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Tune into Out-FM on Tue., June 1, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/

25 Deaths Too Many

Takoda Paterson from Black Trans Media reads her essay "25 Deaths Too Many"

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.