Charles Karel Bouley

Charles Karel Bouley

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Karel (Charles Karel Bouley) has the #1 talk show in his time slot at Citadel/ABC's flagship station, KGO AM 810 San Francisco (#1 overall station), heard Saturday and Sunday 7pm to 10pm or online at www.kgo.com. He also is an entertainment reporter and film critic for KNX 1070 Los Angeles (CBS). Karel also has filled for Bill Press on his national show on a regular basis.

He is a columnist for the #1 gay/lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate at Advocate.com and IN Magazine Los Angeles. His book of essays "You Can't Say That" is published by Alyson Press. His music is available at iTunes and other online stores and he maintains a blog, podcasts and message boards at www.radiokrll.com and can be reached at feedback@mykgoshow.com.

Karel also appears as a guest on topical issues on such cable news networks as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. He is a regular guest on Techlink for Time/Warner, as a Macintosh Computer expert and even did two seasons as a lead actor on TNN's "Ultimate Revenge" hosted by Ryan Seacrest (an improved practical joke show a la Punk'd) created by industry veteran Woody Fraiser. Karel produced, directed and wrote a marriage equality PSA that won second place in GLAAD's "I Do" contest, being aired at OutFest and on national television, featuring 12 youth and a cameo by Thomas Jefferson.

Karel made history with his late partner (on and off air) Andrew Howard as the duo became the first openly gay male couple to host a major market talk show when they took over afternoon drive at KFI AM 640 Los Angeles (following Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura on the #1 talk station in the country). Upon Andrew's untimely death in 2001, Karel went solo and personally changed state law in California so he could pursue a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of his partner. He does his shows from his studio at the home they shared, Park Howard, in Long Beach, CA, where he lives with his four dogs (Alley, Angel, Mojo and Atilla), cat (Harvey), niece and nephew (Jake and Heather).

Blog Entries by Charles Karel Bouley

California Teens And Jefferson Get Gay Marriage Right

Posted July 22, 2008 | 10:22 AM (EST)


A lot has been said about gay marriage. I myself have spoken a lot about it on radio and TV. That is why I wrote and directed this small little minute video below. Because Thomas Jefferson got it right hundreds of years ago, and gay teens in CA need his...

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Dark Knight, Bright Extinguished Star

7 Comments | Posted July 18, 2008 | 12:41 PM (EST)


No, it's not because he's dead. It's because he's that good.

Friday, July 18th the latest chapter in the Batman motion picture franchise opened. But this one is like no other, surpassing even its predecessor whose superior acting by Christian Bale and mixture of real action and personal character studies...

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We Got It Wrong...Again

Posted July 13, 2008 | 04:03 PM (EST)


Boy, when Americans get it wrong, we really get it wrong. We, like sheep, are followers and when public opinion is in a tidal wave one way or another, more often than not the public goes with flow, even if it's over a waterfall.

Most everyone knows O.J. Simpson is...

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Patriotism On This July 4th

20 Comments | Posted July 3, 2008 | 08:50 PM (EST)


I could write volumes about patriotism this July 4th. How many column inches in the last few weeks has been devoted to whether or not Barack Obama is patriotic enough, if a war record is on or off limits, and what the love of country truly means. Is anyone in...

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Pride, A Deeper Love

Posted June 2, 2008 | 07:39 PM (EST)


Note: Summer is the season of gay pride festivals across the country, from May through early November. The festivals commemorate the events at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York City. Here is a summary of that rebellion from www.stonewall-place.com. "During the last weekend of June of...

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Just Ink and Paper

Posted May 20, 2008 | 01:41 PM (EST)


On May 9th a sniper in the US Military in Iraq took a few practice shots at a book he claims he did not know was the Quran, a claim the brass immediately rejected. On May 18th we went hat-in-hand back to the villagers and tribal leaders and basically begged...

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Glad I Was Wrong Mr. Newsom

Posted May 15, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST)


I first met San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in the halls of KGO Radio before one of my shows. We did the "Wow, you're handsome..." (me) and "I love your show..." (him) and then I told him that I thought what he did by giving out marriage licenses did more...

