3:35pm ET - Noah Michelson, Executive Editor at The Huffington Post's Gay Voices, returns to The Signorile Show today to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines in the LGBT blog-o-sphere. You can also follow Noah on facebook and twitter.
4:35pm ET - In 1954, Barney Frank was just another average
fourteen-year-old teenager growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey; similar to the
other boys in his class in all areas except for two… he was attracted to
government service, and men. However, at
that time in our Nation’s history he knew that if wanted to make a career out
of the first attraction he had to keep the second a secret, but all that
changed back in 1987, when he came out as gay and made history becoming the
first member of Congress to do so voluntarily.
Now, decades after he began his political career in an era where LGBT
people were excluded from public life, great advances have been made and LGBT
people can now openly hold elected public office and are achieving greater
equality and visibility in American society every day, though the fight for
full equality is far from over. In his
new autobiography Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage Former US Rep. Frank
provides a detailed account of the country's transformation and provides and
inside look into a truly momentous career of public service. Former Congressman
Barney Frank joins us today in studio to talk about his book and how the
country has changed over the years he held office. You can also follow Barney on twitter.
Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 3-6 pm ET on SiriusXM Progress 127 and on the SiriusXM iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free thirty-day pass or, if you have an 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.
|