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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

(OURview Special Edition): Response of the Overturn of Prop 8!

It was in 2010, when OURview would focus  on Prop 8. and the original Judge's ruling, now that decision is now recognized by the SCOTUS, Here is that Episode Recorded on 8/8/10. Sorry for the low quality, it was recorded on my Camera/Phone.

As Part of OURview's webseries on OUTview Online. MK scott chats with Jallen Rix (author of Ex-Gay No Way) and Ryan Burr (OUTview Online) about the overturn of Prop 8.



Thursday, January 31, 2013

(OUTVIEW @ 4) Coverage that led to Change!

Adams at City Hall (2009)                Scott
Going Back to OUTview's first year in 2009, we focused on issues that we cared about and one by one change was happening. Our first Podcast on January 31, 2009 happened a month earlier than planned and MK had to jump through hurdles to get this special completed. This was the week that Portland was going through a firestorm with the Scandal of Mayor Sam Adams and his relationship with former intern, Beau Breedlove. It was revealed that Adams had lied during his Mayoral Campaign in 2007 about his relationship with Breedlove. Many (Including Oregon's Gay Publication, 'Just Out') was calling for Adams to resign. One Man, Elliot Young, Professor at Portland’s Lewis and Clark College, was one of the first to start the ‘Support Sam’ campaign. Young spent several days being interviewed by the local media and graciously accepted the invitation to chat with OUTview. Adams didn't resign, and after 2 failed Recalls, left City Hall feet first in December 2012.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

(OUTview TV) FROM 2009 PODCAST: MK's Exclusive with Eric Alva and Nathaniel Frank on DADT Repeal!!



This Past week was the 1 year anniversary of the official ending of Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, so this week I wanted to focus on one of OUTview's crowning achievements with an EXCLUSIVE discussion on DADT from way back in 2009. This was my 3rd Podcast for Q-Radio but it truly launched the OURview Series.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

(OURview Special) DNC SPECIAL WRAP UP!

It was a Busy week on Facebook, especially during the Democratic National Convention. It was like everyone had an opinion. Here is a sample of some of the well-known Voices! 

Saturday, September 8, 2012

(OUTview TV) CLASSIC: MK's Chat w/ Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) about ENDA!

Frank (w/MK) in 2004
FROM MAY 2011: 

by MK Scott

This was not the first time meeting Barney Frank, I met him at a Convention  in 2004 and I had seen Congressman Mcdermott in passing at charity events. When I both saw them together at a campaign fundraiser in Seattle I sat down with both and we discussed ENDA. However, this was Before Frank had decided to retire from Congress. So who knows what the furture now holds for a TransGENDERED inclusion in ENDA. For the response from our Trans contributor, Lincoln Rose, click HERE. 

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

(OURview) MK gets reaction from Alva and Frank on the End of DADT!

by MK Scott
One of OUTview's first pod-casts in May 2009 was on the Repeal of Don't Ask-Don't Tell and my guests were Staff Sgt Eric Alva and Author, Nathaniel Frank. So it is fitting to get their reactions from Tuesday's Official end. 

Frank's book, 'Unfriendly Fire' was a Best seller and Many attribute to being an eye-opener to the big wigs that pushed for the Repeal.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

(2011 East Coast Tour) MK takes the Big Apple by Surprise!

by MK Scott

My East Coast Tour Started Saturday, August 20th with an extended visit to the Big Apple (New York City) and my tasks included RE-viewing 3 Broadway shows, INTER-viewing a Broadway Star, Discussing Marriage Equality with a panel of experts (for a Special Edition of OURview), and PRE-viewing the Gay Marriage boom that has hit NY, since Gay Marriage became Equal to Straight Marriage.  I spent a total of 5 nights in New York and worked from beginning to end. The finished coverage will last into Fall.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

(OURview) MK questions Barney Frank and Jim McDermott about ENDA!

Barney Frank (MA-D) made a rare appearance in Seattle on Tues, May 17th at a Fundraiser for the 'Unbeatable" Congressman, Jim McDermott (WA-D) and MK had ask if ENDA would include Trans Protections. The Follow up question was asked by Mike Andrew (Seattle Gay News).

Friday, February 18, 2011

OUTscene: (RE-view) Last Night's Benefit Screening was Awesome!

