The Final Showdown! It’s me, and the (ghost of) Captain Rorschach, in a draggy face-off at CRI. She’s going down by her black bangs. (Edna E. Mode from The Incredibles is a drop-dead doppelganger for The Captain).

The CRI presenter wrote back:

I’m glad to receive your acceptance to our invitation!  And welcome home!

The email went on:

… I used to think that gay or lesbian tolerance is not a serious problem any more, but obviously some people are still not ready to accept this. A friend of mine talked to me on our topic the other day… She is with a college education majoring in English, but still with such little tolerance. How can we expect people with poor education out there be tolerant toward LGBT people? There’s a long way to go.

The show is a three-hander called “Today“, described as CRI’s “Flagship News Magazine”.

I’m going to be appearing on the hour-long panel with two other guests. Xian (I hope it’s the awesome gay-rights activist who runs Beijing’s La La Salons), and David Liu, Managing Director of global PR firm Weber Shandwick.

It’s live. So that should be fun when things heat up.
“Hello, James? James? We can’t hear you. We seem to have lost James’ phone line”.

Wish me luck.

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June 24, 2009 1:29 pm

Hannah Miller

Hi James –

This is Hannah Miller, one of the organizers of ShanghaiPRIDE who was on the same radio show with you last week – now that I’m back in the states I had a chance to listen to the show- Bravo with the “Don’t be so gay! Don’t be so gay!” response. It’s never easy to answer the “why do they have to put it in our faces” question, and you did a good job.

Can you tell me the best place to get a copy of your book? I’d love to read it now that PRIDE is over and I have a spare moment here and there.

Cheers-
Hannah