This Way Out's Anniversary "30 4 30" Celebration!
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Overnight Productions, Inc.Celebrating 30 years of non-commercial, international LGBTQ radio and 30 more on the air and online!
$730
raised by 15 people
$1,000 goal
Last Call
Our April 30 program is just winging its way into the world — the “last dance” in our 30th Anniversary series — and that means we’re saying “last call” for our “30 4 30” fundraiser. So “belly up” to thiswayout.org to catch all the on-air and off-air highlights of the month-long celebration!
This week’s show will be airing on community stations and online for at least the next seven days (longer in some areas), so the party isn’t all over yet — and you can still join in with your donation of $30 to commemorate the last 30 years … and to begin the next 30.
Remember, if you'd prefer to donate off-line, our mailing address is:
This Way Out/Overnight Productions, Inc.
P.O. Box 1065
Los Angeles, CA 90078
USA
This Way Out: The International LGBT Radio Magazine is celebrating 30 years of community and public broadcasting during the month of April, 2018. The weekly half-hour program produced by the non-profit Overnight Productions, Inc. is the only internationally distributed weekly queer radio program, airing on over 200 local community radio stations and satellite outlets around the world, and available via podcast.
The West Hollywood (California) City Council commemorated This Way Out’s historic anniversary at their April 2nd meeting with the presentation of a proclamation to founding producers Greg Gordon and Lucia Chappelle.
Overnight Productions has always existed to bring the voices of LGBTQ people to the airwaves telling our own story to a global audience, and to ensure the broadest availability to non-profit radio stations and other non-commercial outlets by providing This Way Out free of charge. That commitment has been backed by the financial support of listeners who recognize the life-changing potential of this endeavor.
And we do mean “life-changing”! At that City Council presentation, a man introduced himself to us and told us that This Way Out was his “first contact” with the LGBTQ community when he was a teenager growing up in Texas — now he works for “the gayest city in the U.S.!” Then there’s the middle-aged married man who is just confronting his sexuality, who looks forward to the weekly morale boost he gets from the show … or the isolated Nigerian who wrote, “Thank God I found you!”
We’ve been breaking the sound barrier and smashing closet doors for 30 years. Proclamations and honors are wonderful, but we’re not resting on our laurels … and neither should you!
When This Way Out went on the air in 1988 there was no internet, and the program served as a means of facilitating the exchange of material among locally-produced queer radio shows. Thirty years ago we relied on postal-mailed audio cassettes or reel-to-reel tape to get features from our far-flung volunteer producers! With the anniversary month launch of the re-designed thiswayout.org, we hope to begin the development of an online information hub for the international LGBTQ community — a 21st Century realization of that early aspiration.
Taking that new step into the next 30 years, and indeed continuing to produce and distribute This Way Out as we have for the last 30 years, will require the on-going generosity of our listener-supporters. $30 for 30 years of service — “30 4 30” — is our 30th Anniversary challenge!
Even if you’ve never heard the show (and you can correct that mistake right now by visiting thiswayout.org!), if you support the unending effort to raise consciousness about LGBTQ issues and culture, listeners around the world would tell you that there can hardly be a more effective, entertaining and economical way to accomplish that goal than This Way Out. Our anniversary is your anniversary, too, we look forward to your “30 4 30” toast!