Podcasts by Out in the Bay
Queer histories, herstories, personalities and issues are explored with humor, insight, and sensitivity each week on Out in the Bay, which resumed production in 2020 after a 4-year pause. Find dozens of past shows on its website, OutintheBay.org
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25 years since Matt Shepard, how are queer civil rights? from 2023-12-01T20:10:12
In December 1998, soon after its namesake's savage murder, his parents launched the Matthew Shepard Foundation to erase hate-based violence. We’ve seen big advances since then — and big setbacks. L...
ListenMatthew Shepard – in his mother’s words from 2023-10-22T10:43:55
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-stricken mother worked to expand hate crime laws. Hear her story.
Listen'Funeral Diva'Pamela Sneed:'We can heal' from 2023-10-19T18:44:54
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me.
Listen25 years since Matthew Shepard: where are we now? from 2023-10-06T16:59:38
In October 1998, a gay college student was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left outside to die on a cold night in Wyoming. Matthew Shepard's murder shocked the world. Where are we now wi...
ListenBurning Man – art and queer exploration from 2023-08-24T22:03:42
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 and dust? What’s queer about it?
ListenDrag Storytime – VERA! reads to preschoolers from 2023-07-28T10:16
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 our series.
ListenDrag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners from 2023-07-21T10:04:39
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 3)
ListenDrag Storytime – The One&Only Rexy reads at book fest from 2023-07-14T10:33:53
Why ban drag performers? Why all the fuss over drag story hours? Hear some for yourself ... then you decide!
ListenTransgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites from 2023-06-16T07:02:55
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 band is back together after 12-plus years.
ListenAuthor Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’ from 2023-05-05T02:54
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.” The long-time San Franciscan has written an impr...
ListenLearning from asexuals about sex and relationships from 2023-04-21T02:49
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 fag or butchest of dykes). But have you considered ano...
Listen‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations from 2023-03-23T19:29:02
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...
ListenGrandma inspired California’s first lesbian supreme court justice from 2023-03-09T15:10
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.
Listen1960s'pulp fiction'spurred LGBTQ rights from 2023-02-10T10:13:35
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 and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped advan...
ListenHats off to Pauli Murray! from 2022-12-30T06:12
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 history books: Pauli Murray.
Listen‘Grin and bear’ curious holiday questions from 2022-12-16T06:47
Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies to go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burnin...
ListenRemembering The Cockettes from 2022-12-02T00:00
While they weren’t around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.
Listen‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations from 2022-11-18T12:17
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...
ListenVeteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing’ from 2022-11-11T08:58
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you Lauren Hough. She grew up in infamous Christian cult The Family, which her father had joined to dodge the Vietnam War. At 18, Hough fled to the Air Fo...
ListenInequities In Bay Area MPOX vaccines from 2022-11-04T00:00
What happens when members of our Bay Area LGBTQ community pay to skip the line? Reporter Corey Antonio Rose has that story, plus a chat with the Oakland LGBTQ Center on Out in the Bay.
Listen‘Changeling’ sings about gender transition from 2022-10-28T04:12
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.
ListenHoney Mahogany on Politics, Drag Race&The Stud from 2022-04-15T06:00
The chair of the San Francisco Democratic Committee, and RuPaul's Drag Race alum Honey Mahogany is our guest on Out In The Bay.
ListenAn early COVID-19 story + Remembering Sylvester from 2022-04-08T02:00
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 po...
ListenA Grindr love story + Remembering Liberace from 2022-04-01T06:00
Liberace was one of the most successful, popular (and gayest) entertainers of the 20th century. Although he wasn't “out” — the concept barely existed in his lifetime — he is remembered as a queer i...
ListenQueens Read Celebrity Autobiographies from 2022-03-28T11:13:59
At "Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies," the presenters read directly from a memoir while adding their own hilarious flare. This year's event promises to be a riot and benefits an organization c...
ListenTrevor Hailey&Gilbert Baker from 2022-03-28T11:11:29
We are quite literally out in the bay for this episode, walking through San Francisco’s historic gay neighborhood, The Castro. Along the way we’ll take a trip down memory lane to the very first epi...
