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Click here for more information about the San Francisco Bay Area exhibit showing at Santa Clara University's deSaisset Museum January 13 thru March 18. - air date Jan 5, 2012

The Women's Building:  A space owned by and for women created in San Francisco's Mission district over 30 years ago. Find out the history of the lesbians, women of color, and other women's groups in Marilyn's interview with Sushawn Robb. Her book, "The Mothering Movement," details the history of this amazing institution from materials archived at the GLBT Historial Society. - air date Jan 12, 2012

Lawyers and taxes and bonds – oh my!: Inequality hits LGBT people right in the assets. Remember all the hype about the “marriage penalty”? Well, most of the penalties come if you cannot marry. Legal inequities allow or even require discrimination in taxes, pensions, health care, real estate and much more. Financial advisor Mark Grace and estate planning attorney Susan von Hermann fill us in on the extra steps queer people must take to protect themselves and their families financially. They’ll also give practical tips for anyone – including straight folks – in a relationship not recognized by the U.S. government, whether or not it is recognized by your state. Eric Jansen hosts. - air date Jan 19, 2012

Judy Rickard: Every day LGBT couples are denied the same rights as heterosexual couples when it comes to immigration. Fighting for their lives instead of being free to live them, these couples are subject to the homophobia of antiquated immigration laws. Marilyn talks with author and long-time activist Judy Rickard about her book, "Torn Apart," a chronicle of over 20 couples struggling with this punishing policy. - air date Jan 26, 2012
 

Christmas, Golden Girls Style!:  "The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes" is non-stop holiday hilarity all month at The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco's Mission district with Trannyshack creator, Heklina, and her band of merry drag stars. Marilyn visits with Heklina, who plays the Bea Arthur role, and Cookie Dough, who plays her mother. Marilyn saw the opening night which was a benefit for Project Open Hand and guffawed throughout. What a way to start the festivities! Leave it to the queens, honey! - air date Dec 8, 2011

Jim Hormel – ‘Fit to Serve':  Remember the 1960s comic character Richie Rich, The Poor Little Rich Boy, who had no friends because he lived in an isolated compound? Well, little Jimmy Hormel, heir to the SPAM fortune, had that problem and more in real life. Born in Austin, Minnesota, in 1933, he was also gay in a place and time long before being gay was in the public consciousness. After marrying, fathering five kids and becoming a law school dean, all while still in the closet, he eventually found himself and went on to become a political activist, Ambassador to Luxembourg -- the USA’s highest-ranking gay official at the time, over the heinous and hateful objections of the religious “right” – and one of the world’s most effective gay civil rights activist-philanthropists. His memoir, Fit to Serve, full of insider political anecdotes from the tumult of the 1960s through today, tells his intriguing story. He shares it with host Eric Jansen and you, on this special edition of Out in the Bay. - air date Dec 15, 2011

Pariah: Pariah is the new film heading for awards season about a young black girl's coming out experience. She doesn't fit into the feminine role her mother wants her to assume and she doesn't fit into her butch friend Laura's queer world. This movie is a beautifully shot, funny, poignant, and dramatic story that we have rarely seen in film. Marilyn interviews the writer-director, Dee Rees, who studied with Spike Lee at NYU, and got him onboard as an Executive Producer. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Festival.
- air date Dec 22, 2011

Lea Delaria:  "The Last Butch Standing" is Lea Delaria, one of the pioneers of San Francisco gay comedy and a Broadway star and jazz singer. She's bringing her show to The Victoria Theatre on 16th Street in the Mission District for New Year's Eve. Brash, loud, funny, wild, and very talented, Lea suffers no fools gladly and stands out from the usual mainstream gay entertainment. - air date Dec 29, 2011
 

Toni Mirosevich's "The Takeaway Bin": Poet and writing professor Toni Mirosevich's book of poems, The Takeaway Bin, is inspired by "Oblique Strategies," a dilemma-solving game created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975. Have a dilemma? Pick a card. Or pick a poem. Hear Toni read from The Takeaway Bin and her earlier books of poems and flash fiction, Queer Street and The Rooms We Make Our Own, and talk with host Eric Jansen about her life and "lyric documentaries." - air date Nov 17, 2011

Mitchell Gold - The Pain of Growing Up Gay:  Furniture mogul Mitchell Gold talks with Marilyn Pittman about his book, "Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America." The book features essays by Barney Frank, Richard Chamberlain, pro basketball player John Ameche, ambassador Jim Hormel and many others, including ministers, gay teens, and mothers who have lost gay children to suicide. - air date Nov 24, 2011
 

Matchmaker, Matchmaker!: Marilyn talks with Dr. Frankie and Soniyah Singh, two matchmakers in the Bay area. Dr. Frankie works with lesbians only and Soniyah works only with gay men. Is it harder to find love if you're gay? Do gay men have trouble coupling, while lesbians couple too easily? You'll hear how they coach their clients to get ready to meet the right person, what challenges they face, along with some of their client stories. - air date Oct 13, 2011

Paul Myers:  British blues rocker Long John Baldry was gay, but closeted, right along with Elton John, whose life he saved one night. (Elton wrote about it in: "Someone Saved My Life Tonight") Marilyn talks with Paul Myers whose biography, "It Ain't Easy," beautifully details Baldry's gayness, addictions, rock 'n' roll friends, and music. It's an encore presentation this week on OutInTheBay.

