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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 3:30pm EST - When it first opened in 1927, The Holland Tunnel was dubbed the "Eighth Wonder Of The World." Why was this an engineering miracle and what impact did it have on the future of infrastructure in the US? Robert W. Jackson, author of Highway Under The Hudson: A History Of The Holland Tunnel, joins us today to explain.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - We're joined by the lesbian half-sister of Newt Gingrich, Candace Gingrich-Jones, to talk about the rise of his candidacy and why she feels he is on the wrong side of history.

It's Friday, who will win the "Angel, Turkey, Gassy, and Climax of the Week" Award?!?!

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Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - Blogger and activist Joe Sudbay returns to the program to discuss the impact of Secretary Clintons speech before the UN on LGBT rights and other news of the day.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Earlier this week, the 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals upheld a 2010 from Georgia's lower courts, saying that the General Assembly's Office discriminated Vandy Beth Glenn, a former proofreader with the General Assembly's Office, because she had began the process of transitioning. She joins us today, along with her lawyer Greg Nevins of Lambda Legal, to discuss the ruling.

It's Thursday, so we'll read the Listener Survey's I've been promising you!!!

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Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - Jim Burroway, editor over at Box Turtle Bulletin, returns to the program to speak with us about Exodus International, an ex-gay organization, which is in financial turmoil and is potentially going bankrupt and their efforts to rebrand the organization.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - We've talked a lot on the program of the struggles the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy put on gay and lesbian servicemembers and their families. Now, with DADT repealed and servicemembers serving openly and are being seen with their partners and spouses at military functions. Marine Officer Matthew Phelps wrote about his experience attending the Marine Corps. Birthday Ball with his date and joins us today to talk about the reactions about being open to his peers.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - "Pinkwashing" is a controversial strategy many say Israel is using to conceal its Palestinian human right violations by exploiting its advancement of LGBT rights as a marketing tool for the country. Sarah Schulman, professor of humanities at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, joins us today to discuss an op-ed in the New York Times she wrote about this issues last week.

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Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - We'll check in with Joe Jarvis, founder and editor of Joe.My.God, about the issues of the day surrounding the LGBT community.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Last week, the Center for Disease Control launched a new campaign, Testing Makes Us Stronger, which is aimed at the African American gay community after alarming news that between 2006 and 2009 the infection rate rose nearly 50%. Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, joins us to discuss the new campaign.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Noah Michelson, editor with Huffington Post's Gay Voices, joins us today to talk about how the blog has been influencing LGBT issues since its launch back in October.

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 Barney Frank

I interviewed Barney Frank on the show earlier in the week, in a wide-ranging discussion about his more than 30 year tenure,the Republican candidates for president, and what his decision not to run for re-election means for the LGBT community. The highlights and some clips are posted on Huffington Post. Take a listen.

Today on the Signorile Show

3:30pm EST - Dan Mathews the Vice President of PETA will join us to talk about a recent debate at the 92nd Street Y about PETA's "Extreme Marketing" cmpaigns. He will also talk about some new cases that PETA has taken on and their recent victories.

4:30pm EST - Colin Woodard will talk about his newest book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. He explains why it would make more sense to have the country divided into 11 nations instead of 50 states.

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.

And also check out my work at Huffington Post Gay Voices, where I am Editor-at-Large.