Listen‘Faux Queen: A Life in Drag’ from 2022-02-11T07:54:57
Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the title "Miss Trannyshack" in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career t...
ListenMarilyn Mitchell melds life, politics on new solo album from 2022-01-31T10:44:37
Singer-songwriter Marilyn Mitchell, a member of San Francisco’s popular 2003-2010 all-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy, shares new music and life stories – and hints that her former group may ge...
ListenHow SCOTUS abortion case outcomes could affect us all from 2022-01-14T09:02:47
How deeply are our most personal rights threatened by abortion cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court? Along with abortion, how much are our rights to marry whomever we want, have (consensual) sex...
ListenDon’t ‘pray away the gay’ - we’re ‘Born Perfect’ from 2022-01-07T10:56:26
Canada's nationwide ban on conversion therapy took effect January 7. Why no national ban in the US? Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy doesn’t work and severely harms LGBTQ people, the ...
ListenPagans at Xmas? Making holidays queerly comfy from 2021-12-22T05:21:15
Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees says go ahead, ask your LGBTQ relative or friend the questions burning inside you. Like “Which one ...
ListenHome for the holidays again? Or venturing out? from 2021-12-04T13:06:11
As our 2nd December under COVID begins - with a new variant - clearly we’ll have another abnormal holiday season. Many are vaccinated and eager to go out; others are wary. Our guests offer tips and...
Listen‘Real Life’ from a Black queer point of view from 2021-11-26T14:44:29
Brandon Taylor’s highly praised debut novel, Real Life, gets deep into desire, intimacy, sex, abuse, homophobia, racism, misogyny, love, hate and the blurred lines between friends and lovers. Oh, a...
ListenTalking politics with B.A.R. columnist Matthew Bajko from 2021-11-19T16:24:56
The chicken-sandwich chain queers love to hate opens shop just outside San Francisco … a California State Assembly race heats up … and a roundup of new laws that will affect LGBTQ Californians.
ListenLGBTQ people stuck in Afghanistan risk execution from 2021-11-12T06:49:24
Despite massive evacuations after the Taliban takeover in August, tens of thousands of LGBTQ people remain in Afghanistan fearing for their lives, say two NGOs trying to rescue them. NGO officials ...
ListenMeet the USA’s first transgender bishop from 2021-10-29T09:36:26
As LGBTQ History Month closes, meet someone who very recently made history: Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer, the first openly transgender bishop in a major Christian denomination, installed Sept. 11 as a...
ListenTheir name was Pauli Murray from 2021-10-22T12:12:46
This third week of LGBTQ History Month, Out in the Bay explores the life and accomplishments of a Black, queer civil rights pioneer left out of history books: Pauli Murray.
Listen‘Marijuana Minister’ committed compassionate crimes from 2021-10-15T10:22:57
It's LGBTQ History Month. In 1996, as AIDS ravaged San Francisco’s gay community, Metropolitan Community Church pastor Jim Mitulski risked imprisonment, dispensing marijuana to alleviate his sick c...
ListenUniv. of Utah dean: ‘Gender is queer for everyone’ from 2021-10-08T12:50:29
"Gender is queer for everyone,” says scholar and author Kathryn Bond Stockton. She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense, she means the dictionary definition: strange. “Gender is strange ...
Listen'Queen of Bounce'Big Freedia: No guns, more twerking! from 2021-10-01T12:35:23
Big Freedia is famous for her "bounce" music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known. She's on tour this month promoting her new EP, BDE — Big Diva Energy — and raisi...
ListenComing out on ‘Stereotypes’ from 2021-09-25T07:07:39
Out in the Bay proudly features a new queer podcast this week: Stereotypes – Straight Talk From Queer Voices. On the pilot episode, “Still Coming Out,” producer and host Christopher Beale brings us...
Listen10 years since DADT, Lauren Hough says'Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing' from 2021-09-17T13:17:05
Ten years after Don't Ask Don't Tell's repeal, we hear from writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love and -sex cult The Family, formerly The Children of God. At 18, she j...
