Queer Journalism on a Mission

Queer Journalism on a Mission

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. November 4, 2025 Duration: 28:58
President of the National Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGJA.org) Ken Miguel talks about how the organization promotes queer visibility and accuracy in the media (interviewed by Brian DeShazor). Plus: The Rainbow Rewind notes the November birthdays of comedian Bob Smith and Canadian rocker ally Ryan Adams, the premiere of “The Crying Game” and the passage of Proposition 8, California’s ban on marriage equality (produced by Brian DeShazor and Sheri Lunn). And in NewsWrap: Rob Jetten’s “yes we can” campaign makes him the youngest and first out gay Prime Minister of The Netherlands, 25 people remain in the custody of Nigeria’s Islamic religious police since the Hisbah arrested them at an alleged “gay wedding,” access to their gender-affirming healthcare for Queensland’s transgender youth opens by court order and closes again by order of state Health Director-General Dr. David Rosengren, the U.S. state’s Supreme Court allows Texas judges with “sincerely held religious beliefs” to refuse to officiate weddings of same-gender couples, British King Charles’ first “official engagement” directly supporting the LGBTQ communities is to lay a bouquet of flowers near the first memorial to U.K. LGBTQ service members, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by David Hunt and Ava Davis (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the November 3, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

For more than three decades, This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine has been a vital, award-winning voice broadcast from community stations across the globe. Produced by Overnight Productions, Inc., this weekly program functions as a true radio magazine, weaving together urgent dispatches from the front lines of queer life with deep explorations of our culture and creativity. Every episode opens with a concise international news roundup, providing context on the political and social developments affecting LGBTQ communities everywhere. The conversation then expands into thoughtful features and interviews that delve into the arts, performing, and the intersections of identity and society. On a monthly basis, the Audiofile segment turns up the volume, offering a curated listen to the vibrant and evolving lesbigay and trans music scene. Tuning into this podcast means connecting with a long-standing, trusted source that documents both the struggles and the celebrations, always with an ear for the stories that might not make the mainstream headlines. It’s a consistently engaging mix of journalism and cultural reflection, all delivered with the warmth and clarity of a public radio staple.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

This Way Out: The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine
Podcast Episodes
Echoes of Queer Poetry [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
National Poetry Month revisits the 1979 March on Washington with poetry from the rally stage recited by Allen Ginsberg, Paula Gunn Allen, and Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde also reads a poem to close the program from 1980 reco…
Tribute to Greg Gordon Part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
This Way Out’s founding Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon is honored in “In Memoriam Part 2,” continuing a legacy that helped shape international LGBTQ radio. This tribute features voices from across his life and work, r…
Tribute to Greg Gordon (Pt. 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:23
This Way Out’s founding Coordinating Producer leaves a legacy of historic LGBTQ audio that begins more than a decade before the only internationally syndicated queer radio show debuted. This memorial tribute features his…
Hoshino’s Light Bird Transition Is “Alright” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:56
Danni Hoshino brings us a preview of her Transgender Day of Visibility single release, “Alright”! The veteran folk-rock musician surprised everyone — not least herself — when she came out as a transgender woman in 2022,…
Anaïs Nin Writes of the New Woman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:59
“It is the woman who has to speak, and it’s not only the woman Anaïs who has to speak, but I who have to speak for many women.” So says the Cuban-French essayist and novelist in this 1966 reading from the first volume of…
Kestral Gaian’s “The Boy From Elsewhere” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:53
In a genre-bending story about a quest to conquer evil and save the world, the young-adult characters of Kestral Gaian’s “The Boy From Elsewhere” take a trek through the multiverse where nothing is quite what it seems. T…
Dating App Ambushes [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:54
Anti-LGBTQI hate crimes are on the rise in Australia. In New South Wales nearly 200 violent incidents have been reported since 2023, many involving men lured by gay dating apps (Michael Brown reports from Sydney). Plus:…
Gender and Love Along the Nile with Egyptologist Dr. Colleen Darnell [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:59
Award-winning Egyptologist Dr. Colleen Darnell of Lost Treasures of Egypt explores diverse expressions of love, gender, and identity woven into the civilizations of the ancient Nile in conversation with Brian DeShazor. A…
Sydney Mardi Gras Strife & Stonewall Rainbow Retrieval [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Against a backdrop of violent anti-semitic and anti-indigenous attacks and the relaxation of police restraints in response to them, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras organizers are faced with twin controversies: the with…