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"Out In The Bay" is a weekly half-hour radio show broadcast on NPR affiliate KALW, 91.7 FM and streamed live worldwide on KALW.org Thursdays at 7:30PM, and Sundays at 2:00PM Pacific Time. We interview community leaders, newsmakers, authors, artists and interesting personalities. Entertaining, informative, inspiring, educational, "Out In The Bay" is the sound of our culture. Produced by Eric Jansen, Marilyn Pittman and David Latulippe.
 
 

 
 
Our Awards:
Less than three years old, Out in the Bay is already award-winning. In 2005, producer Eric Jansen captured a 3rd place Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. He was the only broadcaster recognized in this competition, which honors a magazine editor and is typically dominated by print journalists.
In 2006, Out in the Bay won 2nd place in the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association's radio category. The award was for Marilyn Pittman and Eric Jansen's August 2005 interview with Emily B, the lesbian who won her "deadbeat dyke" child support case against her former partner in the CA Supreme Court, and her lawyer, Courtney Joslin. In this groundbreaking ruling, California's top court ruled for the first time that a child can legally have two mothers -- and that two legally responsible parents don't have to be opposite sex.
 
 
 
 


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THIS WEEK'S SHOW - May 15/18, 2008

THE MARRIAGE RULING:
A special LIVE one-hour edition tonight with host Eric Jansen. With today's historic ruling from the California Supreme Court on same sex marriage, Eric will talk with Kate Kendell, Executive Director of National Center for Lesbian Rights, lead plaintiffs who thought they were married four years ago, and with you and other listeners who call in with questions and comments at
(415) 841-4134
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Join us this week Out in the Bay!

 

LAST WEEK'S SHOW
May 4/8, 2008

Old People, Retro Music Why the mainstream retirement home industry is watching queer seniors' communities. Also, the music and politics of mod-retro band Pink Martini. Eric Jansen's guests are Rainbow Visions Properties founder Joy Silver and Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale.
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BEST OF OUT IN THE BAY

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Director Ang Lee on "Brokeback" - original air date December 8, 2005

60's Pop Icon Lesley Gore
- original air date April 20, 2006

 Tab Hunter is Gay

Late, Great Disco Diva Sylvester - original air date April 7, 2005

Deadbeat Dykes are Fo' Real - original air date August 25, 2005

Cruisin' the Castro Tour - original air date October 7, 2004

Margaret Cho Will Not Laugh and Bruce Vilanch, Queer Muppet - original air date November 17, 2005

 

 

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Rants & Raves
Calling for more ‘mixed’ media...
Listener’s letter to The Advocate GLBT news magazine

Over many decades, The Advocate has been our primary source for the GLBT community’s national (and international) pulse. Your recent 40th anniversary issue’s public poll identifying 40 top heroes is quite revealing. My definition of “hero” is someone who has accomplished brave deeds; a person with character whom we can admire.

While your poll indeed recognizes the extraordinary achievements of many well deserving individuals, clearly few persons of color rise to the top. In a culture that depends on the media for much of its identity, many of these heroes are also well placed in the powerful and influential entertainment industry. Your readership poll recognizes Rosie O’Donnell as #10, a woman who thinks nothing of using racial slurs like “Chinamen” and who says she will say whatever she wants. Such arrogance and ignorance from your 10th hero are disturbing. The poll’s acknowledgement of her illustrates the lack of far more constructive models for those of us in the GLBT community who still feel the stigma of race and ethnicity.

The poll’s results signal a need for more inclusiveness and integrity for whom we honor. Your readership may ideally believe in a color-blind GLBT society. Polarization and separation into racial and ethnic camps are still evident, however. Media examples of “beauty” exemplified in the slick and glossy magazines, for example, favor the Caucasian reality (which we, too, admire), while models representing racial differences are limited. Does The Advocate’s readership understand that non-white persons, Asian Americans in this case, are trivialized as non-existent and secondary within the cultural elite?

I see a new time coming. The Advocate can play an important role in changing our stereotypes and impressions of the under-represented. Perhaps in a decade your 50th anniversary heroes poll will reflect a more diverse constituency. I hope so, if we truly expect to grow and evolve as a more unified and yet diverse community.

Yours very truly,
Gerry Takano, Daly City

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