The following is scheduled:

9:00 pm
Opening, general discussion

9:06 pm
A round table discussion of area Texas House Representatives of the most recent Texas Legislator session, joining us tonight will be Texas State Representative Ellen Cohen, Kristi Thibaut, Jessica Farrar and Garnet Coleman.

9:50 pm
NewsWrap: Ireland's Government publishes a civil partnerships bill that falls short of marriage equality; Lithuania's president vetoes the recently-passed "no promo homo law"; Pride marches on in Mexico City, Tijuana and Jerusalem; U.S. President Obama schedules a Stonewall 40th anniversary reception at the White House as discontent continues over his failure to deliver on LGBT-related campaign promises; and a predominantly-queer New York City synagogue discovers that ugly homophobia can sometimes pay (written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY and FERGAL20O'DOHERTY, and reported this week by LEIGH MOORE and MICHELE PLEASANT)

10:00 pm
Music

10:05 pm
Roundtable disscussion of Pride Houston 2009.

10:40 pm
This Way Out: U.S. President Barack Obama remained under fire this week over his slow progress on fulfilling his queer-related campaign promises. In early June his Justice Department filed an offensively worded defense of the equality-denying Defense of Marriage Act – or DOMA – in a federal lawsuit. Obama has seemingly been in "damage control" ever since. His ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER did urge a Senate committee this week to advance the Matthew Shepard Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal hate crime laws. "Free Speech Radio News" reporter JES BURNS has comments by Holder, along with Alabama Republican Senator JEFF SESSIONS and New York Senate Democrat CHUCK SCHUMER (www.fsrn.org). Meanwhile, the Washington, D.C.-based CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS has issued a report called "ENDING 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL': PRACTICAL STEPS TO REPEAL THE BAN ON OPENLY GAY MEN AND WOMEN IN THE U.S. MILITARY" (www.americanprogress.org). One of its authors and a Senior Fellow at the Center, LAWRENCE J. KORB, served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, and is a longtime critic of the ban. He discussed their findings during a media teleconference on June 24th, from which we have excerpts (with brief intro/outro music from "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind" by THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL).

Piano ballads (excerpts from "Home" and "Over You" from SKOTT FREEDMAN's latest CD "THE COTTAGE SESSIONS"), pop punk ("Average Men" and "What's In It For Me" from PANSY DIVISION's "THAT'S SO GAY"), and gospel rock ("Gonna Be Alright" and "Stained Glass Window" from LEVI KREIS' "WHERE I BELONG") are featured in this month's "AUDIOFILE" (with comments by the artists, hosted by JD DOYLE & CHRIS WILSON, and written and produced with CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM) audiofile