airline stewards’ sky-high impact
7pm tonight ~ Plane Queer. Is it true that most airline stewards are gay? Was it always? How did their legal battles with airlines help advance gay rights and workplace gender equity? Is the tale of “Patient Zero” – a flight attendant accused of being the initial transcontinental spreader of HIV – accurate? Stow your tray tables and put your seats in their fully upright and locked positions for a quick flight through the history of airline flight attendants. Eric Jansen’s entertaining and talkative guest is Philadelphia University history professor Phil Tiemeyer, author of the intriguing new book, Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality and AIDS in the history of male flight attendants, published by University of California Press. Broadcast 7pm PDT on 91.7 FM Bay Area; www.kalw.org worldwide.
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Pollo Del Mar: Drag Entrepeneur
Pride is just around the corner so let’s have some fun! Marilyn takes a look at “Gay Days” in amusement parks. Disneyworld was first in ’91 and the right wing boycotted them for 8 years. Do we still need them? Her guest is drag star Pollo Del Mar, who’s producing “Pride Night” at Great America Friday, May 24th, in Santa Clara, CA. She’s got TV host Wendy Williams, Glee’s Alex Newell (“Unique”), and lots of other entertainment and fun planned. (Broadcast and streaming live, Thursday, May 9th, 2013, at 7pm.)
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Giving “out” – Are we doing enough?
Less than 5 percent of LGBT people give directly to LGBT causes. Why is that? In the midst of another tech boom, why do Bay Area non-profits, gay and straight, still struggle? How might they tap into the “new young money”? How much can social media help? Give OUT Day, a new national experiment in online giving for LGBT causes, debuts May 9. Join host Eric Jansen and his guests, Jodi Schwartz of LYRIC, a non-profit serving queer and questioning youth in San Francisco for more than 20 years; Roger Doughty of the Horizons Foundation, the Bay Area’s LGBT foundation; and Noris Chavarría of Bolder Giving, co-creator of Give OUT Day, to hear about these issues and how you can get involved. (Broadcast live Thursday, May 2)
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“The End of San Francisco” — Mattilda
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, the provocative, agitated, angry, queer anti-assimilationist writer, is back! With her latest … manifesto? Or memoir? (even though she’s still under 40!) In The End of San Francisco, Mattilda deals with family, incest, gay sex work, the digital ruination of our City by the Bay, political correctness and its stifling effect on activism and even on simple conversation, and much more. Join Mattilda and host Eric Jansen for, in Mattilda’s words, another “delicious conversation” about life, struggles, triumphs — ours and the cities we live in. (Live interview, 7pm Thursday, April 25).
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The Road to Being Out At The Top
For the first time, top corporate executives are telling their stories of being out in the workplace in a new anthology, “Out and Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office.” Some of these contributors lost their jobs, family, friends and some nearly their lives. But by being their authentic selves at work, many saw their careers – and companies – blossom. Marilyn Pittman interviews Selisse Berry, the founder of Out And Equal Workplace Advocates and editor of the book. 7:00pm PT Thursday, April 18th, 2013. http://outandequal.org
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Lambda Lit winners on Translating Fiction
Why translate fiction? Eric Jansen’s guests are Bay Area novelists Sylvia Brownrigg and K.M. Soehnlein, who have both won Lambda Literary Awards for LGBT fiction and whose work has been translated into other languages. They share some of their own work with us and some of the great world literature that has inspired, informed and influenced them. Soehnlein and Brownrigg are among seven authors in the Center for the Art of Translation’s Voices Carry – “a celebration of international literature” — event in San Francisco April 20. (Live interview, aired 7pm Thursday, April 11.)
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