Will (electoral) Lightning Strike Queens Twice?/ Jay Toole Oral History

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Published: 15 June 2019

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The District Attorney is in charge of enforcing NY State laws and has tremendous sway over the amount of bond, if any, that the state demands of defendants. That determines who goes to jail immediately after arrest and who stays there until trial. They determine plea agreement terms and have tremendous sway over how justice is delivered, or not delivered.  In NY each of the 5 bouroughs have elected DAs some of whom are up for election this fall.

The most watched District Attorney race in NYC is in Queens. John Ryan is the current holder of the office of Acting District Attorney  for the County of Queens following the death of Richard A. Brown, who was appointed by Mario Cuomo in 1991.

The election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent shockwaves through the political establishment as they grappled not just with the loss of a mainstream Democratic representative, but because he was highly placed in the party hierarchy.

Now with the upcoming primary election on June 25^th, the forces that successfully elected Ocasio-Cortez are now trying their hand at a powerful local office, that of the Queens District attorney. Their candidate, , is a former public defender with a left progressive bent. Her supporters include the Democratic Socialists of America, the Working Families Party and many local groups. 

Joining Out-FM Producer John Riley to discuss the crowded primary field, is Akela Lacy, who’s the author of a recent article published in The Intercept called, “Revenge of the Machine: NY Party Bosses Rally to Melinda Katz in Pivotal Prosecutor Race.”

Out-FM Producer Naomi Brussel brings us part 1 of an oral history of Jay Toole, co-founder of Queers for Economic Justice. Toole was in Washington Square Park when the first night of the Stonewall Riots started and upon hearing of the uprising rushed to the site. Toole, age 71, describes her gender non-conforming life from being kicked out of her parent's home as a teen, to her life on the streets.

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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’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: