THIS WAY OUT: Steven Reigns’ "Outliving Michael" & more!
This Way Out/Greg Gordon
THIS WAY OUT:
the international LGBTQ radio magazine
Program #1966 distributed 01 December 2025
(Hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
Our “NewsWrap” crew took the U.S. holiday weekend off, but next week they’ll catch up on this week’s stories like the key marriage equality court rulings in Japan and the European Union.
On this week’s special show we commemorate WORLD AIDS DAY with a reflection in poetry and the press —
but it’s mostly the poetry of Steven Reigns from his 2025 book “Outliving Michael”,
interspersed with music and news reports of the times.
[Our regular “NewsWrap” segment returns next week.]
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Feature: Our “NewsWrap” crew took the U.S. holiday weekend off, but next week they’ll catch up on this week’s stories like the key marriage equality court rulings in Japan and the European Union. On this week’s special show we commemorate WORLD AIDS DAY with a reflection in poetry and the press, including comments by UN Secretary General ANTONIO GUTERRES [produced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE] + Part One of “OUTLIVING MICHAEL”, a new book by LOS ANGELES-based poet STEVEN REIGNS, a memorial memoir chronicling Steven’s profound friendship with Michael Church from 1994 until Michael died of AIDS in 2000. The book is captured in BRIAN DeSHAZOR’s original sound collage, using Steven’s reading of poems from Outliving Michael juxtaposed with NewsWrap reports from This Way Out’s archives. The soundtrack is drawn from some of Steven and Michael’s favorite music (Part One) [voices and music credits detailed in Part Two description below].
Feature: “Outliving Michael” Part Two (with “NewsWrap” reports by CINDY FRIEDMAN, TORI CHRISTOPHER, BRIAN NUNES, and LEO GARCIA, featuring music by TRISTAN BARTON, SYLVESTER, TRACY CHAPMAN, THE LONDON GAY MEN’S CHORUS, CONNIE VANNETT, EARTHA KITT, KIRSTY MACCOLL, PACHELBEL, LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, THE WU-TANG CLAN, and JUDY GARLAND).
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