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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., October 22, 2024 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY

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National Coming Out Day event at the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library

National Coming Out Day event at the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library

On today's show, four LGBTQ Asian Americans talk about coming out, family and activism at a National Coming Out Day event at the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library; and Pauline Park talks with gay Singaporean American poet Jee Leong Koh about poetry, organizing the Singaporean expatriate community and activism.

#ComingOut #LGBTQ QueerAPI #Singapore #poetry #Palestine

 

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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., October 15, 2024 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY

or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/ 

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War Against Gaza and Its Impact on the 2024 Presidential Election

Pauline Park and Naomi Brussel Discuss Effect of War on Gaza and Lebanon on US Election

Out-FM's Naomi Brussel and Pauline Park discuss the ongoing Gaza genocide and Apartheid Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the possible impact on the 2024 presidential election.
(Due to Hurricane Helene's aftermath  Pauline Park and Naomi Brussel can't speak with the noted peace and human rights activist Mandy Carter tonight, on North Carolina's crucial role in the 2024 presidential election and on the Black and white lesbians who founded Southerners on New Ground to challenge homophobia and white supremacy. (see bio here). Come back to this website for the new broadcast date.)
Song:
Sweet Honey in the Rock: "In the Morning When I Rise"
 
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Trojan Women pPlay set in Greece

Trojan Women Play Set in Greece

Ong Keng Sen on Queering Singaporean Theater

Pauline Park talks with renowned theater director Ong Keng Sen about being LGBTQ and doing theater in Singapore that challenges the sex/gender binary. Ong Keng discusses how a Greek play set in modern Korea still can have current relevance and yet be difficult to censor. He will be speaking at 6TH SINGAPORE LITERATURE FESTIVAL IN NYC this coming weekend.
Song:
Henry Purcell, "When I Am Laid in Earth" from "Dido & Aeneas" (sung by Jessye Norman)

Ong Keng Sen

Renowned Theater Director Ong Keng Sen

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Longtime AIDS Activist Nanette Kazaoka Dies

 
Nanette Kazaoka, former ACT UP Treasurer and direct action activist, has died at age 82. We'll play the obituary of Nanette aired by Gay USA on Free Speech TV. Her 2014 interview with the ACT UP Oral History Project is here.
 
Pictured above left to right: Maxine Wolfe, Nanette Kazaoka (center), and Eustascia Smith at ACT UP's 1997 Crash the Market March and mass civil disobedience on Wall Street). At the Crash the Market Demonstration, the 3 women were followed by other activists carrying a coffin behind them, protesting the sky-high prices of AIDS drugs which were causing many to die because of lack of affordability, as well as demanding the pharmaceutical Industry test AIDS drugs in women, which wasn't happening at the time. 
 
In the photo below, in 2004 AIDS activists were pressuring the George W. Bush Administration to enable affordable access to AIDS drugs to Africa and the developing world by fully funding the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and by dropping the odious debt burden imposed by the IMF and World Bank on poor and middle-income countries.

5 ACT UP members protest Bush's AIDS Policy Republican Convention.

Five ACT UP members protest outside the 2004 Republican National Convention.  Nanette Kazaoka is furthest to the left with back to the camera.

#NorthCarolina #MarkRobinson #MandyCarter #OngKengSen #Singapore #theater #LGBTQ

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