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PROGRAM SPONSORS |
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COMMENTARY Sponsored by Q-Notes. |
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Show 65 12/31/06 |
Listeners Like You! | Keith Blanton (SCGLPM president) Bert Easter (owner, Easter Books and Gifts) |
Fall 2006 Memoir by Hal Peters (Aiken, SC native and USC sophomore) | ||
| Show 64 12/24/06 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | The Hancock Family, Alvin McEwan, Tex Greene, Miss Kiki Merlot, and many others. Candace and Bruce interview folks on location at SCGLPM's annual holiday party. |
Home Movies and a Lesson in Patience by Bruce Converse Bruce is Rainbow Radio's co-host and writer. |
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| Show 63 12/17/06 | Listeners Like You! |
Rev. Tim is a counselor with Midlands Pastoral Care. |
Leslie is a senior English major at USC. |
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| Show 62 12/10/06 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Miles Gardner, Bob Hall and Jim Pendleton Miles, a Kershaw County history writer and retired teacher, has been a member of the Carolina Bear Lodge for two years. Bob lives in Leesvill, is retired from the U.S. Air Force, is a past president of the Lodge and treasurer of their Share-A-Bear program. Jim lives in North Augusta, is a pastry chef for Treats and More, and is the reigning Mr. S.C. Gay Bear. |
Who Let the Bears Out? by Charles Carson Charles lives in Durham, N.C., and is managning editor of American Speech at Duke University. He has been a member of the Carolina Bear Lodge since 1994. |
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| Show 61 12/3/06 | Harriet Hancock Community Center |
Michael is an architect and past president of the S.C. Gay + Lesbian Business Guild. Keith (aka entertainer Kiki Merlot) is president of SCGLPM.
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Growing Up a Southern Woman by Melissa Moore, field director, SCEC. |  |
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| Show 60 11/26/06 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Carmen Julious and Troy Bowers Carmen is executive director of PALSS; Troy is a PALSS program assistant. |
Not Forgotten, Keep Living by Stacy W. Smallwood (Exodus), poet, educator, and HIV/AIDS counselor |  |
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| Show 59 11/19/06 | The Rev. Timothea Sharpe (essay read by Candace Chellew) (Timothea is a Lutheran minister and counseler; Kate is the immediate past president of SCGLPM; Debra is Rainbow Radio producer Bert Easter's sister.) |
On Not Going Home (An Essay for Thanksgiving) by Ed Madden, SCEC Chair and Rainbow Radio executive producer |  |
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| Show 58 11/12/06 | Harriet Hancock Community Center | Asha Leong and Michael Drennan of the South Carolina Equality Coalition. Asha is campaign manager; Michael is executive director. |
The Public Union of Our Voice by Brian Scott, founder SCGayNews.com |  |
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| Show 57 11/5/06 | South Carolina Equality Coalition | Jonathan Jackson and Stephen Skacall. (Jonathan is an SCEC Intern and writer from USC; Stephen is an SCEC intern and student at Presbyterian College.) | No More than a Stranger by Bruce Converse, Rainbow Radio co-host/writer. |  |
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| Show 56 10/29/06 | South Carolina Gay + Lesbian Business Guild | Miss Brynna del Sol and Mr. Tex Appeal Both Brynna (aka Brian Oxendine) and Tex (aka Susan Tex Green) are board members of SCGLPM. Brynna is the reigning Miss Gaymecock and Tex is a well-known wrestler. |
Becoming a Man by Ed Madden (chair, SCEC) |
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| Show 55 10/22/06 | The Rev. Timothea Sharpe for Midlands Pastoral Care Associates (803) 760-8475 |
Candace and Bruce interview folks on location at the SCEC Booth about voting no on Amendment #1. Guests are Jennifer Hancock Tague, Harriet Hancock, Lynne Cuenca, David, and Lisa Carino |
Bruce reads a letter from an anonymous visitor to the SCEC booth. |
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| Show 54 10/15/06 | South Carolina Equality Coalition Fairness for All Families Campaign | Asha Leong, SCEC campaign manager | Families Without Borders by Jayme Ringleb(USC student and SCEC intern) |  |
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Happy Birthday, Rainbow Radio!
