OUT cast 11/29/2021

Join us Monday, November 29 from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. on OUT Cast. December 1st is World AIDS Day and in tribute we will be broadcasting PART 1 of a recent episode of Ren Morrill’s THE THREE LETTER PODCAST. Ren’s guest this year is Eric Marcus who’s current season of the podcast series Making Gay History is an audio memoir of his coming of age during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City. PART 2 of the interview will air on Monday, December 6th. Ren Morrill (Host) Ren is The Three Letter Podcast’s creator and host. He is a Maine native with a life long passion for HIV. He works for Frannie Peabody Center in Portland, Maine as the prevention program coordinator. He also serves as the co-chair of Pride Portland’s HIV Advisory Board. Eric Marcus Eric Marcus is the author of a dozen books, including, Why Suicide?, Breaking the Surface, the #1 New York Times best selling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, and two additions of Making Gay History. Making Gay History has been turned into a currently running podcast series of the same name based on the radio recordings Eric made for the original book. Eric is also the co-producer of Those Who We’re There, a podcast drawn from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust testimonies. Lastly, he is the founder and chair of the Stonewall 50 consortium. Community note! Frannie Peabody Center will be hosting multiple events, including a candlelight vigil on December 1st, in addition to viewings of AIDS Quilt panels and free HIV testing during select time slots from December 1st - 5th. Go to: peabodycenter.org/worldaidsday for more information.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/outcast/1145/thumbnail.jp