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Tonight's Out-FM show will be devoted to exploring the experience of LGBTQIA youth in the New York Foster Care system.

The Administration for Child Services was recently the subject of a long article in the New York Times discussing the release of a study on the children who are clients of the child welfare system in New York. The Administration for Child Services (ACS) study found that more than a third of the clients in the 2019 study were LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex or Asexual.

It further revealed that 58% were black, 19.3 were more than one race, 13% white and 8% were something else.

Vanessa Fuentes

Vanessa Fuentes, formerly ACS client

Mia on ACS Doing Better

Mia on ACS Doing Better

We'll be hearing from trans activists, formerly in this system including Vanessa Fuentes, and Mia Aub, who discuss their mixed experiences in the system.

Denise Hinds

Denise Hinds - Good Shepherd Services

Denise Brogan Kator, interim CEO of Family Equality.

Denise Brogan Kator, interim CEO of Family Equality.

We'll also hear from Denise Hinds of Good Shepherd Services, a Brooklyn-based child welfare organization and Denise Brogan Kator, interim CEO of Family Equality. They discuss the roll-back of Obama era reforms by the Trump administration. The reforms permitted studies of LGBTQIA youth which coud collect valuable data to provide better services to the youth. They discuss the roll of racism in disproportionate removal of children of color from homes. Also they discuss the problems finding foster parents that are accepting of LGBTQIA youth.

 

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Tune into Out-FM on Tue., Oct., 20, 2020 from 8:00-9:00pm, on WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/

 

 

Covid-19 Impact on LGBT's in the Balkans & Brazil (youtube video of segment below)

 

Jelena Vagevic - Balkans

Jelena Vagevic - Balkans

Out-FM co-host Naomi Brussel brings us excerpts from a webinar produced by Outright Action International. Anna Tulie Araujo from Brazil and Jelena Vasiljevic from Serbia describe the needs of the LGBTIQ people in their regions and the interplay of political, economic and health issues in these vulnerable groups. In the Balkans, rights are being eroded, in Brazil, there is a basic struggle to stay alive.

Anna Tulie Araujo - Brazil

Anna Tulie Araujo - Brazil

Black Lesbians Kitchen Table Talk

Cai Thomas - "Queenie" filmmaker

Out-FM co-host Stahimili Mapp holds a conversation with Cai Thompson, a young queer documentary film maker of the film Queenie. Queenie follows a Black lesbian elder as she struggles to acquire an apartment in the new LGBTQ housing called Stonewall House. (Listen above, or view video at the bottom.)
 
Chadra Pittman discusses an upcoming showing of the film Queenie via a Zoom event hosted by Zami Nobla (National Organization of Black Lesbians on Ageing) Ticket info: www.zaminobla.org
Chadra Pittman www.zaminobla.org
Co-Host Stahimili Mapp
"Queenie" (youtube video of segment below)

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