After 4 years away for family matters, we’re glad to be back, broadcasting and podcasting queer voices and stories! Currently, most of our “recent” podcasts below are from 2015, our last full year. Plenty of good content here, so enjoy! And know that every week we’ll post a new episode, gradually replacing the older ones. Also check out our Favorites page for some of the best from our first decade. Happy listening!
(Live in-studio interview aired Dec. 17, 2015 on KALW, 91.7fm San Francisco.)
Photojournalist Kristin Lyseggen profiles nine current and former inmates in "The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons." Surrounded by convicted murderers and rapists, she writes, they are often forced to fight for their lives on their way to womanhood inside some of the world’s most dangerous prisons for men. She and Daniella Tavake, one of those profiled in the book, share intimate parts of their stories with host Eric Jansen on Out in the Bay.
With recent gay rights gains, why is it still difficult for young people to be lesbian, gay, bi, transgender or “queer,” even in the San Francisco Bay Area? The Pacific Center for Human Growth, an...
Blackmail, My Love, is a noir murder-mystery novel set in San Francisco, 1951 – “The Dark Ages of Queerdom,” as author and illustrator Katie Gilmartin puts it – when cops raided gay and lesbian bars,...
One of our favorites in capturing the queer cultural history of San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s. Marilyn’s 2013 interview with former Cockettes member Dolores De Luce. Her memoir, “My Life, A Four-Letter Word:…
Rainbow Honor Walk Teaches Queer History
- October 1, 2015
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Twenty bronze sidewalk plaques guide pedestrians on a stroll through queer history in San Francisco’s Castro district. The Rainbow Honor Walk, a growing monument along the streets of San Francisco honoring LGBT pioneers, debuted one year...
