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Remember The Heroic Fighters of the White Night Riots
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Tune into Out-FM on Tue., May 18, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
Remember The Heroic Fighters Of The White Night Riots
This is part of WBAI's special programming today on the life, death and legacy of Harvey Milk. It's also the latest installment in our Queerly Defiant series.
Out-FM, the progressive LGBTQI issues program, focuses today on the aftermath of Harvey's assassination, examining what's been called the White Night Riots, that is, the queer uprising the same day a jury acquitted Harvey's assassin, ex-cop Dan White, of murder and instead convicted him merely of voluntary manslaughter. As part of a mass uprising by thousands, angry queers broke City Hall windows and burned police cars, leading to a police riot and serious charges against several gay scapegoats.
Tonight Out-FM will replay some of Pacifica's coverage at the time and present Part I of a new interview with 1970s gay reporter, photographer and cultural anthropologist Greg Day and queer herstorian Emily Hobson, author of the book Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left.
Tune in next week for Part 2. And always check our website, outfm.org, for audio and often video of our interview.
Anti-Trans Laws: It's Not a Ban, It's a Genocide; & Leslie Feinberg on Race, Class, Gender and Capitalism
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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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Tune into Out-FM on Tue., May 11, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
Sasha Alexander from Black Trans Media
We’re tremendously excited about tonight’s show which marks the beginning of what we hope to be an enduring collaboration with Black Trans Media. In January we brought you an interview with Sasha Alexander, one of the co-founders and directors of Black Trans Media, a group that centers Black Trans people for the purposes of documenting their history and current situation here in New York and elsewhere.
Takoda Patterson, Author & Podcaster
Sasha interviews writer and podcaster Takoda Patterson in a wide-ranging conversation on how Takoda was inspired by the Russell Simmons spoken word TV series, Def Poetry Jam. They discuss what it is to be Black and Trans in the US today as anti-Trans legislation is being proposed in state after state. They also explore Takoda’s new essay on the topic published at aninjusticemag.com titled, “It’s Not a Ban, It’s a Genocide”
Leslie Feinberg in 1997, in a photograph by Ulrike Anhamm
We’ll end the show with a excerpt from a 1995 speech given by the late author and radical activist Leslie Feinberg. In it Feinberg called for unity in struggle across apparent divides of sex, class, race, and gender expression.