By Lincoln Rose
OURview Contributor

The benefit showing of the anti-bullying documentary over at the NW Film Forum went very well! There weren’t a lot of people there, but the ones who were seemed really energized and interested in what GLSEN had to say. The film iteself was really quite well-done, though I must admit there were an awfully lot of white people (yours truly included in that observation) in it as “the voices” of the problem of bullying. This is a long standing issue in the mainstream LGBT community, and something OUTview Online is still working on balancing out.


The film started at 7:15 instead of the 7pm start time advertised in order to give latecomers a chance to make it in without being disrespectful to folks who showed up on time. Dr. Jallen Rix was also there last night. He and I shared the screen for the last of the three part episode, where we discussed the role of gender policing in bullying and the function that religion plays in encouraging bullying in the larger culture. We had a lot of fun during the taping, hanging out at the event last night, and during the post show Q&A with the audience. They were really engaged, and asked excellent questions. One gay man asked for advice about better ways to stand up for trans people, based on a situation he’d been in recently where other gay men had been making fun of a trans person he’d been around at a party. Others shared stories of having been bullied, both in school and as adults, and an overall amazing conversation took place.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

OURview: BEST of 2010!

Our first Web-series, OURview started in April and the concept was to do this weekly, but it all kind of evolved into more from Topical round-table style to more documentary style. According to the views, the Documentary style worked despite the fact we went from weekly to occasional episodes based on the Issues and topic. The quality of the show was more important than quantity.

6) Special #1 The Overturn of Prop 8
Posted on 8/8/10
 1) The Overturning of Prop 8 and 2) our favorite OURview panalist, Jallen Rix was in town, promoting his book (Ex-Gay, No Way)! So we jumped to arrange this Special Edition of OURview along with OUTview cutie, Ryan Burr.

5) Episode #001
Posted on 4/4/10
We talk live about the Hot Topics of the Past week including Dan Choi vs. HRC, The Phelps Debacle, Ricky Martin and More! Joining M.K. on the panel this week (in Seattle) Journalist; Shaun Knittel, Activist; Lincoln Rose and (in San Francisco) Special Guest, noted Gay Sex Therapist, Dr. Jallen Rix!

4) Episode #003
Posted 4/27/10
Joining M.K. on the phone this week are Alley Hector from QPDX and Actor/Comedian, Alec Mapa ('Ugly Betty')with the latest on Constance McMillen, Huckabee's Rant, a Lesbian on the Supreme court(?), and Hollywood Dish

OurView on OutView April 17, 2010 PT. 1 from Stew Nelsen on Vimeo.
3) Episode #004
Posted on 5/10/10
We talk live about the Hot Topics of the Past week including Ex-Gay's Rentboy, Bi vs. Gay World Series, More Prom Drama! Also Dating and sex and the future of the promiscuous gay Man w/ Journalist; Ryan Burr and Seattle Personality; Adrian Ryan Plus (from New York) Special Guest; (Actor/Writer) Jesse Archer!





2) Episode #002
Posted on 4/13/10
Hot Topics more discussion on the 'Ex-Gay' issue, The FAKE Prom, Bisexuals, Hollywood Dish and More! Joining M.K. on the panel (from Seattle) Journalist; Shaun Knittel, noted Gay Sex Therapist, Dr. Jallen Rix and (from Los Angeles) Special Guest; Tony Tripoli!




1) Special #2: Bullying, Gender, and the Church
Posted on  11/28/10 (Part 1-Suicide),  12/5/10(Part 2-Surviving Bullying), 12/12/10 (Part 3-Gender and the Church)
A response to the wave of Bullying-induced Suicides,  OURview has stepped it up by putting together a variety of views together for a 3 part series on Bullying, Gender and the Church. In Part 1, Sirus/XM OutQ's Joseph Fenity brings in response and insight after attending Asher Brown's Memorial in Houston. Later in Part 2, Writer/Actor Jesse Archer on growing up Bullied in Suburban Oregon and how that creativity has helped him cope. Finally in Part 3, OURview brings back regulars, Lincoln Rose (Trans Activist) and Jallen Rix (author of 'Ex Gay, No Way") for a discussion on Gender and the Church on location at (where else?) a Church!

