Eric Jansen

Host

Eric Jansen is managing producer and lead host of Out in the Bay, which he birthed in 2004. He is also an announcer and board operator at San Francisco NPR affiliate KQED-FM. He has served as talk show and news producer, newscaster, reporter and announcer at outlets including San Francisco’s KALW, KQED-FM and Minnesota Public Radio. He has won awards for his national and regional news features from the Public Radio News Directors Association, the Northwest Broadcast News Association and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. He wrote and co-produced the 2007 PBS documentary Why We Sing! about LGBTQ choruses’ role in civil rights and narrated the film festival version. He loves talking with people - on the air and privately - about their life experiences!

Podcast

‘Faux Queen: A Life in Drag’

May 12, 2022
Tagged as: AIDS, cisgender, drag, Fauxnique, feminism, humor, LGBTQ, Monique Jenkinson, queer, Trannyshack, transgender

Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack Pageant in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe....

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Born Perfect: Don’t ‘pray away the gay’

April 27, 2022
Tagged as: Born Perfect, conversion therapy, ex-gay, Exodus, gay, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, NCLR, Netflix, queer, religion

Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy doesn’t work and actually harms LGBTQ people — with high rates of serious mental health issues — the practice of attempting to conform one’s sexual orientation or gender identity...

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Podcast

Gay Cal. Supreme Court justice values personal struggle

February 3, 2022
Tagged as: African American, Alameda County, black, California Supreme Court, courts, Gavin Newsom, gay, jurisprudence, KKK, Martin Jenkins, San Francisco, Supreme Cour of California

The first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, Martin Jenkins, is not only the first openly LGBTQ justice on the high court, he’s also just the third Black man ever to serve on it....

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Marilyn Mitchell melds life, politics on new rock album

January 26, 2022
Tagged as: LGBT, LGBTQ, Lipstick Conspiracy, Marilyn Mitchell, queer, rock music, San Francisco, transgender

Singer-songwriter Marilyn Mitchell, who played in San Francisco’s popular 2003-2010 all-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy, shares new music and life stories this week – and hints that her former group may get back together. Her...

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Why we ALL should care about SCOTUS abortion cases

January 12, 2022
Tagged as: abortion, gay, lesbian, LGBTQ, Lisa Keen, queer, Supreme Court, transgender, US Supreme Court, women's rights

How much are LGBTQ civil rights threatened by abortion cases now before the conservative-heavy U.S. Supreme Court? Along with abortion rights, how much are our rights to marry whomever we want, have sex with whomever...

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Podcast

We’re ‘Born Perfect’ – don’t ‘pray away the gay’

January 4, 2022
Tagged as: Born Perfect, conversion therapy, ex-gay, Exodus, gay, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, NCLR, Netflix, queer, religion, transgender

Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy doesn’t work and in fact harms LGBTQ people — with high rates of serious mental health issues — the practice of attempting to conform one’s sexual orientation or gender...

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Eric Jansen

‘Faux Queen: A Life in Drag’

Born Perfect: Don’t ‘pray away the gay’

Gay Cal. Supreme Court justice values personal struggle

Marilyn Mitchell melds life, politics on new rock album

Why we ALL should care about SCOTUS abortion cases

We’re ‘Born Perfect’ – don’t ‘pray away the gay’

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