Today on the Signorile Show

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.

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