ListenGay Calif. Supreme Court justice values struggle from 2021-09-10T11:42:52
The first openly LGBTQ California Supreme Court justice is also only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's highest court. He says his struggles helped him achieve success.
ListenHonoring the Late James Hormel - In His Own Voice from 2021-09-03T11:32:03
On this week's Out in the Bay we bring you the story -- in his own words and voice -- of the late LGBTQ philanthropist, civil rights activist and ambassador James C. Hormel. He died in August after...
ListenPoet Pamela Sneed: ‘We Can Heal’ from 2021-08-27T11:06:46
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads four selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the Bay and shares some of her life story.
Listen'The Prophets' Unveils Black Queer Ancestors from 2021-08-24T12:48:22
In his debut novel, Robert Jones, Jr. describes the romantic and tragic relationship between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton plantation in the early 1800s. The Prophets explores gend...
ListenSteven Rowley's 'The Guncle' Heals Grief With Humor from 2021-08-13T12:58:20
What’s the role of a guncle - a gay uncle? Best-selling author Steven Rowley serves up lots of laughs as a guncle and his young niece and nephew deal with deep grief, past and current.
ListenWalking Tour Reveals Haight-Ashbury’s Queer History from 2021-07-13T15:27:23
San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury was iconic as the center of 1960s - early ‘70s "hippie" counterculture. Often forgotten is its role in LGBTQ history. That role gets loving attention in performance-d...
ListenQueers in Comics: How are portrayals changing? from 2021-06-29T16:12:21
We know it's important, especially for children and young adults, to see images like ourselves in the media. Comics and graphic novels are increasingly popular – it’s a billion-dollar-a-year-plus b...
ListenSF Pride Grand Marshal Twins Encourage ‘Tough Conversations’ from 2021-06-22T12:59:08
“We are here for the tough conversations,” says Melorra Green, speaking for herself and her twin, Melonie Green. On this week’s Out in the Bay, the sisters talk about their visions for a more inclu...
ListenLauren Hough: 'Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing' from 2021-06-08T15:35:14
Essayist Lauren Hough grew up in the infamous Christian free-love and -sex cult The Family, formerly The Children of God. At 18, she joined the US Air Force, where she got death threats and her car...
ListenAfter COVID Pause, Trans Soprano Performs In Person from 2021-06-01T18:28:23
As California's pandemic restrictions lift, Breanna Sinclairé's June 20 recital in San Francisco’s prestigious Old First Concerts series will be among the first public, indoor, live music events in...
ListenBikinis for Trans Girls; Gay Mystery Novel is Award Finalist from 2021-05-11T17:20:01
“Every Girl Deserves To Shine” is a campaign to support transgender girls and is the principle that guides RUBIES, a form-fitting clothing line for trans girls and gender non-binary kids founded by...
ListenBikinis for Trans Girls; Gay Murder Mystery Novel is Award Finalist from 2021-05-11T17:20:01
“Every Girl Deserves To Shine” is a campaign to support transgender girls and is the principle that guides RUBIES, a form-fitting clothing line for trans girls and gender non-binary kids founded by...
ListenThe Bay Area Reporter LGBTQ Newspaper Turns 50 from 2021-05-04T15:28:34
San Francisco LGBTQ publication The Bay Area Reporter grew from an early 1970s “gay bar gossip rag” into one of the most influential LGBTQ newspapers and online news outlets in the country. The B.A...
ListenFamily Acceptance of LGBTQ Kids is Caitlin Ryan's Project from 2021-04-28T09:35:23
Want to support a queer youngster in your life? Dr. Caitlin Ryan has been helping parents and other caregivers do just that for 30+ years. Hear her sage advice on this week's Out in the Bay.
ListenRock M Sakura on drag during COVID, superpowers, hate crime from 2021-04-12T17:31:08
“I love looking like a fool," Drag Race contestant Rock M. Sakura told Out in the Bay. She stuck Sharpies up her nose, described her zany new TV series ... we laughed! But she got serious talking a...
ListenA Year Into COVID, How Are We Coping? from 2021-03-23T17:17:16
How has COVID – and the political and societal turmoil of the past year – affected our mental health? And how are we coping? (Our discussion applies generally, with particular attention to LGBTQ as...
