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Struggle for Justice Escalates in Suspicious Death of Newark Black Trans Woman Ashley Moore

Beatrice Simpkins, Director of the Newrk NJ LGBTQ center will update us on the campaign demanding investigation of the April 2020 death of Ashley Moore, transgender woman whose body was found in the street in Newark.. Protestors are demanding action from the Newark police, who after months of delay, have now referred the death to their Homicide division

Beatrice Simpkins

Beatrice Simpkins of Newark's LGBT Center

 

Mass. Gay Progressive Candidate for Congress Fights Back Against Sex-Panic Attack from Corporate Dems

Alex Morse, gay mayor

Alex Morse, progressive gay mayor

Rep. Richard Edmund Neal

Rep. Richard Edmund Neal

In today's Massachusetts primary, progressive out-gay candidate Alex Morse, 31-year-old Mayor of Holyoke, MA and former university instructor, is challenging entrenched corporate mainstream Democrat Richard Neal, chair of powerful House Ways and Means (tax-writing) Committee. Morse was recently subjected to an attempted takedown, using vague accusations -- but no actual accuser -- of "inappropriate sexual relationships" with students, none of whom he taught. Now The Intercept, the investigative website, has revealed that the attack had been planned for months and was driven by the career ambitions of a College Democrats leader with the help of state Democratic Party officials. But Morse is fighting back. Out-FM co-producer Bob Lederer will interview Kevin Henderson, a queer and feminist theorist, and political science PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, who cowrote a recent article in Boston Review analyzing the attack on Morse as a classic sex panic trading on age-old homophobic stereotypes to take down a political opponent.

Henderson's coauthored article on this sex-panic is at:

http://bostonreview.net/gender-sexuality/kevin-henderson-joseph-j-fischel-four-ways-escape-sex-panic

Out-FM Producer John Riley provides an update on the NEW THREAT TO PACIFICA.

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