Tune into Out-FM on Tues., April 18 & from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
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Battling HIV/AIDS Denialism version 2.0
Tune in to Out-FM on Tuesday April 18th for an interview with ACT UP members Brandon Cuicchi and Jason Rosenberg about their campaign to get Simon and Schuster to drop a book that promotes deadly AIDS denialism and pseudoscience. HIV/AIDS denialism is the belief that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, thus HIV doesn’t cause AIDS.
As of 2018 about 700,000 people had died of HIV/AIDS in the US since the first cases appeared in the 1980s. In 2020 there were 18,489 deaths among adults and adolescents diagnosed with HIV in the US. The Centers for Disease Control estimates there are 1.2 million people currently living with HIV in the US.
ACT UP Protest Truck Outside of Simon & Schuster
Even as life spans of HIV positive people have been extended by anti-viral therapies and HIV infection incidence is slowly going down, there is still a coterie of HIV/AIDS denialists who doggedly maintain that the National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry have essentially bamboozled people with AIDS into taking toxic drugs to fight a virus that doesn’t really cause AIDS. They vigorously oppose Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, or PREP for short, to prevent infections in HIV negative people citing deadly side-effects, while ignoring the consequences of getting an as-of-yet incurable infection.
Interview with "Mariquita" a Salsa Transgender Band and Dancers.
On this edition of OUT FM, we are pleased to present excerpts from “What’s Going On” produced by Johanna Fernandez and Producer Marcos Maldonado Cruz, which aired here on WBAI on Friday April 14th. Johanna profiled the music and work of the members of the queer Salsa band and dance collective, Mariquita. They discussed the tradition of Salsa music production as well as dance from the perspective of the exclusion of queer representation and participation. The collective members also discussed their efforts to compose, play and dance salsa with the inclusion of transfeminist, non heterosexist sensibilities.
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