ListenQueer Comix from prison depict incarcerated life from 2021-03-16T17:16:25
Casper Cendre started writing letters to queer people in prison when they were in high school. Cendre wanted to know what queer life was like from the inside. Since then, he’s received thousands of...
Listen'Queen of Bounce' Big Freedia: no guns, more ass-shaking! from 2021-03-09T17:15:49
Big Freedia is famed for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known. She was shot in 2004, her brother killed in 2018 and years earlier, her cousin "over a 10-...
Listen‘The Prophets’ Unveils Queer Black Ancestors from 2021-03-02T17:14:53
In his best-seller debut novel, Robert Jones, Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton plantation in the early 1800s. The Prophets ...
ListenDrawing Political Lines; Challenging Marriage-Equality Governor from 2021-02-16T17:13:52
Lines are being drawn for the decennial mapping of Congressional, state legislative, and county and city districts based on the prior year’s census. This decade, there are more LGBTQ members on the...
ListenLearning from Asexuals About Sex & Relationships from 2021-02-09T17:12:28
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 ...
ListenSF’s Gay Supervisor on Queer Culture, Housing, and COVID Recovery from 2021-02-02T17:10:15
On tonight's Out in the Bay (10 pm Tuesday) San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his passion for politics goes back to age 5 and his passion for providing mental health services to combat...
Listen1951 San Francisco is setting for "Blackmail, My Love" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Blackmail, My Love, is a noir murder-mystery novel set in San Francisco, 1951 - "The Dark Ages of Queerdom," as author and illustrator Katie Gilmartin puts it - when cops raided gay and lesbian bar...
ListenA Simple (Feminist) Revolution: Judy Grahn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Judy Grahn's "Common Woman" poems in the '60s and '70s inspired a generation of lesbian feminists. Her 2012 book, "A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet," is part history, part memoir...
Listen"The Right Side of History" for LGBT Equality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Contrary to popular mythology, the LGBT civil rights movement did not begin with the June 1969 Stonewall Rebellion at New York's Stonewall Inn. Eric Jansen's guests this week on Out in the Bay (7pm...
ListenMaking a Modern Family: Josh Gamson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Making a baby isn't easy if you're two gay men. But that's what author Joshua Gamson and his husband, Richard, set out to do. Twice. Those stories and four others are what makes up his new book, "M...
ListenHomeless Sing with Opera Star von Stade in "Street Requiem" This Weekend from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Famed mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade sings in this weekend’s Bay Area performances of Street Requiem, a choral contata to call attention to the plight of people living on our streets and in othe...
ListenThe Art & Queerness of Burning Man from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary camp city in a remote Nevada desert every August? Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust storms? What's queer about it? On Thursday's Out in t...
ListenMeet California State Senator Mark Leno from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
State Senator Mark Leno is the first openly gay man to serve in California’s Senate. A champion of LGBT rights throughout his career, Leno is far from a ‘single-issue’ politician. As he approaches ...
ListenConversion Therapy Persists from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The June 2015 SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage changed consciousness. But right wing zealots keep practicing 'conversion therapy' on minors, trying to make them not be LGBT. Marilyn Pittman takes a lo...
ListenStraights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How has the growing acceptance and visibility of LGBT people affected how straight Americans view sexuality and gender – including their own? How has it changed the way all of us think about sexual...
ListenHarvey Milk: in his own words from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Just as the June 2015 U.S. Supreme Court marriage equality decision changed consciousness, so did Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician in America.
ListenGilbert Baker: The Rainbow Flag from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Find out how the rainbow came to be a worldwide symbol of the gay rights movement. Why was it so hard to find pink flag fabric? What do the colors stand for? Marilyn interviews Gilbert Baker, the c...
Listen"Baloney" Gay Revue Teases, Titillates, Provokes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Its creators call Baloney “San Francisco’s First Gay All-Male Revue,” but this weekend in SF, women join the cast. Choreographer Rory Davis and writer and director Michael Phillis play clips and te...
