Phillip J. Reese is the producer as well as co-host of SameSexSunday, which is produced weekly for The Bilerico Project. SameSexSunday was launched in early 2010 as the web’s only weekly LGBT public affairs and politics round table discussion. LGBT leaders, strategists and movement icons from around America gather every Sunday to discuss litigation, litigation, policy and strategy.
By Phillip J. Reese (Champaign, Illinois) NOV 22 | In a growing climate of concern about the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT) community media, SameSexSunday is an engaging, smart and insightful public affairs round table now attracting 5000 iTunes subscriber hits a month. Modeled after the Sunday morning politics talk shows, SameSexSunday, offers a diverse, lively and topical discussion of the week’s event in the LGBT on a wide array of political, cultural and community topics.
Partnering with the Bilerico Project, the web's largest queer political group blog, Phil Reese and Joe Mirabella launched the show in Spring of 2010 to an audience eager for serious political discussion, covering strategy, politics, policy, legislation and litigation with some of the brightest minds and provocative personalities in the LGBT and ally community. By July, iTunes had already selected SameSexSunday as one of its “New and Noteworthy” podcast picks.
“Same Sex Sunday is one of the most thoughtful and relevant broadcast spaces on the Internet for discussion of LGBT issues,” says LGBT movement leader and media strategist, Cathy Renna. “Simply put, it is our community’s version of “Meet the Press”
Renna is a Managing Partner of the LGBT focused communications firm Renna Communications and longtime media activist and a guest on the new round table regularly, joining dozens of leaders, movers and shakers from the LGBT equality movement.
In its first 25 episodes, the panel has attracted the a wide array of political strategists and leaders from inside and outside of the LGBT equality movement; from Diego Sanchez, Steve Ralls, Rea Carey, Karl Frisch, Michael Crawford, Rick Jacobs and Chris Barron to Michael J Wilson, Jarrod Chlapowski, JD Smith, Meghan Stabler, Casey Pick and R. Clarke Cooper. Even California Senator Roy Ashburn joined the discussion this summer.
Regular SameSexSunday law expert and journalist, Chris Geidner, describes the show as;
“A great opportunity to hear the people who are reporting on and working toward LGBT equality every day talking about topics that matter to LGBT people. There is no other place to hear so many informed people talking about so many LGBT issues each weekend.”
“We want listeners to get an inside look at the latest news and issues facing the LGBT community, and what’s on the horizon for the LGBT movement,” says show co-host, Phil Reese, who records from Champaign, IL with panelists from the across the country. “We offer dynamic panels that take seriously both the right and left side of the political spectrum.”
Hundreds of listeners every week are discovering the most insightful LGBT public affairs show and clicking “subscribe.” Since June of 2010, the show has been downloaded nearly 20,000 times. With 1500 Facebook fans, it's no wonder SameSexSunday is growing so fast.
Bil Browning, the founder and Editor-In-Chief of the Bilerico Project, is very proud the program's success;
"While the conversation can get heated as panelists debate today's hottest LGBT issues, the quality of the program is consistently excellent. You can get a good idea of what's coming up in LGBT politics and issues by listening to the show. SameSexSunday's expert guests are the same people deciding the focus of advocacy and reporting for the queer community." Leaders know SameSexSunday doesn't just keep pace with the LGBT news cycle, but sets it. "This isn't your typical shout-fest of talking heads. This is intelligent conversation for the modern queer."
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