LGBTQ news and entertainment
It may not surprise you to hear that in Palm Springs, California, there’s an actual terrestrial radio station geared towards LGBTQ listeners and their allies with gay hosts broadcasting live. Call letters – KGAY. Continue reading “Palm Springs Radio Station KGAY Geared Toward…You Guessed It”
Yesterday I posted about a radio morning show team in Rochester, New York, that went on a 12 minute transphobic rant after reading the news that the city would begin to offer healthcare benefits to transgender people.
The comments between the two radio personalities were extremely vicious and ill-informed. The hosts have now been fired:
“This morning Entercom fired Kimberly and Beck effective immediately,” Entercom Rochester vice president and general manager Sue Munn said in a prepared statement.
“Their hateful comments against the transgender community do not represent our station or our company. We deeply apologize to the transgender community, the community of Rochester, and anyone else who was offended by their comments.
“We are proud of our past work on behalf of the local LGBT community and we remain committed to that partnership.”
You can listen to the radio hosts comments below:
The host of Artimis Radio U93 Radio based in South Bend, Indiana had no idea that playing Macklemore’s “Same Love” would cause such a fuss, but one listener named “Craig” completely flipped out, calling the station time after time after time to rant about the station promoting their “homosexuals and gay tendencies” after Craig’s own son had him listen to the song.
The host decided to record the conversation between the both of them.
It turns out – surprise – that Craig is a devout “God-fearing man” who says that “Jesus hates gays” and seems to have missed the fact that his son might be trying to tell him something. When the host points out that America is the land of the free, Craig responds that he needs to be free of gays. After Craig rants repeatedly about how he’ll never listen to the station ever again, the DJ tells him,
Please, please, please promise me that you’ll never listen to this station again, and that you’ll never call in again because, honestly, I could probably talk to the GM and owner here and they probably don’t want you to listen to the station ever again.
Watch the interaction below. Good for the radio host for handling it all so well.
(h/t Buzzfeed)