Show: February 2, 2009 The following is scheduled: 9: 00 pm

  Did you ever wonder what a producer or engineer on an album really does, and what the difference is? Well, I'm one of those folks who pay attention to liner notes, and a name that kept coming up again and again in recordings in my collection is Karen Kane. She's both a producer and an engineer and has had over 200 album credits, and countless live shows, in her career. She's been at it for more than 33 years, doing her work in Boston, Canada and now North Carolina. She's worked with a lot of artists dear to my heart and we talk about many of them as well as the work itself. I'm very pleased to share with you this interview with Karen Kane.

Charlie Murphy - Gay Spirit (1979)

Jade & Sarsaparilla - She's That Kind of Woman (1976)

Lilith - Boston Ride (1978)

Maxine Feldman - Amazon (1979)

Kay Gardner - Awakening (1984)

Alix Dobkin - Yahoo Australia (1990)

Fabulous Dyketones - Sixteen Candles (1988)

Janis Ian - Hunger (1999)

Someone's Sister - Free (2009, before & after)

Anna Gutmanis - I Am Who I Am (2008) more

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Show: June 6, 2009

The following is scheduled:

Opening, general discussion

	TITLE:	I Am What I Am
	ARTIST:	La Cage Aux Folles (Original Cast Recording)
	CD:	SOUNDTRACK

 Fiona Dawson, female Grand Marshal will joins tonight. She is a professional event planner, marketer, fundraiser and leader of volunteers in the Houston community. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The University of Essex, Colchester, England. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Fiona volunteered and worked in Bangladesh and Portugal before making Houston home in 2000. Fiona's entry into the LGBT community was the following year when she worked for Casa de Esperanza de los Nios as a caseworker for abused, neglected and HIV-positive children in foster care and adoptive homes. From 2002, while working for the Houston Area Women's Center, Fiona volunteered in Omega House helping provide compassionate care to people with ends stages of HIV/AIDS. It was when Fiona came on staff at Bering Omega in 2003 and soon started volunteering for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) her LGBT activism took off. Fiona has formerly chaired the Houston HRC Gala and the Houston HRC Volunteer Committee. She currently holds five volunteer leadership roles in HRC, three at the National level (National Board of Governors (BOG), BOG Executive Committee and BOG Performance Management Co-Chair) and two locally; Federal Club Co-Chair and 2009 Gala Table Captain Co-Chair. As Co-Chair of the Houston Federal Club, Fiona shares the responsibility of annually raising and maintaining over $350,000, which directly facilitates lobbying on the Hill and the election of fair-minded candidates at the national, state and local level. Further, Fiona's HRC volunteer work supports research, educational efforts and outreach, to encourage lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to live their lives openly and seek to change the hearts and minds of Americans to the side of equality. Fiona has been honored with Outsmart's Gayest and Greatest Awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008 when she was awarded Female Volunteer, Female Fundraiser and runner-up Female Community Hero. In addition to her primary volunteer commitment to HRC, Fiona is known for giving her time and financial support to many local LGBT community events whenever possible. In January 2008, in order to gain the right to vote, Fiona became an American citizen and celebrated with a voter registration party, raising funds for local organizations. Alongside her support of the LGBT community, Fiona has been on the board of the Houston Association of Volunteer Administrators (HAVA) since 2002. more

NewsWrap: New Hampshire becomes the 6th U.S. state to open civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples, while Nevada lawmakers override their governor's veto of a domestic partnership bill, but a civil unions bill dies in the Illinois state legislature, as a lesbian couple legally marries on the Coquille Indian reservation in Oregon;  the Board of Directors of the new LGBT advocacy group behind the federal lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 8 is announced, while Spain's Supreme Court rules that judges and town hall officials cannot refuse to marry same-gender couples;  Australia's social benefits agency Centrelink will begin treating de facto same-gender couples the same as heterosexual married couples beginning July 1st, while Hong Kong's government adds lesbigay couples to its Domestic Violence Ordinance;  the Scottish Parliament adds actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to the country's hate crime laws, and the Church of Scotland upholds the appointment of partnered gay minister Rev. Scott Rennie to a parish in Aberdeen, but also orders a 2-year moratorium on such further appointments, while the Church of Sweden elects Eva Brunne as the world's first openly lesbian bishop;  and India's only LGBT publication, "Bombay Dost," returns after a 7-year absence  (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by RICK WATTS and TANYA KANE-PARRY) more

