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I cannot believe this happened to Tom. This guy is great,  he has great personality and so much to give to Blog Talk Radio.

BTW the only reason blowstein repsonded to Tom at GayTalk Radio was because he wants the publicity that is all he is in it for.

You Blowstein, your just plain idiot, why in the fuck would I care if my poorly written statement of account bother you.

We all know what is going, you are getting free premium service that you have not earned, I bet you have not earned a single thing in your life; everything given to you by crying and whinning your way up to the top of shit, of fucking well.

I earned for what I have and will continue to earn and work hard for things I do and will do in the future. So sit back and watch me I will continue not to ignore you and keep talking crap about you, I promise!

Just wanted to let you know that I write what I feel and everyone gets what I write, you seem to be the only that does not understand what I or choose not to understand who gives a fuck.

In November of 2008 I discovered BlogTalkRadio. There was a man on there saying he had snorted cocaine and performed fellatio on Obama. Naturally I had to go listen!

At the time I thought BlogTalkRadio would be a good platform for getting the word out regarding LGBTQIA news, events and discrimination. Little did I realize, discrimination against our community was and still is rampant on BlogTalkRadio. Primarily from the management of BlogTalkRadio, not the listeners.

I also didn’t realize the BlogTalkRadio has constant technical problems and issues.

Over a period of time I have learned that BlogTalkRadio operates under a double standard. One set of rules for the “good ole boys” and another for everyone else.

I remember the time a show titled “Gay Life Coach” was featured on BlogTalkRadio. I was shocked but when I listened to the featured show I was more shocked to find out they dropped the word Gay and referred to the show as “Life Coach”. The Gay part was never mentioned on the feature show.

The person who had that show eventually changed the name of their show. They sold out and in my mind, sold out our community. Since he is a member of our community, he should be very ashamed of himself!

I refuse to insult my LGBTQIA brothers and sisters by changing the name of the show in order to obtain fair treatment. I’ll shut down the show before I end up changing the name to appease others.

There was another issue on the BlogTalkRadio platform where a transwoman was literally embarrassed and insulted by a well known/long time host (Dr. Blogstien) on BlogTalkRadio. Dr. Blogstien’s friendship with the CEO of BlogTalkRadio was also brought up at that time. Needless to say, the transwoman was fighting a losing battle.

Also of interest in that story. The transwoman and her friends had a show on BlogTalkRadio for several months prior to the incident. However, she and her friends never felt a need to come say hello to the other LGBTQIA related shows. However, when she got into the hassle with Dr. Blogstien, all of a sudden, she wanted to be friends with us all. Of course, she also wanted us all to rally in her support! Most of us did rally in her support. But in the end, we didn’t care much for her tactics.

I then heard a story about a show who requested to be featured but was denied because they had the words GAY and SEX as keywords in their show. They were informed to remove those two words in order to be featured.

I left BlogTalkRadio in hopes of finding “greener pastures”.

I found NowLive and started shows over there. Their service was different and seemed to have lots of “unfinished features”. However they shortly went “pay only” without even so much as an email notice. Due to their rudeness I didn’t even consider becoming a pay member.

I then moved the show to TalkShoe. TalkShoe had constant chat room problems and more than it’s fair share of bashers. But suddenly I started to experience problems with no audio. Some of my listeners suspect the TalkShoe management/personnel were sabotaging the show.

In the meantime BlogTalkRadio started to offer premium memberships. I might add, the memberhip was cheaper than NowLive.

Some of my listeners had been asking me to return to BlogTalkRadio and I thought, in my ignorance, that since they were going pay they would offer paying members equal treatment.

So I returned to BlogTalkRadio and the first thing I did was email them asking a couple questions about their new pay service.

One of the features they offered with the pay service was “widget impressions” of your show on the BlogTalkRadio site.

According to the documentation on the BlogTalkRadio site when you signed up for the $40 a month membership you received 2500 “widget impressions” on their site. No restrictions or limitations are mentioned. But I knew better.

I asked them in my message, since my show is called GayTalkRadio (and I know your company has had issues with that word), would I receive the 2500 “widget impressions”.

As expected I received a response stating I would not receive the 2500 “widget impressions” because BlogTalkRadio wants to stay “kid safe” and “work safe”.

Of course I immediately went to Dr. Blogstein’s show which has widget impressions on BlogTalkRadio and the first thing I heard him talking about was David Carradine’s erotic asphyxiation!

Once again, the double standard rears its head on BlogTalkRadio.

The “good ole boy” Dr. Blogstein can talk about erotic asphyxiation and that’s considered “kid safe” and “work safe” but if I talk about DADT, Gay Pride, PROP 8 and a multitude of other LGBTQIA related issues that isn’t “kid safe”.

It’s obvious the folks that run BlogTalkRadio are bigots!

And that’s the bottom line!
Once again I am in search of a platform that treats all hosts fairly, without bias, has few technical issues and doesn’t cost me much.

For now, the show is in limbo.

All the best to you and yours.

-tom

www.GayTalkRadio.org