Gay Semiotics is a set of two dozen iconic photographs with embedded text presented as a tongue-in-cheek anthropological essay on the codes of sexual orientation and identification in 1970s San Francisco. They’re on view through...
The Gay ’70s: “Sex, Drugs, and Disco”
- June 3, 2015
- Tagged as: 1970's, AIDS, Eric Jansen, gay, LGBT, Marilyn Pittman, Mark Abramson, memoir, San Francisco
Take a trip back to the ‘70s with San Francisco author Mark Abramson and host Marilyn Pittman. His memoir, “Sex, Drugs, and Disco” chronicles the story of gay men flooding into the Castro from all over the country…
Sex, Drugs, and Drag Shows: A Memoir
- March 19, 2015
- Tagged as: AIDS, Castro, gay, LGBT, Marilyn Pittman, Mark Abramson, San Francisco
Marilyn takes a trip back to the ’70s and early ’80s with author Mark Abramson. His memoir, “For My Brothers,” has one hair-raising story of sex and drugs and rock and roll after another.  A cast…
“What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?” Comic Lisa Geduldig says it’s an age-old question she answered 21 years ago with her now annual show Kung Pao Kosher Comedy — Jewish comedians telling jokes...
What does it take to bounce beyond trauma? David Feldman, co-author of Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success, talks with host Eric Jansen about post-traumatic growth. It’s a topic Feldman finds particularly relevant...
Even in the S.F. Bay Area, growing up gay is still not easy. On this week’s Out in the Bay, a teen performs live-on-the-air her coming-out monologue, given onstage at Destiny Art Center‘s Youth Performance...
