World’s first Drag Laureate shares joy, art, and politics of drag
A yearly "Day of Drag" and a drag mall? While many states are restricting drag, San Francisco Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger is spreading t...
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Out in the Bay
Queer histories, herstories, personalities and issues are explored with humor, insight, and sensitivity each week on Out in the Bay. Out in the Bay ended production December of 2015, but its...
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20 episodesWriter Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
Dwayne Ratleff grew up poor, Black and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yo...
Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’
As we await the reopening of the Pacifica Pier — now closed due to recent storm damage — we bring you poet Toni Mirosevich's stories of conn...
Pagans at Xmas? Making holidays queer-comfy
Just in time for holiday gatherings, tips for getting along joyfully with differences. Our guest says "nosy" questions can grease the turkey...
25 years since Matt Shepard, how are queer civil rights?
In December 1998, soon after its namesake's savage murder, his parents launched the Matthew Shepard Foundation to erase hate-based violence....
Matthew Shepard – in his mother’s words
25 years ago, a gay college student was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left out to die on a cold Wyoming night. His grief-strick...
'Funeral Diva' Pamela Sneed: 'We can heal'
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me.
Burning Man – art and queer exploration
Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary tent city in an alkaline Nevada desert every August? Is Burning Man worth the heat an...
Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to preschoolers
Should drag story hours be banned? With so much fuss, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you! Here’s #3 in o...
Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners
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! (Episode 2 of...
Drag Storytime – The One & Only Rexy reads at book fest
Why ban drag performers? Why all the fuss over drag story hours? Hear some for yourself ... then you decide!
Transgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites
Pump up the volume! In part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of anti-LGBTQ laws across the USA, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock...
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yo...
Learning from asexuals about sex and relationships
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 (flami...
‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations
What would you do if falsely accused of molesting a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison’s novel “Doubting Thomas,”...
Grandma inspired California’s first lesbian supreme court justice
As a young girl, future Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Kelli Evans was more excited about the bookmobile coming through her D...
1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights
While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her...
Hats off to Pauli Murray!
On our last Out in the Bay of 2022, hear about the amazing life and accomplishments of a Black queer civil rights pioneer left out of histor...
‘Grin and bear’ curious holiday questions
Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allie...
Remembering The Cockettes
While they weren’t around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews...