RADIO GAG - The Gays Against Guns Show

On this show we will highlight the actions and accomplishments of Gays Against Guns as we prepare to Grand Marshal the 2026 NYC Pride Parade! Our GAG members and friends will be calling in with their congratulations and acknowledgements of the work that’s been done and the work that continues on the Freedom to Live LGBTQ unarmed and safe in America. Guests: Kevin Herzog, Barry Graubart, Sheffali W...

Join us on Radio GAG for our guest Penny Okamoto of Survivors Empowered and Ceasefire Oregon, we discuss what happens to you when you learn about gun violence survivors. Penny wrote on the astronomical monetary costs of shootings in the US. and she shares the problem of lead contamination, which happens whenever a weapon is fired. June is Pride and Gun Violence Prevention month. Penny discusses Je...

Breakdown Summary : Guns Are Everywhere: GAG is Here! The Breakdown is an abbreviated version of our Radio GAG podcast that covers an overview of the show with excerpts and highlights. When you dive into the full podcast you can get a fuller perspective on the work of Gays Against Guns, the intersectionality of gun violence with homophobia, racism and the right wing extremism of our country.. Guns...

Guns are everywhere: A mall in Baton Rouge, a park in Brooklyn, homes in Shreveport, the White House Press Correspondents Dinner, and the result is fear, death and injury. A panel of Gays Against Guns activists gather to talk about the atmosphere of violence that dogs America and disrupts our safety in virtually every community. Our In Memoriam focuses on just one victim, Nancy Metayer. Nancy will...

There’s strength and power in our alliances. Radio GAG 2026 Episode 2 “Gun Mass” celebrates the alliance between the Empire City Men's Chorus and Gays Against Guns. This episode brings together Dr. Vince Peterson, Director of the Empire City Men’s Chorus, and John Grauwiler, former President of Gays Against Guns, in conversation. Episode 2 includes a new feature: How to Be An Activist with GAG mem...

There’s strength and power in our alliances. Radio GAG 2026 Episode 2 “Gun Mass” celebrates the alliance between the Empire City Men's Chorus and Gays Against Guns. This episode brings together Dr. Vince Peterson, Director of the Empire City Men’s Chorus, and John Grauwiler, former President of Gays Against Guns, in conversation. Episode 2 includes a new feature: How to Be An Activist with GAG mem...

Death By ICE Breakdown is a shortened version of Radio GAG’s 2026 premiere episode Death by ICE. The Breakdown samples our Gays Against Guns In Memoriams for just two of the victims of the recent ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. and gives some commentary on the emotions and experiences of GAG members as they have experienced these deaths. Sarah Germain Lilly shares an upli...

We honor Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the recent victims of the deadly, supposedly immigrant focused killings of two American citizens by the United States Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Customs Enforcement, better known as DHS and ICE. We'll also provide some context into these tragic and disorienting killings of our neighbors in Minneapolis and affirm that they are the result of...

Join hosts Ti Cersley, Sarah Germain Lilly and Paul Rowley on the 9 year marker of the Pulse Nightclub massacre. After 9 years of gun violence prevention activism, we know that guns do not make you safer but the current political and physical threats to the Queer community are real and overwhelming. We continue the important discussion of suicide prevention and self defense. In Memoriam of Melissa...

This episode…is part 2 of Self Defense in the Queer community series and we discuss the reality of physical and political threats to the transgender citizens in our country. Host Ti Cersley talks about threats to trans lives during the Trans Day of Visibility march in NYC. Also, a special interview with Libby Edwards and her dear friend and trans man, Conor about his experiences with threats, assa...

Join us for a new episode of Radio GAG on Self Defense. People generally and marginalized communities in particular have once again been expressing in social circles the perceived need to own a gun to protect themselves. “Protection” is the number one reason cited on polls of gun owners of why they chose to arm themselves. In this episode we hope to acknowledge the fear and actual danger people ma...

Episode #:1 Title/Topic: Artivism 2025 Hosting: Ti Cersley Join host Ti Cersley for Episode 1 of 2025…How do we arm ourselves to fight white nationalism? Fascism? The return of McCarthyism? On this podcast the answer is Artivism! All art must be made! Our guest is Stonewall Inn resident DJ Chauncey Dandridge, we discuss artivism in NYC and his calling to support queer artists. From The People’s Ma...

Parkland Remembrance at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In this episode Sarah talks to Florida GAG member Dana Cotton about her commitment to remembering Parkland and supporting the community. Dana takes us to Project: Grow Love, a memorial garden started on the High School campus where 17 students and teachers were killed in 2018. Dana gave Sarah a sweet little painted stone from @RockinBro...

Costs of Gun Violence pt 3 : Safer Shopping to All! In this podcast, we dig into some OG GAG history with Kenn Kidd, who organized direct actions against Wells Fargo and Fedex around their support for the NRA and gun makers. Our GVP news this week is about the costs of gun violence to taxpayers in Columbus Ohio, estimated at half a Billion per year, thank you to Sean Stefanic. We speak to Morgan A...

Join Radio GAG as we approach Transgender Day of Remembrance, this Wednesday, November 20th, holding Trans victims of gun violence in our hearts with a new podcast that pushes back against Christian Nationalist hate. Hosts Sarah Germain Lilly and Ti Cersley bring you Part 2 of Churches Against Gun Violence. We speak to two faith leaders who see ending gun violence as part of their Christian call…B...

RED-FLAG LAWS – Extreme-Risk Protection October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, host Libby Edwards explores how red-flag laws can help protect individuals who are under immediate threat of gun violence. Our guest, Tom Verni, a retired NYPD detective with over 27 years in law enforcement and former city-wide LGBTQ+ liaison in NYC, will discuss the red-flag law and how extreme-risk protection...

Join us on Radio GAG for There's Nothing to it…VOTE!. Well there's a lot to it this year. Host Ti Cersley dives into few facts and final dates for registering and voting in NY. Sarah Germain Lilly held a roundtable with gun violence prevention activists who have been canvassing in the final days to this historic election. Guests: Ashbey Beasley, Sonni Mun, Josh Tjaden discuss their experiences goi...

Join us on Radio GAG for Suicide Prevention Month and how to be aware if someone is contemplating suicide. Libby Edwards and Cathy Marino-Thomas host with guest Hudson Munoz, executive director of Guns Down America. We discuss how they ended the NRA’s lucrative insurance program, pushed major American banks to end their business relationships with irresponsible gun manufacturers, and forced large...

Join us on Radio GAG for The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round. A bus load of gun violence prevention activists were in NYC for Guacathon 2024. On the bus, we met up with Scout Cardillo from March for Our Lives and Bulletproof Pride. We discuss how this national GVP, youth lead organization is working to address the intersectional issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community at an upcoming advocacy day...

Join us on Radio GAG for Churches Against Gun Violence! Christian Nationalists are grabbing headlines with slogans like “God, Guns and Country”, the more crude and sensational the better. With all the press on far right evangelical churches (was Jesus a Republican or a Democrat?), we have forgotten that churches have been a powerful force in Social Justice movements in the past and can still be to...

Join Radio GAG for our 50 States of Gun Violence podcast! Ti Cersley and Sarah Germain Lilly catch up with friend and Queer ally, Jeremy Stein, now serving as the Executive Director of States United to Prevent Gun Violence. We discuss his vital role in supporting state-led activists. Sarah reports back from the Stop Project 2025 Rally in time Square NY and from Illinois we honor the life of Sonya...

Join Radio GAG for our 2024 Youth Power 2 podcast and tap into the power of change! Radio GAG catches up with Enough Plays to End Gun Violence’s young playwright Niarra C. Bell and actors Eddie Moore and Sky Carrington about their art and views on Gun Violence in America. Then survivor activist Sam Schwartz of the 2024 Tour to Save Democracy gets on board to tell us about his work. We share the be...

Radio GAG introduced Project 2025 (officially the Presidential Transition Project) in our April 7th podcast, which gave a broad overview of this right-wing Republican plan to dismantle American democracy. In the coming months, we will focus on specific aspects of Project 2025 and how this authoritarian, white-supremicist effort to restructure our government will affect us. We welcome back Anna-chr...

Project 2025 (officially the Presidential Transition Project) is the right-wing Republican plan to dismantle American democracy--a harrowing plot that reads like dystopian fiction but is all too real. These policies will turn America to an authoritarian, white-supremacist, autocratic state, much like Hungry. Anne-christine d’Adesky of “Stop the Coup 2025,” along with GAG’s Jay W. Walker, will disc...

Radio GAG Speaks with Ashbey Beasley, Highland Park survivor and lobbyist extraordinaire, about the dollar cost for families and communities when a mass shooting occurs. Ashbey breaks it down and explains how laws shield gunmakers from liability. Our GVP news focuses on New York City, and we treat you to We Wanna Take Your Gun sung by our fab queertet Sing Out Louise.