Passion for politics in ‘Paul for Pete’
Author Paul Barnes served on Pete Buttigieg’s ground-breaking presidential campaign and wrote a book about it called, “Paul for Pete: Or How I Became A Septuagenarian Fan Boy.”
Race Bannon: Queer & Kinky
The leather activist, author, sex educator, and kink afficianado is Christopher Beale’s guest this week Out In The Bay.
How many ways can you ‘Spell Heaven’?
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?” An author and poet finds peers on the pier. Toni Mirosevich reads from her new book, Spell Heaven and other stories, and talks…
Project Open Hand: ‘Meals with Love’
Ruth Brinker, a grandmother and retired food service worker at the time, started cooking and delivering nutritious meals to San Francisco gay men debilitated by HIV/AIDS in 1985. Since then, Project Open Hand, the nonprofit…
Born Perfect: Don’t ‘pray away the gay’
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…
Wrestling with Monogamy
This week, we are tackling two oft-misunderstood subjects on Out In The Bay, open relationships and professional wrestling.
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.” Long-time San Franciscan Ratleff has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel –…
Out in the Bay seeks producers, social media and other help
Wanna help produce queer radio? Join us! We are looking for creative folks to help produce, promote and distribute our weekly podcast and radio program. Out in the Bay’s mission is to share LGBTQ voices…
Monkeypox advice from health experts
Monkeypox has primarily affected men who sleep with men, but it has been diagnosed in children and women, and health experts says it’s likely to move more widely into the general population. What are we…
Flashback to Ptown, 2013
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before monkeypox, before COVID, before traveling got so fraught. To a town its promoters claimed then was gayer than San Francisco – and where September is…