A Celebration of One Year On-the-Air |
Show 53 10/8/06 | The Harriet Hancock Community Center | Part I: Intriquing Idea
WOIC 1230 AM Team: Trey Greene and Larry Farina. Rainbow Radio Team: Candace Chellew, Bruce Converse, Ed Madden, Harriet Hancock, Bert Easter, and Jim Blanton. Special Guests: |
A Soundtrack for Coming Out by Ed Madden (Updated commentary from our first show.) |  |
| Show52 10/1/06 | The South Carolina Equality Coalition and DumbAmendment.com | Dr. Jack Rogers, author of the book that is the title of today's Rainbow Radio program; Professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary and Moderator of the 213th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Visit drjackrogers.com. Buy the book. | The Bible Tells Me So by the Rev. Candace Chellew, Rainbow Radio co-host and assistant pastor, Garden of Grace UCC |
See Dr. Rogers in person at USC's Gambrell Hall on Monday, October 2, at 7:30 p.m. |
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| Show 51 9/24/06 | Patricia Voelker, a Listener Like YOU! | The Rev. Patricia Voelker and Carole Stoneking, OLOC participants | Lesbians of a Certain Age by Patricia Voelker | ||
| Show 50 9/17/06 | S.C. Matching Grant Campaign | Wayne Besen and Mandy Carter (Wayne and Mandy are both LGBT activists. Mandy is a signer of the declaration; Wayne opposes it.) | Coming Out by Coya Artichoker, SCEC's co-field director of the Fairness for all Families Campaign | ||
| Show 49 9/10/06 | Garden of Grace United Church of Christ | Dr. David Thomson, bisexual fan of Rainbow Radio and professor of child development in New York state | Suitable: One Man’s Story by David Thomson |
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| Show 48 9/3/06 | Listeners Like YOU! | Five of our best commentaries about defeating S.C. Amendment #1 in November, featuring Candace Chellew, David Gillespie, Ed Madden, and Bert Easter. | Web-only Bonus: Four additional Best Of Amendment Commentaries by Mark McKinney, Blanchard "Radar" Williams, and Ed Madden. | ||
| Show 47 8/27/06 | Metropolitan Community Church of Our Redeemer of Augusta, GA | The Rev.Jeff Pullium, pastor, MCC of Our Redeemer of Augusta, GA | From Forfeits to Fellowship by Diana Davis, softball coach, MCC of Our Redeemer . (Commentary read by Lisa Hall, member, SCGLPM board and MCC, Augusta) |
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| Show 46 8/20/06 | The Harriet Hancock Community Center | Jim Baxter, founder/editor of The Front Page and Q-Notes contributor. | Just Desserts by Ed Madden, chair, SCEC; executive producer, Rainbow Radio | ||
| Show 45 8/13/06 | Norwest Properties | Warren Redman-Gress, executive director, Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA) | “Real Marriages and Unreal Families” or “Got To Be Real” by Ed Madden (Ed is president of SCEC and executive producer of Rainbow Radio. |
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| Show 44 8/6/06 | Panache Creative Styles | Barry Turner-Hunt (Barry and his partner Wendell Hunt were the first gay couple allowed to place their wedding announcement in The Rock Hill Herald. View Barry and Wendell's wedding pix! (Barry's the one in the kilt.) | A Matter of Civil Rights by Mark McKinney (Mark and his partner Steve Lepre are filmmakers and own Sunhead Projects, LLC in Charleston.) | ||
| Show 43 7/30/06 | Friends of the Nickelodeon Theatre | Jim Sears, southern educator, author, scholar, and lecturer. | At the Corner of Main and Dixie by David R. Gillespie, Greenville writer/activist, South Carolina Editor, Q-Notes | ||
| Show 42 7/23/06 | Kiki Merlot, PT's Cabaret, and the Ultimate Indoor Garden Party fundraiser | Robert-John Hinojosa, SCEC Field Director | Repeat: The Battle Joined by David R. Gillespie, Greenville writer/activist, South Carolina Editor, Q-Notes |
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| Show 41 7/16/06 | Listeners Like YOU! | Five of our best commentaries from Rainbow Radio's first 40 programs, featuring Harriet Hancock, Ed Madden, Becci Robbins, Stacy W. Smallwood/Exodus, and Linda Ketner. | |||
| Show 40 7/9/06 | Evin Evans (co-owner of Split Creek Farm and elder of North Anderson Presbyterian Church) Eddie Younglove (co-founder of Upstate Equality) |
Fear and Loathing in the Upstate by David R. Gillespie (Greenville writer/activist) Highway 101 by Bernard Dewley (queer performance poet from Greer) |
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(Rainbow Radio on location!) |
Show 39 7/2/06 | Freeman Foundation Rainbow Radio Matching Gift Grant | Audio recorded by Bill Easterling before and during the Pride Celebration in Martin Luther King Park on May 20, 2006. |
