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NYC Queer Liberation March 2021; & Ohio Black Pride 4
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NYC Queer Liberation March 2021
More than 50,000 were estimated to have marched in Sunday June 27th's 3rd Annual Queer Liberation March, most were masked. The march has displaced the one organized for many years by Heritage of Pride, or HOP for short. Much of the energy for organizing and participating in the march arose in opposition to the intense commercialization of the HOP organized march as well as their welcoming of armed LGBT police in contingents, as well as their role in providing "security" for the Parade. HOP's dispacement as the biggest organizer of mass in person events has risen as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic and HOP decided not to march for the last 2 years. John Riley recorded interviews of some contingents participating as well as some archival sound from the first Queer Liberation March in 2019.
Ohio Black Pride 4 Arrests in 2017
Ohio Black Pride 4
In this special 20 minute 2 part interview recorded Sunday June 27th 2021 as part of our Queerly Defiant series listen to the story of the Ohio Black Pride 4 as told by Wriply Bennet, one of the Black Pride 4. She speaks on the criminalization and arrest she faced at Columbus Pride in 2017 and on the intersections of growing up as a young, black, queer, and trans women in the midwest. She details the violence, racism, and transphobia that led up to the action to disrupt pride and her arrest. Stay tuned for part 2 where she shares more about what happened in her case, what she learned, and her visions for our futures. This interview was produced by Sasha Alexander of Black Trans Media with support from producer Takoda Patterson and the OUTFM Collective.
Part 2 of Lesbian of Color on Her ‘70s Persecution for Supporting Political Prisoner Assata Shakur
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Out-FM is a weekly progressive 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 during our pledge drive. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $5/month or more. Go to give2wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let them know you listen to Out-FM.
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ACT UP/NY and PNHP Contingent at Reclaim Pride 2021
Brandon Cuicchi of ACT UP/NY discusses the Reclaim Pride march organizing, ACT UP & PNHP's joint contingent. Also he discusses ACT UP's rolle in the health fair in Washington Sq Park and describes some of the high points, including Joints for Jabs. More at https://reclaimpridenyc.org
Lesbian of Color Activist on Her ‘70s Persecution for Supporting Political Prisoner Assata Shakur
Paola Bacchetta Ph.D.
Assata Shakur
This is Part 2 of a two-part interview that Out-FM’s Bob Lederer did recently with Paola Bacchetta, a lesbian of color of mixed heritages who has been a radical intersectional feminist activist for over four decades. Today she is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California Berkeley, the author of the book Gender in the Hindu Nation, co-editor of the anthology Right-Wing Women, as well as the author of 40 academic articles and book chapters. This is another installment of our history series called Queerly Defiant, in which we profile U.S.-based LGBTQ+ activists with multi-issue politics over the past century who have personally faced government repression because of their progressive politics and activist work.
In Part I, Prof. Bacchetta recounted her work in the 1970s with a militant lesbian group in Philadelphia called DykeTactics! and their long battles with the police department. In the current program, Part 2, she will narrate the harrowing story of her arrest and pre-trial detention in 1977 for completely invented charges of plotting to mount an armed breakout of political prisoner, Black freedom fighter and former Black Panther Assata Shakur from a New Jersey prison, charges which were dropped before our guest, Paola Bacchetta, could come to trial. But even then, those false charges forced Ms. Bacchetta into exile, and she engaged in further radical activist endeavors for many years in Italy, France and Italy before she returned to the US and ultimately became a professor in Berkeley.