SPECIAL THANKS to OUR contributors in 2010:
Jallen Rix, (author of Ex Gay, No Way)

Tony Tripoli (Comedian/Host of 'The Dish")

Jesse Archer (Actor and writer)

Staff Sgt Eric Alva (DADT activist)

Alec Mapa (Actor/Comedian)

Joseph Fenity (OutQ-Texas)

Alley Hector (QPDX)


Shaun Knittel (Seattle Gay News)

Lincoln Rose (Trans Activist)


MK Scott (Moderator)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

OURview: Special Edition Bullying, Gender and the Church Part 3 of 3





By MK Scott

OURview Moderator

In response to the wave of Bullying-induced Suicides, OURview has stepped it up by putting together a variety of views together for a 3 part series on Bullying, Gender and the Church. In Part 1, Sirus/XM OutQ's Joseph Fenity brought in response and insight after attending Asher Brown's Memorial in Houston. In Part 2, Writer/Actor Jesse Archer  on growing up Bullied in Suburban Oregon and how that creativity has helped him cope. Finally this week in Part 3, OURview brings back regulars, (Pictured)Lincoln Rose (Trans Activist) and Jallen Rix (author of 'Ex Gay, No Way") for a discussion on Gender and the Church on location at (where else?) a Church.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

OURview: Special Edition Bullying, Gender and the Church Part 2 of 3

By MK Scott

OURview Moderator

In response to the wave of Bullying-induced Suicides, OURview has stepped it up by putting together a variety of views together for a 3 part series on Bullying, Gender and the Church. In Part 1, Sirus/XM OutQ's Joseph Fenity brought in response and insight after attending Asher Brown's Memorial in Houston. This week in Part 2, Writer/Actor Jesse Archer (Pictured) on growing up Bullied in Suburban Oregon and how that creativity has helped him cope. Finally in Part 3 (Next week), OURview brings back regulars, Lincoln Rose (Trans Activist) and Jallen Rix (author of 'Ex Gay, No Way") for a discussion on Gender and the Church on location at (where else?) a Church.

Special Thanks to Activist, Chip Arndt for sponsoring this Special Report!

The Goal is to raise money for the Trevor Project, so for a DVD copy of this report please make a contribution to the Trevor Project.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

OURview: Special Edition Bullying, Gender and the Church Part 1 of 3

By MK Scott
OURview Moderator

In response to the wave of Bullying-induced Suicides,  OURview has stepped it up by putting together a variety of views together for a 3 part series on Bullying, Gender and the Church. In Part 1, Sirus/XM OutQ's Joseph Fenity (pictured) brings in response and insight after attending Asher Brown's Memorial in Houston. Later in Part 2, Writer/Actor Jesse Archer on growing up Bullied in Suburban Oregon and how that creativity has helped him cope. Finally in Part 3, OURview brings back regulars, Lincoln Rose (Trans Activist) and Jallen Rix (author of 'Ex Gay, No Way") for a discussion on Gender and the Church on location at (where else?) a Church.

Special Thanks to Activist, Chip Arndt for sponsoring this Special Report!

The Goal is to raise money for the Trevor Project, so for a DVD copy of this report please make a contribution to the Trevor Project:

Thursday, October 21, 2010

OURview (at SLGFF): Bullied ( the film) leads to actual LIVE Testimonials!

By MK Scott
OURview Moderator/Producer

Last Night the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival hosted a free screening of "Bullied" . a docu-short that retold the story in re-enactments of  Jamie Nabozny. A young man that was Bullied all through school  in Ashland, WI (the Mid-90's)  and successfully filed a lawsuit and won against the Ashland School District. (About $900,000). After the screening.  the NW Network brought 3 survivors of Bullying, These are their stories:

Saturday, September 4, 2010

OURview: (From San Francisco) Michelangelo Signorile Show LIVE discussed Coming Out-20 yrs later!

Back in 2003, I took a tour of the Sirus OutQ studio, but hadn't seen a show done LIVE until now. If you caught Friday's Michelangelo Signorile Show you have heard some clinking and clanking coming from the fact we were eating lunch as the show went on.

The topic was a journalists should we OUT someone or as LGBT journalist, should we out a political figure?

There is one thing to learn from hearing gay reporters discuss outing someone in the press, it is that there is no industry-wide standard for when to report on someone's sexual orientation.


