THIS WAY OUT: Jenn Deerinwater Creates Change + global LGBTIQ news!
This Way Out/Greg Gordon
THIS WAY OUT:
the international LGBTQ radio magazine
Program #1,975 distributed 2 February 2026
(Hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
An Indigiqueer Creating Change keynoter calls for radical inclusion;
The E.U.’s rights council urges all member states to ban conversion therapy, Russia declares ILGA “undesirable”, Budapest’s mayor is officially charged with criminally allowing last year’s LGBTQ Pride march, Missouri’s top court upholds the state’s ban on pediatric gender-affirming healthcare,
an expelled trans Space Force colonel announces her U.S. congressional run,
and more LGBTQ news from around the world!
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“NewsWrap”: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Union’s independent human rights body, approves a non-binding resolution banning so-called “conversion therapy”, the debunked practice that falsely claims that sexual orientation and gender identity can be “straightened out” through a combination of counseling and prayer; Russia designates the global queer advocacy group ILGA an “undesirable foreign organization” that is “a threat to the foundation of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation, the defense capability of the country or the security of the state”, which can lead to up to 6 years in prison for any Russian citizen involved with the group in any way; the government of Hungary’s authoritarian P.M. Viktor Orbán officially files criminal charges against progressive Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for supporting last June’s LGBTQ Pride March that drew a record crowd estimated at up to 250,000 to the capital city; Missouri’s Supreme Court unanimously upholds the U.S. state’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare for trans patients under the age of 18, and the related ban on Medicaid paying for such care for anyone; and former Space Force Colonel BREE FRAM, the highest ranking transgender member of the U.S. armed forces until she was forced out by the Trump administration for being who she is, announces her candidacy for a seat in the U.S. Congress representing a district in northern Virginia [with audio excerpts from her campaign launch video] (written by GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported this week by MICHAEL LeBEAU and AVA DAVIS).
Feature: An Indigiqueer welcome greeted about 2,000 activists, organizers and advocates to Washington, DC for the annual queer political strategizing event held by the National LGBTQ Task Force. The theme of the January 20-25 CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE was “Unstoppable,” and it featured plenary sessions, day-long institutes on organizing for specific affinity and interest groups, a cruise, gayme room and other special events, along with a wide array of resource spaces. For its opening general session, Creating Change turned to local indigenous leadership and heard a keynote address by JENN DEERINWATER (with intro/outro music performed right before her remarks by Grammy-winning two-spirit interdisciplinary performance artist TY DEFOE).
[https://www.jdeerinwater.com/about; https://www.thetaskforce.org]
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