Episode 17 – Amity Pierce Buxton, Ph.D., Founder of the Straight Spouse Network and author of “The Other Side of The Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families” discusses the process straight spouses go through when their gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender spouse comes out. Read the complete commentary featured in this episode: […]
Month: September 2007
Episode 16 – Paul Scott, Executive Director of Equality Texas discusses lobbying the Texas State Legislature on behalf of the LGBT Community. 90% of laws impacting the LGBT community takes place on the state level. Paul provides suggestions on how gays in all states can get involved in meeting with their state legislators. Featured Websites […]
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Come Out to Your Elected Officials
The LGBT community has continued to gain acceptance in the mainstream because we have continued to come out to our families, friends, coworkers, neighbors and society as a whole…
Episode 15 – This is part 3 of 3 parts – Skip Allen continues his family’s harrowing story. Skip, who is the gay, is the son of the former President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Skip’s dad was the personal pastor to President Jimmy Carter, before, during and after President Carter was in the White […]
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The AIDS Tragedy Isn’t Over
As I listened to Skip Allen share the nightmare that his family had thrust upon them in the 1980s and continue through its devastation well into the 90s an attractive healthy man sat in front of me. Twelve years ago Skip’s body was ravaged…
Episode 14 – This is part 2 of 3 parts – Skip Allen continues his family’s harrowing story. Skip, who is the gay, is the son of the former President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Skip’s dad was the personal pastor to President Jimmy Carter, before, during and after President Carter was in the White […]
Episode 13 – This is part 1 of 3 parts – Skip Allen shares his family’s harrowing story. Skip, who is the gay, is the son of the former President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Skip’s dad was the personal pastor to President Jimmy Carter, before, during and after President Carter was in the White […]
Episode 12 – Charles Flowers is the Executive Director of the Lambda Literary Foundation, which is the country’s leading organization for LGBT literature. Lambda’s mission is to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians – the whole literary community. The Lambda Literary Foundation presents the annual Lambda Literary Awards […]
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Disappearing Gay Cultural Identity
One of the principal reasons that I decided to produce “John Selig Outspoken” was a growing concern that I have sensed a disappearance of our gay cultural identity…
Episode 11 – Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and an expert on the Ex-Gay movement. Wayne is a columnist, public speaker and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” and “Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics, and Culture.” My commentary titled “Outside The […]