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The New Face of Out Comedy: Janine Brito
Wait ’til you hear her rant on Kate Middleton’s naked pictures. She’s out and sexual, a refreshing departure from Ellen. Janine Brito made a name for herself in 2012-13 on the FX TV show, “Totally Biased,” starring San Francisco’s own W. Kamau (kuh-MOW) Bell. Marilyn Pittman interviews her as part of SFSketchfest, the two […]
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Shit & Champagne … and Oasis
Meet the man behind a show we can’t name on the radio: Shit & Champagne – A Whitesploitation Comedy with Dance. D’Arcy Drollinger is an actor, dancer, playwright, director and choreographer of many shows, and wrote and stars in Shit & Champagne, now at San Francisco’s new bar and queer performance space, Oasis. Drollinger is […]
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Powerful Memoir: ‘Riding Fury Home’
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. Mother and daughter developed a deep bond when both came out as lesbians in the women’s and gay liberation movements of the […]
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Managing Grief
How do we cope with the death of a spouse or lover? Is it different if you’re gay? Bereavement experts say many minorities suffer “disenfranchised grief” – grief not fully recognized by society. On this week’s Out in the Bay, Eric Jansen and grief counselors Susan Casslan and Reagan Humber discuss these and other […]
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Trannyshack Is Now Your Mother
Moving on from “Trannyshack,” the legendary punk rock drag show in SoMa for 12 years, impresario Heklina is opening her new club in what used to be the hot corner of the gay male club scene in the ’70s and ’80s. It was called Oasis and came complete with swimming pool, showers, and towels back […]
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Tom Nolan’s New Passion: Aging Gays
Tom Nolan ran Project Open Hand, created during the AIDS crisis to help feed the sick, for almost two decades. He’s now the chairman of the MUNI board. But his passion is gay rights and right now it’s the plight of the city’s gay seniors that has his attention. Marilyn Pittman talks with Tom about […]
Marriage brings crisis in “Love is Strange”
Love is Strange is a new film starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as an older gay couple, together 39 years, who get married after New York legalizes same sex marriage. That’s when their troubles begin in this touching, bittersweet, beautifully shot and beautifully acted movie. Hear scenes from the film and hear director and […]
Sex, Drugs, and Drag Shows: A Memoir
The wild and crazy times of gay male life in San Francisco during the 1970s and ’80s are at the center of this new memoir by Mark Abramson. “For My Brothers” has one hair-raising story of sex and drugs and rock and roll after another, but with a tender and personal touch. A chronicle of […]
The Art & Queerness of Burning Man
Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary camp city in a remote Nevada desert in August? Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust storms? What’s queer about it? On Thursday’s Out in the Bay (7pm PDT 8/14 on kalw.org + 91.7fm SF) Eric Jansen’s guests are Jennifer Raiser and Sidney […]
Luscious Queer Music Festival Aug. 22-24
Vicki Randle and Matt Alber are just two of more than 20 performers featured at the Luscious Queer Music Festival, first of its kind in Northern California. Headliners for the three-day festival at Saratoga Springs Retreat Center in Lake County Aug 22-24 include LGBT artists Mary Lambert, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Jon Ginoli of Pansy […]
Airline Stewards’ Sky-high Impact
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? 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 […]