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Gregg Araki's "Kaboom"
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Listen here to Out-FM's interview with Gregg Araki.
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Gregg Araki, writer/director of cutting-edge films like Mysterious Skin and the Doom Generation, discusses his newest sexually charged comedy/adventure, Kaboom. As he describes it to Out-FM, "Kaboom is a sort of bisexual Twin Peaks set in college." Starring Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes), it premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the first ever Queer Palm Award for its contribution to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. In the interview, Araki discusses his personal take on sexual identity, deleted subplots in Kaboom, and why he doesn't like going to gay bars any more.
World AIDS Day 2010, Housing Works Protest & Out-FM Co-hosts given Health GAP Global Justice Founders award
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John Riley and Marle Becker co-host a program focusing on World AIDS Day featuring a segment on NYC cuts to AIDS housing with guest Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works, and a segment with Jose Marcos on Global AIDS funding shortages. Click HERE to listen, right click to save the mp3 file to your computer.
The broadcast also spotlights the recording of the October 24th presentation of the Global Health Justice Award by Amy Goodman on behalf of Health GAP (Global Access Project) to ACT UP member and Out-FM co-producer John Riley and former ACT UP member and WBAI Health Action co-producer Bob Lederer for their roles in co-founding Health GAP in 1999. The organization has played a catalytic role in fighting for major price cuts by major drug companies and worldwide funding for distribution of generic AIDS drugs to poor countries.
The show will also pay tribute to performers from the world of entertainment who have died of AIDS and will feature music by, among others, recording artists Keith Christopher, Tom Briggs, Paul Delph, and Cazuza, as well as cabaret's Michael Callen, disco diva Sylvester, Broadway's Larry Kert, rock superstar Freddie Mercury, television's Liberace, country music's Sid Spencer, pop icon Peter Allen, Glamrocker Jobriath, and Hollywood's Anthony Perkins.
Out-FM airs on Tuesday evenings from 7 - 8 PM on WBAI Radio, 99.5 on the dial. We stream at http://www.wbai.org/.
For more information, visit ACT UP/NY.
BREAKING NEWS: Twelve arrested in demonstration at Mayor Bloomberg's World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast
About a dozen protesters dressed as bagels were arrested outside of the Mayor's annual World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast. Among them were Housing Works activist Johnny Gualupo and Housing Works president Charles King. (For an interview with King, click HERE to listen, right-click to save the mp3 file to your computer. The interview is at about 15 minutes in.)
According to the Housing Works press release, "Dozens of outraged bagels plan to boycott Mayor Bloomberg’s annual World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast. They will picket outside the breakfast, which takes place at 7:30 AM, December 1, at the Brooklyn Public Library on Grand Army Plaza."
The baked goods are angry that for the last three years the mayor has hosted a bagel breakfast where he professes his commitment to combating New York City’s AIDS epidemic—and a month later proposes a budget that would devastate services for low-income New Yorkers with AIDS, especially AIDS housing services.
The bagels are calling their boycott a “schmear“ campaign.
“Mayor Bloomberg is like Marie Antoinette. His attitude to poor people with AIDS is ‘Let them eat bagels!’” said Charles “Sesame” King, president and CEO of Housing Works Bagels’ Schmear Campaign. “We bagels refuse to be implicated in the mayor’s World AIDS Day hypocrisy. I invite all New Yorkers to join us on Dec. 1.”
* In 2008, despite a city budget surplus, Bloomberg forced City Council to enact a $6 million cut to AIDS services, including needle exchange and HIV prevention.
* In 2009, he proposed $10 million in cuts. More than $6 million were enacted, largely to AIDS housing.
* In 2010, he proposed crippling cuts to HASA, the agency that oversees housing, nutrition and other benefits for 45,000 poor New Yorkers with AIDS and their families. A Housing Works lawsuit stopped him.
* Bloomberg influenced Gov. Paterson to veto the 30 Percent Rent Cap legislation.
After the Bagel Breakfast Boycott protest, the bagels plan to participate in Housing Works’ annual 24 hour vigil in City Hall Park. Hundreds of New Yorkers will read the names of those who have died of AIDS for a continuous 24 hours, beginning at 12:01 AM, December 1. All New Yorkers are welcome.