to Los Angeles chapter co-presidents Hansen Bursic and Katie Karl of NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (in a roundtable with This Way Out’s Lucia Chappelle, interviewed by Brian DeShazor). Plus the reign of a lesbian queen, two music halls, human rights milestones, Southern Hemisphere ci...
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Steven Reigns’ Outliving Michael | This Way Out Radio Episode #1966

December 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Poet Steven Reigns’ memorial memoir chronicling his profound six-year friendship with Michael Church who died of AIDS in 2000 (“Outliving Michael,” Moon Tide Press, 2025) is presented in an original sound collage with archival news reports and the friends’ favorite music (produced by Brian DeShazor). Plus United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has a message of hope for World AIDS Day, despite the disastrous combination ...
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Steven Reigns’ Outliving Michael | This Way Out Radio Episode #1966

December 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Poet Steven Reigns’ memorial memoir chronicling his profound six-year friendship with Michael Church who died of AIDS in 2000 (“Outliving Michael,” Moon Tide Press, 2025) is presented in an original sound collage with archival news reports and the friends’ favorite music (produced by Brian DeShazor). Plus United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has a message of hope for World AIDS Day, despite the disastrous combination ...
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The Early Years of AIDS

November 25, 2025 • 28 mins
As World AIDS Day 2025 approaches, the theme of community organizing versus government indifference today echoes the early years of the pandemic. Historic coverage includes AIDS patient/activists Robert Bland, Bob Cecchi and Daniel Warner, columnist Bobbi Campbell and journalist David Hunt. Plus Rainbow Rewind shout-outs to Benjamin Britten, Bayard Rustin, Bruce Vilanch and more (produced by Brian DeShazor and Sheri Lunn). And in...
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Podcast Edition: An Extended Tribute to Quentin Crisp

November 20, 2025 • 60 mins
This special podcast edition of This Way Out Radio presents the full recording of The Quentin Crisp Memorial program that was excerpted in This Way Out's feature in program #1964. Here, we listen to the full memorial program including eulogies from those who knew him best. This program recorded and produced by Brian DeShazor won a Golden Reel Award for local events coverage at the 2001 National Federation of Community Broadcaster...
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A Tribute to Quentin Crisp

November 18, 2025 • 28 mins
In commemoration of the November 21, 1999 passing of “The Naked Civil Servant,” listen to excerpts from one of his last interviews and a reading of one of his last pieces by publicist Chris Snell at his March 3, 2000 memorial service (produced by Brian DeShazor). Plus November notes from The Rainbow Rewind including Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Goodridge marriage equality decision and Roseanne’s big kiss (produced by Brian ...
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Elections and Insurrections

November 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Focussing on key queer vIctories in the huge blue wave of Democratic Party wins, Andy Humm and Ann Northrop of Gay USA assess the U.S. off-year election returns with all the delight and derision they deserve. Plus a November-oriented Rainbow Rewind calls out the original Daughter of Bilitis, the man whose camera shutter caused right wing shudders, and queer historical turning points (produced by Brian DeShazor and Sheri Lunn). A...
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Queer Journalism on a Mission

November 4, 2025 • 28 mins
President of the National Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGJA.org) Ken Miguel talks about how the organization promotes queer visibility and accuracy in the media (interviewed by Brian DeShazor). Plus: The Rainbow Rewind notes the November birthdays of comedian Bob Smith and Canadian rocker ally Ryan Adams, the premiere of “The Crying Game” and the passage of Proposition 8, California’s ban on marriage equality (produced by B...
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Podcast Edition: Oscar Wilde's Salome full production & interview w/ director Leonard Nimoy

October 30, 2025 • 96 mins
We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854- November 30, 1900) with the play he was writing in October, 1891 — Salomé. Before we get to the play, listen to Brian DeShazor’s 2014 interview with the erudite Mr. Nimoy and his wife Susan more than fifty years after the play’s original broadcast, and learn how a chance encounter on the sidewalk outside of KPFK Los Angeles with the statio...
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A Wilde Tribute to “Salome”

October 28, 2025 • 28 mins
We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde with an excerpt from the play he was writing in October, 1891 — a scene from a production directed for Pacifica Radio by a “pre-Spock” Leonard Nimoy (hear the complete performance at thiswayout.org, presented by Brian DeShazor). Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” recalls the end of the picket line, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’s” demise, and no room at the National Council...
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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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