On today’s show we’ll be discussing with Andy Humm of Gay USA an attack on free speech launched by Verizon, and other telephone and cable companies.

We’ll be hearing an excerpt from a public interview of Edmond White that was organized by the New York Public Library and hosted by Paul Holdengraber

Paula Ettlebrick of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission will tell us about an upcoming vigil at the Iranian Mission to the UN, to protest the execution of 2 gay men last year.

We’ll have an obituary of Denise Denton, a pioneer who championed the inclusion of women and people of color in the sciences. First we’ll start with the attack on free speech.