 Katy Caldwell, executive director of Legacy Community Health Services will join us tonight. Legacy has been voted Organizational Grand Marshal and is a full-service, Federal Qualified Health Center that provides comprehensive, primary healthcare services to all Houstonians in a cultural sensitive, Judgment-fre and confidential environment. Legacy has a 30-years history of providing Healthcare services to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender community and contines to focus may of its services on this community, specializing in HIV/AIDS testing and treatment. We accept Medicaid, Medicare, and most health insurance plans and offer slidig fee scales at three locations in Houston. Generous financial support from individual, business and charitable foundations allows Legacy to provide no-cost or low-cost healthcare service to over 20,000 men, women and children each year. more

 Brad Odem, President of Pride Houston will be our guest. For over 30 years, Pride Houston has worked at the heart of the local GLBT community to increase awareness and equality in our city. Our initial goals of strengthening equality, building a stronger community and increasing public awareness of our causes still reside at the core of our mission. As we've made progress to these ends, that mission has expanded to include a variety of new initiatives. Ranging from annual charity events to aiding support and counseling networks, our activities continue to promote social awareness and enrich the diversity that helps our community thrive. The Pride organization consists of a number of groups and individuals who work together to produce, manage, and promote the many events hosted by Pride. more

  Dance the Night Away at the HATCH Prom on Friday, June 12. The 17th Annual HATCH Prom, "Flashback to the 80s," will be held 7 p.m. - midnight on Friday, June 12, in the Community Room of the GLBT Cultural Center, on the 1st floor of MCC. The prom is free for GLBT and questioning youth, and their allies, ages 13-20. Many don't attend their own high school dances because they fear teasing and physical abuse. A special invitation is extended to GLBT adults who may not have had the chance to attend their own high school prom dressed as they wished or with a same-sex date. Anyone 21 or older may attend for a $25 donation. more

When she starts feeling engulfed by the mainstream, "This Way Out" commentator JANET MASON returns to an author who defied assimilation: the late African-American lesbian-feminist "warrior poet"

"Sexual orientation will not be a bar to servic e unless manifested by homosexual conduct.  The military will discharge members who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender."  It's hard to believe that 16 years have passed since Bill Clinton capitulated to right-wing attacks on his proposal to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, or that little has changed since.  Screening in the U.S. on the PBS-TV Series "Independent Lens" on June 16th, the documentary "ASK NOT" from San Francisco filmmaker JOHNNY SYMONS provides a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of the movement to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."  Our STEVE PRIDE has preview clips and chats with Symons about his film and the policy  [with outro music from "The Marine's Lament (or, the Pink Peril)" by FRED SMALL]  more

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The following is scheduled:

Opening, general discussion

 As president of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese has demonstrated that he has the political, strategic and communications skills to make the organization a powerhouse both in Washington and around the country. Under his leadership, the National Journal has rated the organization the second most successful interest group in all of Washington during the 2006 election. His vision for equality is clear: to make sure that HRC is wherever there are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans, and to equip them with all the assistance and resources he can to help secure equality. Whether it’s listening to gay families tell their stories over coffee in Kansas or advocating for GLBT workers on factory floors in North Carolina, he’s working tirelessly to win the hearts and minds of the American people. Committed to making clear that nobody has a monopoly on religion, Joe launched HRC’s Religion and Faith Program in 2005. The program provides new innovative resources for GLBT and straight-supportive people of faith so that they can stand up to those who use religion as a weapon.

