Episode Details

Peter is a political activist, most famously as a pioneering member of ACT UP — the grassroots AIDS group that challenged and changed the federal government. He founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educational website AIDSmeds.com. An old friend and sparring partner, he also stars in the Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague.” Check out his memoir, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism.

You can listen to the episode — which gets fiery at times — in the audio player above (or click the dropdown menu to add the Dishcast to your podcast feed). For two short clips of my convo with Peter — on how he and other AIDS survivors turned to meth, and Peter pushing back on my views of critical queer theory in schools — pop over to our YouTube page. There’s also a long segment on just the monkeypox stuff.

If that episode isn’t gay enough for you, we just posted a transcript of the episode last year with Katie Herzog and Jamie Kirchick. Both of these Alphabet apostates were on Real Time last month — here’s Jamie:

Katie appeared alongside this clapped-out old bear:

Come to think of it, two more Dishcast alums were on the same episode of Real Time last month — Michael Shellenberger and Douglas Murray:

Oh wait, two more in June — Cornel West and Josh Barro:

We now have 20 episodes of the Dishcast transcribed (check out the whole podcast archive here):

* Bob Woodward & Robert Costa on the ongoing peril of Trump

* Buck Angel & Helena Kerschner on living as trans and detrans

* Katie Herzog & Jamie Kirchick on Pride and the alphabet people

* Dominic Cummings on Boris, Brexit and immigration

* Caitlin Flanagan on cancer, abortion and other Christmas cheer

* Glenn Greenwald on Bolsonaro, woke journalists and animal torture

* Jonathan Haidt on social media’s havoc

* Yossi Klein Halevi on the origins of Zionism

* Fiona Hill on Russia, Trump and the American Dream

* Jamie Kirchick on the Lavender Scare

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