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JON GINOLI AND PANSY DIVISION ARE ON FIRE! - He's the leader of the first gay rock band who made their name opening on the road for Green Day in 1994. His new book, "Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division," is now out in paperback as the band starts their summer tour, including a show in San Francisco June 6th at Yerba Buena, www.ybca.org.

They started during the peak of the AIDS crisis in 1991 in San Francisco. But by '94 they were opening for a new band, Green Day, reaching thousands of fans that would not have listened to their queer, provocative rock. With albums named, "Deflowered," and "Undressed," and songs named, "Bill and Ted's Homosexual Adventure," "That's So Gay," and "Pat Me On The Ass," Pansy Division combines pop melodies, punk sensibility and queer lyrics to be one-of-a-kind. Check them out online at www.pansydivision.com. - rebroadcast air date Jun 4, 2009; show originally aired Mar 19, 2009

WE'RE GOING TO THE BEACH...BEACH BLANKET BABYLON THAT IS:
He died of AIDS in 1995 twenty-one years after he created San Francisco's must-see hit show, "Beach Blanket Babylon." it's now the 35th anniversary of the show, the longest running musical revue in theatre history, and Steve's wife, Producer Jo Schuman Silver, has kept it running strong. Marilyn Pittman talks with her about those years with Steve and the colorful history of this San Francisco institution.
- air date Jun 11, 2009

Does our money buy us civil rights?
Test case: Las Vegas:

Las Vegas has aggressively gone after LGBT travelers, and it's paid off -- more queers now go there for vacation than to San Francisco!  (The Convention & Visitors Authority even has a new gay web page:  Visit Las Vegas - LGBT)

While the gambling industry's courting of gay dollars has brought more acceptance to Nevada, queer life there is still no bed of roses. Join host Eric Jansen on a tour of "gay Sin City." - air date Jun 18, 2009

Author Michael Luongo:
Acts of homosexuality are punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Iran. In Malaysia a homosexual could spend 20 years in prison and in Egypt, openly gay men are subject to sexual immorality charges which can land them in jail.

The mainstream press has just begun to cover the challenging and often dangerous anti-gay environments in Iraq, Russia, and Singapore, among other countries.

Author and travel writer Michael Luongo has been at the forefront of these stories for several years now. Eric and Marilyn interviewed him in 2007 about his book of essays, "Gay Travels in the Muslim World." Marilyn talked with him in New York about the latest news from this difficult new front.    - air date Jun 25, 2009
 

Michael Feinstein - What's is like for a gay man to channel straight-laced Frank Sinatra? Eric Jansen's guest is 4-time Grammy-nominated balladeer Michael Feinstein. They'll be playing selections from "The Sinatra Project," Feinstein's latest CD and the focus of his San Francisco jazz concert at Davies Symphony Hall, Sunday, May 10th, and talking about his experience being 'out' in the music industry. - air date May 7, 2009

THE FAR RIGHT - The Far (from) Right is finally getting what they deserve: a scathing film expose on closeted politicians whose voting records are shameful on gay civil rights. Marilyn talks with Kirby Dick, the 'ungay' Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, about his newest film, "Outrage." They also talk about two of his most recognized films, "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," and "Twist of Faith," plus, his 1997 groundbreaking Sundance award-winning film, "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist." - air date May 14, 2009

Blind Faith: A murder mystery about religious anti-gay conversion therapies and the institutions that hold queer teens captive. (Light reading based on heavy realities.) Eric Jansen's guests are Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall, authors of the Blind Eye lesbian murder mystery series.
- rebroadcast air date May 21, 2009; show originally aired Apr 9, 2009

The Prop 8 Ruling – what’s next for gay rights?
Join us for a special, hour-long call-in edition of Out in the Bay. Eric Jansen’s expert guests will fill us in on the California Supreme Court’s ruling this Tuesday on Proposition 8, last November’s voter-approved measure to keep California marriage heterosexual-only. What are the ramifications of the court’s ruling, and what’s next in the fight over gay rights?
- air date May 28, 2009

GREEN TRAVEL - Leave it to the lesbians to figure out how to go on a cruise and help the environment. Marilyn talks with the Shannon Wentworth, the CEO of the new lesbian travel company, Sweet, about offsetting the carbon footprint of a cruise by helping revitalize port areas. As the first Sweet cruise prepares to launch from New Orleans this fall, Shannon describes ways passengers can help the people and the environment there as they embark. She also talks about her daughter, an HIV positive teenager she adopted, and what drives her entrepreneurial spirit. - air date Apr 2, 2009

Blind Faith: A murder mystery about religious anti-gay conversion therapies and the institutions that hold queer teens captive. (Light reading based on heavy realities.) Eric Jansen's guests are Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall, authors of the Blind Eye lesbian murder mystery series. - air date Apr 9, 2009

