The third in our series featuring interviews by Marilyn Pittman, who died March 28 at age 73. RIP, Marilyn, and thanks for all you left us. Judy Grahn’s “Common Woman” poems in the 1960s and...
This sound portrait of the late great disco diva Sylvester is the second in a short series honoring co-producer Marilyn Pittman, who died Saturday, March 28. We’re re-posting some of her stellar features. In this...
With sadness, I honor senior co-producer Marilyn Pittman, who passed away Saturday, March 28, by reposting some of her stellar features. She was especially proud of easing Lesley Gore “out” on-air. RIP, Marilyn. ~ E...
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, award-winning debut novel – a memoir really...
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...
A yearly "Day of Drag" and a Drag Mall? While many states are restricting drag, San Francisco Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger is spreading the humor and "sparkle" of drag to make positive change in the world.

