The CBS network's weekday morning show hired a lesbian as one of its anchors, and several network affiliates across the south replaced the national show with local programming, including KTHV in Little Rock.
Rock was among many who seemed stunned by the reaction of these southern television stations. "I thought all those morning shows had at least one gay person on them," he said in a conversation with a longtime friend.
Protests of the station's homophobic choice spread over the Little Rock metro throughout the day. Rock joined it at a bus stop on McCain Boulevard in front of a North Little Rock Barnes & Noble bookstore. When he stepped out of an approximately twenty-square-foot area marked to contain the dissidents, several city police officers drew and pointed pistols, rifles, and one AK-47 directly at him.
The cops' response seemed perfectly appropriate, Rock thought. He was nevertheless somewhat panicked that he might soon die.
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