"Scratch That Itch" 2018 Year End Campaign
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Overnight Productions, Inc.The only global LGBTQ radio show brings news, culture and empowerment and educates broader audiences
$3,115
raised by 25 people
$5,000 goal
4 Days for CD Gifts!
Your opportunity to take away these LGBTQ history audio gems at reduced rates will soon slip away! "This Way Out" would love for you to have these exclusive programs on CD ... but you must act before Dec. 31st!
For your $50 contribution:
- Diminished Capacity (a 48-minute documentary on the Milk/Moscone assassination and the “White Night Riots”)
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- A Conversation with Harvey Milk (our exclusive half-hour interview)
For your $75 contribution:
- Diminished Capacity
- A Conversation with Harvey Milk
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- Queer November Remembered (reflecting on the pivotal events of 1978, including the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk)
For your $25 contribution (request one):
- The National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1 hour documentary on the 1979 event)
- From Outlaws to In-Laws (three US Supreme Court rulings that took gays and lesbians from decriminalization to civil marriage)
- Trump Trauma and Dawn of the Donald (the 2016 US election and it’s angry aftermath)
- Planet Pride: Power and Paradoxes (2018 Pride around the world, highlighting the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras)
The REAL Reason:
Of course, you’re contributing to our on-going effort to bring the sounds of LGBTQ liberation to people around the world — some in places where the victories have been amazing, some in places where torture and death are an ever-present threat. You donation will help unite the international queer communities and turn up the volume on truth … while you learn from and share the sounds of queer history!
It’s been an emotional rollercoaster of a year! LGBTQ people are hardly alone in feeling rattled — and even scared — by the gyrations on the political scene that seem to be shifting reality daily. It’s a time when people of good will need to stay connected, to hear each other over the din.
During this crazy 2018, This Way Out, the world’s only internationally syndicated LGBTQ radio magazine, has been celebrating it’s 30th anniversary on the air. In the midst of the madness, we’re facing the “quarter-life crisis,” a time of questioning whether our path is still on track with changing circumstances. There’s an irresistible “7-year itch” that comes with the “quarter-life crisis”: the urge to break out into new dimensions, to re-invent. Your donation can help us “scratch”:
➢ the capacity for more current news coverage and expanded features on our re-designed website
➢ the use of social media to forge a stronger connection with our audience and discover new queer voices
➢ the responsibility of training the next generation of grassroots queer producers and reporters, a fundamental value of our non-profit corporation, Overnight Productions (Inc.) and a vital part of paving the future for This Way Out
As we watch right-wing forces bear down on LGBTQ people in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, while the Trump Administration threatens hard-won civil rights in the U.S. and abandons human rights efforts abroad, our resolve to keep the sounds of queer resistance and hope freely and independently on the air is strengthened. Listener contributions make it possible for This Way Out to produce unique LGBTQ news and cultural programming and to distribute it to community radio stations, satellite and cable networks, and non-commercial internet outlets at no charge. It can be heard in North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australasia.
Our 2018 “Scratch That Itch!” Year End Campaign officially begins on #GivingTuesday, November 27th, and runs through December 31st. Your donation of $500 or more will relieve the “quarter life crisis/7-year itch” as we move into the New Year, so that we can launch the initiatives that will carry us into the future! $100 supports two weeks of the info-packed NewsWrap segment. Every $10, $25, $50 – whatever the amount – is a shout-out against the silence!