10%-Qtv season five, episode six (2000.01.17)

episode six		season five
	original broadcasts	Monday, 2000.01.17 Saturday, 2000.01.22 Sunday, 2000.01.23
	repeat broadcasts	Monday, 2000.01.24 Saturday, 2000.01.29 Sunday, 2000.01.30

Homo History
	Chris and Alan trade places this week, with Chris putting on her study hat for the story behind words like lesbian, gay, queen, dyke, faggot... well, that should be enough to trigger your censor-happy site filtering software! Turns out we've got homophobic Calvinists and Puritans and the beautiful isle of Lesbos in our history.
"Dragging it Outta' You"
	To complete the switcheroo, "Big Straight Al" (?) takes to the streets in Chris' place to ask the het folks some gay questions. No Backstreet Boys were harmed in the filming of this segment (although some may feel slandered... or maybe complimented... I'm never sure...).
AIDSVAX HIV "Vaccine" Study
	With its target of 5,000 U.S. volunteers met, a pharmaceutical company called VaxGen plans to also find 300 Canadians in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to receive seven injections of AIDSVAX, a vaccine designed to prevent infection by HIV-1, over the next three to four years. The company has attracted a lot of attention, including a $25 million investment from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Of course it's also stirred controversy by using human guinea pigs - over 90% of them men, most of them gay - to test its stuff. We hear from Dr. Kenneth Logue, principal investigator in the Toronto study, VaxGen president and co-founder Dr. Donald Francis, and one of the study volunteers about these issues.
"Way to Go, (Bob) Smith"
	More than just the title of his new book about religion, relationships, childhood and sex, "Way to Go, Smith" is praise for Bob Smith's decade on the comedy circuit. He was the first openly gay comic on the Tonight Show in 1994, and wrote the best selling book "Openly Bob." We caught up with the boy from Buffalo during his recent gig in Toronto.
"Village Voice"
	Now that the snow's finally fallen maybe some of this Christmas babble will make sense. Or maybe not.

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