NewsWrap: Though it was not without official intervention, Shanghai celebrates a week of Pride – mainland China's first;  tens of thousands dance in the streets of Tel Aviv for that city's 11th such celebration, while Zurich draws at least 50,000 to the annual continent-wide Europride festival and parade;  despite an official Pride proclamation issued by President Barack Obama, LGBT equality advocates are growing increasingly impatient with him over his failure to act on several campaign promises – specifically relative silence from the White House over passage of LGBT hate crimes legislation; the repeal of the U.S. military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which the Oba ma administration defended in a case before the Supreme Court this week; and his administration's legal brief – also filed this week – supporting the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)  [with Obama's "fierce advocate for LGBT rights" 2008 campaign comments];  but a California 6th grader gets an apology from the school that had banned her presentation about Harvey Milk because it violated its "sex education" policy  (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by CHRIS COLEMAN and CHRIS WILSON) more

 James Knapp had just finished unpacking at his new apartment in Boston when he got word that Houston's LGBT community had selected him as the male grand marshal for this year's Pride parade. Fortunately, Knapp and his partner Jesse (“Jesse, James—we didn't plan it that way,” he says) still have their house in Houston, where Knapp will continue as artistic and managing director of the Bayou City Performing Arts (BCPA) until around the time of Pride festivities. On Monday after the parade, Knapp will leave Texas, where he's lived for 23 years, and return to his native New England. His eyes well with tears as he says, “It's going to be an important night for me, a big night, my last hurrah. I'm having a parade!” Knapp's legacy at BCPA will remain here: how the Gay Men's Chorus of Houston blossomed under his leadership since 2001 to more than 100 singers; how its concert audiences grew from less than 300 at local churches to about 1,200 in its new residence the past three years at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts in downtown Houston; how Knapp launched the Bayou City Women's Chorus in 2005, and nurtured it from a dozen singers at its first rehearsal to a choir of more than 50 singers, including lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women; how Knapp combined the voices of both men and women in the LGBT community and its supporters in founding the Bayou City Chorale, premiered at Jones Hall in 2007 with a benefit performance of “Sing for the Cure” for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Knapp's selection as male grand marshal is LGBT Houston's way of tipping its hat to both the success of BCPA choruses and its longtime leader, whose childhood began as Jamie Knapp in a tough Irish-Catholic/Italian-Catholic neighborhood in Rochester, N.Y. more

 The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. The Trevor Project operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth. If you or a friend are feeling lost or alone, call The Trevor Helpline. There is hope, there is help. more

This Way Out Maybe it was the sweltering summer heat in New York City.  Perhaps it was the last straw for her legion of gay fans mourning the recent death of Judy Garland.  But the world would never be the same after the last weekend of June in 1969.  It was illegal in many U.S. cities then to serve alcohol to homosexuals or for two men to dance together.  Lesbigay bars were often run by organized crime, drink prices were inflated, and police raids and subsequent public ruination were routine.  All that changed when the queer patrons of the STONEWALL INN on CHRISTOPHER STREET in New York City's Greenwich Village finally had enough.  Sadly, accounts of the pivotal event in the contemporary queer movement for equality won't be found in most history textbooks, and too m any LGBT people -- especially the up-and-coming-out younger generation –- know little about what the annual Pride celebrations commemorate.  "This Way Out's" GREG GORDON and LUCIA CHAPPELLE address that problem with this audio montage about the GENESIS OF PRIDE.  Included: excerpts from "Pride," written and performed by JON GILBERT LEAVITT; DEBBIE LEMPKE's "Gay and Proud" performed by the BERKELEY WOMEN'S MUSIC COLLECTIVE, and lesbian-feminist icon JUDY GRAHN reading from her "A History of Lesbianism" (both from the historic 1977 Olivia Records compilation "Lesbian Concentrate"); excerpts from a January 1969 gay radio program (six months before the Stonewall Rebellion) on Pacifica Radio's WBAI in New York City, during which BAIRD SEARLES and KERMIT LAMB lament the lack of pride and courage in "the homosexual community"; excerpts from a 1970 audio documentary about the Stonewall Rebellion narrated by BRETT ARTERY and featuring an eyewitness account by pioneering activist CRAIG RODWELL; an edited version of "Long Hot Summer", a raucous ode to the Stonewall Rebellion by legendary British rockers THE TOM ROBINSON BAND (from their groundbreaking album "Power In The Darkness"); reporter GABRIELLE ANTOLOVICH's vox pop from an annual Pride parade on the streets of West Hollywood, California; and "Gay History Rap", a rappin' retelling of the Stonewall tale by AGE OF CONSENT  more

