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Trump's Iran War: An Iranian-American Transwoman's Perspective; and Pink Washing, Victim Supremacy, And Queering Up Resistance As An Anti-Zionist Jew
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Out-FM show aired on April 7, 2026
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Pauline Park (L), with Pooya Mohseni (R)
Pooya Mohseni was born and raised in Tehran; the Iranian-American actor and LGBTQ activist shares her thoughts on Donald Trump's war on Iran with Out-FM's Pauline Park for the hour. Pooya describes surviving conversion therapy, multiple suicide attempts, and arrests by the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) before fleeing Iran in 1997, ultimately becoming the only openly trans Iranian-American actor on Broadway. She passionately opposes both the Islamic Republic's oppression and the U.S. bombing campaign, arguing that collective punishment is a war crime and that destroying Iran's infrastructure will not liberate its people but rather strengthen hardliners and trap civilians between two violent forces. Pooya emphasizes that despite the regime's cruelty toward her as a queer person, she still values Iranian lives and believes no one deserves to be bombed, rejecting the binary thinking that forces people to choose between supporting the regime or supporting war. Her filmography is on wikipedia.org at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooya_Mohseni
Pinkwashing and Victim Supremacy in Israel Palestine
A commentary by Peter Jonas on the intersectionality of queer and Palestinian struggles, how queer identity is exploited to justify occupation and genocide, and why fighting for Palestine is a necessary component of queer liberation
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Money for AIDS and Healthcare, Not for ICE and Warfare
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Out-FM show aired on March 31, 2026
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ACT UP Co-Founder Eric Sawyer at 39th Anniversary Protest
Out-FM covered ACT UP/NY’s (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) commemoration of 39 years of fighting the AIDS epidemic. We brought you sounds of a rally protesting the Trump administration’s slashing of HIV/AIDS budgets while increasing budgets for ICE and waging the current war on Iran.
Last summer, the Trump administration and its congressional allies enacted spending cuts of $1 trillion that decimated federal healthcare and HIV/AIDS programs and the agencies that operate them. These funds were essentially reallocated from the fight against AIDS to dramatically increase funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Since Trump took office, funding for ICE and CBP has tripled to nearly $200 billion. The ICE portion expanded the personnel who abduct mostly Black and Brown immigrants and their families from their communities and imprison them in concentration camps before deportation. “The living conditions in these camps are inhumane, and healthcare services are nearly nonexistent resulting in numerous deaths including people with HIV,” said ACT UP/NY member Ryan Foster.
ACT UP Protests Palantir Profiteering
To accomplish this work, ICE contracts with software company Palantir Technologies, which profits handsomely and has an office in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Activists are calling for divestment from Palantir Technologies and the defunding of ICE and the war effort. Sound from the march on Palantir and street action there was included.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is using its new additional funding of $155 billion to wage an unauthorized war against Iran and fund weapons to Israel in the Palestinian genocide. Activists are demanding an end to the war in Iran and the Palestinian genocide.
Mark Milano Poster at 39th Anniversary Action
As part of ACT UP’s anniversary, the group honored member Mark Milano, a longtime AIDS and healthcare activist who died of cancer in early January. He was a leader in the early years of ACT UP and later in the Trump resistance movement through Rise and Resist. Additional ACT UP/NY members who have passed away in recent years and were remembered include Nanette Kazaoka, Alan Timothy Lunceford-Stevens, Mel Stevens, Kathy Ottersten, Gerri Wells, and others.