THIS WAY OUT: Allan Bérubé: Queer Media Pioneers & global LGBTIQ news!
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THIS WAY OUT:
the international LGBTQ radio magazine
Program #1954 distributed 8 September 2025
(Hosted this week by Brian DeShazor and produced by Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon)
Allan Bérubé finds queer media pioneers in the U.S. military;
Burkina Faso outlaws same-gender sex, Pope Leo offers queer Roman Catholics Francis-like friendship,
Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets 2 years in prison for her “Allah is Lesbian” t-shirt,
a Florida judge frees rainbow crosswalk chalkers, Olympics diving champ Greg Louganis plunges into
a new life in Panama [with audio excerpts from his Instagram posts], and more LGBTQ news
from around the world!
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In NewsWrap: The West African nation of Burkina Faso criminalizes same-gender sex for the first time; high-profile Jesuit Reverend James Martin says after meeting with Pope Leo XIV that the current pontiff intends to continue his predecessor Pope Francis’ supportive outreach to LGBTQ people; Moroccan feminist/queer rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar is sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined the equivalent of 5,000 U.S. dollars for a “blasphemous” photograph she posted online of her wearing a t-shirt that reads “Allah is Lesbian”; 4 activists are arrested for restoring the rainbow to the crosswalk near Orlando, Florida’s Pulse Memorial; and proudly out multi-medaling Olympics diver GREG LOUGANIS sells some of his medals, his home, and most of his other possessions after he decides to move from Southern California to Panama to “start anew” [with audio excerpts from his Instagram posts] (written by GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE, produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR, and reported this week by LUCIA CHAPPELLE and MICHAEL LEBEAU).
Feature: The obscure 1983 British dramedy “Privates on Parade” tells one story of World War II-era drag performers in the military. The late gay historian ALLAN BÉRUBÉ told another one. “This Way Out’s” DAVID HUNT recalls a presentation by Bérubé coincidently around the same time that movie came out, and he was fascinated to learn that the modern queer press actually began with a couple of soldiers known for their hit drag shows in the early 1940s. It was 14 years ago this month that the U.S. government repealed its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” prohibition against out active-duty gay and lesbian service members. As we speak, transgender service members are being eliminated by the Trump administration — an administration also bent on erasing any trace of minority representation in history. So it’s a fine time to document the legacy of LGBTQ+ people in the military and their role in building a foundation for queer journalism (intro’d by an audio clip from the 1983 British film “Privates On Parade”, and with internal music by ADAM DIB and ANTHONY LAZARO).
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