This month, Del Phoenix, Outbeat Radio’s newest host, stops in to share his background and plans for bringing the voice of our local transgender community to KRCB’s Outbeat Radio.  Finn Deerhart will talk with D’Arcy Drollinger, San Francisco’s Drag Laureate.  D’Arcy is an actor, writer, director, choreographer, producer and entrepreneur. Raif Derrazi will have this month’s latest HIV and AIDS information.

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Greg Miraglia and Finn Deerhart have a conversation with Senator Scott Wiener about how he is leading a push back against the Trump administration’s attack on LGBTQ+ people and our civil rights.  Raif Derrazi will have an update on this month’s latest HIV news.  Our special guest this month is Cade Hanson, founder of Intrinsically Ordered, a podcast that explores the intersection of queer identity and catholicism and stories of how the church has harmed people and how those people have recovered.

 
 
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Raif Derrazi joins the regular voices on our show this month with monthly updates on HIV and AIDS. We’ll talk with Bill Hulseman about his new memoir “Six To Carry The Casket And One To Say The Mass” and of Finn Deerhart and Greg Miraglia will discuss some of this month’s important LGBTQ+ news stories.

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Happy Pride! This month we welcome back Finn Deerhart, a local therapist, activist and author. He has a fascinating background and has devoted his life to helping others. Most recently, Finn has become an activist for LGBTQ+ civil rights. We’re excited to re-introduce him to you as well as to announce that he will be joining the Outbeat News In Depth team as a regular on the show. Tune in for all the details!

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Pride month is almost here! This month on Outbeat News In Depth leaders from Sonoma County Pride will be on to share all the details and plans for this year’s Sonoma County Pride Celebration set for May 30 – June 1, 2025 in downtown Santa Rosa.

We’ll also share a student-produced podcast from the LGBT studies class at Napa Valley College about HIV and AIDS.
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This month Napa Valley College received the donation of the “Freedom to Love” sculpture honoring Gilbert Baker and his two close friends Tom Taylor and Jerome Goldstein. The artist Dina Angel Wing joins us to talk about her inspiration and reason for creating this life-size tribute. We’ll talk with Charley Beal from the Gilbert Baker Foundation about how Gilbert Baker’s rainbow Pride flag is being banned in states and countries around the world. And finally, we’ll talk about the International LGBTQ+ law enforcement conference being held in Austin, Texas this summer and learn how Austin is going to keep transgender attendees safe despite the hostile laws in Texas.

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The executive orders targeting transgender people are coming out from Washington faster than we can keep up with, but the impact on transgender people, especially young people, is hard to accurately describe. This month we talk with journalist and author Nico Lang. He’s an award winning writer with a new book out titled, “American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.”

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This month we welcome the filmmakers of the new documentary, “Sally!” the story of Sally Gearhart, the firebrand lesbian feminist who played an irrefutable role in the ascent of San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk. Our guests, Deborah Craig, Jorg Fockele, and Ondine Rarey, will share their experience and talk about Sally’s life.
Mark your calendars; a screening of “Sally!” is set for Thursday, May 8, 2025, at the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. A talk-back with the filmmakers will follow the screening. Watch this website for details about how to get your tickets.

 
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In 2012, California Fair and Inclusive Education Act required the state’s schools to incorporate LGBTQ+ history and related topics into grades 2, 4, 5, 8, and 11. The textbooks for this curriculum were only recently published and many of the state’s school districts have yet to train teachers on how to implement this curriculum. This month, we talk with Julz Goff, program manager, and Jorge Reyes, communications director, from Equality California about their recent”report card” on California’s schools and how they are doing complying with the many laws protecting LGBTQ+ students. We’ll also talk with EQCA staff about what this all means under the Trump administration.

 
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This month we will host an Outbeat Extra edition of Outbeat News In Depth featuring a tribute to Ted Olson, one of the two attorneys who took on Proposition 8 and restored marriage equality here in California. Mr. Olson passed away in November. We will air an interview we did with him in 2014 along with his colleague David Boise.  Join us at 8PM on December 29, 2024, only on KRCB Radio.
Ted Olson and David Boise lead the legal fight to defeat Proposition 8, passed by voters in 2008, that limited marriage to one man and one woman. A federal court order restored marriage equality to California in 2023. California voters removed Proposition 8’s discriminatory language from the California Constitution in 2024.

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2024 marks the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This is the law that expanded federal hate crimes law to include sexual orientation and gender identity. It is also the last year of the annual Matthew Shepard Foundation gala. Over the years we have shared moments from a number of these annual events and this month we bring you highlights from the last one held this October in Denver, Colorado with comments from Judy Shepard and honorees John Berry and Kal Penn.

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World AIDS Day is on December 1st and this month we are checking in with our local HIV and AIDS organization, Face to Face. For 41 years, Face to Face has been caring for people living with HIV and offering programs and services to stop the spread of this still deadly virus. This month we check in with leaders at Face to Face to learn about the new mission and logo just announced this month.

