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Celebrating Pride while fighting Trump's anti-LGBTQ policies

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On this edition of Your Call, we continue with KALW Pride week by finding out how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration's anti-LGBTQ policies.

The administration has reduced funding and eliminated entire programs that provide healthcare, mental health, social services and more for LGBTQ+ people. Programs at the state level are also being threatened.

Guests:

Dannie Cesena, network director at the California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network

Sherrill Wayland, senior director of special initiatives and partnerships at SAGE

Phillip Hammack, Professor of Psychology & Director of the Sexual & Gender Diversity Lab at UC Santa Cruz

Resources:

KFF: Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions Impacting LGBTQ+ Health

Healthbeat: The U.S. was on track to end the HIV epidemic. Budget cuts threaten that progress.

Yahoo/NBC News: Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.
Andrew Stelzer