NYC LGBT Center Joins Lawsuit Against Trump Executive Orders        

Amy Leipziger, the Project Director of the Free To Be Youth Project (FTBYP), describes the legal support the FTBYP provides in institutions for LGBTQ+ young people. She emphasizes the intense fear the Trump administration has created for these youth and the exhaustion of the workers trying to help them. She notes in particular the combining of attacks from federal and local government officials on these youths as Mayor Adams complies with immigration authorities to protect himself from corruption charges. 

 

Amy Leipziger is the Project Director of the Free to Be Youth Project at the Urban Justice Center, which works to interrupt the cycles of poverty and criminalization that prevent homeless and street-involved LGBTQ+ young people from living fulfilling lives free from discrimination, abuse, and oppression. She is dedicated to representing and advocating around the issues of gender, poverty, and discrimination.

 

 

Aired on March 4, 2025

Parallel with its frontal attacks/rollbacks of the rights of people of color, immigrants, and women, the Trump Administration has assaulted hard-fought gains in defending the human rights of LGBTQ+ people, making trans people Public Enemy #1. For the hour, Out-FM's Bob Lederer and Stahimili Mapp will talk with Erin Reed (she/her), a transgender journalist based in Washington, D.C. She tracks LGBTQ+ legislation around the United States for her subscription newsletter, ErinInTheMorning.com.

 

Among the topics we will review: 

1) federal censorship of LGBTQ- and trans-specific information (websites, etc.) 

2) federal attacks on gender-affirming care and honest information by federally-funded institutions (whether healthcare-based or otherwise)

3) responses to these and related dictates (like anti-DEI) by nonprofits, schools, universities, etc. -- both anticipatory compliance and resistance

4) the poll showing U.S. residents are "queerer than ever."

 

For more on these and other LGBTQ+ news stories, visit ErinInTheMorning.com .

 

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STOP THE BROOKLYN JAIL - Noise Demo, Thurs., March 6 @ 6 PM

NYC is building a new $3 billion Brooklyn jail while breaking promises to decarcerate and shut down Rikers by 2027. The Brooklyn jail is one of four Borough-based jails slated to cost the city $16 billion.

There will be a Noise Demo this Thursday, March 6 @ 6 PM at 275 Atlantic Ave., the site of the jail under construction. It's sponsored by the NYC Chapter of the Weelaunee Defense Society, part of the national StopCopCity movement, which we have covered here on Out-FM. The Society invites folks to "join us as we build an abolitionist movement capable of shutting down every NYC jail." Thanks to Firefly for this information.

Details: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGlycoeybeH/?img_index=1 

 

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