WEDNESDAY WITH WIT

Originally started during Summer 2013 with Thomas Witt, executive director, Equality Kansas the largest premier statewide organization for the LGBT communities.

Program Summary: 17 Dec 2014

Segment Summaries:  1st Hour - “This Way Out” the international gay and lesbian radio magazine. (30 min.) Fun with the Eagle, the hummer and the "Last Comic Standing"; three new books explore three disparate parts of the LGBT world; dozens of naked men are humiliated at a Cairo gay bathhouse crackdown, thousands protest E.U. sanctions over Gambia's anti-LGBT laws, English and Welsh "partners" finally get married, Seoul's mayor bows to human rights pressure, and the I.O.C. bans bias against the L-G-B but not the T.

Then Amanda Marcotte’s outstanding “RH Reality Check” from the vital news web site RH Reality Check. "On this episode of Reality Cast, Kat Stoeffel tells a story that shows how hard it still is for people to deal with sexual assault appropriately. In another segment, I discuss how the UVA story is causing the mainstream right to become a bunch of rape truthers, and parents in Northern California throw a fit over sex education."

2nd Hour: Naomi Fowler's Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network and TacklingTaxHavens: In the December 2014 Taxcast: how mafia is corrupting democracy at the heart of Europe in Italy's capital city of Rome. Also: the #LuxLeaks whistleblower is arrested and much, much more. (30 mn.)