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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 15:43 |
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Listen here to tonight's show.
Up first, Amber Hollibaugh, co-director of Queers for Economic Justice, discusses the unprecedented LGBT contingents at today's May Day actions, as well as the intersections between labor, immigration, and LGBT issues. Listen here to 20 minutes of extra footage from the interview with Amber (in which she discusses Occupy Wall Street, how her personal background informs her activism, and some specific projects QEJ is working on).
In the next interview, Becca Wisotsky from the Audre Lorde Project discusses her experiences organizing the grassroots coalition of LGBT groups mobilizing on May Day. I'm editing her extended interview now, and it will be up by the end of today (Wednesday).
We close the show with an update from the first week of the trial of CeCe McDonald. Harper Jean Tobin, lead counsel from the National Center for Transgender Equality, discusses some of the emerging legal issues. You can support CeCe and get updates on her trial here. You can listen to Out-FM's interview with Billy Navarro of the CeCe McDonald Support Committee here (in which he talks about the details of CeCe's case, how she's doing, and how supporters can get involve).
We also gave away a pair of tickets to Leap of Faith, the Broadway show just nominated for a Tony for best musical of the year.
WBAI is now starting its May Fund Drive. Please donate here any amount in the name of Out-FM (you can pick us as your "favorite show" in the drop-down menu) to support our work, because we are in danger of losing our spot on the lineup.

End of May Day 2012 with part of the LGBT contingent organized by Audre Lorde Project, FIERCE!, Queers For Economic Justice, Streetwise and Safe & Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). Photo courtesy Syd London
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:16 |
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Listen here to this week's Out-FM.
Listen here to our first segment with Will Rockwell, a sex worker activist and former editor-in-chief of Spread Magazine, discussing the misguided moral panic around shutting down sites like Craigslist and Backpage.com. You can hear Will's previous Out-FM interviews here. Also, the Sex Worker Outreach Project's 24/7 Sex Worker National Hotline is 877-776-2004.
Listen here to Joel Simpson, founder and co-chair of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Guyana, presenting his perspective on the situation for LGBT people there and in the wider Caribbean.
We also gave away two pairs of tickets to the off-Broadway jazz-era musical The City Club. |
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Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:47 |
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Listen here to the April 10th Out-FM.
First, Naomi recaps the week in LGBT news. Then pioneering transgender activist Pauline Park discusses transgender health issues.
Historian, activist, and author John D'Emilio will discuss a collection of essays he edited by famed gay historian Alan Berube. He discusses the history of gay men in the military decades before Stonewall, and other forgotten historical tidbits.
We also gave away two pairs of tickets to the jazz-age Off-Broadway musical The Country Club. Congratulations to winners Lisa and Verona. |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 20:34 |
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Listen here to the March 27th show.
First, Kate D'Adamo, an openly queer community organizer with the Sex Workers Outreach Project, inserts the perspective of sex workers and their advocates into the controversy over Backpage and child trafficking. Critics from Nicholas Kristof to religious organizations want to shut the site because they claim it's used to enable the trafficking of underage sex workers, but Kate explains how the site is mostly used by adult sex workers as a harm reduction tool to screen clients. She talks about more pragmatic ways to approach these issues (and to include the voices of sex workers as part of the conversation about policy affecting their practices) and also discusses some related work such as the No Condoms as Evidence Bill.
For another perspective on some of these issues, listen to Will Rockwell, a former sex worker and editor of Spread Magazine. Will talks about the false equivalence of sex workers and trafficked children, and what's wrong with people who criticize sex worker harm reduction strategies without offering any alternatives.
After Kate, we hear a story from the Red Umbrella Diaries, a sex worker storytelling event. In this story, Cayenne Doroshow, a black transgender woman who used to do S&M sex work, tells the story of a client who turned out to not quite be who he presented himself to be. Cayenne’s story is hilarious because she tells it hilariously, but it illustrates that often, the worst violence in the lives of sex workers and/or transgender people can come from the police and the criminal justice system.
Finally, we discuss the case of CeCe McDonald, a young black trans woman currently being charged with two counts of second degree murder following a June 2011 incident in which she defended herself when a group of bashers attacked her in Minnesota. To discuss her case, we are joined on the phone by Billy Navarro, a member of the CeCe McDonald Support Committee in Minnesota and a good friend of CeCe's. Billy talks about a number of ways listeners can support CeCe, which you can read about on her support site here.
We also gave away a pair of tickets to a production of the last play by Tennessee Williams, IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE. Congratulations to Timothy. |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:14 |
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Listen here to the 4/17 Out-FM.
John Riley and Eustacia Smith host a discussion of the proposed "Robin Hood Taxes" on financial speculation by Wall Street (and other countries stock and bond markets). These are tiny "pin-prick taxes" on trades of stocks, bonds, derivatives and currency with the potential to generate hundreds of billions in revenue world wide by G8 countries. It has been proposed to fund AIDS, global health, poverty reduction and green energy conversion.
This is in the context of ACT UP/NY's upcoming demonstration demanding a Financial Speculation Tax on Wall Street to end AIDS, on April 25th. Guests: Sarah Anderson from the Institute on Policy Study and Sharonann Lynch from Doctors without Borders (MSF). Both discussed current bills in Congress and the use of these taxes to fund the fight against AIDS. Peter Staley, a person living with HIV/AIDS, spoke about the history of campaigns for affordable AIDS drugs. And, an update about AIDS in Africa from an African AIDS activist. |
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Friday, 06 April 2012 11:32 |
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On the Tuesday, April 3rd edition of Out-FM, John Riley explores ACT UP at 25, then and now. The first guest is Jim Hubbard, producer and director of the new film "United in Action" about the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Jim, a long-time ACT UP member, uses archival footage and contemporary interviews to discuss the group's early history. ACT UP member Jennifer Flynn then discusses the upcoming anniversary action scheduled for April 25th demanding a Robin Hood tax on Wall street to fund AIDS and health care. ACT UP, working with several Occupy working groups, will assemble at City Hall at Broadway and Murray at 11am Wednesday April 25th. For more information go to www.actupny.com. There you will find out more about the Robinhood Tax.
Naomi Brussel then pays tribute to the iconic poet Adrienne Rich, who passed away March 27th. We hear archival footage of Rich speaking about justice, art, and related issues, and share Rich reading from her own poetry as well as a poem by Audre Lorde. Naomi also reads from Rich's influential essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence."
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012 19:34 |
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Listen here to the March 20th Out-FM.
Naomi and Trish start by recapping some of the most important LGBT news stories of the week.

We then hear the presentation of Malaysian transgender activist Nisha Ayub at the 2012 NGLTF Creating Change Conference, describing the struggle of trans women for rights on Malaysia.
Naomi and Trish then interview Alice Hom, Director of the Queer Justice Fund at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. She discusses the AAPIP report "Missed Opportunities : How organized Philanthropy can help meet the needs of LGBTQ Asian Americans,South Asian Americans, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander Communities." Here is the link to download the report: http://aapip.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/AAPIP-MissdOpp_FINAL.pdf
After the jump are links for more information about the various groups Hom discusses.
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