This Way Out: Kluwe + Milk + LGBT NYC Puerto Ricans + global LGBT news

This Way Out #1,346 Program Rundown:

Opening teases/theme music/intro continuity . . . . . . . . . . 1:13

SEGMENT #1 – "NewsWrap": Russia's politically powerful Orthodox Church calls for a public referendum to re-criminalize gay sex; NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas tells reporters that he wants to ask Vladimir Putin to defend his country's "no promo homo" law during the network's Winter Olympics coverage next month in Sochi, while the U.S. State Department warns LGBT visitors to keep it on the "down low"; the Indian government asks the nation's Supreme Court to reconsider its December 11th ruling that recriminalized gay sex, while just the threat of Uganda's draconian anti-gay law, yet to be signed by the president, is already making life more difficult for HIV/AIDS workers and the sexual minorities they serve; civil unions for Chile's same-gender couples may be just a few weeks away after the Senate overwhelmingly approves a bill to create them; Utah's Republican Governor Gary Herbert nixes state recognition of the 1,360 lesbian & gay couples who legally wed in the state during the 17 days that they could, but U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER says that the federal government will recognize those couples [with a brief excerpt from his video announcement]; 4 same-gender couples challenge Arizona's constitutional marriage equality ban in federal court, and a federal court in Austin will soon begin hearings on a challenge to the ban in Texas, while an effort by opponents of New Mexico marriage equality to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the state Supreme Court ruling establishing it as the law of the land in December are not given much chance of success; German-born retired high-profile international football [soccer] star Thomas Hitzlsperger comes out, while Joseph Lown, the Texas mayor who resigned in 2009 to move to Mexico to live with his undocumented gay partner legally marries him in a Mexico City ceremony, and comedy icon Lily Tomlin and her creative/life partner of 42 years Jane Wagner finally make honest women of each other on New Year's Eve in New York City (produced this week by STEVE PRIDE & WENZEL JONES, written by GREG GORDON, and reported by SARAH SWEENEY & RICK WATTS) . . . . . . 10:40

SEGMENT #2 – U.S. National Football League veteran punter CHRIS KLUWE has been making news by scoring touchdowns for LGBT rights. He’s double-teamed for this interview by correspondents ABBY DEES & WENZEL JONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:04

SEGMENT #3 – "TWO" I.D. by human rights activist CLEVE JONES [:10] + Billboard for the NYC LGBT Puerto Ricans feature [:07] + A recent move by the U.S. Postal Service to honor pioneering gay activist Harvey Milk gets "Queer Life and Literature" commentator JANET MASON's stamp of approval (with brief intro music from "He's A Rebel" performed by BUENA VISTA) [4:03] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:20

SEGMENT #4 – LGBT PUERTO RICANS have been on the front lines of key public issues in NEW YORK CITY since Stonewall -- all the while fighting for respect from both the LGBT community and from other Latinos. Correspondent KELLY COGSWELL talks with three prominent out NEW YORK CITY Puerto Ricans MARGARITA LOPEZ, LUIS SANTIAGO, and ROSIE MENDEZ about their activist lives (with brief instrumental intro music from "West Side Story's" "America") . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:06

Closing Credits/continuity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30

TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:53