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(Rainbow Radio on location for the first time!) |
Show 38 6/25/06 | Norwest Properties | Bill Easterling and Jim Blanton interview Pride participants and spectators BEFORE and DURING the May 20, 2006, March. | none | |
| Show 37 6/18/06 | Listeners Like YOU! | Larry Candler and Dr. James R. (Ron) Quinn. (Larry, the father of three gay children, has served on the National Board of PFLAG and was a founder of SCEC; Ron is the father of Rainbow Radio guest, author, and former Columbia actor Eric Shaw Quinn) | Opening Up by Bruce Converse, Rainbow Radio co-host. |  |
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| Show 36 6/11/06 | OIA | News segment on the Family Discrimination Amendment, featuring the Rev. Tom Summers. Jermaine Nakia Lee and Robert-John Hinojosa (Jermaine is the founder and president of the Carolinas Black Pride Movement; Robert-John is Co-Director of SONG, and the president of Palmetto Umoja.) |
Rainbows by Stacy W. Smallwood (Exodus), poet and HIV/AIDS counselor |  |
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Show 35 6/4/06 |
Listeners Like YOU! | Kate Goodrich and Beth Chapman (Kate is president of SCGLPM; Beth is a former vice president of SCGLPM and the founder of the ColumbiaSCAreaNetwork group.) | Early Years in the 1950s by Carole Stoneking, massage therapist and volunteer GLBT activist. |  |
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| Show34 5/28/06 | OIA | Dottie Cronise, Richland County Sheriff's Department GLBT outreach liaison | Embracing Diversity in our Community by Sheriff Leon Lott, Richland County Sheriff's Department |  |
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| Show 33 5/21/06 | Panache Creative Styles | Asha Leong, SCEC campaign manager | The Battle Joined by David Gillespie, editor, OIA |  |
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| Show 32 5/14/06 | Carolina Family Pharmacy | Guest co-host Patti O'Furniture Life Partners Doak Wolfe and Gordon Smith and daughter Hillarie Smith (Doak is assistant organist at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral; Gordon is director of USC's Richard L. Walker Institute of International Studies; Hillarie is an elementary education student at USC Aiken.) |
Slipper Socks by Shaun Alexander, former attorney and history teacher in the North Carolina public school system |  |
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Show 31 5/7/06 |
SCGLPM and South Carolina Pride 2006 |
Members of the First SCGLPM Steering Committee, including Harriet Hancock, Steve Waites, Tony Price, Marky Deese, Matt Tischler, Nekki Shutt, and Jim Blanton |
Walking Down Main Street, Holding My Son's Hand by Harriet Hancock, Mother of Gay Pride in South Carolina, founder of PFLAG Columbia, and co-founder of SCGLPM |  |
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| Show 30 4/30/06 | SCGLPM and South Carolina Pride 2006 | Blanchard "Radar" Williams, SCGLPM treasurer | 1st S.C. Pride: A Psychic Made Me Do It! by Jim Blanton, Rainbow Radio producer and a co-founder of SCGLPM |  |
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Show 29 4/23/06 |
Trustus Theatre | Patrick Evans, president, The Center Project | Being Out/Being a Cop by Chris Stephens, board member, The Center Project |  |
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Show 28 4/16/06 |
Listeners Like You! | Shane Windmeyer, editor of the new book Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities. See also: campuspride.net,STOPHATE.org and gaygreek.org. | Belonging and Becoming: Student Life and Student Support by Richard Peralta, resident director of Greek Housing, Norris, Bradley, & Wannamaker Halls, Clemson University |
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| Show 27 4/9/06 | Schafer Clinic | Tammy Shealy and Bruce Fisher (Tammy is a straight mom; Bruce is her "mom," one of her two gay dads.) | Common Law Marriage and the Family Discrimination Amendment by Charlie Smith |  |
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| Show 26 4/2/06 | Panache Creative Styles | Steven Byrd, president, USC's BGLSA |
Time to Tell by Zachery Scott, past president, USC's Student Body |  |
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Show 25 |
Easter Books and Antiques | Brett Bursey, director, The S.C. Progressive Network | The Cost of Free Speech by Ed Madden, chair, SCEC, and columnist, The Free Times |  |
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| Show 24 3/19/06 | Co-host Bruce Converse | Wayne Besen, author, "Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth" | Never Changed, Merely Numb by Darlene Bogle, reformed ex-gay author of "Long Road to Love," and "Strangers in a Christian Land" |  |
