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Gay USA 12/1/2021
We’ve lost Stephen Sondheim and several great LGBTQ activists; trans woman Amy Schneider is a big Jeopardy champion. ∎ We mourn the losses of Stephen Sondheim; Phil Saviano; Maria Perez; and Rev. Jerry Sloan. ∎ A breakthrough for non-binary people in Atlanta. ∎ A gay nurse and activist, Damian...
Imagining Radical Implementation -- The Cloward/Piven Model
Radical implementation involves pushing for substantial change while learning what the powerful will concede. It typifies a distinctive, alternative model and strategy for progressive social change developed by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in the 1960s and 70s to address the issues of...
Gay USA 11/24/2021
Republicans fight among themselves about LGBTQ issues; lots of LGBTQ nominees for Grammys. ∎ Florist who denied service to gay couple drops appeal to Supreme Court. ∎ Biden nominates another out lesbian to the federal appeals bench—and reverses more anti-LGBTQ Trump policies. ∎ The head of the...
Imagining Lessons from the Young Lords -- Forever Young
Over 50 years ago in July of 2020, the Young Lords -- a revolutionary community group of Hispanic and Black New Yorkers occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx for 12 hours. Long known as a "butcher shop," they demanded better care, improved conditions, and a variety of patient and worker rights for...
Gay USA 11/17/2021
LGBTQ activists fight book burning; guest Jim Hubbard shows us exciting, revamped ACT UP Oral History Project website. ∎ The fight over LGBTQ books in school libraries gets heated. ∎ Religious groups object to Biden child care plan if they can’t discriminate against us. ∎ It’s Transgender...
Imagining The Peculiar Indifference to Violence on Black Ame
Our guest today on the Radical Imagination is Elliott Currie, a Pulitzer prize finalist author, a leading expert on the criminal legal system and a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He's a renowned scholar and author of many works on crime, juvenile...
Gay USA 11/10/2021
Hero lesbian couple murdered in Virginia; recommendations of new movies, theater and music.
Imagining Revolution Around the Corner -- Voices From the Pu
We're taping the Radical Imagination today -- October 27th -- commemorating 47 years to the day of the 1974 National Day of Solidarity with Independence of Puerto Rico.
Gay USA 11/03/2021
Election results good for LGBTQ candidates; but right wing relentlessly attacking LGBTQ in schools. ∎ Election results: some scary wins for the anti-LGBTQ rightwing but also some big victories for out LGBTQ candidates across the country. ∎ The US Supreme Court lets a trans man sue a Catholic...