Home for the Holidays? Or out and about?
As our 22nd month under COVID’s cloud begins — with a new variant upon us — it’s clear we’ll have another abnormal holiday season. Many are vaccinated and eager to venture out; others are wary. Luckily,…
‘Real Life’ from a queer Black point of view
Brandon Taylor’s highly praised debut novel, Real Life, gets deep into desire, intimacy, sex, abuse, homophobia, racism, misogyny, love, hate and the blurred lines between friends and lovers. Oh, and let’s not forget cut-throat scientific…
Talking politics with B.A.R. columnist Matthew Bajko
Chic-fil-A is closing in on San Francisco. The fast-food chain boycotted by many LGBTQ folks for the CEO’s and the company’s past donations to anti-queer charities and political organizations opens a new outlet this week…
LGBTQs stuck in Afghanistan risk execution
Queer people in Afghanistan are in deadly danger. After the Taliban swiftly took control in August following 20 years of US-led occupation, more than 120,000 people had been evacuated by late September. But today, tens…
Family Acceptance is Caitlin Ryan’s Project
What should you do when a child in your life comes out to you or you learn some other way that they may be lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, non-binary or otherwise “queer”? Let Dr. Caitlin…
Meet the USA’s first out transgender bishop
As LGBTQ History Month closes, meet someone who has just recently made history: Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer was installed in September as a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, making them the first…
‘Marijuana Minister’ committed comforting crimes
In 1996, as AIDS ravaged San Francisco’s gay community, Metropolitan Community Church pastor Jim Mitulski risked imprisonment, dispensing marijuana to alleviate his sick congregants’ pain before it was legal. He did this in church, right…
Big Freedia: No guns, more ass-shakin’!
Big Freedia is famous for her New Orleans bounce music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known. She’s on tour this month promoting her new EP, BDE — Big Diva…
Coming out on ‘Stereotypes’
Out in the Bay proudly features a new queer podcast this week: Stereotypes – Straight talk from Queer voices. On the pilot episode, “Still Coming Out,” producer and host Christopher Beale brings us two beautifully…
Gay Cal. Supreme Court Justice Values Struggle to be Authentic
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….