Brian Thorstenson: How does a queer actor and playwright survive in San Francisco for 20 plus years? Find out about Brian Thorstenson who came of age during the height of the AIDS crisis. He has persevered as a playwright, solo performer, and actor and his new play, "Over The Mountain," about the choices two sisters make during wartime, is at the Brava Center (brava.org) in the Mission district. - air date Apr 16, 2009

LIBERACE! - He was one of the most popular, successful and ‘gayest’ entertainers of the 20th century. Known for his spectacular flamboyance, Liberace was a child prodigy who became the world’s highest-paid pianist. His TV show aired in 20 countries, and he broke attendance records at premier concert halls from the 1950s through the 1980s. "Mr. Showmanship" died of AIDS, even though he never was "out" -- the concept barely existed in his lifetime. Eric Jansen hosts this tribute to Liberace as Las Vegas' Liberace Museum turns 30. - air date Apr 23, 2009

Rahsaan Patterson - How easy is it to be a black music artist and be out? Find out as Marilyn interviews and plays tracks from Rahsaan Patterson, who's at Yoshi's San Francisco May 1-3. He's BET's 2008 Underground Artist of the Year and has been a recording artist and performer for over a decade. His music has been heard on many film soundtracks, including "Dr. Doolittle," "The Lost Boys," and "Made In Heaven." - air date Apr 30, 2009

Supreme Court Orals on Prop 8: San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, fresh from the courtroom, appears live on Out in the Bay radio to discuss the day's oral arguments before the California Supreme Court on the validity of Proposition 8, last November's ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in California. - air date Mar 5, 2009

DEBRA CHASNOFF:  It was an Oscar first when Debra Chasnoff thanked her "life partner" as she accepted an Oscar for her 1991 film, "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment," which was narrated by Out In The Bay's Marilyn Pittman. Marilyn talks with her about that pivotal moment and the many films she has made since, most of them about school children's experience with bullying, diversity, homophobia, gender roles, and family life. Her new film, "Straightlaced," has just had its world premiere. - air date Mar 12, 2009

PANSY DIVISION IS HERE! - They started during the peak of the AIDS crisis in 1991 in San Francisco. But when they opened on the road for Green Day in 1994, they became more than the first gay rock band. With albums named, "Deflowered," and "Undressed," and songs named, "Bill and Ted's Homosexual Adventure," "That's So Gay," and "Pat me On The Ass," Pansy Division combines pop melodies, punk sensibility and queer lyrics to be one-of-a-kind. Check them out online before and after the show at pansydivision.com. - air date Mar 19, 2009

What’s normal? - The intersex perspective on gender and sexuality, and how our society sticks labels on us in its need to know if we’re gay or straight, male or female, with no options in between. Eric Jansen's guests are Stanford medical ethicist Katrina Karkazis, author of Fixing Sex, about genital surgeries performed on “ambiguous” infants to make them clearly male or female, and Jeanne Nollman, an intersex activist who did not learn until age 25 that she had male chromosomes, how that affected her body, and how keeping the truth from her affected her life. - air date Mar 26, 2009

James Judd: What do you get when you cross a Mormon father and a Vegas cocktail waitress mother? James Judd, the hilarious star of the solo comedy show, "7 Sins." Marilyn interviews him and plays lots of funny clips from the show, plus she's onstage with him for the newest run, January 16th-February 21st at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. For more information, go to: http://www.sffringe.org. - rebroadcast air date Feb 5, 2009; show originally aired Jan 8, 2009

A Conversation With Leslie Gore: Eric and Marilyn talk with 60's pop icon Leslie Gore about how the late New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug helped her come out, gay marriage, her new record, and being a teenage pop star under the tutelage of Quincy Jones. - air date Feb 12, 2009

"Milk", the movie - Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Emile Hirsch talk to Marilyn about the new movie, "Milk", about slain gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk. Its the 30th anniversary of his assassination and it couldn't come at a more auspicious time just as Prop. 8 has passed in California, further delaying marriage equality for LGBT people. You'll also hear interviews with Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Danny Nicoletta, the people who were there with Harvey in 1978 as he became the first openly gay man elected to office. - rebroadcast air date Feb 19, 2009; show originally aired Nov 20, 2008

Pink Harvest -
Meet Toni Mirosevich, award-winning poet, author and creative writing professor at San Francisco State University, and hear her read from her book of short stories, Pink Harvest, creative non-fiction that, in her words, "explores life's shifting, tilting moments and encounters." - rebroadcast air date Feb 26, 2009; show originally aired Jan 29, 2009

Out in the Bay was on break January 1. In its place, KALW aired the following special from OutLoud Radio: Voices from the LGBTQ Intergenerational Storytelling Project Hear conversations between LGBTQ and ally youth and elders about the joys and challenges of love, the meaning of Proposition 8, and the changing ways that LGBTQ people represent themselves. A fantastic half-hour of youth-produced radio, created in collaboration with LYRIC and New Leaf.

