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.
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…
Slaying Dragons with Kevin Rolston
“I grew up in a very blue collar, working class, homophobic, and racist environment,” he recalled. Through literature, performance, and eventually writing and performing his own intentionally queer works, Rolston found his sexuality and his voice.
Cockettes female co-founder shares group’s saucy history
Meet artist, designer, photographer and actor Fayette Hauser, a female co-founder of The Cockettes, the 1969-‘72 experimental San Francisco theatre troupe known for eye-popping costumes, glittery beards and sexy musicals some called anarchic. Her beautiful…
‘Changeling’ delves deep and sings about transition
Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His new album, I Am A Man, is about his own transition. In our conversation, Nick…
