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Out-FM show aired on March 24, 2026  

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Salsa Soul Sisters in Early Years

Salsa Soul Sisters in Early Years

On Tuesday March 24th show, we will hear Stahimili Mapp host a discussion with Cassandra Grant and Juliette Bennett, recorded recently at a gathering hosted by Sinister Wisdom, the lesbian magazine. The convo is centered around the involvement of these women in the premier Lesbian Women of Color organization Salsa Soul Sisters. They will talk about its founding, and especially what this particular organization offered to women of color coming out in the 1970’s along with  the varied cultural, political, vocational and creative expressions that women were free to explore in addition to their sexuality. You can see the full video on youtube.

Salsa Soul Sisters, Gay Women United

Salsa Soul Sisters, Gay Women United

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Out-FM show aired on March 17, 2026  

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Activist & Organizer Leslie Cagan

Activist & Organizer Leslie Cagan

Join Out-FM Producers Naomi Brussel, Pauline Park and John Riley for an interview with Leslie Cagan about her extraordinary life of organizing and deep involvement with the LGBTQ movements. We'll discuss her early years with her activist family and later as she became aware of her attraction to women.

 

Leslie has organized in peace and justice movements for more than 60 years. From the Vietnam war to racism at home, nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, support of Palestinian rights to normalizing relations with Cuba, fighting sexism to confronting police brutality, she’s been a central organizer in many struggles. 

 

From 2002 to 2009, Leslie was the National Coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of 1,400 groups central to the movement against the war in Iraq. Her coalition-building and organizing skills have mobilized millions of people in many of the nation’s largest demonstrations, including the 1982 million-person Nuclear Disarmament demonstration in NYC; the historic 1987 lesbian/gay rights march on Washington; massive mobilizations against the Iraq War from 2003 to 2007; the 2014 People’s Climate March in NYC; and the 2019 Queer Liberation March in NYC on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.

 

While most known for her role in mass mobilizations, Leslie has been centrally involved in a range of organizing efforts the serving as the field director in the 1989 David Dinkins mayoral campaign to the struggle to save Pacifica Radio in the early 2000s; from the fight for abortion and reproductive rights more broadly to serving on the National Board of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition; and other struggles.

 

Leslie at Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA)

Leslie at Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) Forum

For the past two and half years Leslie has been deeply involved in the work to end the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza as well as the growing movement to stop the march toward fascism in this country.

Her writings appear in 11 anthologies and in scores of print and online outlets; she has done more workshops, conference presentations, and speeches at rallies than she can count. 

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