Don't expect continuity on tonight's show, as the selections are ALL over the map! Lots of unusual songs & etc that just haven't fit on other shows. You'll see why...:) 

New Seekers

BeeJays 45: pass mouse over pic above to see flip side, and click the record (left) to hear it separately

Playlist       (airdate: 6/23/03)
Burt Topper - the gay teenager (1967)
Billy Devroe - queer policeman (1957)
BeeJays - my boyfriend's back (1980)
New Seekers - I'd like to buy the world
   a Coke (1971)
Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway -
   golden wonder boy (60s)
unknown - I'll make him mine (60s)

Movie Radio Ads:
The Sergeant (1968)
Staircase (1969)
The Fox (1968)
Some of My Best Friends Are... (1971)
The Gay Deceivers (1969)
Kevin Coughlin - Gay Deceivers (1969)

Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter -
   aba daba honeymoon (1951)
Richard Chamberlain - three stars will
   shine tonight (1962)
Monroe Brothers - where is my sailor boy    (1936)
Paul Warren - I'm thinking tonight of my
   blue eyes (1997)
Indigo Etheridge - monogamous slut (2001)
JD Collage
Jim Colleran - love the sinner (2002)
Interview quotes by Jon Gilbert Leavitt
   & Deian McBryde (2003)
Deian McBryde - proud and free (2003)

Above, French poster for "The Fox," and,  left, two scenes from it, including the "tree falls on the lesbian" ending

Carleton
Carpenter
& Debbie
Reynolds,
1951

oh, where is their
sailor boy?

Paul Warren

Julie Goldman is Indigo Etheridge,
and you should see the video....

More on the Rainbow25 Project...

Quoting from the site's description: Rainbow25 is a worldwide celebration of the creation of the most widely-recognized LGBT symbol in history, the Rainbow Flag. On the 25th anniversary of the Rainbow Flag's birth, Rainbow25, a nonprofit organization, restores the Flag to its original eight colors, chronicles its history and acknowledges the Flag's powerful impact on the LGBT community and the culture at large. The flag was first unfurled, all 1 1/4 miles of it, in Key West on June 15th. Betcha didn't know every color has a meaning. "Sex" and "Magic" were added to restore the missing colors...:)

The Press Conference, 1:30 pm
Houston GLBT Community Center

Clarence Bagby (1:32)
Lee Taft (5:57)
Clarence Bagby (0:35)
John Lawrence (0:55)
Clarence Bagby (0:37)
Mitchell Katine (3:06)
Lee Taft (Q&A, 8:15)
[entire event, 21:00]

Tyron and John at the Press Conference

Above right Mitchell introduces Tyron and John to the Rally. Below, part of Rally crowd.

Below, two days later at the Parade, JD, John Lawrence, Mitchell Katine and Tyrone Garner

September 2009. A friend recently asked me to reflect and to tell him about some gay experience of mine. A lot of things flashed through my mind…think about my "gay experience." Gee, I've been Out in a big way for 30 years. I was a year out of the closet and became editor of a gay newspaper (in Norfolk); I went to the first three Marches on Washington; I've been doing radio for years.....But I think I've settled on what I consider the huge gift I received on June 26th, 2003.

That was the day the Supreme Court ruling came down on "Lawrence vs Texas," and overturning the sodomy laws for the whole country. The case started in Houston when John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested years earlier, and it took many years to get through the courts to the final step. As one of the hosts for the radio show Queer Voices and also a music contributor to This Way Out, it kind of by default fell to me to try to do some coverage of the story for This Way Out, as I was their only local source.

Now I am NOT a news reporter, I just do music segments and some interviews, but I was there. We knew something was in the wind and the decision might come down that day, though we did not know which way. But the Queer Voices producer called me at work that morning and my boss let me leave work to make the press conference, held around 1pm, bringing with me my mp3 recorder. The room was at the community center, no larger than about 25 by 25 feet so it filled up quickly with reporters, TV cameras, activists, etc. I boldly walked over to the podium just before it started and placed my small recorder alongside the hugely more sophisticated microphones, etc, and switched it on. And the Word came down, on our side, a tremendous victory with effects reaching further than could be imagined, perhaps the biggest moment in gay history since Stonewall. And events had somehow conspired for me to be there, in person, to witness it, and to get it on my recorder. I considered my being there a huge gift to me and I am still awed by the experience.