2025 Queer Year in Review | This Way Out Radio Episode #1969

2025 Queer Year in Review | This Way Out Radio Episode #1969

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. December 23, 2025 Duration: 28:58
Twenty-twenty-five’s queerest news and feature stories in review; this week’s Rainbow Rewind remembers Frank Kameny, Ma Rainey and key late December happenings; quick-study Kazakh Senators pass a “no promo homo” bill, Trump’s vile war on trans kids escalates, Congressional Republicans criminalize trans kid caregivers, a North Carolina County disbands its library board over a trans kid picture book, and St. Petersburg, Florida counters demolished rainbow crosswalks with multi-colored bike racks... Those stories and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out.” [NOTE: “NewsWrap” and the “Rainbow Rewind” segments return on our week of 12 January 2026 program.] Credits: Hosted this week by Brian DeShazor and produced by Lucia Chappelle and Greg Gordon. “Rainbow Rewind” written and hosted by Sheri Lunn and Brian DeShazor and produced by Brian DeShazor, with music by Ma Rainey. The 2025 Queer News and Features in Review feature was produced by Greg Gordon, with archival news reports by Wendy Natividad, David Hunt, John Dyer V and Ava Davis. Theme music: Kim Wilson. Additional music: from “Peter and the Wolf”; and by Triumph, Melanie Safka, and Chappell Roan. In our 38th year satisfying your weekly minimum requirement of LGBTQ news and culture! Now more than ever, your financial support of our U.S. 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit will help keep us in ears around the world! (and we’ll acknowledge your 3-figures-or-more gift on the air if you wish.)

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