"There is a lot of inconsistency and a lot to talk about. Where is that consistency going to come from?" asked Michelangelo Signorile during a live broadcast Friday, September 3 of his eponymous satellite radio show on Sirius XM's OutQ channel. "I believe it will come from all of you and everybody else out there who is an openly gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender journalist in the newsroom as the people who set the standard and lead the way."

Signorile took part in the panel during NLGJA's first confab in 1992, which was also held in San Francisco. He recalled that back then two gay reporters, the late San Francisco Chronicle scribe Randy Shilts and Andrew Sullivan, editor of the New Republic at the time, both vehemently opposed outing public officials.

"The drama aside, it was the beginning of a very important discussion. Twenty years later people's positions have changed pretty amazingly," said Signorile.

Sullivan was one of the leading voices this year attacking the mainstream media for not investigating the rumors that Elena Kagan , Obama's second appointment to a seat on the United States Supreme Court, was a lesbian.

And the Chronicle's political columnists Phil Matier and Andrew Ross outed Judge Vaughn Walker, who oversaw the federal Proposition 8 lawsuit, based on it being "an open secret" and a phone call from a fellow jurist and friend of Walker's, who said the judge didn't mind if they reported his being gay. Yet Walker declined to comment himself when contacted by the duo.

Other news organizations then jumped on the story, with reporters for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio subsequently filing reports after Walker struck down California's same-sex marriage ban as being unconstitutional where they referred to the judge as being openly gay.

For NPR, in particular, it was a striking reversal of editorial policy considering the station refused to allow a movie reviewer to tell listeners the names of politicians who were outed in the documentary Outrage.

"News organizations grappled with how to report on those people in that film," noted Signorile. "Yet when Judge Vaughn Walker was reported on for being gay based on nothing but an open secret ... much of the media across the country picked up on it but months after it was reported, spurned on by anti-gay zealots after he ruled against Prop 8."

When Signorile asked his panelists if journalists have a responsibility to ask public figures if they are gay, he was met by varying responses. Mike Rogers, who has outed countless politicians and anti-gay religious figures on his http://www.blogactive.com website and was featured in the documentary, answered simply "Yes."

"Politicians don't get to decide what stories are written about them, as much as they would like to," said Rogers, who considers himself a citizen journalist. "Same in the LGBT community. It is actually homophobic to say we can't report on this angle of somebody's life, especially when he was the ringleader of the anti-gay campaign of 2004."

Rogers was referring to Ken Mehlman , the former Republican National Committee chairman and manager of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in 2004, which capitalized on anti-gay marriage amendments on the ballot that year in numerous states to draw conservative voters to the polls. At the time Rogers outed Mehlman as being a gay man, yet it wasn't until last month that Mehlman publicly came out and revealed he is raising money to help pay for the Prop 8 lawsuit.

LZ Granderson , a writer for ESPN and a commentator on CNN.com, however, disagreed that a person's sexual orientation is always germane to the story. He suggested perhaps the better way to phrase the question is to ask if someone is straight rather than gay. If the person then waffles about being heterosexual, that in itself becomes the news story, he said.

"I just for once would like to ask people if they are straight, especially in Congress or ruling on things impacting LGBT rights. By flipping the script maybe people will see how ridiculous it is, this hounding that a person's sexual orientation somehow impacts their decision-making process," said Granderson.

In the case of Walker, he said reporters should refrain from calling him gay until he has confirmed it himself.

"He did not say he was gay, so you can't report on him being gay," said Granderson.

While he agreed that in Mehlman's case it was a question that needed to be asked, Granderson said he also believes that reporting on someone's sexual orientation when they refuse to address it requires having more than "gossip and hearsay" as evidence.

"The important thing to always focus again on if the information you are reporting on is important to the overall story," said Granderson. "Take your own sexual orientation out of the equation and ask yourself does the public need to know ... Does the public need to know about a politician's sexual orientation as that politician is perhaps implementing laws that are antigay? Does it give you more insight and the public more insight behind motives of a person or possible conflict of interest?"

Michael Triplett, a member of NLGJA's national board who writes about media issues for the organization's RE:ACT To Your News blog as well as the website Mediaite, also believes journalists should ask the question if someone is LGBT. But he said it becomes trickier when the person denies, obfuscates, or refuses to answer the question.

