Gay Radio and the Easter Egg Hunt

How Easter eggs are made

Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents and their children will attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll this weekend. Marking a first for the 130-year-old Easter egg hunt on the South Lawn, the gay families will be among 16,000 others who will attend the free event, as a form of “positive” protest.
Among the Easter Bunny, Sesame Street characters, music and 14,200 painted eggs, the gay families say that they will wear rainbow-hued floral bands around their necks to identify themselves. Tickets are handed out on a first-come, first-served basis.
“For crying out loud — at the Easter Egg Roll? This is a family event,” Andrea Lafferty, the executive director of Traditional Values Coalition, told The New York Times. She said that it was “very distasteful” to politicise the event and to use children to do so.



Toronto, Ontario Canada's broadcast regulator, the CRTC, has awarded an FM license for a Toronto gay radio station.

Although satellite network Sirius already has an LGBT station called Sirius Q and there are a number of internet-based gay station, the Toronto station is believed to be the first conventional station serving the gay community anywhere in North America.

The license was granted to Rainbow Media and is one of a number of new low-wattage stations being created in Canada. With only 50-wats of power the station will be available only in downtown Toronto.

Rainbow Media is owned by Evanov Radio Group, which owns mainstream stations in several Canadian cities, and businessman George Marchi.

Company spokesperson Camela Laurignano said the station will be up and winning within 12 months. It also will stream its broadcast over the Internet.