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Weekly show about LGBTQ life and issues, sharing queer voices and stories with the world.

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    • May 15, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 32m AVG DURATION
    • 69 EPISODES


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    Liberace’s Spectacular Crystal Closet – a birthday treat!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 29:28


    We need a break from current events and figured you might too. And it’s Liberace’s birthday May 16! So sit back, relax, and let the music and story of one of the world's most fabulous... The post Liberace's Spectacular Crystal Closet – a birthday treat! first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    World's first Drag Laureate shares art, joy, politics of drag

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 54:09


    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. The post World's first Drag Laureate shares art, joy, politics of drag first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 29:00


    As we await the reopening of the storm-damaged Pacifica Pier, we bring you a poet's stories of connection on this historic pier. The post Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven' first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    25 years since Matt Shepard: Where are we now?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 53:27


    Dec. 1, 1998, soon after its namesake's savage murder, the Matthew Shepard Foundation was launched to erase hate-based violence. We've seen big advances since, and big setbacks. Hear thoughts and action items from LGBTQ+ leaders. The post 25 years since Matt Shepard: Where are we now? first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    ‘Funeral Diva’ Pamela Sneed: ‘We can heal’

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 29:30


    Pamela Sneed's prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me. She reads four poems from her memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week's Out in the Bay and shares some of her life story. Funeral... The post ‘Funeral Diva' Pamela Sneed: ‘We can heal' first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    25 years after Matthew Shepard: where are we now?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2023 51:32


    Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? The post 25 years after Matthew Shepard: where are we now? first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2023 28:45


    25 years ago this month, a gay college student was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left outside on a cold night near Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew Shepard died in a hospital five days... The post Matthew Shepard – in his mom's words first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    Burning Man – art and queer exploration

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 29:30


    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? The post Burning Man – art and queer exploration first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    Airline stewards’ sky-high impact

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2023


    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... The post Airline stewards' sky-high impact first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to Oakland preschoolers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2023 29:29


    So much fuss over drag story hours! Should they be banned? We bring some to you so you can decide! Here's #3 in our series. The post Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to Oakland preschoolers first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read in kindergarten

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 29:30


    Should drag story hours be banned? With all the fuss, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you! The post Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read in kindergarten first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    What’s up with Drag Storytime? Meet Rexy in episode 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 29:30


    With all the fuss over drag story hours, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we're bringing some to you! The post What's up with Drag Storytime? Meet Rexy in episode 1 first appeared on Out In The Bay.

    All-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 29:29


    Pump up the volume! Lipstick Conspiracy, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band, is back together after almost 13 years, in part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of transphobia and anti-LGBTQ laws across the USA....

    Remembering Heklina & Stefan

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2023 50:39


    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...

    Utah prof: ‘Gender is queer for everyone'

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2023 29:30


    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...

    A transgender experience in song and talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 54:00


    When musician and educator Nick Lawrence shared his story with me, I understood “transgender” like never before. His album “I Am a Man” is about his personal journey. In original songs and in our intimate...

    How AIDS sparked the right-to-die movement

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2023 6:56


    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...

    Grandma inspired first lesbian Calif. Supreme Court Justice

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2023 29:30


    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...

    Lusty lesbian novels spurred queer rights in 1950s and ‘60s

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2023 35:53


    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...

    Gay Cal. Supreme Court justice values personal struggle

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2023 29:30


    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 only the third Black man ever to serve on it....

    Hats off to Pauli Murray!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2022 29:30


    On this week's Out in the Bay, hear about the amazing life and accomplishments of a Black queer civil rights trailblazer absent from most history books: Pauli Murray. Activist, lawyer, poet and priest, Dr. Anna...

    ‘Grin and bear' awkward holiday questions

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 29:30


    Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions. If you're queer, she...

    Remembering The Cockettes

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2022 29:28


    While they weren't around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.

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    ‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2022 29:30


    What would you do if falsely accused of molesting a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison's novel “Doubting Thomas,” about a gay school teacher, challenges assumptions about guilt, innocence and more....

    Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing’

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 29:30


    For Veterans Day, writer Lauren Hough: She grew up in Christian "doomsday" cult The Family, which her father had joined to dodge the Vietnam War. Hough fled to the Air Force, where she got anti-lesbian death threats and her car was torched.

    Inequities in Bay Area MPOX vaccines

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2022 29:30


    Reporter Corey Antonio Rose has that story, plus a chat with the Oakland LGBTQ Center on Out in the Bay.

    Black Queer Women Get Mighty Real

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 29:26


    The latest production of ItsQwere is inspired by '90s-era comedy TV like In Living Color, All That, and SNL.

    ‘Bad Hombres’ skewers stereotypes

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2022 29:27


    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...

    Breaking Mental Health Stigma with Stories

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2022 29:27


    It's Gunawan's hope that through PRESS PLAY: Exhibition, he can reach people who are struggling and tell them, “you are good.”

    Passion for politics in ‘Paul for Pete’

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2022 29:30


    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."

    Race Bannon: Queer & Kinky

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2022 29:30


    The leather activist, author, sex educator, and kink afficianado is Christopher Beale's guest this week Out In The Bay.

    How many ways can you ‘Spell Heaven'?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Project Open Hand: ‘Meals with Love’

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 29:30


    Ruth Brinker, a grandmother and retired food service worker at the time, started cooking and delivering nutritious meals to San Francisco gay men debilitated by HIV/AIDS in 1985. Over the following decades, Project Open Hand,...

    Born Perfect: Don't ‘pray away the gay'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Wrestling with Monogamy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2022 29:30


    This week, we are tackling two oft-misunderstood subjects on Out In The Bay, open relationships and professional wrestling.

    Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2022 29:30


    Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don't explain yourself, be yourself.” Long-time San Franciscan Ratleff has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel –...

    Monkeypox advice from health experts

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Flashback to Ptown, 2013

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Slaying Dragons with Kevin Rolston

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 29:30


    “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.

    Uncut: ‘Changeling' dives deeper, sings more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 52:46


    Here’s the longer version of our talk with fascinating transgender musician Nick Lawrence — more intense and with more music than we could fit into our half-hour radio show. Don’t miss “Dong Sewn On,” the...

    Cockettes female co-founder shares group’s saucy history

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 29:30


    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...

    uncut: ‘Changeling' delves deeper, sings more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2022 51:33


    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...

    ‘Changeling’ delves deep and sings about transition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Marilyn Mitchell melds life, politics on new rock album

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Creating Queer Punk with Pansy Division

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 29:30


    The true story behind the first gay punk rock band today on Out In The Bay!

    In ‘Spell Heaven,' peers connect on pier

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2022 29:30


    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...

    Talking Pride with Honey Mahogany & Sister Roma

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 29:30


    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.

    LGBTQ Track and Field Club Celebrates 40 Years

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 29:30


    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.

    The Artists Making Castro Camera Queer AF

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 29:30


    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).

    James C. Hormel honored at Stonewall

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 29:28


    This week we feature our discussion with late gay ambassador James C. Hormel on Out In The Bay.

    Honey Mahogany on Politics, Drag Race & The Stud

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022


    The chair of the San Francisco Democratic Committee, and RuPaul's Drag Race alum Honey Mahogany is our guest on Out In The Bay.

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