The Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage March 29
Guests: Ed Whelan, Tobias Wolff This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases related to same-sex marriage. On Tuesday the justices considered Hollingsworth v. Perry, debating the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. [...]

New Jersey's gay conversion therapy ban is up for debate March 27
Guests: BRIGID HARRISON, PETERSON TOSCANO and CLINTON ANDERSON Last week the New Jersey State Senate committee passed a bill that would outlaw licensed therapists practicing gay conversion therapy. Governor Chris Christie has not signed the bill, co-sponsored by [...]

Same-sex marriage election victories and LGBT rights November 15
Hour 2 Same-sex marriage supporters have a lot to celebrate this election.  In Washington State, Maine and Maryland voters chose to legalize gay marriage through ballot referendums.  In Minnesota, voters rejected a proposed State Constitutional ban on same-sex [...]

What candidates are NOT talking about, Pt. 2: Guns & marriage equality October 31
Hour 2 We're continuing our look at neglected campaign issues this hour and turning out focus to gun control and gay rights.  Despite several recent high-profile mass shootings, the issue of gun control has hardly been mentioned this [...]

Jeanette Winterson's memoir, 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal' August 10
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] British writer JEANETTE WINTERSON had a rough childhood. She was raised in an industrial town in northern England in the 1960s by adoptive parents who were poor and abusive, particularly her mother, who was also [...]

Update on the battle against AIDS July 20
Hour 1 The International AIDS Conference starts this weekend in Washington D.C. and there is some good news to celebrate. Last year, 8 million people in poor countries received life-saving AIDS medications and infection rates among children continued [...]

Are hate-crime laws necessary? May 22
Hour 1 Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was sentenced yesterday to 30 days in prison for committing a bias crime in connection with the suicide death of his roommate Tyler Clementi.  Bias intimidation laws, also known as [...]

Alison Bechdel's continuing family memoir, 'Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama' May 3
Author and comic strip writer ALISON BECHDEL’s new graphic memoir, “Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama,” illustrates her complicated relationship with her artistic mother, who was unhappily married to a closeted gay man, the subject of Bechdel’s [...]

Hate crimes, cyberbullying & the Rutgers spy cam case March 22
Hour 1 The ruling against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi, provides stern warnings regarding the punishment for bullying by young people and the prosecution of hate crimes. Clementi [...]

Jeanette Winterson's memoir, 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal' March 20
Hour 2 British writer JEANETTE WINTERSON had a rough childhood. She was raised in an industrial town in northern England in the 1960s by adoptive parents who were poor and abusive, particularly her mother, who was also religious [...]

Bayard Rustin, West Chester's gay Civil Rights icon March 12
Hour 2 Bayard Rustin is the leader of the Civil Rights movement whose importance is perhaps least proportional to his fame. The West Chester native was born 100 years ago Thursday, and was the key organizer of the [...]

Loving v. Virginia & the Right to Marry February 14
Hour 2 Mildred and Richard Loving grew up together in Central Virginia's Caroline County and began dating when they were teenagers.  She was of African American and Native American descent, and he was white.  In June of 1958, [...]

Should same-sex marriage in New Jersey be put to a vote? February 1
Hour 1 Last week, Governor Chris Christie called for the voters of New Jersey to have the final say in the fight to legalize same-sex marriage rather than having the Legislature decide. He proposed that the issue be [...]

Same-sex Marriage: The Political and Legal Landscape January 23
Hour 1 At a meeting of the U.S. Conference on Mayors on Friday, over 70 mayors from cities across the country announced their support for same sex marriage.  Proposed legislation and upcoming ballot initiatives in several states also [...]

New Jersey's Anti-bullying Law September 14
Hour 1 New Jersey has passed what’s been described as the toughest anti-bullying law in the country.  It requires schools to appoint anti-bullying coordinators, there’s an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip line that students can call, and schools are [...]

The Final Days of TLA August 18
Hour 2 TLA video’s last Center City movie rental store is closing this week. 1520 Locust St follows several closings of stores of the TLA franchise– at its height there were seven retail stores, including one in New [...]

Overcoming homophobia in sports June 1
Hour 1 Gay Americans are living and competing openly in the workplace, in politics and elsewhere. But what about the playing field and sports arena? Are they safe spaces for athletes to come out of the closet? Recent [...]

Times Two: When both moms are pregnant simultaneously April 29
Hour 2 One’s a rock star, bassist for the all-female band Antigone Rising. The other’s the VP of Real Simple Magazine. When KRISTEN HENDERSON and SARAH KATE ELLIS fell in love and decided to start a family, they [...]

U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) April 26
Hour 1 CHRIS COONS is Delaware’s newest Democratic U.S. Senator, defeating Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell in November and taking office immediately. He joins Marty in studio to discuss some of his early votes, including repealing the military’s Don’t [...]

White House abandons legal case against gay marriage March 2
Hour 1 In December, when President Obama signed the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy and allowed gays to serve openly in the armed services, he reaffirmed that he does not support marriage for same-sex [...]

Being gay & persecuted in Uganda, with Frank Mugisha January 21
Hour 1 FRANK MUGISHA heads up the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), an openly gay man in a country that is persecuting gays, and where a national magazine published home addresses and ran photos of openly gay Ugandans, [...]