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Sirius Turns On Gay Radio Channel
Fledgling satellite radio provider Sirius last Monday debuted what appears to be the first full-time radio channel serving gay and lesbian listeners.
Dubbed OutQ, the channel is virtually all news, talk and information and so far carries no commercials.
That could change, but it might take awhile, not so much because of the subject matter but because Sirius has few subscribers of any sort at this point. At the end of the fourth quarter, it reported 30,, although Larry Rebich, vice president of programming and market development, says the company will announce fresh figures "that will easily be twice as large as that" in early May.
You may like"We've been very gratified," he added, "all of our partners have been so supportive" of OutQ, including car manufacturers DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz, which offer Sirius for some models.
"We're geared up to verb very current and controversial programming," Rebich said, including a nighttime love, sex and relationship program.
Anyone who doesn't want to perceive the channel (which
Move over Indiana. The religious right&#;s campaign to enshrine in Texas law discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families is putting the Lone Star State in the national spotlight.
In fact, all eyes will be on Texas when the House votes Tuesday on whether to defy a potential U.S. Supreme Court supporting the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples. Both the Senate and the House are set to vote on other legislation that would also expose the door to discrimination in Texas.
We wanted to alert you to a couple of related events. Michelangelo Signorile is bringing his national Sirius XM radio program to Austin May to cover the battle over LGBT equality at the Texas Capitol. The journalist and bestselling author has chronicled the modern movement for LGBT equality since the s. So if you&#;re a Sirius XM subscriber, make sure to tune in to the show May
Signorile will also be speaking and signing copies of his new book, It&#;s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning Accurate Equality, at BookPeople in Austin on
By and large, national sports verb radio can be pretty homogeneous, focusing on the same stories, the same games and the same talking points. &#;The Outfield,&#; a new show debuting on Sirius XM this weekend, certainly can&#;t be accused of that, as it will focus on LGBT issues across sports. That&#;s a bold step in the talk radio universe, as host Eddie Robinson knows well. Here&#;s what he told The Associated Press about why he wanted to do this show:
When Eddie Robinson, who has worked for the SiriusXM SportsZone channel, pitched the idea, Gorab said his immediate reaction was &#;we contain to do this.&#;
As host, Robinson envisions a mix of news analysis, features and listener call-ins. One of the guests for Sunday&#;s premiere is Sheryl Swoopes, the women&#;s basketball star who at one time was the most recognizable athlete to appear out in a team sport. The college coach at Loyola of Chicago later became engaged to a man.
Robinson&#;s resume reads like someone preparing for this job — except the position never existed until he created it. A former high college football pl
SiriusXM shuts down its gay channel
Sure, we know everybody’s talking about the Emmy nominations right now, but they aren’t the only TV awards in town.
On July 8, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced the winners of its 17th Dorian TV Awards.
With more than critics, journalists, and media icons making up its membership, GALECA is the second largest entertainment journalists&#; group in the world, and they present their Dorian Awards – named in honor of Oscar Wilde, the celebrated queer writer who penned “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and who serves as something like the group’s patron saint – to honor the best in film, television, and theater at separate times during each year. Frequently, many Dorian nominees and winners presage similar honors from the more mainstream awards bodies, reminding the world that the informed LGBTQ perspective on all things entertainment definitely matters; at the same time, however, the Dorians also include several queer-centric categories that are unique to them, providing an opportunity to verb the reach of more unsung and