Host: Katherine Linton.  Featured guests: Shelly Meyers, Martin Atkin, John Cameron Mitchell, Holly Near, Stormé DeLarverie, Kate Clinton, Billy Bean, Jewelle Gomez.

Summary: The first segment looks at Walter Schubert's Gay Financial Network (gfn.com) list of 25 power players, featuring interviews with Shelly Meyers and Martin Atkin. The next segment features John Cameron Mitchell discussing the film, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The In the News segment covers the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Felipa Awards in New York and the ONE Institute and Archives in Los Angeles. The next segment focuses on gays in foreign armed services. The In the Arts segment covers Jewish Women Roar! event put on by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, as well as the Astraea XXIII benefit with Holly Near. The episode features a rebroadcast of a segment about hepatitis from episode 905, and also spotlights Stonewall veteran Stormé DeLarverie. Kate Clinton and Billy Bean provide PSAs during this episode, and Jewelle Gomez provides the celebrity ID.

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53:30 - 54:04: Hedwig and The Angry Inch, "Wig in a Box."

Host: Katherine Linton.  Featured guests: Shelly Meyers, Martin Atkin, John Cameron Mitchell, Holly Near, Stormé DeLarverie, Kate Clinton, Billy Bean, Jewelle Gomez.

Summary: This episode is a rebroadcast of episode 1010, originally broadcast July 2001. The episode covers such topics as LGBT business professionals, gays in foreign armed services, hepatitis, Stonewall and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

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53:30 - 54:04: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, "Wig in a Box."

Host: André DeShields.  Featured guests: George Ratliff, Klaus Wowereit, Harvey Fierstein, Christian de la Huerta, Lesley Gore, Bill Thomas, Judith Light, Keith Boykin, Jason Stuart, Patricia Clarkson.

Summary: The first episode of season 12 begins with a segment on the fifth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death and the rise of hate crimes, with an emphasis on Sakia Gunn. The Real to Reel segment is about George Ratliff's documentary, Hell House. The next segment examines religion in the classroom and an Arkansas public school administration's treatment of a gay student. Another segment focuses on the political evolution of Germany and Klaus Wowereit, the openly gay mayor of Berlin. Next, four lesbian Muslims discuss their experiences with gender, religion and sexuality. Harvey Fierstein's Out Takes segment is titled "3 Questions." Christian de la Huerta, Lesley Gore, Bill Thomas, Judith Light, Keith Boykin and Jason Stuart provide historical PSAs throughout the episode, and Patricia Clarkson provides the celebrity ID.

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3:10 - 3:39: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Find the Cost of Freedom"
52:21 - 54:31: Joe Jackson, "Real Men"

Host: Staceyann Chin.  Featured guests: George Ratliff, Emil Wilbekin, Harvey Fierstein, Maple Flagg, Judy Shepard, Bill Thomas, Jade Estrada.

Summary: This episode is a reversion featuring segments from previous episodes as well as new segments. Excerpts from episodes 1109, 1209, 1301, 1305 and 1306 explore LGBT harassment in high school, religion in the classroom, George Ratliff's Hell House, the Host Home organization in Minnesota, VIBE Magazine, and a push for a gay youth center in Newark, New Jersey. Harvey Fierstein's Out Takes segment is titled "Freedom Of and From." The Lisa/Gill Foundation, Maple Flagg, Judy Shepard, Bill Thomas and Jade Estrada provide PSAs during the episode.