Today on the Signorile Show

We're back and Happy 2012!!!

Guest / 2:30pm EST - Jim Burroway, editor with Box Turtle Bulletin, returns to the show today to talk about Ron Paul's rise in Iowa and how that could be attributed to the support he's been getting from Christian Reconstructionists, who even the fringes of the Christian right believe are extreme.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Thomas Frank, author of Pity The Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and The Unlikely Comeback Of The Right, joins us this afternoon to discuss his new book which focuses on mystery of why there has been a revival of conservatism in the face of economic disaster which they created.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Tonight, ABC will air its newest sitcom, "Work It," a show about two unemployed men who dress up as women to find a job. And it airs even as there has been outrage and complaints from the transgender community that this will help to further transphobia. Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center For Trans Equality, returns to the show to discuss the problems this show will cause.

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Happy Holidays!

Hope you all have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

This has been quite a year -- for the LGBT movement and on the show. Want to thank all of our great and smart listeners for weighing in this year on all the big topics on the show. Hosting a radio program that is broadcast across North America and around the globe online is truly a privilege and I'm thankful for the great conversation.

And I'm really excited this year to have taken a new position, just a few weeks ago, as editor-at-large at Huffington Post Gay Voices, where I've already weighed in on quite a few issues. Hope you'll join me in 2012 as I help guide discussions there as well as on the show on Sirius XM OutQ.

We're off for the week, but you'll hear special shows looking back on 2011, as we hit on some our best interviews and caller discussions of the year. We're back with the live show on Tuesday, January 3, just in time for the Iowa caucuses. Lots to do in the new year. See you then and have a happy one!

Don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook! Listen to The MichelangeloSignorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ 108 and on the SiriusXMiPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a freeseven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXMfor free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Cold-Blooded on the Campaign Trail

My latest blog post on Huffington Post: Cold-Blooded on the Campaign Trail.

Angel and Gassy Awards

It's that time of year again. Our 9th Annual Angel of the Year Awards and Gassy Awards (Gasbags, Monsters, Liars, Hypocrites and Total Freaks from Hell Awards). And it's all happening today!

Call in with your nominations throughout the show, and also post them here. And we'll also decide, by show's end, who gets the Greatest Angel and the Biggest Gassy. Vote away!

Don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook! Listen to The MichelangeloSignorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ 108 and on the SiriusXMiPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a freeseven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXMfor free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - We'll check in with Joe Jarvis of Joe.My.God. to discuss the goings on in the gay blog-o-sphere, including another teen standing up to a GOP candidate.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - In a new short document, Sean Strub, founder of POZ Magazine, points to the fact that after 30 years, there is still such a negative stigma attached to HIV that in 36 states & territories, there is HIV-specific statutes linking HIV Status as a criminal behavior. He returns to the program today to discuss the mini-documentary HIV Is Not A Crime 2011.

Guest / 4:40pm EST - Joseph Epstein, essayist and author of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit, joins us today to discuss his new book which explores the attractiveness of gossip and why it has such an impact on our society.

Don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook! Listen to The MichelangeloSignorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ 108 and on the SiriusXMiPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a freeseven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXMfor free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Rosie: "Not Going to Take it Any More"

As many of you know Rosie O'Donnell calls the show often, and we chat about whatever is in the news, something I always enjoy and I know many of you do. Last week, both on her OWN show and on Twitter, she took on both David Letterman and (again) Donald Trump for what she perceived as homophobia from there. In an interview I did with her for The Huffington Post she has now expounded on it further -- and explains why, newly in-love and reaching 50, she's not going to sit back and accept homophobia- and also talked about Ann Coulter, Madonna, Lady Gaga, RuPaul and others. Take a read at HuffPost Gay Voices.

The High Cost of Political Gay-Bashing

The Rick Perry "Strong" ad has gotten and an enormous amount of attention, but I argue on The Huffington Post that it has backfired big time and could be the very beginning of the end of political gay-bashing in the GOP.

Today on the Signorile Show

Guest 2:30 - Senior Fellow of the People for the American Way Foundation Peter Montgomery will join us to talk about a vareity of topics on the site Right Wing Watch. We will talk about the religious rights attacks on the Obama adminstration over new foregin policy to protect LGBT, their support of Perry's anti-gay ad, there apprehension on supporting Gingrich, and a protest over LOWES ads being featured on American Muslims.

Guest 3:30- Co-Author James Losey will discuss the article The Internet Intolerable Acts he will talk about two new bills, why they are dangerous, and how they can affect our online freedom.

Guest 4:30- Co-Author Joe Meno will talk about his new book The Cult of LEGO, and how this classic childrens toy got its start and all the unique ways LEGOs are used from helping Autistic children to creating art work.

Don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook! Listen to The MichelangeloSignorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ 108 and on the SiriusXMiPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a freeseven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone. And don't forget to read my work on The Huffington Post, where I'm Editor-at Large at Gay Voices.

Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - We'll be checking in with Joe Jarvis of Joe.My.God. about all that's happening in the gay blog-o-sphere, from the mess Rick Perry's "Strong" ad has created to the Prop 8 hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - The Human Rights Campaign released its 2012 Corporate Equality Index, which highlights those companies that are making a difference and promoting LGBT rights. We'll speak with Fred Sainz, Vice President of Communications with HRC, about the progress made in the CEI.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - R. Clark Cooper, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans, returns to the program to lay out what he thinks the fall out from Perry's "Strong" ad means for GOProud and for the Perry campaign as we start to approach Iowa.

Don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook! Listen to The MichelangeloSignorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ 108 and on the SiriusXMiPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a freeseven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXMfor free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Newt's Sister: Not Sure if He Believe the Antigay Rhetoric

Newt Gingrich's openly lesbian half-sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones, came on the show on Friday and told me that she's not sure if her brother really believes the antigay blather or if he's just pandering to the Christian right. He claims to be opposed to marriage equality but he gave her a wedding and a shower gift and treats her wife the same way he does her sister's husband Either way, she says, it's troubling, and she's supporting Obama.

Read more quotes from the interview and listen to the entire interview on HuffPost Gay Voices.