Today On The Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - Peter Montgomery, Senior Fellow with the People For The American Way, joins us today to discuss what the fringes of the right wing are saying, and all the hate they are covering, at Right Wing Watch.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life In Market Times, joins us to talk about her new book which looks at our moving away from handling our own lives and how we've let others structure it.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Meredith Baxter joins us to talk about her memoir Untied: A memoir of Family, Fame, and Founder.  She talks about coming out later in life, her addiction, and the abusive relationship with her husband David Birney.  

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My CNN Appearance Re: Obama on Marriage Equality

My CNN appearance from Wednesday night after President Obama came out for marriage equality. GOProud's Chris Barron was on the panel, and actually gave the president credit.

A President Liberates Himself and the World

What a week it's been on the show. Hard to catch my breath! Just posting my piece from HuffPost Gay Voices yesterday, about the president's big news: Obama and Gay Marriage: A President Liberates Himself and the World. Read it and let me know your thoughts.

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - In Colorado, a Civil Unions Bill that had the support from the Governor and some Republican's, failed due to Republicans filibustering and running out the clock on a Tuesday deadline.  Brad Clark, executive director of One Colorado, talks with us about the this strategy and the news that broke yesterday after President Obama came out for marriage, that Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper would call legislators to debate the Civil Unions Bill in a special session.

Guest / 3:30pm EST -  We speak with Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom To Marry, about President Obama's coming out in support of marriage equality, the fallout from North Carolina and what President Obama's support means as we fight for marriage equality in several other states.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Chris Geidner, senior political reporter with MetroWeekly, joins us to talk about the President's support for marriage equality, how he came to this decision and the support he's been getting for finally evolving.

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. 

Joe Biden: For Gay Marriage Before He Was Against It

My column on HuffPost Gay Voices from yesterday, regarding Biden coming out for marriage and then the White House taking it back.

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - Tomorrow, North Carolinian's head to the polls to vote on Amendment One, which would define marriage between one man and one woman under the state's Constitution.  Adam Bink, director of online programs with the Courage Campaign, returns to the show to talk about the work he's doing on the ground there to get people out to vote against Amendment One.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Last month, the news that came out of the White House that President Obama wouldn't sign an Executive Order banning discrimination of LGBT people who work with companies that are contracted by the government.  Tico Almeida, president of Freedom To Work and who was at a meeting with advocates when they were told this news, returns to update us on the efforts he and others are taking to change the president's mind.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Author A.J Jacobs joins us to talk about his new book Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection, which chronicles his life after being hospitalized with pneumonia and his drive to change his life style and too achieve the maximum level of healthy.

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. 

Interview With Pastor Sean "Punch Your Queer Kid" Harris

My interview from the show with Pastor Sean Harris, he North Carolina pastor whose violent anti-gay rant blew up across the internet is up at HuffPost Gay Voices, where you can listen to the full audio. He said his message to parents in a sermon -- to "punch" a boy who is effeminate and "crack that wrist" if he is limp-wristed -- were taken out of the "context of a ministry," and that he meant them "figuratively," claiming that Jesus, too, in the Bible, "conjures up violent images." Listen in.

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - Yesterday, we played a clip of a sermon from Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, in which he said "Dad's, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist," along with a number of other alarming things he said parents should do to their possibly gay or lesbian child.  He joins us today to talk about that sermon and to discuss his apology, but why he stands by the meaning of the message.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Yesterday, we also got the news that openly gay Richard Grenell, who was hired as the Romney Campaigns Foreign Policy Advisor, resigned.  R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, returns to the show to discuss Grenell's resignation and what this will mean for the Romney Campaign as it tries to move toward the middle for the general election.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - AIDS Activist Cleve Jones was invited to the White House last week as part of an initiative to highlight those making a difference in their communities, an initiative they're calling Champions of Change.  He joins us today to talk about that meeting and what issues he got to discuss with President Obama.

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. 

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - We're joined by A.J. Bockelman, Executive Director with PROMO, to speak about the efforts in Missouri to get it's own "Don't Say Gay" Bill and what this could mean for students.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Arthur S. Leonard, law professor at New York Law School and contributor to Gay City News, returns to the program to discuss Macy v. Holder, which many experts are calling a landmark case for gender identity.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - GLAAD has appointed Herndon Graddick as its new President.  We'll speak to him about the criticisms from activists toward GLAAD and what his plans are as its new leader.

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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.