Fox Radio Cancels Show Over LGBT Content And The Host Comes Out

Out there in Reno, a Fox Radio affiliate has cancelled a public affairs program because Sean Savoy, the show’s host, had conducted an interview LGBT advocate Will Kolb.

Eddie Floyd, who produces the “House of Savoy” program hosted by ordained minister Sean Savoy, says that KKFT-FM station manager, Jerry Evans, told him the show was cancelled and cited the Kolb interview as his primary reason for doing so.

Savoy's interview with Kolb touched on a variety of different topics related to the LGBT community, from marriage equality to the recent dust-up over the remarks of Chick-fil-A-hole owner Dan Cathy. Savoy says he is “shocked” to be “silenced in this manner, especially when there has been no prior complaint of the show’s content.”

Sean Savoy:

“I have always appreciated the variety of viewpoints expressed on my program. To think I could be removed for having a conversation about the LGBT community in America baffles me. I have conducted a variety of interviews with a wide range of people over the past year, and yet this was the topic that got my show cancelled. Mr. Evans and his company certainly have the right to control their opinion, [but] censoring any message that benefits the LGBT community is wrong and detracts from basic human rights. It means that he is gate keeping and not allowing the public to make their own informed decisions.”

Stunned by the cancellation of his program, for obviously anti-LGBT reasons, Sean Savoy has decided, after considerable “soul searching,” as well as intense discussions with his inner circle, including his family and his partner, to come out as a gay man. He said he has chosen to live a much more fulfilling life that wasn’t based on deception and was true to his sexual orientation.

Savoy has been beaten up by a lot of people in the LGBT community for coming out only on the heels of his show being cancelled--some suggest his coming out is motivated by a need for support to get a new show on the air--but, really, in this day and age should we be questioning the why and how and when of people coming out, or should we be saying Welcome?

I, for one, though I wished we lived in a world where the Sean Savoys didn't feel a need to be closeted, prefer now to live in the world of Welcome Out.

Welcome out, Sean. Your copy of The Gay Agenda and the obligatory Toaster Oven should be winging their way towards you from Homo HQ.

Welcome out.

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Radio Asshats

I used to live in Sacramento. It was a nice place to live. I used to listen to KRXQ, one of the local radio stations. Imagine my surprise to learn that several on-air personalities recently took to the airwaves to discuss transgender children, and what should be done to them. This idiocy went on for quite some time, but here are the choice bits of bigotry, stupidity, and general asshattedness:

• ROB WILLIAMS [11:12]: This is a weird person who is demanding attention. And when it’s a child, all it takes is a hug, maybe some tough love or anything in between. When your little boy said, ‘Mommy, I want to walk around in a dress.’ You tell them no cause that’s not what boys do. But that’s not what we’re doing in this culture.
• ARNIE STATES [13:27]: If my son, God forbid, if my son put on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes. I would throw a shoe at him. Because you know what? Boys don’t wear high heels. And in my house, they definitely don’t wear high heels.
• ROB WILLIAMS [17:45]: Dawn, they are freaks. They are abnormal. Not because they’re girls trapped in boys bodies but because they have a mental disorder that needs to be somehow gotten out of them. That’s where therapy could help them.
• ROB WILLIAMS [18:15]: Or because they were molested. You know a lot of times these transgenders were molested. And you need to work with them on that. The point is you don’t allow the behavior. You cure the cause!
• ARNIE STATES [21:30]: You got a boy saying, ‘I wanna wear dresses.’ I’m going to look at him and go, ‘You know what? You’re a little idiot! You little dumbass! Look, you are a boy! Boys don’t wear dresses.’
• ARNIE STATES [29:22]: You know, my favorite part about hearing these stories about the kids in high school, who the entire high school caters around, lets the boy wear the dress. I look forward to when they go out into society and society beats them down. And they end up in therapy.

I first read about this trash on the GLAAD website. GLAAD demanded an apology and, at first, calls and emails to the station went unanswered.
I'm all for free speech, even when it's stupid, but in this day and age, when so many children being bullied, do we need a radio station, and their so-called 'talent' urging the beating of anyone? I don't think so.
Many advertisers are pulling their money out of KRXQ; companies like Snapple, Sonic, and Chipotle. Sonic released this statement:
Sonic wants to assure you that the views of this station are in no way related to the views of Sonic. Sonic was alerted to the May 28th segment only yesterday and immediately began researching the segment, show and Sonic’s planned advertising on the station. SONIC in no way condones violence toward children and does not wish to be associated with media content that condones or promotes such activity in any way. We have decided to immediately withdraw advertising from this station and have notified the station of our decision.

Gotta go now. I'm off to Sonic for a Foot-Long Coney and Tots. And to say 'Thanks.'