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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., July 27, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5FM WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
The full show will be posted by 7/28/21
Maria Fantenelle
Impact of Elections in St. Lucia on LGBT Working Class
Voters on the small Carribean nation of St. Lucia will deliver a verdict in it's parlimentary elections held yesterday July 26th.
Both the main parties are considered conservative by activists we talked to there. The more conservative United Workers Party has held power in the last few years. Some news outlets on the island think the opposition St. Lucia Labor Party (SLP) may win. Activist Maria Fantenelle explains in brief some of their differences and what it may, or may not mean for LGBT people there.
Pacifica by-law referendum results
Zola Bruce and RJ Thompson
Sex Workers RJ Thompson and Zola Bruce Analyze Sex Worker Decriminalization Legislation.
RJ Thompson and Zola Bruce of the staff of the Urban Justice Center's Sex Worker Project. discuss differing approaches to decriminalization of sex work. They support complete decriminalization of consensual sex work and oppose laws that purport to decriminalize sex workers but continue to criminalize buyers of sex and others involved in the sex trade.
Intersex People to Protest Non-consensual Intersex genital operations at Weil Cornell.
“Intersex” is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. A large Intersex human rights rally will be taking place on Saturday, August 7 at 2pm at St. Catherine’s Park, 68th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan. This rally is calling an end to non-consensual intersex genital operations such as clitoral reductions, a practice being ceased at hospitals nationally. Almost 700 members of the healthcare community have signed a petition condemning non-consensual genital surgery and clitoral experiments on 5-7 year old children. For more information, go to twitter.com/IntersexJustice.