THIS WAY OUT: Jennie Arnau: A Rising Tide & global LGBTIQ news & more!
This Way Out/Greg Gordon
THIS WAY OUT:
the international LGBTQ radio magazine
Program #1960 distributed 20 October 2025
(Hosted this week by Brian DeShazor and produced by Greg Gordon and Lucia Chappelle)
Musician Jennie Arnau on the comeback trail;
More October anniversaries from Shepard to South Africa;
Turkey’s government proposes new anti-queer persecution, the Church of Norway repents of anti-LGBTQ bias,
a Wyoming librarian wins a six-figure settlement over her book ban refusal firing, far-right U.S. influencer
Candace Owens fails Australia’s “character test”, Obama offers a strategy to win trans youth allies,
the unapologetically “woke” “Professor Sprout” loves lesbian fun, and more global LGBTQ news!
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In NewsWrap: The government of Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduces “judicial reforms” that tighten the screws on the country’s already oppressed LGBTQ citizens, including a “no promo homo” statute and further restrictions on trans rights; the Church of Norway officially apologizes for its decades of discrimination and rejection of LGBTQ parishoners; Wyoming librarian Terri Lesley settles her lawsuit against the U.S. state for $700,0000 after she was illegally fired by the Campbell County Library Board for refusing to remove books involving queer content or anything about sexuality from the venue’s youth shelves; Australia’s High Court unanimously upholds the decision of Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to deny entry into the country of U.S. far-right anti-minority anti-queer conspiracy theories commentator Candace Owens; former President BARACK OBAMA suggests a gentler way to guide anti-trans youth from opposition to support with host Marc Maron on his “WTF” podcast [with audio]; and 84-year-old British actress MIRIAM MARGOLYSE, perhaps best known for her role as Professor Pomona Sprout in the “Harry Potter” move franchise, tells host Patrick Kielty on Irish TV’s “The Late Late Show” how much fun it is to be a “woke left-wing dyke” [with brief audio from Margolyse as Sprout in a “Potter” film and an excerpt from her conversation with Kielty ] (written by GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported this week by SARAH MONTAGUE and JOE BOEHNLEIN).
Feature: More October anniversaries and events, from gay-bashed murder victim Matthew Shepard to South Africa’s first Pride march, are recalled in the third installment of a special “This Way Out” series, “THE RAINBOW REWIND”, written and hosted by SHERI LUNN and BRIAN DeSHAZOR and produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR.
Feature: It’s unfortunate but not unusual for queer independent musicians to suddenly disappear without a trace. Frequently their sounds are never to be heard again. That’s why it’s a big deal to meet one who’s launching an exciting comeback after more than a decade of life’s ebbs and flows. “This Way Out’s” DAVID HUNT found singer/songwriter JENNIE ARNAU riding “A RISING TIDE” somewhere between NEW YORK, NEW YORK and GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA (with excerpts from “Oceans Rise”, “Every Raindrop”, “Simple Man”, “Better Luck Next Time”, “Hold On”, ‘Heaven in Her Eyes”, and “Back to Carolina”).
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