THIS WAY OUT: Dr. Darnell digs Queer Egyptians & global LGBTIQ news!
This Way Out/Greg Gordon
THIS WAY OUT:
the international LGBTQ radio magazine
Program #1,979 distributed 2 March 2026
(Hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
Dr. Colleen Darnell discusses ancient Egyptian androgyny;
Uganda lesbians face life in prison for kissing “in broad daylight”, Senegal’s P.M. pushes increased
anti-queer penalties, Malaysia expels “immoral” gay dating apps Grindr and Blued, a pause in
puberty blocker trials persecutes UK trans minors, Kansas trans-men challenge the state’s
revocation of gender-corrected drivers licenses and other government documents,
and more global LGBTQ news!
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“NewsWrap”: Two young women in Uganda face up to life in prison under the East African nation’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Act for kissing in public (with comments by veteran activist FRANK MUGISHA); Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko submits legislation to the National Assembly to increase penalties in the West African country for consensual adult same-gender sex and punish anyone who “advocates” for same-gender couple rights; Malaysia’s government blocks highly popular online gay social media/dating apps Bluesy and Grindr because they “spread lewd or immoral conduct” in the Southeast Asian nation; the U.K. government cites “the safety of children” for pausing a study on the efficacy and safety of pediatric gender-affirming healthcare that effectively bans trans patients under the age of 18 from getting sometimes life-saving puberty blockers; the ACLU promptly sues the U.S. state of Kansas after the Republican-dominated legislature overrides the Democratic governor’s veto this week of a measure that invalidates the driver’s licenses, birth certificates and other government documents of trans people who have legally changed their gender marker, threatens penalties for those who don’t return those documents, and forbids future gender marker changes by trans people (written by GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported this week by MELANIE KELLER and TANYA KANE-PARRY).
Feature: “This Way Out’s” BRIAN DeSHAZOR — self-proclaimed armchair Egyptologist — has been fanboying over DR. COLLEEN DARNELL, an award-winning Egyptologist trained at Yale University and vintage fashion enthusiast. Colleen is a world expert on ancient Egyptian culture and daily life, co-author of “Tutankhamun’s Armies” and “Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth” with her husband Dr. John Darnell. Brian discovered her in “National Geographic’s Lost Treasures of Egypt”. In this conversation, Brian explores with her the queer lives, love, and identities of the Nile’s ancient civilizations (with music by MASHROU’ LEITA, LOREENA McKENNIT and “Ancient Egypt” by SEMION KRIVENKO-ADAMOV, the latter licensed under an attribution-noncommercial-noderivitives 4/0 international license.
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