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A yearly "Day of Drag" and a Drag Mall? While many states are restricting drag, San Francisco Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger is spreading the humor and "sparkle" of drag to make positive change in the world.
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Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust? What’s queer about it? Is it true that many “straight” boys and girls put out there, as they explore their sexuality?
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Is it true that most airline stewards are gay? Was it ever? How did their legal battles with airlines help advance gay rights and workplace gender equity? In this “throwback” edition of Out in the...
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Should drag story hours be banned? So much fuss! Maybe you'd like to decide for yourselves. So we bring some to you! Here’s #3 in our series.
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With all the fuss over drag story hours, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you!
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With all the fuss over drag story hours, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we're bringing some to you!
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Lipstick Conspiracy, the San Francisco-based all-transwomen rock band, is back together after almost 13 years, in part as a “joyful antidote” to the current escalation of transphobia and anti-LGBTQ laws across the USA and abroad....
Thousands gathered in San Francisco this week to remember and celebrate the life of drag impresario Heklina, who died suddenly April 3 while in London for a show with Peaches Christ. Heklina graced many Out...
According to author and academic Kathryn Bond Stockton, “gender is queer for everyone.” She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means the dictionary definition: strange. “Gender is strange,” she writes,” even...
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from zero (totally straight) to six (flaming faggot or butchest of dykes). But have you considered another...
When musician and educator Nick Lawrence shared his experiences with me, I understood “transgender” like never before. His album “I Am a Man” is about his personal life journey. In original songs and in our...
This edition of Out in the Bay is our shortest so far. It’s our first “quicky”! It comes to us from Jim Van Buskirk, a regional coordinator of the Final Exit Network. Final Exit Network advocates...
As a young girl, future Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Kelli Evans was more excited about the bookmobile coming through her Denver neighborhood than the ice cream truck. “I was a voracious reader,” the...
While a young housewife with kids in the 1950s and early ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped build the queer rights...
While they weren’t around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.
What would you do if you were falsely accused of improperly touching a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison’s novel Doubting Thomas, about a gay school teacher, makes us think. We’re not...
In a queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough. She grew up in Christian free-love and -sex cult The Family, which her father had joined around 1970 to dodge the Vietnam...
Reporter Corey Antonio has that story, plus a chat with the Oakland LGBTQ Center on Out in the Bay.
The latest production of ItsQwere is inspired by ’90s-era comedy TV like In Living Color, All That, and SNL.
In “Bad Hombres,” playing at San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros through Oct. 30, sole actor Rudy Guerrero plays seven characters that comically skewer stereotypes of queer Latinos. On this week’s Out in the Bay, Guerrero serves...
It’s Gunawan’s hope that through PRESS PLAY: Exhibition, he can reach people who are struggling and tell them, “you are good.”
Author Paul Barnes served on Pete Buttigieg's ground-breaking presidential campaign and wrote a book about it called, "Paul for Pete: Or How I Became A Septuagenarian Fan Boy."
The leather activist, author, sex educator, and kink afficianado is Christopher Beale’s guest this week Out In The Bay.
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd”? An author and poet finds peers on the pier. Toni Mirosevich reads from her new book, Spell Heaven and other stories, and talks...
This week, we are tackling two oft-misunderstood subjects on Out In The Bay, open relationships and professional wrestling.
Dwayne Ratleff spent half his childhood Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” Long-time San Franciscan Ratleff has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning...
Monkeypox has primarily affected men who sleep with men, but it has been diagnosed in children and women, and health experts says it’s likely to move more widely into the general population. What are we...
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before monkeypox, before COVID, before traveling got so fraught. To a town its promoters claimed then was gayer than San Francisco – and where September is...
“I grew up in a very blue collar, working class, homophobic, and racist environment,” he recalled. Through literature, performance, and eventually writing and performing his own intentionally queer works, Rolston found his sexuality and his voice.
Here’s the longer version of our talk with fascinating transgender musician Nick Lawrence — more intense and with more music than we could cram into our half-hour radio show posted Thursday. Don’t miss “Dong Sewn...
Meet artist, designer, photographer and actor Fayette Hauser, a female co-founder of The Cockettes, the 1969-‘72 experimental San Francisco theatre troupe known for eye-popping costumes, glittery beards and sexy musicals some called anarchic. Her beautiful...
Here’s the longer version of our talk with fascinating transgender musician Nick Lawrence — more intense and with more music than we could cram into our half-hour radio show posted Thursday. Don’t miss “Dong Sewn...
Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His new album, I Am A Man, is about his own transition. In our conversation, Nick...
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd”? An author and poet finds peers on the Pacifica Pier. On this week’s Out in the Bay, Toni Mirosevich reads from her new...
This week Out In The Bay, we have the hosts of San Francisco Pride 2022 – Honey Mahogany and the legendary Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
This week on Out In The Bay, meet Rick Thoman, a track and field athlete who shares 40 years of memories with the San Francisco Track and Field Club. Plus, Alice Smith joins us to preview the 14th Annual Pride Meet, taking place June 18th at San Francisco State University.
Meet the team working to bring life, art, and community back to the historic site of Harvey Milk’s Camera Shop in the Castro – Queer Arts Featured (Queer AF).
This week we feature our discussion with late gay ambassador James C. Hormel on Out In The Bay.
The Cockettes were a flamboyant, gender-bending, hippie drag troupe active in San Francisco beginning in 1969. Scrumbly Koldewyn was one of the original creators of the group and shares the story of their creation and his view of their legacy on this week’s Out in the Bay.
Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack Pageant in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe....
How greatly are LGBTQ civil liberties threatened by abortion cases now before the conservative-heavy U.S. Supreme Court? Federal courts journalist Lisa Keen told host Christopher Beale the leaked draft opinion, by Justice Samuel Alito, is “shocking” on many levels.
Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy doesn’t work and actually harms LGBTQ people — with high rates of serious mental health issues — the practice of attempting to conform one’s sexual orientation or gender identity...
The chair of the San Francisco Democratic Committee, and RuPaul's Drag Race alum Honey Mahogany is our guest on Out In The Bay.
In 2020 the news was filled with data and fear, and — in those earliest days — the coverage of folks who had actually contracted COVID-19 was often second hand. So, when a longtime friend tested positive, host Christopher Beale got in touch.
We remember style and music icon Liberace and hear the true story of a couple who met on Grindr.
The first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, Martin Jenkins, is not only the first openly LGBTQ justice on the high court, he’s also just the third Black man ever to serve on it....
Singer-songwriter Marilyn Mitchell, who played in San Francisco’s popular 2003-2010 all-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy, shares new music and life stories this week – and hints that her former group may get back together. Her...
How much are LGBTQ civil rights threatened by abortion cases now before the conservative-heavy U.S. Supreme Court? Along with abortion rights, how much are our rights to marry whomever we want, have sex with whomever...
Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy doesn’t work and in fact harms LGBTQ people — with high rates of serious mental health issues — the practice of attempting to conform one’s sexual orientation or gender...
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On this week’s Out in the Bay, hear about the amazing life and accomplishments of a Black queer civil rights trailblazer you’ve probably never heard of: Pauli Murray. Activist, lawyer, poet and priest, Dr. Anna...