Today's Show: Another Gay Bar Raid

3:30ET: Richard Ramey, co-owner Atlanta Eagle will join me to discuss a recent raid on his bar where eight employees were arrested when Atlanta police raided the gay leather bar.

Today's Show: Not a Chimp

4:30ET: Author Jeremy Taylor will join me to discuss his First book, NOT a Chimp; The hunt to Find the Genes that Make Us Human.

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CNN Appearance Re: Hate from the Pulpit

I was interviewed on CNN by Don Lemon on Saturday night while I was still in Montreal attending the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention. We discussed my interview with the hate preacher Steven L. Anderson, who prays for President Obama to die, and believes all gays should be executed. He also made a death wish upon me too during the interview. (We had some technical issues at the studio in Montreal, so, as you will see, much of the interview took place on the phone while CNN ran video clips of my interview with the hate preacher.)




You can see the full video clip of the interview with Anderson and hear the entire audio interview, which is much longer, right here.

On CNN Saturday Night

I will be on CNN tomorrow night, probably at about 10:30 but will have exact time tomorrow, discussing my interview with the rabid antigay preacher Steven L. Anderson. For those who need a refresher, he is praying for President Obama to die (and one of his congregants took an automatic weapon to an Obama speech in Arizona) and he also said I should get brain cancer "like Ted Kennedy" and die.

I'll be in a studio here in Montreal, as still attending the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention. I'll be discussing the interview with Don Lemon, and we'll focus on this extremism, what it means, why it's dangerous, why it needs to be exposed and how much race may be a factor.

From Montreal

Here are a couple of pics of the special live show from Montreal yesterday, Going Global, at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention.

From left to right is the panel that was there in Montreal (we had two other panelists, one in Mexico City and on in London.) From left to right is me; Michael Luongo, who has reported from over 80 countries around the world for the gay press and has been doing groundbreaking reporting on the brutality against LGBT people in Iraq, where he traveled twice: David Walberg, editor and publisher of Canada's Pink Triangle Press, which publishes the Xtra chain of LGBT newspapers; and Jon Barrett, editor-in-chief of the Advocate and Advocate.com.

Going Global

We are bringing the show to you live today from Montreal, broadcasting from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association Convention. The panel discussion of the live show will be: Going Global: The Demands for International LGBT Reporting and the Challenges It Presents. It will air live today at 2 ET for two hours, and then rebroadcast at 4 ET.

Reporter Michael Luongo will join us just back from Iraq where he has been bringing us incredible reporting over the past two years.

Advocate editor Jon Barrett is on the panel as well; the Advocate's next issue focuses on Cuba, with an interview by Canadian reporter Michael Rowe with Mariela Castro Espín, an LGBT activist and niece of Fidel Castro. Jon will talk about the ways the magazine is using its website to foster international reporting.

We will also have the activist and writer Peter Tatchell via satellite from London, talking about his activities documenting events at LGBT prides in Eastern Europe and Russia, which have been met by violent homophobic reactions; he'll discuss the challenges for LGBT press in covering these events and why it is so important.

Also on the panel will be David Walberg, Canadian editor and publisher for Xtra, a chain of LGBT newspapers across Canada. And we will try to check in with reporter Daniel Hernandez in Mexico City. Please join us, live from Montreal at 2 East, 11 West.

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No Live Show Today

We're traveling to Montreal today for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention, so no live show today; we'll replay some requested interviews and caller discussions in a rebroadcast today. We'll be coming to you live tomorrow from Montreal, for a special show, Going Global. Same time as usual, 2 East, 11 West.

Today's Show: Inside Republican Gomorrah

3:30ET: I will speak with Max Blumenthal, Author of Republican Gomorrah; Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party.


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Obama's "Indoctrination" Speech

We talked a lot of about this on the show on Friday and I'm going to bring it up today and get your thoughts about an email I received. A listener said I was wrong and nasty to say that the caller who took his kids out of school for the speech was a" bad father" and that I have no right to tell people what is and what is not good parenting? I'm sorry, but he's producing the people who will go out and either foment bias or stop it in the future, and that does affect me. Anyway, I'll read it and we'll talk about it.

The White released the speech the president will give today to students which Republicans -- who had not read it -- claimed was radical socialist indoctrination,. Here's The gist of it:

“If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.....We can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world. And none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities.”

I've now realized this is indoctrination into something foreign to the Republican mindset: Actually studying and finding out the truth about the world and moving on from there with hard work, rather than: a) being rich and getting Daddy or Mummy to get you a job (i.e., Mary and Liz Cheney, Jenna Bush, Jonah Goldberg, and on and on); or b) being not-so-rich and being deprived a good eduction because of Republican policies and, in your ignorance, then believing whatever some emotion-based, exploitative smear artists (whether politicians or part of the insurance industry) tell you about who caused your problems instead of actually studying and getting the facts. Yes, that is really radical!

By the way, Republican Party chair Jim Greer, who you'll remember I debated a few times in CNN, says he still believes Obama may slip in a different speech. I kid you not. Shameless.

But Are you Heterosexual?

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer of South Carolina addressed the stories out there asserting that he is gay, as the media still tries to claim this is a smear by his opponents (and Gov. Sanford) when it is a gay activist, Mike Rogers, simply exposing truth. Anyway, in this interview he says the rumors are "silly" and "don't matter" but he doesn't say he's straight. Interesting.

WaPo Ombudsman Slams NOM Profile

Last week I had Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse on the show to talk about her piece on the National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown (who I then then on the program later in the week.) Hesse was pretty shocked that her piece was seen as a puff piece which came under a lot of criticism by LGBT activists, liberal bloggers and journalism critics. She came on the show to defend herself and explain how it went wrong (editing took out the sly bits, she pretty much said, and with those barbs included she didn't think she needed opposing views, so she had none) and, I guess, to let us know she's not some sort of religious right monster.

Now the Washington Post ombudsman has apologized for the piece, chastised Hesse and the editors for not providing critics of Brown, provides some thoughts on how the piece happened and reveals that Hesse is bisexual herself and wept over the response to the piece:

Hesse has been blistered in the blogosphere, even cast as a bigoted conservative who endorses a homophobic agenda.

I agree that the story fell short, but not because Hesse was naïve or lacked journalistic diligence. In retracing her reporting, it's clear the research was extensive. And some details about her personal life seem to belie claims she has a conservative agenda (more on that later).

Rather, this is a case where three things -- a storytelling concept, a writing technique and a bad headline -- combined to ignite reader reaction as vitriolic as any I've experienced in my seven months as ombudsman.

I would go further and say it's an example of how the Post, ever mindful of sagging circulation, is desperately trying to be hip and cool in competing with blogs and online media, as we've seem time and again, blundering in the process. In this case, perhaps fearful of the repercussions of past juvenile antics in trying to compete, they took the teeth out of writing that was attempting to emulate that competition by being sarcastic and having a clear point of view. What's left is a puff piece, which the reporter then of course went along with too. It's all part of the paper's and print journalism's identity crisis, and it's clearly still not serving the public.