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 – VERA! reads to preschoolers

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 – Panda Dulce, Lourdes Rivas read to kindergarteners

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

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

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.

Transgender rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites

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.” The long-time San Franciscan has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel about his childhood.

Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’

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?

Learning from asexuals about sex and relationships

What would you do if falsely accused of molesting a child? And you see your career crumble. Matthew Clark Davison’s novel “Doubting Thomas,” about a gay school teacher, challenges assumptions about guilt, innocence and more.

‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false accusations

As a young girl, future Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Kelli Evans was more excited about the bookmobile coming through her Denver neighborhood than the ice cream truck.

Grandma inspired California’s first lesbian supreme court justice

While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped advance queer rights and now offer a glimpse of gay and lesbian life in those times.

1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights

Pauli Murray

On our last Out in the Bay of 2022, hear about the amazing life and accomplishments of a Black queer civil rights pioneer left out of history books: Pauli Murray.

Hats off to Pauli Murray!

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

Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies to go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions.

‘Grin and bear’ curious holiday questions 

While they weren’t around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.

Remembering The Cockettes

Lauren Hough

In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you Lauren Hough. She grew up in infamous Christian cult The Family, which her father had joined to dodge the Vietnam War. At 18, Hough fled to the Air Force, where she got anti-lesbian death threats and her car was set ablaze.

Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing’

What happens when members of our Bay Area LGBTQ community pay to skip the line? Reporter Corey Antonio Rose has that story, plus a chat with the Oakland LGBTQ Center on Out in the Bay.

Inequities In Bay Area MPOX vaccines

Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His new album, I Am A Man, is about his own transition.

‘Changeling’ sings about gender transition

The latest production of ItsQwere is inspired by ’90s-era comedy TV like In Living Color, All That, and SNL.

Black Queer Women Get Mighty Real

In “Bad Hombres” at San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros, sole actor Rudy Guerrero plays seven characters that comically skewer stereotypes of queer Latinos.

‘Bad Hombres’ skewers Latinx stereotypes 

It’s Gunawan’s hope that through PRESS PLAY: Exhibition, he can reach people who are struggling and tell them, “you are good.”

Breaking Mental Health Stigma with Stories

Crucial midterm elections are little more than a month away. How can individuals make an impact? “Paul for Pete” author Paul Mason Barnes lays it out in his book and gives tips on how to get involved on Out in the Bay Queer Radio + Podcast.

Passion for politics in 'Paul for Pete'

Big name people interviewed with a different point of view,

Such an interesting program,

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, <a href="http://OutintheBay.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OutintheBay.org</a>

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