RADIO GAG - The Gays Against Guns Show

Remember Valentine’s Day before the Parkland Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School? How many memories survive for the parents who lost children at that horrific event? One father, Manuel Oliver, has made a mission of continuing his son Joaquin’s activism against gun violence and has filed an international lawsuit condemning the American laws and corrupt culture that allow gun vi...

“I need it for protection..” Most Americans give protection as the reason they obtained a gun. But are you safer with a gun? What is the difference between feeling safe and actually being safer? Olivia Brown, from Project Unloaded and Katherine Schweit, author and former FBI Agent and expert on school mass shootings, share their differing perspectives and strategies on these critical questions abo...

Libby Edwards takes a look at the state of gun laws in Iowa.

This week, Radio GAG marks the sixth annual National Gun-Violence Survivors Week (January 22 – 26) and begins its examination of the costs of gun violence. Our special guest will be Patricia Oliver, a co-founder of “Change the Ref,” and mother of Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, who was killed on Valentine’s Day in Parkland. Patricia speaks openly and movingly about the ways she and her family have been aff...

How Safe Storage Laws can change the landscape of gun violence in America. Gun Violence prevention news: The 11th Annual Vigil for All Survivors of gun violence brought historic gains for the gun violence prevention movement including Senate votes and sponsorship by Senator Charles Schumer. Our In Memoriam: Francesco Cochran, age 17, who took his life with an unsecured weapon. In Conversation: Rad...

Trans Day of Remembrance 2023 Our actions: On November 20th, Gays Against Guns teamed up with NYCyouth4transrights and The Clinton School GSA at their event in Washington Square Park. GAG’s Human Beings represented transgender, gender non-conforming/non-binary and TwoSpirit Americans who have been killed by gun violence in the last year - Ti Cersley has a report back. Our In Memoriam is for Koko D...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For Domestic Violence - Part II, our first guest, Catherine Shugrue dos Santos of the NYC Anti-Violence Project, will address the many unique factors in LGBTQ+ domestic violence that result in barriers to safety, and where to find assistance. And a survivor of domestic/intimate-partner violence tells us how she recognized her situation and sought help....

OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH. In the United States, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men who suffer physical abuse in some form. Partner abuse can take the form of emotional cohersion, threats, and stalking, up to physical violence and murder. When guns are involved, a woman's r...

This week we are celebrating the First-Ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Join host Ti Cersley and Gays Against Guns President Jay W. Walker as they discuss the importance of this new office and the Deputy Director, Greg Jackson. Find out what else is gagging with GAG this Month? Plus, Sarah Germain Lilly brings us an update on Enough Plays to End Gun Violence. Our In Memoriam: Jo...

It’s suicide awareness month and Radio GAG has plenty to talk about. Our featured interview with Cator Sparks describes the changing world and changing identity of men in our culture, and the suicide of his own father. Meanwhile the Radio GAG GVP news focuses on the gun safety regulation that legislators are able to move on and the grass roots efforts to push them. And Gays Against Guns Gaggers re...

September is Suicide Awareness Month and the rates of gun suicide are particularly high among former and current military members. Join Radio GAG host Ti Cersley and guest Marissa Edmund breakdown a report from the Center for American Progress about Gun Suicides and military members. Since this interview, 988 has been designated as the new three-digit dialing code that will route callers to the Na...

Suicide Awareness Month. If you know, you know. Suicide is an epidemic in the US, with teenagers, the middle aged, elderly women and especially men all among the victims. Join Radio GAG this month as we explore suicide, what can be done and especially the access to guns that kill about 70% of suicide victims. Sarah Germain Lilly interviews Katrina Brees, Artist/Activist whose suicide prevention bi...

Radio GAG reports on summer activism and gun violence prevention events in our podcast GAG ing in the Streets. Join our Radio GAG hosts and guests as they discuss Gays Against Guns recent event: Guac’s Dance Party, an outdoor dance party with Manuel and Patricia Oliver, Sam Schwartz and other gun violence survivors in honor of Joaquin Oliver who was killed at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School...

Radio GAG welcomes Brandon Wolf, Pulse Nightclub survivor turned activist and author of a new book “A Place for Us: A Memoir”. Join host Ti Cersley and Jay W. Walker as they discuss the current state of Florida. Brandon explains how he still finds hope in the people of Florida even with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, political hate speech, book bans and now permitless carry. Sarah Germain Lilly provides...

