Right click HERE to download and listen to Part 1 of Out-FM’s fund drive special is on the life of famed Black poet Langston Hughes on Tue. Feb. 19 at 7PM.

We’ll hear the voice of Langston telling his own story with his own words. We’ll also hear how deeply he influenced contemporary Black writers. (For high quality download, large file, right click HERE to download and listen to Part 1.) Click HERE for standard quality mp3 of Part 2 (small, right click to save) Right click HERE to listen to Part 2 (high quality file but 55 meg)   Langston Hughes left an incredible mark on the Black arts world. As mentor to Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin he was an inspiration for the new Black Arts Movement of the 1960s which Hansberry and Baldwin started. Poets Amiri Baraka, Sonya Sanchez and writer Alice Walker all pay tribute to Hughes.   Tonight’s special will have two aspects. One, the life of Langston Hughes as told by himself thru “Reading and Life History” and excerpts from a 1963 interview with Hughes, and readings from his poetry. The other part will exerpts from a film homage to Hughes produced by Columbia Professor Jamal Joseph and directed by Darralynn Hutson. This film brings to the air the voices of famed actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, poets Amiri Baraka and Sonya Sanchez and many younger writers. We’ll be offering The 2002 film "Hughes Dream Harlem", for a pledge of $90.00 A Mp3 CD with readings by Langston from the Pacifica Archives called “Langston Hughes Mp3 Biography and Readings” for a pledge of $50. You may also give a donation of any amount at give2wbai.org.

We urge you to give generously. WBAI is facing an extreme shortfall of funds, is months behind in antenna rent payment, and is in court facing  eviction from the Empire State Building's antenna, which would take WBAI off the air. In the previous 3 fund drives the station was behind goals by $500,000. This fund drive alone we are making half the amount of money we normally make. The proceeding against WBAI not only asks for the station to be current, but wants the station's antenna removed because of a history of late payment. Our monthly antenna rental costs $50,000. Now is the time we need people to be more generous than ever, or face the end of WBAI.

Click HERE (right click to save a downloadable mp3 file, its easier and faster) to listen to an Out-FM episode about Crown Heights police brutality, the Crown Heights hacktivist Aaron Swartz, and the Israeli film Yossi. Click HERE for a large high quality version of the show (128meg).

	On January 11th, NYPD officers from the notorious 77th precinct brutalized Jabbar Campbell, a gay man in Crown Heights, which many activists consider part of a pattern of misconduct in our communities. Out-FM's Naomi Brussel went to a community safety event Saturday about these issues and conducted interviews and recorded recorded dispatches from the New York City Anti-Violence Project, Streetwise and Safe, and Jabbar Campbell himself.
	We then discusses an essay about sexual fluidity and the limits of sexual identity by the so-called "hacker genius" Aaron Swartz, who died in his Crown Heights apartment after being hounded by federal prosecutors. Swartz was open about having relationships with people of all genders even though he eschewed labels, and Chris will read and discuss an essay he wrote about this under-reported aspect of his life.
	In the second half of the show, transgender and Palestine solidarity activist and author Pauline Park will discuss the new gay-themed Israeli film Yossi, a sequel to Yossi and Jagger. While she enjoyed the film on some levels, Park discusses some of the omitted political context of a film that does not have any Palestinian characters. She and Naomi have a robust conversation about some of these complexities for about 20 minutes.

Hosts: Naomi Brussel and John Riley. In addition to some of the weeks news, the topics of tonight's show are:

JFREJ’s 16th Annual Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards was an inspiring success! Over 300 JFREJ members, allies, and friends gathered at B’nai Jeshurun last November to celebrate their honorees. Among those honored was Eric Ward, long times civil rights organizer. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, known as ACT UP was honored for its 25 years of risk taking. Finally one of JFREJ’s own, Melanie, Kay Kantrowitz was also honored. Esther Kaplan, long time JFREJ member and WBAI co-host of Beyond the Pale, a progressive Jewish Public affairs program, presented the award. We begin with Esther, followed by Melanie. Melanie’s full comments will be posted on line on Thursday.

Continuation of the readings of Audre Lorde and Andrea Rich at the Lesbian Herstory Archive

-Tara Tabassi from FIERCE delivering a mic check at the LGBT Center March 3rd about the  exclusion of Palestian queer issues.

-A discussion by Ugandan queer activist Val Kalende at the Creating Change Conference.

