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Pride 2010: Voices of Homeless LGBT Youth |
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 13:30 |
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In New York City, approximately 1500 LGBT kids sleep on the streets every single night.
In this LGBT Pride Special, we hear the voices of LGBT street kids, focusing on Damian, a female-to-male transgender teen sleeping in Penn Station after he was kicked out of his home by fundamentalist foster parents who smashed a bottle of holy water over his head when he came out to them.
We hear from Damian and his friends about homophobic violence in straight youth shelters, sex work for survival, and what support they desperately need, including beds, counseling, basic services, and to be heard. What are the possibilities for these kids when they get the support they need?
Carl Siciliano, founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center for Homeless and Runaway LGBT Youth, uses his years of experience working with this population - who have all the potential in the world but no help - to contextualize the stories of Damian and the other gay and transgender street kids. He describes the high success rate of young people who receive help.
Audio:
Click HERE to listen to the 29-minute radio documentary.
Click HERE to listen to Out-FM's 24-minute coverage of the Ali Forney Center's June Rally for Homeless Queer Youth (including interviews with street kids as well as politicians and celebrities such as Sandra Bernhard).
Click HERE to listen to a short interview with gay street kid Deshawn.
Click HERE to listen to a short interview with gay former street kid Terrell.
Other resources:
Click HERE to read the report on Homeless LGBT Youth federal policies released by the Center for American Progress.
Read the full report (pdf)
Download the executive summary (pdf)
Fast facts on the issue (pdf)
Gay and Transgender Youth Homelessness by the Numbers
If you are a young person in who needs help, please talk to any staff member at the Ali Forney Day Center
527 West 22nd St., 1st Floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 206-0574 (Tel)
If you are outside of New York, the Ali Forney Center also provides a list of State by state resources here.
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Pride 2010: Dean Spade's Critique of Hate Crime Enhanced Penalties |
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 13:25 |
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Dean Spade is the co-founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and a visiting professor at CUNY School of Law. In this provocative progressive critique of hate crimes laws, he discusses the limits of enhanced hate crimes penalties, transgender communities' experiences with the criminal punishment system, and alternative responses to the epidemic of anti-transgender violence. At the end he discusses some of the most promising emerging movements in transgender organizing.
Click HERE to listen to the unabridged 17-minute interview.
Click HERE to listen to the full Out FM program in which listeners respond to his arguments.
Dean Spade
Some of the groups discussed as models of alternative community responses to violence include Brooklyn's Right Rides, Seattle's Cara and Generation Five, and Oakland's Creative Interventions. |
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Pride 2010: Beyond Gay Marriage |
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 13:05 |
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From California to Rhode Island, the question of gay marriage is an issue of national debate. Currently a few key states, including Connecticut and Massachusetts, now grant marriages to same-sex couples. But there is a long way to go. And for many people in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community, the struggle to legalize gay marriage across the U.S. remains the priority political battle. But others in the community disagree. They question whether gay marriage should be the central issue of their movement. Believing that, as this hot social issue sizzles, other important issues have been put on the backburner.
This documentary by KPFK's Lisa Dettmer’s was co-produced by producer Elena Botkin-Levy, with production assistance from Chris Thomas.
Featuring: Brian Basinger, San Francisco AIDS Housing Coalition executive director; Lisa Duggan, New York University Social and Cultural Analysis Department professor; Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice executive director; Tommi Avicolli Mecca, SF Housing Rights Committee volunteer housing coordinator; Andrea Shorter, Equality California Deputy Marriage and Coalitions Director.
Click HERE to listen to this 29 minute piece.
For more information:
AIDS Housing Alliance
San Francisco, CA
Equality California
San Francisco, CA
FIERCE
New York, NY
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Human Rights Campaign
Washington, DC
NYU Social and Cultural Analysis Department
New York, NY
Queers for Economic Justice
New York, NY
San Francisco Mayor’s Office
San Francisco, CA
Articles, Blogs, and Reports:
Beyond Gay Marriage
A website Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships
Human Rights Campaign – ‘A Year to Win’
‘Human Rights Campaign’ outreach ad on YouTube |
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Pride 2010: History of Lesbians in the Middle East |
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 13:17 |
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There is a group of historians writing about the long and well documented history of homosexuality in the Middle East, but most of them focus nearly exclusively on men. The first scholar to make Arab lesbians of antiquity her focus is Professor Samar Habib, author of Islam and Homosexuality, and Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations.
In the interview, Habib discusses lesbians throughout history in the Middle East, addressing questions such as: Is there such a thing as an indigenous Middle Eastern homosexual, or is it a Western import? Isn't calling same-gender-loving women of antiquity 'lesbians' ahistorical, since they would never have conceptualized themselves as lesbians? What kind of evidence is there for the existence of these lesbians (or, as Habib translates the ancient Arabic term for them, 'grinders')? How do lesbians in the region today compare to their foremothers?
Click HERE to listen to the 27-minute interview.
Click HERE to listen to a revisited, 15-minute version of the interview.
Professor Habib
One of the highlights of the interview is at the end when Habib recites and analyzes this medieval Arabic lesbian erotic poem:
But my vagina succeeds and glimmers between a cheek and a freckle
Like a dot of musk swinging above the crescent
Revealing a pure mouth, smiling like pearls
In which there is a savoury saliva
Instantly sweet to the taste
And a fine neck as slender as the gazelle’s
From what I have seen of her beauty—
And O how much have I seen!—
I say glory to whoever moulded beauty from clay
To create a perfect creature made of beauty
I came to sip from her and her extreme thirst is at a well
If that is prohibited (?aram) then this is not lawful (?alal). |
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 12:56 |
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There are an estimated 3 million LGBT elders in the US, 20% of whom are people of color.
Trish Spoto interviews John Nagel of SAGE Queens about aging in the LGBT community.
What are current trends in elderly population? How can we prevent our elderly population from becoming completely isolated? What obstacles do they face, such as homophobic home health aides?
Click HERE to listen to this 17-minute piece. |
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