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October is LGBTQ+ History month! We talk this month with author Michael Lee about his new biography of Randy Shilts that was officially released on  October 8, 2024. “When the Band Played On” tells the story of the trailblazing journalist and author Randy Shilts. Michael started his national book tour here in the Bay Area including two stops here in the North Bay.


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When The Band Played On
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This month we are celebrating Cleve Jones and his 70th birthday! Cleve is an amazing champion and activist for the LGBTQ+ community. He arrived in San Francisco in the early 1970’s and worked for Harvey Milk. Cleve’s achievements are to long to list on this page, so on our next show we will ask him to talk about 7 of the most significant events or achievements of his life and who are some of the people who helped him along the way.
To commemorate his 70th birthday, Cleve Jones is throwing a big party on Friday, October 11, 2024, to celebrate his community and benefit organizations that serve it. This event is the launch of fundraising efforts for the new Cleve Jones Community Fund. The money raised by this party will support two organizations that Cleve founded or co-founded and will be administered by the Horizons Foundation.  The AIDS Memorial Quilt humanizes the AIDS crisis and shares the story of AIDS to provide a widespread understanding of the devastation caused by AIDS and the lack of response to it. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation provides essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, with a mission to end the AIDS epidemic.
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Cleve Jones 70th Birthday Party
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In 2012, Raif Derrazi discovered on his 22nd birthday that he was diagnosed with AIDS. Since then he has fought hard to reshape his entire life…starting by changing his toxic ‘victim mentality.’ He went from ‘victim’ to ‘VICTOR.’ Raif is now HIV undetectable (untransmittable), a Pro natural competitive physique bodybuilder, fitness model and social media influencer and vlogger. On his YouTube channel, he openly shares his experiences and my journey so that viewers can learn from his mistakes and discoveries. He is a remarkable young man and part of a new generation living with HIV.  This month, Raif joins us to share his story and some of what he has learned along his journey.
 

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The Bay Area is an epicenter of LGBTQ+history. You can often find our guest this month, Dr. William Lipsky, at the GLBT Museum in San Francisco sharing stories with visitors about gay life in San Francisco. He’s authored seven books and writes a monthly column titled “Faces From Our LGBT Past” for the San Francisco Bay Times.  His newest book is titled, “LGBTQ+ Trailblazers of San Francisco. It’s a book full of fascinating stories that tell our community’s history, so much of which happened right here the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Happy Pride! This month we are celebrating the stories of two of our former guests who both published memoirs recently with the intent of sharing the stories of their lives as inspiration for others to come out and to live an authentic life. Cory Allen is a federal law enforcement officer who served previously in the United States Secret Service protecting the Obama family. He is now married and lives here in the Bay Area.  His book is titled “Breaking Free: A Saga of Self-Discovery by a Gay Secret Service Agent.”  Ryan Ubuntu Olson is a globally recognized gender and human rights expert with over a decade and a half of worldwide experience related to health, human rights, gender, diversity, and inclusion. His book is titled “Finding My Humanity: I Am Because You Are.”  Both men join us to share more of their stories and to discuss the process of writing a memoir.

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This month we introduce you to the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits community. Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) exists to restore and recover the role of Two-Spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of Two-Spirit people.
BAAITS is a community-based volunteer organization offering culturally relevant activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Native Americans, their families and friends. Two-Spirit refers to the commonly shared notion among many Native American tribes that some individuals naturally possessed and manifested both a masculine and feminine spiritual qualities.  American society commonly identifies Two-Spirit People as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender.
Our guest this month is Angel C. Fabian, MD MNA, the executive director of BAAITS.

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On May 18th, choirs from Napa Valley College and Napa High School will team up to perform “Considering Matthew Shepard.” This month, student members from both choruses talk about the oratorio and their experience learning and performing the music. We will also have all the details about how you can get tickets for the May 18th performance.
“Considering Matthew Shepard is a Grammy-nominated three-part oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson. The work is an evocative and compassionate musical response to the murder of Matthew Shepard. On October 6, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, and left to die, in what became an infamous act of brutality, and one of America’s most notorious anti-gay hate crimes. Shepard’s murder ultimately led to the creation of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and provided a catalyst for legislation that expanded the definition of a hate crime to include sexual orientation. In 2009, Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Composer Craig Hella Johnson had a profoundly personal reaction to both the murder and its resonance. The Shepard family and Foundation engaged with Johnson in the creation of the work, and allowed the use of fragments from Shepard’s personal diary.”

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This month we talk with Jacob Stensberg, the almost-new artistic director and conductor of the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus.  Jake is has been with the chorus now for almost two years and has already began sharing his vision for the next generation of this world-famous chorus. If you’ve been to the Green Center for the annual holiday show supporting Face to Face within the last two years, you’ve already seen him in action. Jake will share his personal story, some music, and some exciting news about what’s in store for the chorus this year.

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