Burning Man – art and queer exploration
Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust? What’s queer about it? Is it true that many “straight” boys and girls put out there, as they explore their sexuality?
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? In this “throwback” edition of Out in the…
‘Faux Queen: A Life in Drag’
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….
Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to Oakland preschoolers
So much fuss over drag story hours! Should they be banned? We bring some to you so you can decide! Here’s #3 in our series.
Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read in kindergarten
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!
Drag Storytime – The One & Only Rexy reads in Berkeley
Why such a fuss over drag story hours? Should they be banned? Hear some for yourself … then you decide!
All-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites
Pump up the volume! Lipstick Conspiracy, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band, is back together after almost 13 years, in part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of transphobia and anti-LGBTQ laws across the USA….
Remembering Heklina & Stefan
Thousands gathered in San Francisco this week to remember and celebrate the life of drag impresario Heklina, who died suddenly April 3 while in London for a show with Peaches Christ. Heklina graced many Out…
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
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.” Ratleff has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel – a memoir really…
Utah prof: ‘Gender is queer for everyone’
According to author and academic Kathryn Bond Stockton, “gender is queer for everyone.” She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means the dictionary definition: strange. “Gender is strange,” she writes,” even…
