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Queer histories, herstories, personalities and issues are explored with humor, insight, and sensitivity each week on Out in the Bay, which resumed production in 2020 after a 4-year pause. Find dozens of past shows on its website, OutintheBay.org

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Writer Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’

2024/02/16

Dwayne Ratleff grew up poor, Black and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.”

Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’

2024/01/14

As we await the reopening of the Pacifica Pier — now closed due to recent storm damage — we bring you poet Toni Mirosevich's stories of connection on this historic pier.

Pagans at Xmas? Making holidays queer-comfy

2023/12/23

Just in time for holiday gatherings, tips for getting along joyfully with differences. Our guest says "nosy" questions can grease the turkey!

25 years since Matt Shepard, how are queer civil rights?

2023/12/02

In December 1998, soon after its namesake's savage murder, his parents launched the Matthew Shepard Foundation to erase hate-based violence. We’ve seen big advances since then — and big setbacks. LGBTQ+ leaders discuss where we are now.

Matthew Shepard – in his mother’s words

2023/10/22

25 years ago, a gay college student was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left out to die on a cold Wyoming night. His grief-stricken mother worked to expand hate crime laws. Hear her story.

'Funeral Diva' Pamela Sneed: 'We can heal'

2023/10/20

Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me.

Burning Man – art and queer exploration

2023/08/25

Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary tent city in an alkaline Nevada desert every August? Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust? What’s queer about it?

Drag Storytime – VERA! reads to preschoolers

2023/07/28

Should drag story hours be banned? With so much fuss, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you! Here’s #3 in our series.

Drag Storytime – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners

2023/07/21

Should drag story hours be banned? With all the fuss, we thought you'd like to judge for yourselves. So we bring some to you! (Episode 2 of 3)

Drag Storytime – The One & Only Rexy reads at book fest

2023/07/14

Why ban drag performers? Why all the fuss over drag story hours? Hear some for yourself ... then you decide!

Transgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites

2023/06/16

Pump up the volume! In part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of anti-LGBTQ laws across the USA, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band is back together after 12-plus years.

Learning from asexuals about sex and relationships

2023/04/21

Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from zero (totally straight) to six (flaming fag or butchest of dykes). But have you considered another continuum, the asexual – allosexual one?