We were back from a little Independence Day break and ready to sweat out another summer edition of The Agenda with Joe Solmonese last night on XM Satellite Radio.

We kicked off the show with the news of the day and a little legislative update with the Human Rights Campaign’s own Lara Schwartz. She’s HRC’s legal director and chief legislative counsel and gave us the skinny on the hate crimes bill, surgeon general nominee and Office of Special Counsel hearings.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey made international headlines in 2004 when he announced that he is gay — making him the first (and so far only) openly gay U.S. governor. He was our guest to talk about life after coming out as well as the spiritual journey that is leading him to enter seminary in the fall.

We thought we’d give a nod to the season and what says summer more than lesbian surfers? The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender network Logo has a new series, Curl Girls, focusing on a group of women with a passion for surfing, and one of them — Michele Fleury — was our guest. Then we took on another summer pastime with Gordon Greisman — writer and executive producer of a new ESPN miniseries about baseball in New York. The Bronx is Burning premiered last night at 10 p.m. Eastern.

There’s always a healthy dose of politics on our Agenda so to get our fix last night, we welcomed back Mary Ann Akers who writes the wildly popular Washington Post blog The Sleuth. She gave us the political rundown from her insider’s perspective. Listen in.

Finally, a GLBT community hero left Congress last week and we thought it was a significant moment to sit down for a chat. Co-host Mary Breslauer brought us an interview she had with now former Rep. Marty Meehan who was the lead sponsor of the bill to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Listen to his congressional memories.

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