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Out-FM program aired April 8, 2025

NYC Actions Against Trump/Musk Junta

Mar. 29: Thousands March to Reverse AIDS Funding Cuts;

Apr. 5: 100,000 Join "Hands Off" Protest 

On March 29, 2025, 2,000 AIDS and housing activists rallied and marched to the Tesla showroom in the West Village neighborhood in New York, where they held a die-in. Hundreds carrying placards in the style of tombstones lay on the ground representing the victims of Elon Musk and the Trump Administration's cuts to lifesaving services and drugs. 

Out-FM brought you some of the voices of those doing the die-in outside of Tesla's show room last week, this week we bring you, longtime Housing Works manager Anthony Feliciano and Dr. Betty Kolod, a physician treating drug users and chair of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - New York Metro. They talked about the need for defending Medicaid to end the AIDS crisis and the need for a single-payer healthcare system to eliminate private insurance.

We also brought you voices from the April 5th 100,000-strong New York "Hands Off" protest, one of the 1300 such actions around the country that day. Maya Venir from Israelis for Peace / NYC describes their group's opposition to the Gaza War and demand for a just settlement. Other protesters demanded full funding for President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an end to censorship, protection of Trans rights, release of students from ICE detention for free speech activities, a sensible public health pro-vaccine policy, and more -- running the gamut of issues arising from Trump's illegal and cruel policies.

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“Queerly Defiant” History Project on U.S. LGBTQI-TS+ Leftists’ Repression and Resistance

We played the presentation by Out-FM’s Bob Lederer about his multi-media work-in-progress titled “Queerly Defiant, Hidden No More” to document and analyze the experience of U.S. queer and trans anti-racist leftists since the 1960s. A major focus will be how they have faced and fought both repression by the government and homophobia/heterosexism by the U.S. Left. It was one of several presentations yesterday at the Center for LGBTQ Studies or CLAGS at the City University of New York, made by current and recent CLAGS Fellows.

The video of the CLAGS program is here (Bob's talk and slides go from 53:12-1:04; a later Q & A about James Baldwin, in which Bob was one of the responders, goes from 1:12-1:18.)

For more about Bob's project, click here and here.

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