"When history loses urgency, people tend to live at the expense of the future...
despite their better judgement."  
William Strauss, Neil Howe - Generations, the History of America's Future

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is the only program on radio today that offers 
perspectives on our world through the eyes of three different generations. It features
provactive guests and timely topics and airs every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. on KUAR,
FM 89.1, in Little Rock. The show is produced by Phil Mariage.

In documenting the various generations, Mariage feels it's especially important to capture and compare the opinions of the older, middle and younger generations so their stories can live on well into the future. Guests on the show have included former senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, the late historian John Hope Franklin, George McGovern,Marian McPartland of National Public Radio's Piano Jazz,  former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice John Stroud, and the late Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, an influential writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist. Topics have included parenting, advertising, obesity, war, the Middle East, and addiction. 

Our program was featured on Public Radio Exchange (PRX) at http://podcast.prx.org/showcase/?p=120 .


Click here to see the ARCHIVE  list of past show topics and guests.

Here are direct links to some of our favorite programs presented over the first ten years on the air:


 
                                                             Our next topic:

                                                                 8-24-10
                                                                

                                                           Still In the Closet

 

It's one thing to be able to discuss being OUT of the closet...but quite another to find those willing to discuss still being IN the closet. This week we bring to you a very personal position that many men and women find themselves struggling through. We often here from younger people about their sojourn from the closet into the regular world, but we seldom hear from those older folks who have endured many decades hiding their sexuality. Check our focus questions below and send your comments to yttkuar@gmail.com  and be sure to join us Tuesday, August 24th at 7 pm Central for this very timely discussion between the generations.

 

Older Generation:

 

1.     What is it like to feel like you have to keep such personal feelings of your own sexuality hidden from even the closest of friends and family...for so many decades?

2.     When did you discover your sexual preference was not one you could share in the open society?

3.     When you were young, what was the social standard for sexual identity and what measures were in place within society to hinder your free expression?

4.     As you aged through your middle years, were there times when you thought about coming out of the closet? If so, why did you choose to remain in the closet?

5.     When did you notice a change in the attitudes within society that may have allowed others to come out?

6.     What are the regrets you may have about staying in the closet even to this day?

7.     How would your life have been different if you had come out earlier?

8.     Do you know many in your generation who are in the closet...or is it few?

 

 

Middle Generation:

 

1.     Your generation was just growing up as the sexual revolution was in full swing and coming out was beginning to become acceptable...why did you stay in?

2.     What social pressures have you faced through your life that keep you in the closet?

3.     What part does family and peer pressure play in your choice to remain in the closet...despite a more open society?

4.     Don't Ask, Don't Tell has become a very controversial issue for your generations military forces...how has this issue played into choosing to remain in the closet, both for those in and out of the military?

5.     Your generation is also right in the middle of raising your children...does your generation have a feeling yet about how to present this issue in discussion form to your children?

6.     As you observe both older and younger people choosing to come out of the closet...is this giving you more confidence to come out or more pressure to stay in?

7.     What is the best reason you have for staying in the closet...and what is the flimsiest reason for staying in?

8.     Do you expect to move into your senior years still in the closet?

 

 

Younger Generation:

 

1.     It seems that your generation is the first to actually have no reason to remain in the closet...so why are you still in the closet?

2.     Are the reasons that the older and middle generations stay in the closet the same for your generation...why or why not?.

3.     How has media attention to the issue of being in the closet either made it harder or easier to come out?

4.     Do you know many in either your generation or one of the older generations, who have not come out? Why do they stay in?

5.     Is there a region of the country that is more tolerant of sexual preference and could make it easier for you to come out? If yes...why not go there?

6.     Don't Ask, Don't Tell and other political barriers are in place that could hold you in the closet...is your generation becoming politically active about these issues? If so why and if not why not?

7.     Does you generation, in general, have a more positive or negative family position on coming out that influences you to stay in?

8.     Do you ever expect to come out?   

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