James Judd: What do you get when you cross a Mormon father and a Vegas cocktail waitress mother? James Judd, the hilarious star of the solo comedy show, "7 Sins." Marilyn interviews him and plays lots of funny clips from the show, plus she's onstage with him for the newest run, January 16th-February 21st at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. For more information, go to: http://www.sffringe.org. - air date Jan 8, 2009

Recovering from Proposition 8:
The campaign against Proposition 8 was criticized for -- among other things -- not showing gay and lesbian parents in its TV ads. Now a group of L.A. filmmakers has produced 5 such spots to air in California the week of Barack Obama’s inauguration. They've even pressured homophobic inaugural invocation preacher Rick Warren to show the spots to his Orange County mega-church congregation. Eric Jansen speaks with John Ireland, founder of the “Get To Know Us First” campaign, joined by Molly McKay of Marriage Equality USA. She shares results of her group's community survey of what went wrong in the No on 8 campaign and how to recover. - air date Jan 15, 2009

DEBRA CHASNOFF: 
It was an Oscar first when Debra Chasnoff thanked her "life partner" as she accepted an Oscar for her 1991 film, "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment," which was narrated by Out In The Bay's Marilyn Pittman. Marilyn talks with her about that pivotal moment and the many films she has made since, most of them about school children's experience with bullying, diversity, homophobia, gender roles, and family life. Her new film, "Straightlaced," has just had its world premiere. - air date Jan 22, 2009

PINK HARVEST -
Meet Toni Mirosevich, award-winning poet, author and creative writing professor at S.F. State, and hear her read from her book of short stories, "Pink Harvest" ... which she calls "creative non-fiction" that "explores life's shifting, tilting moments and encounters." - air date Jan 22, 2009

Harassment in High School: 9 out of 10 American high school students face harassment of some kind. Find out what's being done about it from the Executive Director of GLSEN, Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network. Marilyn talks with her about LGBT parents and kids and the enormous difficulties they face in being treated equally. - air date Dec 11, 2008

Bears and the Cinemark Movie Boycott - That's right, bears. Specifically, movie-going bears. Hear about their club, SF Movie Bears, and about their boycott of Cinemark Theatres because of Cinemark CEO Alan Stock's anti-gay political campaign contributions. Join host Eric Jansen for a taste of bear culture and "bears on film." - air date Dec 18, 2008

"Milk", the movie - Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Emile Hirsch talk to Marilyn about the new movie, "Milk", about slain gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk. Its the 30th anniversary of his assassination and it couldn't come at a more auspicious time just as Prop. 8 has passed in California, further delaying marriage equality for LGBT people. You'll also hear interviews with Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Danny Nicoletta, the people who were there with Harvey in 1978 as he became the first openly gay man elected to office.  - rebroadcast air date Dec 25, 2008; show originally aired Nov 20, 2008
 

Post-election Wrap-up:
What do Tuesday's election results mean for LGBT Americans? After California's vote on anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, what's next? And how will national, state and local results affect queers here and across the country. Join State Assemblyman Mark Leno and San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese Stewart -- who argued the same-sex marriage case before California's Supreme Court -- in a lively discussion with host Eric Jansen. - air date Nov 6, 2008

Classical (Music) Gays:
What?! Gay men composed classical music?!?! Berkeley Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Paul Haas fills us in on the tortured life and resulting tortured music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the less tortured life and music of more openly gay Samuel Barber, and possibly a few other queer composers of past centuries. - air date Nov 13, 2008

"Milk", the movie - Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Emile Hirsch talk to Marilyn about the new movie, "Milk", about slain gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk. Its the 30th anniversary of his assassination and it couldn't come at a more auspicious time just as Prop. 8 has passed in California, further delaying marriage equality for LGBT people. You'll also hear interviews with Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Danny Nicoletta, the people who were there with Harvey in 1978 as he became the first openly gay man elected to office.  - air date Nov 20, 2008

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus turns 30:
A group of singers gathered outside San Francisco City Hall 30 years ago – on the night of Nov. 27, 1978 -- to comfort a crowd shocked by the assassinations that day of the city's first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, and Mayor George Moscone. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus has been a social and cultural force ever since. Join host Eric Jansen, conductor Kathleen McGuire and founding baritone Bob Rufo to hear some of the chorus’ music and history, and about its 30th Anniversary World AIDS Day Concert and yearly "Home for the Holidays" concert. - air date Nov 27, 2008