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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., September 22, 2026 from 8:00-9:00 pm ET, on​ WBAI/NY​, 99.5 FM​, or livestreaming at wbai.org/listen-live

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Attorney Arthur Leonard

Professor Emeritus & Attorney Arthur Leonard

Segment #1: QueerDoc's Gender-Affirming Care Referral Service Fights Trump "Justice" Dept. Subpoena of Client Lists

Out-FM's Naomi Brussel and Pauline Park interview New York Law School Professor Emeritus Arthur Leonard on the controversial California-based federal judicial rulings for and against QueerDoc. QueerDoc provides referrals for gender-affirming care. The federal Dept. of Justice (DOJ) has subpoenaed QueerDoc to give the DOJ names of and Identifying information about its clients. QueerDoc has sued to quash the subpoena.

Pauline Park and Emre Ege Acaroglu

Pauline Park and Emre Ege Acaroglu

Segment #2: Turkey's Persecution of LGBTQ People 

The fascist regime of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is engaged in a campaign of repression against the country's LGBTQ community, arresting hundreds of activists and moving to shut down LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS organizations across the country. Out-FM's Pauline Park spoke with New York organizer Jay W. Walker and Turkish activist Emre Ege Acaroglu at the September 18th demonstration at the Turkish consulate in Manhattan about the danger to LGBTQ people in Turkey.

 

Music:

Çağla Akalın, "Gel Çarem" (Come, My Salvation) 

Ayta Sözeri, "Büklüm Büklüm" (Twisted & Turned) 

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Akilah Monifa and Pauline Park

Pauline Park (L) and Akilah Monifa (R) in Fruitvale, CA (4-27-25)

Segment #1: Akilah Monifa's Blessings of a Blesbian Boomer

Out-FM's Pauline Park speaks with Akilah 'Kiki' Monifa about the 23 performances of her autobiographical show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August to audience acclaim. In "The Blesbian Boomer," the African American writer and journalist who now lives in California talks about growing up in the segregated South, coming out as a lesbian, going to law school, launching a career in public relations, and then journalism, marriages, divorces and children.
 

States Where 1 or More Transphobic Democrats are Running in the Midterms

States Where 1 or More Transphobic Democrats are Running in the Congressional, Senatorial or Gubernatorial Midterms (in Purple)

Segment #2: Strategy Regarding Transphobic Democrats in the Mid-Terms

Out-FM's John Riley talks with Pauline Park about the transphobic Democrats running in the mid-term elections in November and the advice from transgender journalist Erin Reed that LGBTQ community members and progressive allies refrain from voting for those transphobic Democrats. We’ll discuss concerns that have been raised by that approach and other opinions. The show concludes with an assessment of the prospects for Democrats in the upcoming mid-term elections that may profoundly shape the last two years of Donald Trump's second term.

Music:
 
Ma Rainey, "Prove It On Me Blues"
 
Sister Rosetta, "Didn't It Rain?"

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About Out-FM

Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show by and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, non-binary, gender non-conforming, intersex, queer, and questioning communities. Our program originates from listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio in New York, 99.5 FM and wbai.org. Our programs are archived at outfm.org. You can also follow us on Facebook, X, and Instagram.

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