 Director and writer Kirby Dick will join us to talk about his incendiary documentary OutRage which "outs" gay politicians who oppose gay rights in order to keep their sexual identities in the closet. Whatever you think of the pushy methods of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (Twist of Fate, Sick, This Film Is Not Yet Rated) to examine the likes of Idaho's Larry Craig, Florida's Charlie Crist and Dubya's campaign manager Ken Mehlman, you can't deny the grave implications of the blatant hypocrisy on display. This film is a muckraking provocation whose time has come. more

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Show: June 22, 2009

The following is scheduled:

Opening, general discussion

 The crew of Queer Voices and Ray Hill will discuss Pride, looking back at 31 years in Housotn and the 40 years since stonewall. more

"NewsWrap":  U.S. President Barack Obama takes his first pro-lesbigay action since his inauguration by granting limited benefits to the same-gender partners of gay and lesbian federal workers;  a bomb thrown into a popular gay nightclub area in Sao Paulo, Brazil injures 21 people following what may be the world's largest Pride celebration;  Pride marchers in Rome belittle the conservative government of Silvio Berlusconi and the Vatican, while police keep the peace between anti-gay thugs and Pride marchers in Warsaw and Zagreb, as an estimated 400,000 parade in West Hollywood, and a record Pride turn-out in Des Moin es celebrates Iowa marriage equality;  Lithuania's parliament passes a law banning any positive discussion of homosexuality in schools or in public information to which children are exposed;  67 gay Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia are charged with the Quran-violating "imitating women" following their arrests at a party in Riyadh;  the British Foreign Office joins the U.S. State Department in statements of concern about reported anti-gay pogroms in Iraq;  and openly gay actor Alan Cumming, cited for his activism as much as for his work as an entertainer, is rewarded with an O.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honors List  (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU and JOHN TORRES) [9:24]  +  Billboard for "The Art of Being Straight"

U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA this week issued a memorandum – or executive order, the titles are reportedly interchangeable – granting limited benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian federal employees [hear excerpts from his signing comments].  It couldn't have been a coincidence that Obama's action followed uproar by LGBT equality advocates late last week over the offensive language used in a Justice Department brief supporting the already odious Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  KAREN MILLER of Free Speech Radio News gathered some reaction to the presidential edict later that night (from federal worker and D.C. activist RICK ROSENDAHL, CARIS A CUNNINGHAM of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and KEVIN CATHCART of Lambda Legal).  Major U.S. news networks also reported extensively on the presidential action.  CNN's ANDERSON COOPER asked RICHARD SOCARIDES, a gay advisor to President Bill Clinton, if it was too little, too late, and MSNBC's RACHEL MADDOW discussed the future with openly lesbian WISCONSIN Congresswoman TAMMY BALDWIN

"TWO" I.D. by JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL [:12]  +  "THE ART OF BEING STRAIGHT" explores the too often strict boundaries of being gay or straight from the perspective of today's younger generation.  "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE sat down with writer/director/producer/star JESSE ROSEN to chat about his micro-budget comedy and Rosen’s own shifting place on the Kinsien scale  (with a clip from the film, and outro music from "Which Way Do You Go?" by PAXTON) more