Suppose you had taken out a restraining order against your former partner, because they beat and threatened you and menaced you with their gun. Then the judge tells you, this restraining order will protect you and your family from a confrontation with this person, but you cannot restrict them from carrying a gun. Enter Zackey Rahimi, who claims he has such a right even though he’s used a gun inten...

One of our favorite youth activists told us recently that an important way we can advocate to end gun violence is by talking about it! So, just how do you approach such a sensitive issue with people you care about in your community this summer? Radio GAG speaks with Fred Guttenberg, Author, Activist and dad about his new book American Carnage, co-authored with Thom Gabor. Fred’s daughter Jaime Gut...

This week on Radio GAG! A report on the Pulse Memorial Vigil held at Stonewall Memorial Park in Greenwich Village. Ti Cersley talks with Tomik Dash and Devin Domingo from BaBEC about Juneteeth on Fire Island and there work for Black and transgender equity as well as a sense of belonging among LGBTQ+ Black people and all people of color. Voices from the Assault Weapons Ban DC Survivor’s Sit In and...

Join Radio GAG 5.25.23 as we get the down low on the Survivor Sit In DC June 6-12. Activist Sam Schwartz who lost his cousin Alex in the Parkland mass murder 2.14.2018 has had enough.  After lobbying for five years in Florida and Washington DC, Sam has called for all the Gun Violence Prevention groups to join him in a National sit in for a vote on the Assault Weapons Ban before Congress.  While la...

Join Hosts Sarah Germain Lilly and Ti Cersley as Radio GAG goes LIVE to find out what our listeners think about banning assault weapons. We hear from Comedian Amy Schumer at a rally held on May 13th in Union Square to give mom what she really wants: an assault weapons ban. Robert DeDominic gives us a GVP news update. Do you think an assault weapons ban would reduce violence and injuries in the US?

Join Hosts Sarah Germain Lilly and Sean Stefanic as we look at the misguided and deadly results of the guns, deaths and injuries pushed into our lives by gun manufacturers and the politicians who protect them. First, a news update on another deadly shooting with an AR-15 in Texas, and victories from state houses all across America that have passed legislation to regulate firearms. Then we go to th...

GAG comments on the NRA’s recent convention in Indiana and talks with activists Tom Gerety and Mary Tuttle, who were among those who created onsite actions to push back against the NRA’s dangerous messaging. Join hosts Libby Edwards, Sean Stephanic and GAG contributor Robert DeDominic, as we discuss the NRA’s faulty definition of the Second Amendment and hear about Body Count, a street action in d...

Join Radio GAG, as we amplify the youth that are driving the gun violence prevention movement that's changing the political perspective across the nation. Across the country, youth are demanding gun reform, safer streets and respect for LGBTQ+ Rights. Radio GAG interviews members from NYC Youth 4 Trans Rights; Rachel Jacoby of March for Our Lives and Chicago Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence; Abby...

Hosts Sean Stefanic and Sarah Germain Lilly discuss the violent chain of death connecting two deadly forces on the rise in America and Mexico; Fentyal trafficking and the illegal gun trade. Robert Dominic shares the GVP news update. Newtown Action Alliance leader Po Murray details the international delegation which traveled to Mexico to meet with Mexican leaders about the crisis. Asheby Beasley, w...

Host Sarah Germain Lilly reports on the far-right House Judiciary (horror) hearing called: ATF’s Assault on the Second Amendment: When is Enough Enough?; and the gun violence prevention movement’s heroic responses. Next Sean Stefanic shares a report on the far-right Gift of Life Counter Protest that many activists took part in Saturday, March 25th. Jay Walker gives a full report on the Drag Story...

GAG reports on the recent bans and attacks on drag artists in America. Host Ti Cersley reviews the history of drag bans in a special report with NYC know it all drag performer, Gina Tonic. Fellow Gagger, Sean Stefanic talks to Desiree Joy Frias, about her work as a Drag Story Hour Defender. Then Jay W. Walker reports on the protests from the LGBT+ Center, where AG Letitia Games participated in a D...