Reclaim Pride March; ACT UP & JVP Protest Global Queer Rights Group’s Refusal to Denounce Gaza Genocide

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Published: 16 June 2024

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2024 Reclaim Pride March

Naomi Brussel will discuss the upcoming Reclaim Pride March with Jay Walker, an organizer with the group Reclaim Pride. The Reclaim Pride Coalition is the grassroots collective that has organized the Queer Liberation March in New York City every June since 2019. They seek to honor and reclaim the spirit of the Stonewall Riots, centering and amplifying the voices and needs of marginalized LGBTQIA2S+ communities. In the tradition of early Pride Marches, they reject corporate sponsorship and police involvement. As a community, they take to the streets to challenge systemic oppression, advocate for justice, and create a world where all queer and transgender individuals are free to live authentically and without fear.

Guests include longtime AIDS and gay activist Jay W. Walker who is a longtime NYC Queer activist and event producer. Most recently he is a cofounder and lead organizer of the Reclaim Pride Coalition and Queer Liberation March, and a founding member and current president of Gays Against Guns. He is also a founding and active member of Rise and Resist and works as the social media manager for StopTheCoup2025 a nonprofit raising the alarms about The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. Also joining us is Samantha Quiñones, who is a Brooklyn-based community organizer, activist, and public speaker. Her work focuses on LGBTQ+ liberation, community self-defense, and mutual aid. Since 2022, they have organized with the Reclaim Pride Coalition.

ACT UP & JVP Protest Global Queer Rights Group’s Refusal to Denounce Gaza Genocide

John Riley interviews two guests:

• Ariel Friedlander, an ACT UP organizer since 2018 and a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) member, and
• Emmaia Gelman, ACT UP member since 1996, Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionist and longtime Palestinian Solidarity Activist Organizer.

They discuss how ACT UP's support for the Palestinian struggle came about as a result of the genocide being committed against Palestinians and their subsequent solidarity actions pressing progressive LGBTQ+ organizations to support the Palestinian struggle and work against the genocide. ACT UP continues its work on a range of HIV/AIDS, MPOX, STDs, health issues.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Transgender But Were Afraid to Ask (Encore edition)

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Published: 11 June 2024

Broadcast on Tues., June 11, 2024 

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Transgender But Were Afraid to Ask

Transgender identity is often thought of as a relatively recent phenomenon and right-wing transphobes like to characterize it as a 'trendy' fad but in fact, there are people who anticipate contemporary transgender identities going back millenia; veteran transgender activist Pauline Park talks with Naomi Brussel and Stahimili Mapp about what transgender is and isn't and why right-wing Republicans are pushing an unprecedented wave of legislation in state legislatures across the country to limit and roll back the rights of trans people and especially trans youth.

Topics to be discussed:
1) Why are we doing this show?
2) Trans can be defined: legal, sex designation, biology, genetics, chromosomes.
3) Historical background
4) Concentric circles diagram & terminology
5) Trans as an umbrella term
6) Socially acceptable questions re gender identity, trans identity, hormones & surgery, etc.

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* Lorraine Hansberry
* Angela Davis (an entire collection)
* Billie Holiday
* Audre Lorde
* June Jordan
* Alice Walker
* Adrienne Rich

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