Steven Reigns’ Outliving Michael | This Way Out Radio Episode #1966

Steven Reigns’ Outliving Michael | This Way Out Radio Episode #1966

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. December 4, 2025 Duration: 28:58
Poet Steven Reigns’ memorial memoir chronicling his profound six-year friendship with Michael Church who died of AIDS in 2000 (“Outliving Michael,” Moon Tide Press, 2025) is presented in an original sound collage with archival news reports and the friends’ favorite music (produced by Brian DeShazor). Plus United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has a message of hope for World AIDS Day, despite the disastrous combination of drastic funding cuts and official anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination. (NewsWrap returns next week). All this on the December 1, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at thiswayout.org/donate/

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