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Our Show:
"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
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HOT Dates:
Here are just a few fun queer things to do in and around
SF. Please tell ‘em Out in the Bay sent you!
• A Brand New Me! Connie Champagne sings the Dusty
Springfield Songbook New Conservatory Theatre Center
favorite Connie Champagne brings her astonishing talents to the
music made famous by Dusty Springfield, a perfect pairing of
singer and songs. Audiences who only know her as an interpreter
of Judy Garland will discover a brand new Champagne.
Arrangements and accompaniment by Joe Collins, written and
directed by Allen Sawyer, the team responsible for Encore,
Judy and Goodbye Yellowbrick Road. Through August
10 at New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Ave. Info
online at www.NCTCSF.org.
• A Chorus Line Although I saw it in
New York many years ago, I’d forgotten how gay-relevant A
Chorus Line is. Truly groundbreaking when it first
opened in 1975, it’s still relevant and moving, and the current
production S.F. production at the Curran theatre is top-notch. A
grueling audition in which dancers must reveal themselves, it’s
described as “the musical for everyone who’s ever had a dream
and put it all on the line.” Through July 27 at The Curran
Theatre, 445 Geary St. Info at
www.SHNSF.com.
• For the historically-minded - an exhibition of
photographs by the late Alan B. Stone, a premier beefcake
photographer and entrepreneur in the 1950s. Stone’s male
physique photos and magazines are on display, as well as artful
streetscapes, construction worker and dock scenes of old
Montreal, where he lived through a repressive anti-gay crackdown
in the 1950s and ‘60s, and his boy scout camp photos (he was an
official, paid photographer for the Boy Scouts of Canada!). It’s
at SF Camerawork, 657 Mission St., through August 23. Info at
www.SFCameraWork.org.
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July 2008:
"Naked in
Paradise" -
Author Len Richmond
calls himself a "gay
erotic comedy writer"
and that's what his new
novel, "Naked in
Paradise" reveals.
Co-author of "The Gay
Liberation Book", and a
successful sitcom writer
for British television,
Len tells Marilyn about
it all, including his
real-life menage a trois
lifestyle in Los
Angeles.
- air date July 3,
2008
Don Bachardy
- Marilyn interviews Don
Bachardy, the celebrated
portrait artist, and
Tina Mascara,
co-director of the new
film about his life with
writer Christoper
Isherwood, "Chris and
Don: A Love Story."
Featured at the
Telluride and Frameline
film festivals, the film
chronicles the 30 years
of their relationship.
Isherwood wrote "The
Berlin Diaries" which
became the film and
musical, "Cabaret" and
Don's work is in
permanent collections at
The National Portrait
Gallery in London and
The Smithsonian.
- air date July 10,
2008
Watch before you
Wed
- It's now legal for
same-sex couples to
marry in California. But
should you get hitched?
What are the risks and
rewards? What are the
societal ramifications?
And how might same-sex
marriage affect
relationships in
general, straight and
gay?
Host Eric Jansen
discusses this and more
with same-sex law expert
Fred Hertz and renown
family law attorney Jill
Hersh.
- air date July 17,
2008
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June 2008:
The National Queer
Arts Festival -
It's Pride Month, and
San Francisco's
month-long National
Queer Arts Festival is
back with its wide
variety of visual and
performance art. Join
host Eric Jansen and
some of the performers
for a taste of the
festival.
- air date June 5,
2008
Augusten Burroughs
- From the
author of "Running
With Scissors", a
painful and funny memoir
of growing up gay in a
crazy family environment
comes the prequel, "A
Wolf At The Table."
Marilyn interviews
Augusten Burroughs about
his new book chronicling
his early childhood
years with his father.
- air date June
12,
2008
HIV & Health in
the
Black Community -
Author James Baldwin
said: “I’m both
black AND gay. As far as
I’m concerned, I’ve hit
the jackpot.” San
Francisco’s Black
Coalition on AIDS uses
that message – among
many others – in its
work improving the
health of gay and
straight African
Americans. Learn more in
this lively discussion
with BCA
representatives.
- air date June
19,
2008
Dykes On Bikes
- Since 1978, Dykes On
Bikes have been leading
the front of the San
Francisco Pride Parade.
Celebrate their 30th
year with Marilyn
Pittman as she talks
with the president of
the now-trademarked
organization, Vick
Germany, and Glenn
McElhinny, one of the
group's earliest
members.
Find out what it was
like in the late 70's
when the dykes fought to
be included, hear about
the 'nipple'
controversy, and check
out Marilyn's 2005 comic
commentary on their
trademark case.
- air date June
26,
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May 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.
- air date May 4,
2008
THE MARRIAGE
RULING: A
special live one-hour
edition. Just hours
after May 15's historic
California Supreme Court
ruling on same sex
marriage, host Eric
Jansen spoke with Kate
Kendell of the National
Center for Lesbian
Rights, San Francisco
Deputy City Attorney
Therese Stewart (who
argued the case in
court), and lead
plaintiffs who thought
they were married four
years ago. Our phone
lines were jammed -- so
you'll also hear many of
our listeners' comments
and questions.
- air date May 15,
2008
James Judd and "7
Sins" Laugh
your ass off as Marilyn
interviews solo comedy
performer James Judd.
His show "7 Sins"
is at the Exit Theatre
in San Francisco now and
is headed to NY and
Edinburgh. Hear him talk
about his 5th grade
obsession with the Patty
Hearst kidnapping; his
dead-end cubicle job
where nobody noticed
him; and his Mormon
aunts and Vegas waitress
mom.
- air date May 22,
2008
Hearing Voices?
Feminist politics and
choral music conjoin in
the Oakland-based
a-cappella group VOICES
Lesbian Choral Ensemble.
Join host Eric Jansen to
meet the singers and
hear their music, as
VOICES celebrates 20
years.
- air date May 29,
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April 2008:
Tongues Untied
- Marlon Riggs’ 1989
film was about black men
loving each other. When
PBS televised it
nationally in 1991, it
created huge
controversy, including
an attack on public
broadcast funding.
Frameline -- producer of
San Francisco ’s annual
LGBT film festival --
has released
Tongues Untied
on DVD. We’ll play some
cuts from the film, talk
about its significance,
and also about Not
/Gay, a new
Frameline DVD of short
films about gay men’s
often troubled
relationships with
straight men.
- air date April 3,
2008

