Yesterday may have been Memorial Day but we cranked out a whole new show for you on The Agenda with Joe Solmonese.

We started out with a nod to our veterans with former Marine 1st Lieutenant Antonio Agnone. He finished his service last month and now having come out as gay, is embarking on a tour across the country to help change the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that keeps brave men and women from serving their country as he did. Hear his story.

Then we turned our attention to New York, where two issues are bringing the marriage debate front and center. First, a recent Massachusetts court ruling certified as valid the marriages of New Yorkers who wed in the Bay State. We talked to Amy Zimmerman, a mother of four, along with her partner, who was a plaintiff in the case that made it happen. We also talked to state Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell, an openly gay legislator and sponsor of a marriage equality bill endorsed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Pride month is also just on the horizon so we checked in with Joe Jervis, the project director for Pride magazine, who also writes the popular blog Joe. My. God. and contributed to the book From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up. He had a lot to say about his hometown pride — New York — and some lesser-known gems. Listen to the segment.

Since Memorial Day is also the summer kick-off, we talked to two people who know a lot about summer entertaining. Brian Rafanelli made an encore appearance on The Agenda to share some of his best tips as a party planner to the stars. And then we got some great grilling advice from Kim Severson, the New York Times food critic. Listen to Severson here.

Finally, with the television season wrapping up and fall schedules being announced, we had to bring back Damian Holbrook to help us sort it all out. He’s a TV Guide columnist and always has his finger on the pulse of the tube.

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You may have missed The Agenda with Joe Solmonese last night due to a XM system-wide signal problem. It was definitely a show you wouldn’t want to miss, so we’re posting the entire show here online. Click the links below to listen to each segment individually, or right-click on the link to save the file to your computer.

• Segment 1: Show intro with Joe Solmonese and Mary Breslauer
• Segment 2: Speech by Yolanda King at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2000 Detroit gala dinner
• Segment 3: Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report senior editor, on Jerry Falwell’s death and the rise of the Christian right
• Segment 4: Dan Gilgoff, continued
• Segment 5: Martha Coakley, Massachusetts attorney general, on the constitutional amendment to ban marriage in Massachusetts
• Segment 6: Dave White, Advocate.com, on American Idol season six
• Segment 7: Margaret Cho on the True Colors Tour with Cyndi Lauper
• Segment 8: Rick Klein, ABC News senior political reporter, on the presidential horse race and congressional news
• Segment 9: Joe Solmonese and Mary Breslauer wrap up the show and preview next week

Here’s a rundown of the show… Leading off, we heard Yolanda King in her own words at the 2000 HRC Detroit gala dinner. Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died suddenly last week.

Then we took a look at the life of the late Jerry Falwell, who also died last week, through the eyes of U.S. News & World Report Senior Editor Dan Gilgoff. Gilgoff has a new book out, The Jesus Machine, which looks at the so-called Christian right and their efforts to win the “culture war.”

Sticking with politics, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley was our guest. She recently made headlines by arguing that even if the commonwealth’s Legislature puts an amendment to ban marriage rights up to a popular vote, it may be deemed unconstitutional.

Going a little lighter, I’m a hardcore American Idol fan so I insisted that we take a look at this week’s season finale. I talked to Dave White who writes the ever-popular “American Idol” recap for Advocate.com.

We were also thrilled to welcome Margaret Cho to the show last night. She is the master of ceremonies for Cyndi Lauper’s upcoming True Colors Tour so she talked about that project as well as some of her other irons in the fire.

Finally, we circled back to politics with Rick Klein, of ABC News. He’s their senior political reporter and writes the beltway must-read, The Note. Klein filled us in on the presidential horserace and legislative happenings in Washington in a fascinating and insightful conversation.

Last night on The Agenda with Joe Solmonese we took some time to look back, given an important anniversary in our movement this week.  May 17th marks three years of marriage equality in Massachusetts and we had the authors of a new book — “Courting Equality”— that chronicles the struggle.  Authors Patricia Gozemba & Karen Kahn were our guests.  Then I presented a package that shared some personal reflections of the day with clips I gathered up in the Bay State three years ago.

Turning to some other news, we were joined by Jason Knight who was discharged from the military two years ago for being gay. Interestingly, he was called back into service recently, but now that he’s gone public with his story, the Navy has fired him again.  Hear his story in his own words.

Transgender advocates are taking a strong message to Washington today by bringing in transgender people from around the country to lobby their Members of Congress.  Donna Rose, who sits on HRC’s Board of Directors, joined us to talk about the grassroots lobbying sponsored by the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Then we thought it was high time we checked in with our favorite TV expert — Gail Shister.  She writes a TV column for the Philadelphia Inquirer and chatted with Joe and Mary about the recent Ellen coming out anniversary, what’s the future for Rosie and how GLBT themed shows fared this season.

Then we had an extended conversation I’ve been calling e-GLBT.  We hosted John Aravosis of the widely popular AmericaBlog.com and Sarah Warn who founded AfterEllen.com and works as the director of online editorial for the GLBT network Logo.  With them we looked at online GLBT communities from every angle — how they started, how they evolved, where they are today, and how they influence our politics.  Listen to the fascinating conversation in parts one and two.