Marle Becker is a co-founder of the OutFM program; he has also been on the advisory boards of the Beaux Arts Society and Gay Performances Company, an advisor for the Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards, and wrote the forward for Will Grega's "Gay Music Guide".

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Mubarak Dahir was born in Jerusalem to a Muslim father and Southern Baptist mother and is a freelance journalist living in New York. His column on gay and lesbian life appears in approximately 40 glbt newspapers around the country. Previously, he was a reporter for the Philadelphia City Paper, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, and an editorial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has also contributed to dozens of publications, including Time, Redbook, Men's Fitness, The Progressive, and Business Traveler. Since September 11, he has written and lectured extensively on life for gay and lesbian Middle Easterners and Muslims living in the United States.

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Jim Davis has written for New York's newspapers LGBT and Able/NY, for the original Gay Community News, and for Ragged Edge magazine; with Disabled In Action of Metropolitan NY, he does advocacy work towards equal accessibility for all in public space.

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Susie Day has been swimming against the mainstream, writing her slapdash, anti-American column in queer and feminist papers for the past decade or so. As you can guess, this has made her fabulously wealthy, which is how she can afford to read her column on WBAI's OutFM for free (and to publish it too on wbai.org--see the Humor section under News). She lives with her partner and concubine Laura Whitehorn in a secret hideout in Washington Heights. She would like you to live and be well.

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Lucia Gimeno is a Queer, Mexican-Puerto Rican community organizer, playwright, and director. As a queer woman of color, the main issues she organizes around are gentrification, police harassment, homophobia, transphobia, and racism.

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Tony Glover is a co-founder of both the Gay Lesbian Independent Broadcasters and OutFM radio collectives at WBAI; African American, he has been a radio and print journalist for over a decade with a focus on anti-racist movements, LGBT rights, lesbian & gay people of color, HIV/AIDS activism, and public health policies.

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Christina B. Hanhardt is an activist, graduate student, and instructor of sexual, urban, and criminal (in)justice politics.

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Jesse Heiwa is a co-founder of OutFM and a queer identified, bi (racial/sexual/gendered), person of color activist for racial & economic justice across communities; a Turtle Islander of AsianPacific and Mediterranean descent, s/he has been a journalist, organizer, and fundraiser. You can reach hir at jheiwa@WBAI.org

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Peter Jonas is an anti-corpocracy/anti-war/anti-globalization/anti-consumerist radical faerie performance activist who has used dramatics for anti-racism/classism training and street theatre, among other things.

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laurie prendergast is the poor child of immigrants, works as a teacher/educator/organizer, and collaborates on public projects that explore the histories of cooperative economics, public health, and race, gender, and sexuality through the media and the arts.

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George Reilly is a long time member of OutFM; in addition to producing and engineering programs, he has been archiving gay radio for over a decade.

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John Riley has been a long time queer and AIDS activist and he is also a member of the Health Action collective that produces a weekly show on WBAI (Mondays, 1:00-2:00 p.m.). He was involved in the movement to press the University of Iowa to divest stocks in companies doing business with South Africa in the late 1970's; was a founding member of the Progressive Student Network in 1980; helped found the Central America Solidarity committee in Iowa City; co-founded a bisexual support group in 1982; lived in cooperative housing projects from 1982-1991 with the exception of one year when he lived in China. John traveled and studied Spanish in Central America on several occasions.

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Pedro Angel Serrano is a radio producer, raconteur, and Tri-State Skinhead Elder.

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Anjana Suvarnananda, also known as Tang, is a long time activist (28 years) dedicated to women's rights and sexual rights (lesbians, gays, trans and sex workers) as well as overall social economic justice; her politics are rooted both in her grassroots organizing in Thailand and in international forums.

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Jackie Vimo is an Argentine-American who has worked on AIDS, public health, anti-poverty, globalization and queer public policy issues; she is currently a staff member at Make the Road by Walking, a member-led organization in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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