This week for our last quarter hour, our guest is travel writer Michael Luongo, who spent a month investigating gay life in Iraq and lived to tell the tale. He wrote about his experiences in the Gay City News and you can read them online hear.

And you can read about more of Michael's worldwide travels at MichaelLuongo.com including his book on gay life in the Muslim world and a new one on travel in Argentina.

We will also bring you audio from the Republican You Tube debate on CNN where the candidates outdid each other in opposition to LGBT rights--right in from of Anderson Cooper. And we'll play an excerpt from ABC's 20/20 piece on the 15-year old French boy who was raped in Dubai and almost charged with the crime of homosexuality himself. We mourn the death of Jane Rule. And Andy will review two new Broadway shows, "The Farnsworth Invention" and "August: Osage County."

After we taped this week, we learned of the death of our dear friend and a fierce activist, Bob Kohler, an original Stonewaller who spent his entire life working for LGBT rights, civil rights for all, and the rights and dignity of people with AIDS. He was 81 and we will talk more about him next week.

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