After that show Karel and his now co-host and domestic partner Andrew Howard became morning drive at Triangle Broadcasting in Palm Springs, heard in the Seattle area [1] .
After a shift in management at KFI, Karel was let go; he subsequently hosted a show on San Francisco-based KGO.
He was fired from KGO in November 2008 when his profane off-air comments about Joe the Plumber were inadvertently broadcast live.
In 1994 he released "Turn It Up" produced by Sabby Reyes and Thea Austin[9] Karel did a cover of the Madonna hit "Live to Tell" in August 1995.
[23] Bouley, along with his domestic partner, Andrew Lee Howard, started in radio at KYPA Los Angeles doing the weekend show "Different After Dark".
[4][25] Following his partner's death, Bouley returned to KFI and hosted a talk show there until station management changed and he and others were dismissed in April 2002.
[26][better source needed] [27] Seven months later, Karel was hired as an on-air host by San Francisco radio station KGO for the weekend evening time slot.
[26][better source needed][28] Bouley hosted a Free Speech TV series called Life in Segments, described as a "reality talk show", in 2014.
[31][32][better source needed] Karel also contributed to "When I Knew" by Robert Trachtenberg, stories of "coming out" directed at Gay and Lesbian youth.
[33] Bouley's second book, Shouting at Windmills, BS From Bush to Obama was released in June 2011[28] Following the sudden death of his domestic partner, Andrew Howard, in 2001, Bouley went on to file and win a lawsuit in the Court of Appeal of the State of California in Los Angeles County to establish the rights of domestic partners to be recognized as such and giving them the right to sue for wrongful death.