Paul Festa -
Listen in as a variety of queer
artists, scholars and freaks
react to a provocative piece of
Catholic music written in 1931.
It's from the film, "Apparition
of the Eternal Church", by Paul
Festa, Marilyn's guest. Then,
Eric Jansen presents a variety
of interview clips from the
show. You'll hear Ang Lee, John
Waters, Leslie Gore, and
Margaret Cho, among others.
- air date April 10,
2008
"Lipstick and
Dipstick" -
There's "Dear Abby" for
the mainstream, Dan
Savage for gay men, and
now there's "Lipstick
and Dipstick", the
lesbian advice
columnists, for the
lesbians. Marilyn gets
the scoop from them.
Find out more about
lesbian bed death,
online cheating, and
butch/femme roles.
- air date April 17,
2008
Music Mavens
- Listen to the music of
Frances Faye, the 50's
jazz singer, as dyke
bandleader Terese
Genecco brings her music
to the Hotel Nikko's
Rrazz Room. This is a
reprise of the show on
February 14th, but with
more music and less
talk! Plus, Saturday
night May 10th Terese
presents Marilyn doing a
comedy set...at last!
- air date April 24,
2008
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March 2008:
"Naked In
Paradise"
-Marilyn Pittman talks
to a fag who has seen it
all: a hippie in San
Francisco in the 60's,
the creator of a hit
sitcom in Britain in the
70's, a filmmaker who
made his Jewish mother's
sex toy factory into a
film with Michael York
and a writer of "Naked
In Paradise", a
provocative memoir of
his real life ménage a
trios.
- air date March 6,
2008
Judy Gold
- Out lesbian comic Judy
Gold's new show, "25
Questions for a Jewish
Mother," opens in San
Francisco this week and
Marilyn talks with her
about the show, coming
out in comedy, being a
gay parent, and her many
TV and film credits,
including "The View,"
and HBO.
- air date March 13,
2008

