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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.

About Out-FM

Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM.  Please support us by donating to WBAI. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $10/month or more. Go to give2wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let the station know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation. Be sure and mention our show when you donate.  Sign up for Out-FM's Weekly Newsletter with show announcements.

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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., April 11 & from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/         

Press Play button to stream, or green download buttons below - to download the sound file of the promo, or the program sound file. 

 

UPDATE: 4/17/23
Democracy Now interview with Gay Ugandan shows Power of Right-wing Evangelicals.

Click here: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/17/frank_mugisha_uganda_anti_gay_bill

Video of the promo follows.

 

The Role of the Museveni government in the Propagation of Homophobic Hate and Support of the Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

Tune in to Out-FM on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York or wbai.org this Tuesday, April 11, from 8-9 PM EDT for a discussion about the recent deadly Anti-Gay Bill passed by the Ugandan Parliament this year.

Our first segment will include Stahimili Mapp’s interview with the noted Ugandan- American journalist, author Milton Allimadi, adjunct professor of African History at John Jay College of the City University of New York, publisher of Black Star News, and author of “Manufacturing Hate: How the Africa as demonized in Western Media” and “Adwa: Empress Taytu and Emperor Menelik in Love and War”. In addition, Professor Allimadi is a podcaster on The Black World News Network and hosts The Black Star News program heard here on WBAI Tuesdays 3 - 4pm. Professor Allimadi will discuss the role of the Museveni government in the propagation of homophobic hate and support of the bill, anti-gay movements in other African countries and the role of the US / American evangelical Christians in the propagation of anti-gay activity in Uganda. Click HERE to sign the petition.

 

Effect of Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill in other African States

 

In our second segment we welcome Julienne Byenda Mugaruka (she/her), Advocacy officer of La Colombe ASBL based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. We will continue our discussion with a firsthand report of the effect of this bill and other anti-gay activities on the LGBTQ people and Trans women on the continent. Donate to UGANDA LGBTQ URGENT ACTION FUND.

Newark LGBT Center Film Festival.

Our guest was Denise Hinds. For more info https://www.newarklgbtqcenter.org/

About Out-FM

Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM.  Please support us by donating to WBAI. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $10/month or more. Go to give2wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let the station know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation. Be sure and mention our show when you donate.  Sign up for Out-FM's Weekly Newsletter with show announcements.