ListenThe Freezer Door mourns 'the dream of queer' from 2021-01-26T17:08:53
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new book, The Freezer Door, mourns losing "the dream of queer" -- a “world without borders and hierarchies”-- that she says consumerism, technology and gentrification ...
ListenManny's on a Mission to Revive Civil Discourse from 2021-01-19T17:07:01
Can we have civil civic discourse in these fractious times? Manny Yekutiel, activist and owner of the cafe, bookstore and civic events space Manny’s, passionately believes so and tells us why, 10 p...
Listen'Blackmail, My Love' shows SF's sordid homophobic past from 2021-01-12T17:05:38
Blackmail, My Love is a noir murder-mystery novel set in San Francisco, 1951 - "The Dark Ages of Queerdom," as author and illustrator Katie Gilmartin puts it - when cops raided gay and lesbian bars...
Listen2020 in the Queer-View Mirror from 2021-01-05T17:04:51
Happy New Year? We all hope 2021 will be kinder to us than 2020 … but only time will tell. So this week: 2020 in the queer-view mirror and a look ahead with national politics and legal reporter Lis...
ListenSearching for Intimacy During COVID from 2021-01-03T17:04:11
In the Bay and across the country, we’re nearly 10 months into COVID restrictions. Some of us are skin-starved, many love-starved. No hugs, no spooning, no sex. No friends, no family. It’s a lot to...
ListenHear Oakland Rapper Mahawam from 2020-12-23T17:03:08
The music of Malik Mays, who performs as Mahawam, is “about resilience, it's about power, it's about beauty, it's about sex,” they told Out in the Bay.
Listen‘Real Life’ From a Queer Black Perspective from 2020-12-20T17:02:07
Brandon Taylor’s highly praised debut novel, Real Life, gets deep into desire, intimacy, sex, abuse, homophobia, racism, misogyny, love, hate and the blurred lines between friends and lovers. Oh, a...
Listen‘Funeral Diva’ Pamela Sneed says ‘We can heal’ from 2020-12-13T17:01:11
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me. She reads four poems from her new memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the Bay and shares some of her life story. Fun...
Listen'The Women of San Quentin' shares stories of transgender women in male prisons from 2015-12-17T17:00:20
Photojournalist Kristin Lyseggen profiles nine current and former inmates in her new book "The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons."Surrounded by convicted murder...
ListenQueer Youth Still Threatened, Even in Bay Area from 2015-12-10T17:59:09
With recent gay rights gains, why is it still difficult for young people to be lesbian, gay, bi, transgender or “queer,” even in the San Francisco Bay Area? The Pacific Center for Human Growth, an ...
ListenBlame Sally concert benefits church-state separation group from 2015-11-13T03:16:06
Lesbians and their friends take over the stage at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley Friday, Nov. 13, in a concert benefiting Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which h...
ListenShakespeare + Shocktoberfest ~ Gore & War from 2015-11-06T01:48:37
Halloween not enough? The gory, century-old Grand Guignol theatre style is recreated in Thrillpeddlers' Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra , playing through Nov. 21 at the Hypnodrome in San Fran...
ListenOut In The Bay: Counter-Culture Diva from 2015-10-22T21:45
Dedicated to capturing the oral history of queer San Francisco, Out In The Bay host Marilyn Pittman interviews one of the legendary figures of the 60's, 70's, and 80's: former Cockettes member, Dol...
ListenDrag Kings & Queens Bend Space in 'Star Trek Live' from 2015-10-15T17:24
Out in the Bay ventures into outer space 7pm Thursday with cast members of Star Trek Live , a comedic gender-bending homage to the hit '60s TV show, now on stage at Oasis Night Club in San Francisco.
ListenThe Best of Out In The Bay: Chana Wilson from 2015-10-06T21:05
Chana Wilson grew up in the 1950s with a suicidal mother. She learned in adulthood that her mother had been a closeted lesbian given psychiatric treatments - including electroshock - to “cure” her....
ListenStrolling through history on LGBT walk of fame from 2015-10-01T17:43
As preparations for Sunday's Castro Street Fair wind up, 20 bronze sidewalk plaques are in place to guide pedestrians on a stroll through queer history. The Rainbow Honor Walk is a growing monument...
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