Gay marriage
politics - in
the courts and in the
streets. Eric Jansen's
guests are lawyer Kate Kendell, Executive
Director of the National
Center for Lesbian
Rights, and Seth
Kilbourn, Campaign
Director of Equality for
All. They'll discuss the
marriage equality case
that NCLR recently
argued before the
California Supreme Court
and the fight to stop a
proposed ballot
initiative that would
deny same-sex couples
civil marriage in
California. - air date March
20,
2008

James Judd
- Bay area comic and
'drama queen' James Judd
is a regular at The
Fringe Festival in the
U.S. and Canada. Marilyn
talks with him about his
show, "7 Sins," at San
Francisco's Theatre
Rhino, the nation's
first gay theatre, and
his career as an openly
gay comic. - air date March
27,
2008
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February 2008:
Special Deliveries
- Meet gay dads who
bought eggs and hired
surrogate mothers to
bring their children
into the world. More gay
men are taking this
route to fatherhood. One
couple’s twins were born
three months premature
-- and Papa’s written a
book about their
harrowing ordeal and the
medical miracles that
made their family
possible.
- air date February 7,
2008
Francis Faye
- Francis Faye was too
'out' in her act and her
audiences were too queer
to move her to the next
level. Listen as Marilyn
interviews the hottest
dyke bandleader in the
country, Terese Genecco,
about Francis and plays
tracks from "Drunk With
Love", Terese's tribute
to her.
You'll find out about
Terese's 50's style Las
Vegas nightclub act at
the Rrazz Room in the
Hotel Nikko in downtown
San Francisco.
- air date February 14,
2008

Cybill Shepherd!
- Host Marilyn
Pittman speaks with
famed actress Cybill
Shepherd, who starred in
"The Last Picture Show"
and "Moonlighting." She
now plays a woman
'coming out' with a
vengeance on Showtime's
"The L Word." On Out in
the Bay, Shepherd talks
about her work on behalf
of women and gay rights,
and her current San
Francisco solo stage
show, "Curvy Widow."
- air date February 21,
2008

Lois Lenz, Lesbian
Secretary -
Author Monica Nolan
reads from her spoof of
last-century lesbian
pulp fiction and
'careers-for-women'
primers. She and host
Eric Jansen will also
discuss the historic
significance --and
guffaw over the plain
old camp -- of lesbian
and gay pulp fiction.
- air date February 28, 2008
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January 2008:
Gay Travels in the Muslim
World (encore):
What's it like to be
gay -- or a gay tourist --
in a Muslim country? Do
they even have the word
"gay'? Find out as
Marilyn Pittman and
Eric Jansen interview
Michael Luongo, author
of "Gay Travels in the
Muslim World" in this
encore broadcast.
- air date January 6, 2008
Politics -- the Queer
View: Bay Area Reporter
political columnist Matthew
Bajko and national politics
correspondent Lisa Keen talk
about the LGBT political
highlights -- and low points --
of 2007 and opine on what to
expect in 2008. Also, hear what
queer media are covering that
mainstream outlets aren't.
- air date January 10, 2008
"It Ain't Easy" -
Marilyn Pittman talks with Paul
Myers, author of "It Ain't Easy:
Long John Baldry and the Birth
of the British Blues". Baldry
was a flamboyant Englishman who
was closeted for many years as
he ignited the career of Rod
Stewart and Elton John and
influenced many of the bands of
the first British Invasion
including the Rolling Stones and
The Beatles. - air date January 17, 2008
Not Ready To Go -
What's it like to have
AIDS
and plan on dying, and then
not die? Marilyn
Pittman talks with author and TV
director and producer Randy
Neece about his witty,
insightful and passionate
memoir, "Gone Today, Here
Tomorrow." - air date January
24, 2008
Author Trebor
Healey -
Award-winning
novelist, short story
writer, and essayist
Trebor Healey
talks with Marilyn
Pittman about his life
as a queer writer. His
essays appear in the
anthology, Out In The
Castro; he co-edited
Beyond Definition:
New Writing From Gay and
Lesbian San Francisco;
and his new book of
short stories, A
Perfect Scar and Other
Stories has just
come out. - air date January
31, 2008
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