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| Sam Brown (left) and Dave Kolesar host a gay internet radio show with the newly acquired call letters WGAY. |
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By: GREG MARZULLO COMMENTS
 
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and administrative base.
In the ‘70s, WGTB was taken over by radically left-wing students who replaced flat tunes with news updates about the Vietnam War and aired a weekly gay and lesbian program called "Friends." The queer show provided information about sex, the growing gay culture and even hosted guests like famed gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
"There’s a number of people who have saved reel-to-reel tapes over the years," says Kolesar. "We’re digitizing them, so we can share them with people again."
After a long battle with WGTB, the conservative Jesuit administration of Georgetown University sold the station’s broadcast license to the University of D.C. in 1978, and in 1979, WGTB was gone from Georgetown’s campus.
"The old manager of WGTB told me that if WGTB were alive today, it would sound like WGAY," Kolesar says.
That specific sound includes the guests’ license to say whatever they want.
"[The station] allows me to be a little bit more free with what I say and what I do," says Wojahn. "One thing about being a lawyer in my day job — there’s a lot of rules."
Kolesar agrees with his partner that the entire crew is at liberty to vent their opinions about culturally taboo subjects.
"The talk is edgy and is probably something we couldn’t get away with on an over-the-air signal," says Kolesar. "The internet allows us the freedom to be who we are."
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