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Out in the Bay: Publisher, news editor reflect on B.A.R.'s first 50 years

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • May 7, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: Drag Racer Rock M. Sakura seeks superpower and responds to anti-Asian violence

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Apr 9, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: A year into COVID, how are LGBTQs coping?

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Mar 26, 2021

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

Out in the Bay: 'Queen of Bounce' Big Freedia – no guns, more twerking!

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Mar 12, 2021

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

Out in the Bay: Author's quest for Black queer ancestors begets 'The Prophets'

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Feb 26, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: Drawing political lines; challenging marriage-equality governor

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Feb 19, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: Learning from asexuals about sex & relationships

  • NEWS
  • by Kendra Klang and Eric Jansen
  • Feb 12, 2021

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?

Out in the Bay: SF's gay supervisor on saving queer culture, housing, and COVID recovery

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Feb 5, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: Sycamore book 'The Freezer Door' mourns 'the dream of queer'

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Jan 29, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: Yekutiel has a mission to revive civil discourse

  • NEWS
  • by Kendra Klang and Eric Jansen
  • Jan 22, 2021

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.

Out in the Bay: 'Blackmail, My Love' reveals city's sordid homophobic past

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Jan 15, 2021

Want a break from today's scary news?

Out in the Bay: Buttigieg a top LGBTQ story in 2020

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Jan 8, 2021

Happy New Year? Well, we hope 2021 will be kinder to us than 2020, but only time will tell. Just a week in, 2021 isn't looking pretty yet.

Out in the Bay: Hear Brandon Taylor on 'Real Life' from a queer Black perspective

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Dec 18, 2020

Brandon Taylor's highly praised debut novel, "Real Life," gets deep into desire, intimacy, sex, abuse, homophobia, racism, misogyny, love, hate, and the blurred lines between friends and lovers.

Out in the Bay: 'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed says 'We can heal'

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Dec 11, 2020

Pamela Sneed's prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me.

Out in the Bay: How to enjoy stay-at-home holidays

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Dec 4, 2020

As we approach our 10th month under COVID's cloud, it's depressingly clear the holiday season won't be "normal." How might we find joy and peace without our usual parties, events and general fa-la-la falderal?

Out in the Bay: Stress coping tips and learning from Trump's erratic behavior

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Nov 20, 2020

What a stressful, frightening year: COVID-19, layoffs, police killing Black people, enormous protests, massive wildfires, hurricanes, a fraught national election and our soon-to-be-former President Donald Trump still won't concede.

Out in the Bay: Election 2020 + SCOTUS: A queer view

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Nov 13, 2020

We've heard plenty of straight analysis on our nail-biting national election, so now a queer take from Lisa Keen, national politics and legal affairs correspondent for the Bay Area Reporter and eight other LGBTQ newspapers nationwide.

Out in the Bay: Disabled trans rabbi calls COVID response 'genocide'

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Nov 6, 2020

This week's Out in the Bay podcast and radio program talks with a trans rabbi about COVID-19 and how it's impacting the chronically ill, disabled, elders, and people of color.

Out in the Bay: Drag is revolutionary in '50 Years of Fabulous'

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Oct 23, 2020

Frameline Distribution has released for online viewing "50 Years of Fabulous," an award-winning documentary recounting the life and legacy of iconic queer rights activist José Julio Sarria.

Out in the Bay: HRC: 'The most important election of our lives'

  • NEWS
  • by Eric Jansen
  • Oct 9, 2020

This week's rebroadcast of Out in the Bay-Queer Radio includes interviews with HRC's Alphonso David and EQCA's Josh Strickney on the importance of voting.