Today on the Signorile Show

Guest / 2:30pm EST - Today, we're joined by Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend, who announced yesterday after 9 years, she will be "Closing The Coffeehouse July 1".  We'll talk with her about her work and awards this afternoon.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Ryan Gallagher of Slate's Future Tense blog looks at how the NSA is misleading and distorting facts when it comes to targeting American's in its surveillance program.  He joins us this afternoon to explain.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - In 1855, Lucy Ann Lobdell decided to dress differently, cut off her hair and live like a man.  William Klaber, author of The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell, joins us to talk about her life and the reactions she'd received from her decisions in a time when that was not widely acceptable.

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - Joe Jervis returns to the program as he does every Monday to speak with us about the stories making headlines over at Joe.My.God.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - During our Listener Survey last month, someone wrote in suggesting that we ignore the A-sexual community and should focus more on them and their inclusion into the LGBT Community.  Dominique Mosbergen with Huffington Post has been looking at the world of the A-Sexual and joins us today to speak about her six part series launching this week at Gay Voices.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Today, we thought we'd hear news coming out of the Supreme Court regarding Prop 8 and DOMA, but as some have predicted, we will wait another day.  However, an interesting case coming down from the Court today deals with protecting voters rights in Arizona.  Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice joins us today to explain the importance of this ruling.

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - This week, Nike and the NFL both launched clothing lines in support of PRIDE, Nike's called the Be True line and the NFL Players Association selling One Team Pride shirts.  Cyd Zielger of OutSports returns to the show this afternoon to talk about these campaigns and Nike's LGBT Sports Summit.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - With the stroke of his pen, President Obama could provide protections for LGBT employees of companies contracted by the Federal Government.  But it could also offer a lot more.  Lavi Soloway of The DOMA Project returns to the show today to speak with us about how his signing of an Executive Order could be beneficial in how the Supreme Court decides on the cases regarding Marriage Equality.

It's Friday!  Who will get our "Angel, Turkey, and Gassy of the Week" Awards?!

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 109 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 - Steven Petrow of Gay Manners returns to the show to speak with us about his most recent pieces on Civil Behaviors -- a father of an adopted son asks how he should respond to strangers asking about his child and he answers the question of a man who feels like an older gentleman at his gym is starring to long at him and it is making him uncomfortable.


Guest / 3:30pm EST - Last week, we spoke with Marcel Neergaard, an 11 year old who successfully got Students First to rescind an award given to anti-gay Tennessee legislator, Representative John Ragan.  This inspired a call last week from Kate in St. Petersburg to share her story with us about her son being kicked out of school for wearing eye makeup.  Since then, she’s gone further, creating a petition to get the school board to start a tolerance training program for teachers and to accept their students. Katelynn Martin joins us this afternoon to talk about what's happened since she called in last week.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - No news from the Supreme Court today regarding Proposition 8 and DOMA.  One of the Justices we've been talking about and how he could decide is Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has said in the past that denying same-sex couples the right to marriage could be an issue of gender discrimination. Sonja West of Slate.com joins us today to discuss Kennedy's thought process and how we could see him decide.

It's Thursday!  We'll be reading the comments you left for me on the Listener Survey!

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 109 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 - Huffington Posts Gay Voices own "Amelia" returns to the show this afternoon to talk about the latest she's written about her son, the time he met his "boyfriend" Darren Criss of Glee.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - Last Friday, a shooting occured on the campus of Santa Monica College, where five people were left dead and several others were injured.  John Zawahri, the shooter, shares several traits with other mass shooters in recent history, as pointed out by Mark Follman, Senior Editor with Mother Jones, who joins us today to talk about it.

Guest  / 4:30pm EST - We spoke on the show yesterday about another attack of gay men in New York, this time by the NYPD when they attacked and arrested three young men.  We'll speak with Josh Williams, who was the one attacked, and his lawyer, Cynthia Conti-Cook, about what happened and what they are doing to fight back.

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Guest / 2:30pm EST - We talked a lot about Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old computer technician who identified himself as the leak of the NSA Surveillance Program, and whether or not he is a whistleblower or if he broke the law in exposing the surveillance program.  We'll speak with C. Fred Alford, political philosophy professor with the University of Maryland and author of Whistleblower: Broken Lives and Organizational Power, about what makes a whistleblower and how they go from being part of the system to against it.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - We've been seeing a lot of stories coming out of Russia involving hate crimes of gays being beaten and killed.  We'll speak with Masha Gessen, a Moscow based journalist and outspoken defender of gay rights, joins us today to discuss what has been happening and what needs to be done to stop these horrific instances.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Author Alysia Abbot joins us this afternoon to speak with us about her new book, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, in which she details he life growing up in San Francisco as the child of an openly gay man.

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 109 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 - Joe Jervis of Joe.My.God. returns to the show as he does every Monday to speak with us about the LGBT stories that happened over the weekend and what we should be looking out for the rest of the week.

Guest / 3:30pm EST - This weekend, 29 year old Edward Snowden announced that he was the leak to The Guardian regarding the NSA's surveillance program.  Until now, he'd been employed by Booz Allen Hamilton, a high tech intelligence firm.  How much of our resources are contracted like this?  Scott Amey, General Counsel with the Project On Government Oversight, joins us this afternoon to look at the billions we spend on contracting for our national security.

Guest / 4:30pm EST - Steve Clemons, Washington Editor At Large with The Atlantic, returns to the show to speak with us about the latest from the NSA surveillance program leaks and his thoughts over Edward Snowden's outing himself as the leaker.

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 109 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.