We had politics from the left and right, entertainment and some tips on securing your family’s financial future last night on The Agenda with Joe Solmonese.

We started out with HRC Legal Director Lara Schwartz who outlined a new project launched yesterday that seeks to remedy the financial inequities faced by same-sex couples. The “Family Matters” legislative agenda deals with tax equity, domestic partner benefits, family and medical leave and much more. Listen in.

We also hosted Joe Kapp, a financial planner and money columnist for The Advocate to talk about HRC’s “7 Days to a Better Financial You” campaign that is using this year’s tax season to encourage GLBT Americans to get their financial house in order. Listen in.

Then we turned to politics and went deep inside the Hillary Clinton campaign. Her national political and field director Guy Cecil was our guest in-studio to talk about the upcoming Pennsylvania primary, super-delegates and being a high-profile openly-gay member of a presidential campaign. Listen to parts one and two.

It’s not often we get to go deep inside a Republican campaign but last night we hosted Matthew Dowd who was the chief strategist for the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign before publicly splitting with the President. He had some great insights on social wedge issues as the political architect for President Bush in a year that saw numerous states pass anti-GLBT marriage amendments. Listen in.

Finally, we had an extended conversation with Brian Graden, president of entertainment for the MTV Networks Music Group and president of Logo. Recently named to Out magazine’s top 50 most powerful GLBT people, he oversees everything to do with MTV, VH1, MTV2 and CMT as well as the GLBT channel Logo. Graden shared his insights on television, GLBT characters in the media and much more. Listen in parts one and two.

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