THIS WAY OUT: Circa: One Institute’s Queer Histories Festival & global LGBTQ news!
This Way Out/Greg Gordon
THIS WAY OUT:
the international LGBTQ radio magazine
Program #1957 distributed 29 September 2025
(Hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon)
One hosts histories fest of queer cultural contributions;
World Athletics fails a sex test for women's sports, U.S threat assessments erase the “T”
from LGBT, Trump blames trans people for the current budget battle, Tasmania's Lower House
okays reparations to gay sex law victims, there are trans firsts for Project Runway and Miss Universe,
China alters the queer out of an Australian horror film, Buttigieg spars with Carlson about “the gay”,
and more LGBTQ news from around the world!
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In NewsWrap: World Athletics, the international track and field governing body, is discovering that excluding transgender women from women’s sports is more complicated than its policy; the U.S. government appears to be straddling a line between erasing its transgender citizens and labeling them dangerous terrorists, Donald Trump was prolific in his use of the “T” word in his diatribe over the current federal budget standoff, Tasmania’s lower house approves compensation to gay men who were victims of the Australian state’s laws against homosexuality and cross-dressing; Filipina designer Veejay Floresca is the first trans contestant to take home top honors in TV’s “Project Runway”, while Vietnam makes history by naming transgender reality TV show star and singer Nguyen Huong Giang as the nation’s entrant in the Miss Universe pageant, China “de-gays” the Australian horror movie “Together”, and rightwing commentator TUCKER CARLSON questions former U.S. Transportation Secretary PETE BUTTIGIEG’s gayness [with audio excerpts from their separate comments] (written this week by LUCIA CHAPPELLE and DAVID HUNT, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported this week by MARCOS NAJERA and AVA DAVIS).
Feature: Yes, you’re right to be concerned when the government reaches out to snatch the memories that prove your existence. Fortunately, queer communities around the world have established their own independent historical preservation institutions. Even more fortunately one of them is putting on a month-long festival where the past and the future intermingle. “This Way Out’s” JASON JENN chats with the One Institute’s TONY VALENZUELA (segment intro’d by SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK, with internal music by THE PROPELLERHEADS WITH SHIRLEY BASSEY and PANSY DIVISION, and segment outro music by JANELLE MONAE).
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