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ACT UP Hidden Histories - Housing Works & City AIDS Action
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Charles King of Housing Works
On the next Out-FM, John Riley brings us sound from the ACT UP Hidden Histories conference on the morphing of the ACT UP Housing Committee into Housing Works and the steps needed to end the AIDS Crisis in NY State and US. Also BC Craig talks about a lesson from the AIDS movement of the importance of building coalitions with other groups doing similar work and how going it alone, makes us much weaker and less capable of winning big victories.
BC Craig of ACT UP/NY
Trump Administration vs LGBTQ Civil Rights: & HHS Proposes Terrible anti-LGBT Health Policy
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Jaron Benjamin, Housing Works VP for Community Mobilization
On October 8, the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington will hear oral arguments on a trio of court cases that could lead to the greatest setback for LGBTQ rights since the court’s landmark decisions on same-gender marriage in 2015. Community activists are mobilizing here in New York and elsewhere to make their voices heard outside the court.
All three cases, which the courts have consolidated, will answer the question of whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and particularly its provision prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, applies – as the previous administration agreed – to discrimination against lesbians and gay men, as well as transgender people, based on such cases’ foundation in gender stereotyping. The plaintiffs are a gay man, the estate of a gay man who has died, and a trans woman. We'll talk to Jaron Benjamin, Housing Works VP for Community Mobilization about the demonstration and civil disobedience action planned at the Supreme Court planned by LGBTQ and AIDS activists as the court discusses the case.
Ryan Thoreson - HWR researcher
Naomi Brussel will interview Human Rights Researcher about terrible proposed changes to federal health policy for queer and transpeople.
The Trump administration is trying to change guidelines for Healthcare be provided to LGBT and Trans people in particular. Human Rights Watch has sent a letter signed by HWR researcher Ryan Thoreson, showing the way the change allows discrimination will badly affect LGBT people particularly transpeople.