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Sunday, June 25 from 11 AM – 3 PM

This year, previously apolitical LGBTQ Pride Parades around the country, under pressure from grassroots activists outraged by the Trump regime’s oppressive policies, have reluctantly become Resistance Marches. The Out-FM collective covered:

•    Pride March resistance contingents here in New York and elsewhere
•    Trans Day of Action
•    Gays Against Guns
•    CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
•    LGBT people in Indonesia
•    New queer music
•    and more.
PLUS excerpts of the June 18 conference:
30 Years of ACT UP, Hidden Histories and Voices, Lessons Learned

Below find the segments played on hours 1 & 2 of the special.

You'll find the segments from the ACT UP at 30 Panel on Drug Users & Needle Exchange/Harm Reduction further down the page in a separate box.

 You can play the link below if you have flash enabled or from a HTML5 device. Click the green arrow to download the mp3

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KEN KIDD - RESISTANCE CONTINGENT (Track 01)
Ken Kidd was active in negotiating with the Heritage of Pride Committee in persuading them to have a Resistance Contingent lead the 2017 NYC Pride March. Naomi Brussel spoke to him on June 12 about how that process was accomplished.

JOHN GRAUWILER - GAYS AGAINST GUNS (Track 02)
Naomi attended the lively Gays Against Guns meeting at the Manhattan LGBT Center, shortly after their successful rally and memorial for those killed in the massacre at the Pulse dance club in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. The memorial had been held near the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on June 12, 2017. The group was extremely enthusiastic as it prepared for the Pride march set for two weeks later.

RASHIMA KWATRA  - GAY MEN IN INDONESIA (Track 03)

Naomi Spoke to Rashima Kwatra about the recent persecution of Gay men in Indonesia. Why is this discrimination increasing now? Some factors need more investigation. Like other capitalist economies, Indonesia's had a downturn after the global capitalist crash of 2008, though not as much as in other developing countries. After the 1997-98 economic crash in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian dictatorship was overthrown. How economic factors affect the society at this point is not clear. According to the website Indonesian Investment, its level of poverty and near-poverty is around 25%. Also,  as Rashima points out, the influence of a more conservative form of Islam in the past few years is having an effect on social attitudes. Here's Naomi's interview with Rashima.

25th NYC DYKE MARCH (Tracks 04 & 05)
Naomi went to the march on June 24.  Here's a little of the sound of it.

 TRANS DAY OF ACTION

The Audre Lorde Project’s Trans Justice Program organized the 13th annual Trans Day of Action (TDOA) on June 23. Speakers at their rally focused on 11 Points of Unity:

1. full determination over our bodies
2. an end to harassment and brutality and police violence
3. justice for those who have been criminalized and brutalized
4. access to public and private spaces
5. full legalization of migrants and sanctuary for TGNC migrants
6. opposition to the prison-industrial complex and solidarity with TGNC people in prison
7. end of the "War on Terror"
8. the right to appropriate healthcare
9. respect for people on public assistance
10. equal access to employment
11. respectful and safe housing.

The first voices that Naomi Brussel brings from the event are Trans Justice members Terry Squires and Sapphire, who speak about housing issues and the homeless shelter system. Then you'll hear from other supporters and participants, including marchers from Services and Advocacy for Gay Elders (SAGE), the community group UPROSE (United Puerto Ricans of Sunset Park), the South Asian Group BAYAN, Outright Action International, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

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Conference Excerpts: 30 Years of ACT UP, Hidden Histories and Voices,
Lessons Learned

March with ACT UP June 25, 2017

Below find the ACT UP at 30 Panels

You can play the link below if you have flash enabled or from a HTML5 device. Click the green arrow to download the mp3

(More at actupny.com)

On June 18, WBAI’s Out-FM program co-sponsored a daylong conference with ACT UP/New York, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, titled “30 Years of ACT UP/NY: Hidden Histories and Voices, Lessons Learned.” Three decades after the founding of the iconic direct-action group, and the spread of its chapters around the world, corporate media have rewritten the movement’s history to elevate a small number of white people, almost all gay men, as the heroes who supposedly saved the world from the AIDS pandemic. Meanwhile, the vast army of activists who did the day-to-day work – including many lesbians, people of color, and current and former drug users – have been ignored, and many of ACT UP’s most important victories have been forgotten. So Out-FM wanted to play excerpts from that conference, which brought together a remarkable set of voices rarely heard in the corporate media.

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Tues., June 20, 9 - 9:30 PM EST - Out-FM: Progressive LGBTQI Radio

WBAI, 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org, archived on outfm.org

Below find the ACT UP Latino Caucus segment from the  ACT UP at 30 Hidden History Conference, the rest of the show will be posted on Wednesday. You can play the link below if you have flash enabled or from a HTML5 device. Click the green arrow to download the mp3

Trump Resistance at Pride:

Ken Kidd

Ken Kidd

Naomi Brussel interviews Ken Kidd on the Resistance Contingent made up of Rise and Resist, ACT UP/NY and other grassroots groups. The contingent will highlight resistance to President Trumps deadly and discriminatory policies.

ACT UP's Latino Caucus:

Cesar Carrasco of the Latino Caucus

Cesar Carrasco of the Latino Caucus

Excerpts from Sunday's conference "30 Years of ACT UP: Hidden Histories and Voices, Lessons Learned," co-sponsored by ACT UP/NY, Out-FM, and the LGBT Center (recorded and edited by John Riley of Out-FM). We will present part of the panel on the Latina/o Caucus, which functioned from 1990 to 1996 and did a broad range of educational efforts and actions, described by Cesar Carrasco.

Luis Santiago of the Latino Caucus

Luis Santiago of the Latino Caucus

Luis Santiago (who is now back in ACT UP/NY) presents the history of ACT UP/Puerto Rico. This was initiated in 1990 through a partnership between Puerto Rican lesbian/gay, feminist and AIDS activists and Latina/o Caucus members from New York, more than 30 of whom flew down to P.R. -- with the hard-fought financial support of the majority-white ACT UP/NY -- to help start ACT UP/Puerto Rico. Luis provides a historical reference to the importance of civil disobedience in forcing the U.S. Navy from the Puerto Rican islands of Culebra (in 1974) and Vieques (in 2003). And he notes the long-term impacts of ACT UP/Puerto Rico, which dissolved in 1996, including raising consciousness in the generally homophobic leftist and nationalist movements, helping AIDS organizations gain greatly increased federal funding and popular awareness of the problems, and planting the seeds for the first annual gay pride parade in San Juan, which then became an annual tradition.