What's the role of a gay uncle? "The Guncle" suggests possibilities, dishing out lots of laughs as a guncle, his niece, and nephew deal with deep past and current grief.

This week's Out in the Bay talks to a trans girl and her dad about swimwear they make to support trans girls; the second part of the program features gay author david Perry reading from his recent novel, "Upon This Rock."

It's a big deal that any independent media outlet can mark a significant anniversary this year, as the COVID pandemic has put extra strain on publications in an already tough industry.

Social worker Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., was caring for AIDS patients in Atlanta during the early years of the epidemic when she found her calling.

You may know Bay Area-raised drag performer Rock M. Sakura from last year's "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 12, from her YouTube channel with more than 55,000 subscribers, or from her pre-COVID performances at numerous drag events.

How has COVID-19 — and the political and societal turmoil of the past year — affected our mental health? How are LGBTQs coping?

As Out in the Bay previously reported last fall, Casper Cendre started writing letters to people in prison while in high school.

Big Freedia, the "Queen of Bounce," is famous for her music and dancing; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.

In his debut novel, Robert Jones Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between Samuel and Isaiah, two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton plantation in the early 1800s.

Lines are being drawn for the decennial mapping of political boundaries for California's legislative Assembly and Senate districts, as well as the state's 53 congressional House seats based on last year's census.

How do you define your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from zero (totally straight) to six (flaming queen or butchest of dykes). But have you considered another continuum, the asexual — allosexual one?

San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his passion for politics goes back to age 5, and his passion for providing mental health services to combat homelessness stems from his mother "spiraling into mental illness" some years later.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new highly-praised book, "The Freezer Door," mourns losing "the dream of queer" that she says consumerism, technology, and gentrification are destroying.

Can we have civil civic discourse in these fractious times? Manny Yekutiel, activist and owner of the eponymous cafe, bookstore, and civic events space in San Francisco's Mission district, passionately believes so.