-A Tribute to LGBT people lost in 2012

-Pieces about the 25th anniversary of ACT UP, the Robin Hood Tax, and HIV Criminalization

-Hurrricane Sandy's impact on the most vulnerable members of the LGBTQ community

-A Discussion about Private B. Manning commentary.

Happy new year from Out-FM!

On tonight's show, we discuss the future of the LGBTQ movement (focusing on its radical possibilities) with two of our biggest thinkers: gay historian Martin Duberman and lesbian activist and writer Urvashi Vaid.

In a lecture at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Duberman discusses the history of how the LGBT movement was started by radicals and coopted by reformist liberals, moving from the early days of the Gay Liberation Front to today's Human Rights Campaign.

Vaid, in this final part of a three part interview about her new book Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics, also focuses on the more radical possibilities of the movement. She suggests some pragmatic possibilities for rerouting the movement back to focusing on a radical social justice agenda.

We also hear a portrait of Derrick, a bisexual homeless youth. This 4-minute clip, produced by Carl Siciliano, is part of the Ali Forney Center's Homeless for the Holidays series.

Last Tuesday a group of 7 activists joined by dozens of other activists stormed the offices of Speaker of the House John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio. The activists, alarmed at the approaching fiscal sequestration, which would reduce spending to many domestic social service programs and research that people with AIDS depend on. The sequestration would in many ways strip people with HIV/AIDS of the very basics of survival. The activists stripped off their cloths and linked arms chanting. Their chests and backs were covered with slogans like: Fund Hopwa, Fund ADAP, and Robin Hood Tax. We begin by hearing what sound from the action by RodneyWins. We then speak with QUEEROCRACY and ACT UP/NY members Megan Mullholland and Cassidy Gardner about why they took such bold courageous action.

Then we hear excerpts from a Streetwise and Safe event about changing NYPD patrol guidelines for interacting with trans people.

Finally, Out-FM speaks with Gina Quattrocchi, CEO of the Bailey House, which is the oldest group in the country offering housing and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS. One of their most well known residences, the Bailey-Holt House on Christopher Street by the Hudson River, was made uninhabitable by Hurricane Sandy, and Quattrocchi discusses how they're recovering, sharing some personal stories of her displaced residents.

Naomi Brussel starts with an interview with Jessica Stern, the Executive Director of International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) about the UN General assembly vote to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the resolution against extrajudicial killings. Stern also discusses the reintroduction of the "kill the gays" bill in Uganda.

We then share the second half of our interview with Urvashi Vaid, author of the new book Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics. You can listen here to this second part of the interview.

Naomi ends the show with a recording of activists from Streetwise and Safe and the LGBT Center discussing their success negotiating with the NYPD to change patrol guidelines for interacting with trans* people in New York.

We start with the first half of our two-part interview with Urvashi Vaid about her new book, Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.

In the second half of the hour, we follow up on LGBT groups hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. We speak with groups working with LGBT homeless youths and adults. These are Hurricane Sandy voices you won't hear in the mainstream media.

First, Naomi Brussel interviews Amber Hollibaugh from Queers for Economic Justice about the hurricane's impact on LGBTQ adults experiencing homelessness. Listen here to their 14-minute conversation.

Then we interview Kate Barnhart from the New Alternatives drop-in center for homeless LGBT Youth about how the hurricane affected young people who were already without homes. Listen here to the 15-minute interview with Kate about Hurricane Sandy. Listen here to a previous Out-FM interview with Kate about New Alternatives.

First, Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, and Jai Dulani, co-director of FIERCE, discuss the latest case of trans-bashing in the West Village and how we can prevent this type of violence. At a West Village McDonalds last Wednesay, Jamar McLeod defended his girlfriend, Jalisa “JoJo” Griffen, from a patron who was hurling anti-trans and anti-gay rhetoric at Jalisa and Jamar. The attacker then slashed Jamar with a razor multiple times across his face and body. Stapel and Dulani contextualize this attack in the larger pattern of increasing anti-LGBT violence and discuss what AVP, FIERCE, and the rest of the community are doing to prevent it. Click here to listen to this 28-minute conversation separately. TRIGGER WARNING: A personal experience of a violent gay bashing is discussed on air.

If you or someone you know has experienced any kind of violence, call AVP's 24-hour bilingual hotline: 212-714-1141.

In the second half of the show, we hear from Kate Barnhart, director of the New Alternatives drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth on Christopher Street (a few blocks from where Jamar and Jalisa were attacked). Click here to hear the 18-minute interview with Kate broadcast on air. Click here to hear 5 more minutes of discussion with Kate. You can donate to New Alternatives on their web site.

Jalisa Griffen