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| Show 23 3/12/06 | Trustus Theatre | Cpl. Timothy Smith, USMC, retired, and speaker, Call to Duty Tour. (Other links mentioned: GLSME, A Resource for Those Who Serve, and Aaron Belkin's Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military.) | Will the Message Stick? by David Gillespie (editor, OIA) |  |
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| Show 22 3/5/06 | Co-host Bruce Converse | Larry Hembree, executive director, Nickelodeon Theatre | Are There Bigger Lessons to be Learned from "Brokeback Mountain?" by Linda Ketner (Q-Notes columnist and immediate past chair, S.C. Equality Coalition) |  |
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| Show 21 2/26/06 | Easter Books and Antiques | Guest co-host Mary Jeffcoat. Author and former Columbia, SC, resident Eric Shaw Quinn. (Eric is the author of "Say Uncle," which is set in Columbia, and the ghost writer for gay icon Pamela Anderson.) | Two poems ("Cabin Near Caesar’s Head" and "Rites") from the just published Signals by Ed Madden (Ed will also be reading from Signals at the 10th S.C. Book Festival, and is vice chair, South Carolina Equality Coalition, and past president, SCGLPM) |  |
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Show 20 2/19/06 |
South Carolina Gay + Lesbian Business Guild) | Bruce Converse & Michael VanDiver, interviewed by Candace. Candace & Wanda Chellew-Hodge, interviewed by Bruce. |
Putting All Families First by Candace Chellew-Hodge |
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| Show 19 2/12/06 | Teresa Williams and The Hubbard Group | Samiya Bashir (communications director, Freedom to Marry) and Ed Madden (vice chair, South Carolina Equality Coalition, and past president, SCGLPM) | Marriage Equality Week 2004: My Story by Blanchard "Radar" Williams (treasurer, SCGLPM) |  |
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| Show 18 2/5/06 | Midlands Pastoral Care Associates (803) 760-8475 |
Jay Biles and Jennifer Garner (co-chairs, HRC Carolinas Dinner honoring Ed Madden, Feb. 25, 2006) Pastor Andy Sidden, Rev. Patricia Voelker, and Holli Emore (pastor and members of Garden of Grace United Church) |
Seeing the Potential, Not the Limitations by Mike Hughes, music director, Garden of Grace United Church |  |
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| Show 17 1/29/06 | Listeners Like YOU! | Jo Crowder and Gypsey Elaine Teague (Jo lives in Columbia and works for the court system; she recommends the Women's Transsexual Resources Web site. Gypsey is branch head librarian at Gunnin Architecture Library at Clemson University. To learn more about her, visit The Claire Daniels Series Web site.) | Breaking the Barbie Habit by Brian Breitenstein, USC student |  |
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| Show 16 1/22/06 | Panache Creative Styles | Jo Crowder and Gypsey Elaine Teague (Jo lives in Columbia and works for the court system; she recommends the Women's Transsexual Resources Web site. Gypsey is branch head librarian at Gunnin Architecture Library at Clemson University. To learn more about her, visit The Claire Daniels Series Web site.) | A Journal of Transitions by The Rev. Wilhelmina Hein, pastor, Open Door Church of Charleston |  |
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| Show 15 1/15/06 |
The Hubbard Group | Alex Shoor, GLAAD Regional Media Manager, Southeast; e-mail: shoor@glaad.org. |
Fighting the Lies of the Anti-Gay Right by Alvin McEwen (SCGLPM board member; co-founder and secretary, UMOJA) |  |
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OIA (Out in Asheville) | Kiki Merlot, coordinator and star, SCGLPM benefit: Aiken Pride Tour Show (at Marlboro Station on Friday, Jan. 13, 11 p.m.) Lisa Hall and Ann Willbrand. (Lisa is chair, Central Savannah River Area Rainbow Alliance, and Ann is associate professor at USC Aiken and faculty co-advisor, USCA Unity Alliance.) | We’ve Come a Long Way in Six Years by Ann Willbrand and Signs of Change by Jeff Krohn (president, SRS Savannah River Site Gay and Lesbian or Bisexual Employees' Group and former SCGLPM board member) |
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| Show 13 1/1/06 |
CSRA Rainbow Alliance | Michael Drennan (executive director, South Carolina Equality Coalition) and Kate Goodrich (president, SCGLPM) | The Power of One by Bert Easter (board member and former chair, SCGLPM) |  |
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