To read more of Paul's work, check out Paul's blog, The Pulmyears Music Bog, here. - air date Oct 20, 2011

Queer rights in Africa and beyond:  Health and human rights activist Lourence (Larry) Misedah's family in Kenya -- where homosexuality is punishable with 14 years in prison -- disowned him when he publicly came out as gay in 2007. Then, after violence and death threats at his university, he applied for and was granted political asylum in the U.S.  Hear his story and more about LGBT struggles in Africa and the Middle East from Misedah and International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission executive director Cary Johnson. Eric Jansen hosts. - air date Oct 27, 2011
 

The Reality of LGBT Myths:  Break down the myths about the LGBT community, especially the one that says we're all rich and our biggest challenge is figuring out which fancy cocktail we're going to have. Many people in the community suffer from all kinds of discrimination each day...even in San Francisco. Marilyn talks with Rebecca Rolfe, the Executive Director of the San Francisco LGBT Center, and Eugenie Fitzgerald, the Center's Economic Development Director, about the kinds of programs they offer that help a wide variety of LGBT people. While that may sound like a bit of a wonky subject, Marilyn makes it funny, provocative, and stimulating. - air date Sep 8, 2011  

Why Dan White killed Harvey Milk and George Moscone:  Eric Jansen's guest is writer and journalist Mike Weiss, whose gripping book Double Play: The Hidden Passions Behind the Double Assassination of George Moscone & Harvey Milk is a fascinating account of why Dan White did it and a fascinating look at the modern history of San Francisco and gay politics. Weiss covered Dan White's double-murder trial and the White Night Riots for Time, Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times. He was hooked, had to know more, spent years researching and writing, and the result is Double Play, which won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime Book of the Year. Weiss will delve into the details for us, and you'll even hear from White himself, as we play part of his chilling taped confession about the double murder. - air date Sep 15, 2011  

Caring for Queer Elders: Are lesbian, gay and transgender seniors getting proper and respectful care in nursing homes, day-care centers and in their own homes? In Alameda County, the news from a ground-breaking state-funded study is mostly good, but it shows room for improvement. Dan Ashbrook of the non-profit group Lavender Seniors just finished conducting a series of care-giver trainings also funded by the government grant. He'll fill us in on current LGBT elder care issues, along with Dianna Garrett of the Center for Elders’ Independence and Gilbert Carrasco of Salem Lutheran Home, two prominent East Bay senior health care providers. Eric Jansen hosts. - air date Sep 22, 2011  

Heeeeere's Marga!:  One of the first openly gay comedians talks to one of the other first openly gay comedians! Marga Gomez, who's been on "Comic Relief" on HBO and Logo gay comedy specials, along with headlining on the LGBT circuit for many years, talks with Marilyn about her new show, "Not Getting Any Younger," now at The Marsh in San Francisco.

Click here for more information on Marga's show, and to purchase tickets. Be sure to tell them that Out In The Bay sent you! - air date Sep 29, 2011  
 

Polk Street Stories:  This week we present a moving and intense special by oral historian Joey Plaster. It’s called "Polk Street Stories," and it's about the neighborhood that preceded the Castro as San Francisco’s prime queer destination, and the safe haven it offered -- before its decline -- to gay and transgender people from across the country and around the globe.  For this 50-minute documentary and its related oral history project, Polk Street: Lives in Transition, Plaster interviewed more than 70 Polk Street residents, activists and businesspeople.  His beautifully and softly-told documentary is full of gripping and intense personal stories.

"Polk Street Stories" was produced in collaboration with Transom.org, whose mission is to bring new work and voices into public media.  Plaster's work is also supported by San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society, where he directed its Polk Street: Lives in Transition oral history project.
- air date Aug 4, 2011  

Joshua Klipp, “self-made jazz singer": After he transitioned from female to male, Joshua Kilpp's muses migrated from Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn to Chet Baker. Hear Joshua Klipp talk with host Eric Jansen about finding his male voice, and hear his renditions of classic Chet Baker tunes from his upcoming tribute CD, sung in our studios especially for Out in the Bay listeners.

See Josh live and in person! Joshua Klipp and the Klipptones will perform Sunday, August 21, 2 to 4pm, in San Francisco's Union Square, as part of the "Jewels in the Square" concert series. Did we mention it's FREE!!?? For more on Josh, click here. - air date Aug 11, 2011  

Waiting for Giovanni: "Waiting for Giovanni" is a new play about a moment of dilemma in the life of the late, highly-acclaimed African American author James Baldwin. Before his second novel, Giovanni's Room, was published in 1956, Baldwin struggled over whether to proceed with what became one of his most famous works, because his activist friends and literary colleagues warned him that the story's homoerotic content might ruin his career.

Playwright Jewelle Gomez reads from the play, and she and collaborator and director Harry Waters, Jr., fill us in on Baldwin's life, why Giovanni's Room was so groundbreaking, and what inspired them to create “Waiting for Giovanni," which premieres at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco Aug. 19 - Sept. 18.

Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. Be sure to tell them that Out In The Bay sent you!
- air date Aug 18, 2011  
 

Tirza True Latimer: She is the most famous lesbian of the 20th century and she changed the way we write. Marilyn talks with Tirza True Latimer, co-curator of "Seeing Gertrude Stein," at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, about her literary and lesbian life in Paris between the two World Wars. Exploring the difference between her more hermetic and more accessible writing, Marilyn and Tirza revel in the genius of Stein and her impact on 20th century art and culture.
 

More information about the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, can be found here. - air date Aug 25, 2011