On this week's special World AIDS Day commemoration â with production assistance by Steve Pride and some music from the heart of the epidemic â our Rick Watts explores the past, present and future of HIV/AIDS with Dr. Michael Gottlieb, one of the first practitioners to identify and treat the disease (with excerpts from "They Are Falling All Around Us" by Michael Callen with Cris Williamson & Holly Near; "Until the Balance Tips" by John Bucchino; and "Friend in My Pocket" by Joe Bracco). [Note: There's no "NewsWrap", our weekly international LGBT newscast, on this weekâs show â returns next week.]
Hosted this week by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon. Correspondent: Rick Watts; producer: Steve Pride. Addl material: Carole Meyers & Wenzel Jones. Theme music: Kim Wilson. Addl music: Michael Callen with Cris Williamson & Holly Near; John Bucchino; Joe Bracco.
= Reminder = There's no NewsWrap on this week's program, but our regular weekly LGBT newscast will return on next week's program. There also won't be NewsWraps on This Way Out the last 2 weeks of 2015 - the weeks of 12-21 or 12-28-15 - as we let our reporters enjoy the year-end holidays and run special program-filling features - including the annual and always entertaining Pride On Screen the week of 12-28. = Happy Holidays from our family to you and yours! =