Spirited Discussion Last Night on CNN

Last night I appeared on CNN to discuss Obama's speech with Dan Dan Savage, Lt. Dan Choi and Hillary Rosen. Was a good, but sometimes feisty debate, and i can't wait to get all your thoughts. Was two segments, pretty long and the video is in two parts here.

Is "Stonewall 2.0" Fizzling?

This is a few minute clip from my discussion on the show this week with Dan Savage, columnist and editor at Seattle's The Stranger, about his belief, with which I agree, that what some dubbed "Stonewall 2.0" is fizzling. Today was a day of yet another national actions by Join the Impact. Each time they've organized something since that first 11 days after Prop 8 passed, however, it does seem to have less and less of that impact.

On Today's Show

At 3:30 ET: Max Blumenthal will talk to me about his expose on Rick Warren, and his disastrous effect on AIDS prevention in Africa -- though he has been heralded by the Obama folks as someone who battled AIDS. There's a lot here -- much of it horrendous and angering -- and we'll get into it all. What does Obama think of all this, and will anyone in the media ask him about it?


At 4:30 ET: Sex columnist and editor of The Stranger, Dan Savage will join me and we'll get into his theory that the ricin threats against Seattle bars may be from a disturbed gay man. Mostly though, we're going to talk about a topic that we've been talking about quite a bit on the show: Is Stonewall 2.0 fizzling already? Dan thinks it is.

Ricin Threat to Seattle Gay Bars

Yesterday there was a lot of discussion of letters sent to Seattle gay bars by an individual threatening ricin gas attacks. Dan Savage at The Stranger also received a letter later, and he suggests that the writer, rather than some straight homophobe, may be a gay man angry at the bar scene, which is certainly a provocative but interesting theory. Andy Towle has more on this, including the revelation that the writer of the letters is a plagiarist, having lifted a poem by gay writer Mark Doty.

Dan Savage will join me on the show today at 4:30 ET to talk about this. We'll also get into "Stonewall 2.0" and his opinion that it has fizzled out.