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Williams institute director Brad Sears joins Gaywaves to discuss their latest research on employment discrimination

Joining us on Gaywaves is Williams Institute executive director Brad Sears, discussing their latest research on LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace. Their latest work has some surprising findings and trends, and should be the basis for our community's continued fight for equality going forward.

 

This segment is part of the September 5, 2024 program.

 

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-workplace-discrimination/

 

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart joins Gaywaves

Our guest in this segment is Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart, who is seeking re-election to another term.

Justice Stewart introduces herself, talks about her journey to the state's highest Court, and explains why she is the most qualified choice for our community. (She also shares that she has LGBTQ members of her family, and her relationship to them.)

 

This segment is part of the September 5, 2024 program.

 

https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/judicial-system/supreme-court-of-ohio/justices-overview/melody-stewart/

 

https://www.stewartforohiosupremecourt.com/

 

https://www.facebook.com/StewartforOhioSupremeCourt

 

Gaywaves entire program September 5, 2024

This is the Gaywaves program September 5, 2024 in its entirety.

Entire Gaywaves show August 29, 2024

There was a malfunction between the loading and broadcast of the show on August 29, 2024, so the entirety of the show did not air on WRUW or stream at wruw.org.

 

Here is the August 29, 2024 Gaywaves broadcast in its entirety.

ACLU of Ohio legal director Freda Levenson returns to Gaywaves to explain and share thoughts on the H.B. 68 ruling

A Franklin County Court has ruled that H.B. 68, the the ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and prohibition on transgender young women participating in scholastic athletics, is constitutional.

The decision is filled with animus toward transgender people and a belief that since transgender people have no federal or state protection as a "suspect class," whatever the general assembly wants to do to control their lives is pretty much fair game.

Freda Levenson is the lead attorney in the case representing the families who challenged the law.  She is also the legal director of the ACLU of Ohio.  This is her second Gaywaves appearance.

Levenson explains that an appeal has been filed, and that she believes it is strong.  

https://www.acluohio.org

https://www.acluohio.org/en/press-releases/ohio-families-urge-appeals-court-issue-order-blocking-hb-68-taking-effect-case

 

This segment aired August 8, 2024

Sam Shim, a parent of a transgender minor, joins Gaywaves to share how the ruling that H.B. 68 is constitutional affects his family

Sam Shim, a former school board member and parent of a transgender minor living in Worthington, joins Gaywaves to talk about this week's Franklin County Court ruling that H.B. 68, the ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and prohibition on transgender young women participating in scholastic athletics, affects his family.

 

This segment aired August 8, 2024

ProPublica investigative reporter Andy Kroll joins Gaywaves to talk about Ziklag

Ziklag is a secretive group of ultra-wealthy Christian Nationalist families that is funding, among other things, the operations behind the anti-transgender laws in states.

The families believe that "transgender acceptance = Final sign before imminent collapse" presumably of civilization, they also have plans to attack marriage equality and make same-sex sex illegal again.

What makes this project different and more pernicious is their available resources, and their detailed 30 year plan, some of which includes the 2024 election, but most does not.

The project was supposed to have remained secret, but Andy Kroll and the team at ProPublica obtained documents and exposed it.  He joins Gaywaves to talk about Ziklag, with an emphasis on its Operation Watchtower, with its emphasis on transgender rights.

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

 

This segment aired August 8, 2024

 

Out school board member and candidate for Cuyahoga County Council Robert Schleper joins Gaywaves

Continuing a long line of public service, out gay Chagrin Falls Board of Education member Robert Schleper is now trying to become the first out member of Cuyahoga County Council. He is our guest on Gaywaves this week discussing what has turned out to be a significant and interesting race.

 

If elected, Schleper would be the first out Cuyahoga County Council member, and the second (behind Auditor Frank Russo) out gay Cuyahoga County official.

 

https://www.robertschleper.com

 

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/robert-schleper/

 

This segment aired August 1, 2024

James Fauntleroy of the Jaybefaunt Show and Revolutionary Blackout Network makes his second appearance on Gaywaves

Today Gaywaves is joined by James Fauntleroy of The Jaybefaunt Show and Revolutionary Blackout Network. This is James' second Gaywaves appearance, and he as always he comes in "hot" discussing the events of the last week around politics, of course, but mostly around how queer Americans need to think about this moment and the future we are shaping right now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@_Jaybefaunt

 

https://www.revolutionaryblackoutnetwork.com

 

This segment aired July 25, 2024

Former HRC employee Alexandria Costello joins Gaywaves to talk about how the Genocide in Gaza and HRC's silence about it, is splitting the organization between its donors and employees

Alexandria Costello is a former employee of the Human Rights Campaign who left because of HRC's tacit support of the Genocide in Gaza. What she reveals is the extent to which the HRC office has been divided and paralyzed on this issue, with the staff on one side and the donors and executives on the other.

 

Alexandria came with the receipts and a strong personal conviction as to what human rights organizations need to stand for in order to have integrity in their own mission.

 

 

This segment aired July 11, 2024