2019 WBAI Pride Special (June 2nd)

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Published: 10 June 2019

Tune into Out-FM on Sunday June 2, at 4:30pm on WBAI/NY and wbai.org

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Out-FM Part of special

Out-FM’s part of today’s special PRIDE, POLITICS & PROGRESS: 50 YEARS SINCE STONEWALL (file 5 in the list above) from 4:30-6 PM, covers the following topics:

• a discussion about the alternative pride march and rally set for June 30, called "Reclaim Pride," going on at the same time as the mainstream march known as "Heritage of Pride" and dedicated to creating an LGBTQ Pride event without commercial sponsorship and police intrusiveness.
• an interview with Jessica Stern, the Director of Outright Action International, as she gives her perspective of the international queer movement and its development over the past decades.
• an interview with gay Puerto Rican pro-independence activist and former political prisoner Ricardo Jimenez, now living in Chicago, speaking about advances for gay acceptance in the Puerto Rican community in the U.S. and on the island of Puerto Rico.
• a rebroadcast interview from 2 years ago with 3 longtime AIDS activists from different backgrounds who shed light on the "Hidden Histories" of the past 30 years of the iconic direct-action AIDS organization, ACT UP or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
• Below find the entire 7 hour special.

Full show posted below:

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Jeff Simmons - WBAI – Stonewall - June 2, 2019

File 1 – 11:00 AM - Noon

• Thomas Duane, former New York State Senator
• Karla Jay, professor emerita at Pace University, early member of Gay Liberation Front
• Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers

File 2 – Noon – 1:00 PM

• Eric Marcus, author, Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights and Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian & Gay Equal Rights.
• Evan Wolfson, advocate and founder and president of Freedom to Marry
• Stacy Lentz, President, CEO and Co-Founder, Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative
• Earl Fowlkes, President, CEO, Center for Black Equity

File 3 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM

• Tanya Domi, Professor at Columbia, and former US Army Member
• Ron Goldberg, ACT-UP member and author of the upcoming “Boy with the Bullhorn”
• Andrew Tobias, author of “The Best Little Boy in the World” and former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee
• Rebecca Klassen and Rachel Corbman, Curators from the New York-Historical Society’s new Stonewall exhibitions

File 4 – 2:00 – 3:00 PM

• Melissa Sklarz, Government Relations strategist at SAGE, former Board Co-Chair of Empire State Pride Agenda and National Stonewall Democrats, and transgender activist
• Heritage of Pride volunteer Julian Sanjivan
• Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank
• Christine Quinn, former Speaker of the New York City Council

GAG's section of the special contains the following:

Palestinian Queers; Outright International on 50 Years of Global Activism; & Sabrina Imbler

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Published: 04 June 2019

Tune into Out-FM on Tuesday, June 4, at 9:00pm on WBAI/NY and wbai.org

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Out-FM Full Show

Rebroadcast of Out-FM producer Brad Taylor Sept 2018 interview with Haneen Maikey, a Palestinian organizer of alQaws, which runs 7 LGBT community centers in Palestine. The centers train youth in uses of new media, helps its users navigate the rigors of Israeli occupation, campaigns against violence against LGBT people, and are building to a future without patriarchy or colonialism.

Part 2 of an interview with Jessica Stern, the Director of Outright Action International, as she gives her perspective of the international queer movement and its development over the past decades.

Reading by Sabrina Imbler (essayist, Catapult) at an event honoring Bluestockings Bookstore's 20th Anniversary.   Sabrina Imbler is a writer and essayist based in Brooklyn. She is currently a staff writer for Atlas Obscura.(Bluestockings is kicking off a community-powered grassroots program to invest in 20 more years of anti-oppressive spaces thriving in a hypergentrified landscape.)