"The denial part is a tough one. For reporters, especially in mainstream media, the question becomes how far do you push it once he has denied it? How many times do you ask again?" asked Triplett.

While NLGJA provides a stylebook for reporters covering LGBT issues, it does not have a policy about when it is appropriate to out someone.

The panelists did lay out some boundaries they would not cross in terms of reporting on a person's sexual orientation. In June Triplett criticized a reporter at Lavender magazine in Minnesota for going undercover at a Catholic group's meeting for gay men struggling to be chaste in order to out anti-gay Reverend Tom Brock.

Asked about the article last week and his critique of it, Triplett said he felt the reporter had overstepped by violating the 12-step-like program's confidentiality policy.

"The fact is the reporter violated that confidentiality," said Triplett during the panel. "Where does it end? I just don't think it was worth that level of effort and hurts journalists when they do something like that. If Mike Rogers wants to do that I would have less of a problem with it because Mike doesn't necessarily agree with the same rules of journalism that Lavender should be abiding by."

Rogers defended the methods used to report the Brock story.

"I think the ends justify the means. When you are proselytizing hate against my family, I get to expose you," he said.

There is one exception, though, said Rogers, and that is LGBT people serving in the military. Even those gay military members responsible for upholding the armed services' ban against openly gay and lesbian members, Rogers said he has decided not to out.

"I know a lot of out people in the military and I haven't outed them because of those complicated issues. We should give deference to our gay brothers in the military," said Rogers.

Granderson said he also sees no reason to out professional athletes he knows are gay if they do not want to be public.

"To me there are athletes who are out but not out in the press. They have partners and teammates who know," he said. "They are out without making a big announcement about it and I respect that."

He did offer one caveat.

"I have a rule with athletes I know are gay. I tell them 'Look dude. If you don't say dumb shit, I won't out you. I catch you saying dumb shit, I am going to tell people about your business,'" said Granderson.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

OURview Special Edition: Response of the Overturn of Prop 8!

Last week we had 2 bonuses, 1) The Overturning of Prop 8 and 2) our favorite OURview panalist, Jallen Rix was in town, promoting his book (Ex-Gay, No Way)! So we jumped to arrange this Special Edition of OURview along with OUTview cutie, Ryan Burr. MK Scott is heard but unseen holding the camera:


Monday, May 10, 2010

SERIES: OURview with M.K. Scott....Episode #004

For the week ending May 7, 2010:

A NATIONWIDE weekly chatfest of HOT topics effecting the GLBTQ community.

FROM SEATTLE: Journalist; Ryan Burr and Seattle Personality; Adrian Ryan Plus (from New York) Segment 1 of 2 with Special Guest; (Actor/Writer) Jesse Archer:



OURview Part 2 May 7, 2010 streaming on Vimeo.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: Preview of this week's 'OURview'!




This week we talk live about the Hot Topics of the Past week including Ex-Gay's Rentboy, Bi vs. Gay World Series, More Prom Drama! Also Dating and sex and the future of the promiscuous gay man and More!

Joining M.K. on the panel this week (from Seattle) Journalist; Ryan Burr and Seattle Personality; Adrian Ryan Plus (from New York) Segment 1 of 2 with Special Guest; (Actor/Writer) Jesse Archer

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

SERIES: OURview with M.K. Scott....Episode #003

For the week ending April 17, 2010:

A NATIONWIDE weekly chatfest of HOT topics effecting the GLBTQ community.


Joining M.K. on the phone this week are Alley Hector from QPDX and Actor/Comedian, Alec Mapa ('Ugly Betty')with the latest on Constance McMillen, Huckabee's Rant, a Lesbian on the Supreme court(?), Hollywood Dish and More!













Tuesday, April 20, 2010

SERIES: OUR view on OUT view with M.K. Scott....Episode #002

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For the week ending April 10, 2010:

A NATIONWIDE weekly chatfest of HOT topics effecting the GLBTQ community.

FROM SEATTLE: Shaun Knittel (Seattle Gay News), Dr. Jallen Rix (Author of 'Ex Gay, No Way"), and Special Guest; Tony Tripoli (Style TV's The Dish)



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