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Montana Morality

Posted April 30, 2008 | 07:57 PM (EST)


Well, from all the hubbub I knew for certain that I was going to log on and see a photograph of Hannah Montana herself Miley Cyrus giving fellatio to a farm animal. Instead what I saw was a cherubic looking 15 year old, washed in color, bathed in blue and...

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Get Over It

25 Comments | Posted March 21, 2008 | 08:19 PM (EST)


I'm a racist, or so I've been told about 3,000 times in the last week. Truly, on my radio show, in the emails from listeners, mainly African American listeners, I'm a racist.

Why?

Because I said "get over slavery," because I said "get over...

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Paying for Visibility of the Polls Themselves

Posted February 5, 2008 | 09:42 PM (EST)


It started with a trip to the polls. How exciting! History! A black man, a white woman, two contenders of the same party and both viable... historic.

Now the polls were in a new place, at a local church. I've lived in the area 10 years, and never really...

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A Lovely Fairy Tale

Posted January 6, 2008 | 08:00 PM (EST)


Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm the racist. Because I'm not excited about the results of the Iowa caucus. Yes, he beat Hillary, he beat Edwards, Edwards beat Hillary, Obama won a state that is 91.7% white according to their Wikipedia entry. Obviously race won't be or isn't an issue in...

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That Was Then...

Posted December 10, 2007 | 06:44 PM (EST)


I won't be voting for Mike Huckabee. Sure, he affable, humorous, a likeable guy. But he belongs to a party of criminals, war mongers and religious zealots, so I'm opting out. But many gays and lesbians will be angry at him for the resurgence of his 1992 comments about AIDS....

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Second Class Even In Death

Posted November 1, 2007 | 12:42 PM (EST)


Halloween 2007, the courts again have shown that gay men are second class citizens in the United States. How? By awarding $10.9 million to the father of an Iraqi war veteran whose funeral was picketed by Fred Phelps and his "congregation." They held signs that claimed vets were dying because...

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Public Safety Is Illegal

Posted October 31, 2007 | 01:15 PM (EST)


Tuesday, October 30th, 2007, the day before Halloween was a scary day indeed. It was the day the Democrats decided to eat their own at the MSNBC debate from Philadelphia, PA, the alleged birthplace of freedom. Each candidate was there, trying desperately to dethrone the heir apparent, Hillary Clinton. There...

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You Want Your GTV?

Posted September 26, 2007 | 07:22 PM (EST)


GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is mad. It seems the number of network TV shows with gay and lesbian characters has fallen and they're not happy. Cable is doing a little better, and they're fine with that, but networks, well, they're slipping.

When I heard this, the...

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Testosterone Is Deadly

Posted July 31, 2007 | 03:11 PM (EST)


Have you heard the news? Hillary Clinton has breasts! Yes, it's official, she really is a woman and has breasts, and when those breasts are put in the right outfit, she actually has cleavage, too. I know it's true, because I didn't read about it in the Enquirer, no this...

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Always the Wrong Headlines

Posted July 17, 2007 | 08:50 PM (EST)


Last week there were a lot of headlines about Iraq, about the war, about the Bush administration. And yet, with the exception of a few bloggers, none were accurate. Could it be the mainstream media is protecting their corporate asses? Or could it be they really don't get it, don't...

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Paris Hilton Is Now A Martyr

Posted July 3, 2007 | 09:15 AM (EST)


It's official: Paris Hilton has served more jail time at the hands of an overzealous judge, seen more of the inside of a jail cell, eaten more prison food than Lewis Libby ever will. The Dictator In Chief again has proved that you don't mess with his boys, and...

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It's Iraq, with a "Q"

Posted June 14, 2007 | 03:42 PM (EST)


Iran, Iran, Iran. I am sick to death of hearing about Iran. We're fighting and dying in Iraq. We've lost the battle in Iraq. We've destroyed the country and left chaos in Iraq. And what is everybody talking about? Iran. Lieberman says bomb 'em!

They're arming the Talliban. They're supplying...

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Ego v. Hilton

Posted June 9, 2007 | 12:28 AM (EST)


What a shameful day in jurisprudence.

I live in Los Angeles County. I pay taxes here. So, when I awoke today to see the debacle that is the Paris Hilton case unfolding nonstop on CNN, I was horrified. Not for Paris, although I think this has gone WAY too far...

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