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Article: The host with the most: with his hit public radio show, This American Life, Ira Glass puts gay and lesbian stories and storyteller front and center.
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2002
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I still get an occasional E-mail from a listener who is mad at me for being in the closet," says Ira Glass. It doesn't seem to matter that Glass, the executive producer and host of Public Radio International's immensely popular This American Life, is heterosexual. Or that he has spoken on the air about his girlfriend. Ever since the show began, many listeners have assumed he is gay.
Maybe that's because he's done so much to advance gay visibility. When Glass enlisted best-selling author David Sedaris in 1995, This American Life became one of the first nationally broadcast radio programs to regularly feature an openly gay commentator. Since then several other ...