Out in the Bay
KALW
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
Location:
San Francisco , CA
Networks:
KALW
Description:
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
Language:
English
Contact:
510-816-0450
Website:
http://www.outinthebay.com/
Email:
outinthebay@yahoo.com
Episodes
Writer Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
2/16/2024
Dwayne Ratleff grew up poor, Black and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.”
Duration:00:29:29
Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’
1/14/2024
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 connection on this historic pier.
Duration:00:28:59
Pagans at Xmas? Making holidays queer-comfy
12/23/2023
Just in time for holiday gatherings, tips for getting along joyfully with differences. Our guest says "nosy" questions can grease the turkey!
Duration:00:29:29
25 years since Matt Shepard, how are queer civil rights?
12/1/2023
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. LGBTQ+ leaders discuss where we are now.
Duration:00:53:26
Matthew Shepard – in his mother’s words
10/22/2023
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.
Duration:00:28:45
'Funeral Diva' Pamela Sneed: 'We can heal'
10/19/2023
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me.
Duration:00:29:30
25 years since Matthew Shepard: where are we now?
10/6/2023
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 with LGBTQ civil rights?
Duration:00:51:31
Burning Man – art and queer exploration
8/25/2023
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?
Duration:00:29:30
Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to preschoolers
7/28/2023
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.
Duration:00:29:29
Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners
7/21/2023
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)
Duration:00:29:29
Drag Storytime – The One & Only Rexy reads at book fest
7/14/2023
Why ban drag performers? Why all the fuss over drag story hours? Hear some for yourself ... then you decide!
Duration:00:29:29
Transgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites
6/16/2023
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.
Duration:00:29:30
Learning from asexuals about sex and relationships
4/21/2023
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 another continuum, the asexual – allosexual one?
Duration:00:22:15
Grandma inspired California’s first lesbian supreme court justice
3/9/2023
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.
Duration:00:29:30
1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights
2/10/2023
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 advance queer rights and now offer a glimpse of gay and lesbian life in those times.
Duration:00:35:53
Hats off to Pauli Murray!
12/30/2022
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.
Duration:00:29:29
Remembering The Cockettes
12/2/2022
While they weren’t around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.
Duration:00:29:29
‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations
11/18/2022
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.
Duration:00:29:29
Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing’
11/11/2022
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 Force, where she got anti-lesbian death threats and her car was set ablaze.
Duration:00:23:06
Inequities In Bay Area MPOX vaccines
11/4/2022
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.
Duration:00:29:30