We covered a lot of ground on last night’s The Agenda with Joe Solmonese – unfortunately though, without Joe Solmonese. Joe was speaking at an event at the Kennedy School at Harvard so producer Michael Cole filled in as the guest host.

So w started out as we have been for the past few weeks with a look at the Employment Non-Discrimination Act – ENDA. HRC’s political director Allison Herwitt was our guest to fill us in on the vote expected this week and attempts to amend the bill to include protections on the basis of gender identity.

Then we went much lighter with pop star Lance Bass. His new book, Out of Sync, hits bookstores today and he joined us to talk about coming out, his attempts to become an astronaut and how his dating life is going. Listen in.

We looked to the theater next with the playwrights of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. Kate Ryan and Linda Chapman wrote the play currently running in New York based on a series of lesbian pulp fiction novels from the 1950s. They joined us from our New York studios to talk about lesbian life fifty years ago and how they adapted the novels for the stage. Listen to parts one and two.

This past weekend, hundreds of conservative activists from around the country gathered in Washington for the annual Values Voter Summit sponsored by the notoriously anti-gay Family Research Council. All of the Republican presidential candidates were on hand and a straw poll showed Gov. Mitt Romney slightly edging out Gov. Mike Huckabee. Blogger Jeremy Hooper of GoodAsYou.org covered the event all weekend and he was our guest to give us the inside scoop. Listen in.

Then we took a slight departure from our usual GLBT beat with Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. He helped us sort through some of the environment’s most pressing issues and offered some insights on the similarities and differences between the environmental and GLBT movements. Listen in.

Finally, we wrapped up on politics with James Pindell of the Boston Globe. He’s a learned observer of politics and spends most of his time on the ground in New Hampshire. James gave us the lay of the land among both the Republicans and Democrats and discussed who has the best organization and well as momentum in the Granite State.

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