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Airline Stewards’ Sky-high Impact
Is it true that most airline stewards are gay? Was it ever? How did their legal battles with airlines help advance gay rights and workplace gender equity? Is the tale of “Patient Zero” – a flight attendant accused of being the initial transcontinental spreader of HIV – accurate? Stow your tray tables and put your [...]
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It was a big success. Thank you!
Huge thanks to the 80+ people who donated through Give OUT Day May 9! We raised over $3,000 in donations + a $3,000 bonus from Horizons Foundation for having the second highest number of individual donors for “small” Bay Area lgbt non-profits (annual budgets under $500k, and our budget is WAY under that!). We’re thrilled! [...]
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Pollo Del Mar: Drag Entrepeneur
Pride is just around the corner so let’s have some fun! Marilyn takes a look at “Gay Days” in amusement parks. Disneyworld was first in ’91 and the right wing boycotted them for 8 years. Do we still need them? Her guest is drag star Pollo Del Mar, who’s producing “Pride Night” at Great America [...]
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“The End of San Francisco” — Mattilda
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, the provocative, agitated, angry, queer anti-assimilationist writer, is back! With her latest … manifesto? Or memoir? (even though she’s still under 40!) In The End of San Francisco, Mattilda deals with family, incest, gay sex work, the digital ruination of our City by the Bay, political correctness and its stifling effect on [...]
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The Road to Being Out At The Top
For the first time, top corporate executives are telling their stories of being out in the workplace in a new anthology, “Out and Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office.” Some of these contributors lost their jobs, family, friends and some nearly their lives. But by being their authentic selves at work, many saw [...]
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Airline Stewards’ Sky-high Impact
Is it true that most airline stewards are gay? Was it ever? How did their legal battles with airlines help advance gay rights and workplace gender equity? Is the tale of “Patient Zero” – a flight attendant accused of being the initial transcontinental spreader of HIV – accurate? Stow your tray tables and put your [...]
It was a big success. Thank you!
Huge thanks to the 80+ people who donated through Give OUT Day May 9! We raised over $3,000 in donations + a $3,000 bonus from Horizons Foundation for having the second highest number of individual donors for “small” Bay Area lgbt non-profits (annual budgets under $500k, and our budget is WAY under that!). We’re thrilled! [...]
Pollo Del Mar: Drag Entrepeneur
Pride is just around the corner so let’s have some fun! Marilyn takes a look at “Gay Days” in amusement parks. Disneyworld was first in ’91 and the right wing boycotted them for 8 years. Do we still need them? Her guest is drag star Pollo Del Mar, who’s producing “Pride Night” at Great America [...]
“The End of San Francisco” — Mattilda
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, the provocative, agitated, angry, queer anti-assimilationist writer, is back! With her latest … manifesto? Or memoir? (even though she’s still under 40!) In The End of San Francisco, Mattilda deals with family, incest, gay sex work, the digital ruination of our City by the Bay, political correctness and its stifling effect on [...]
The Road to Being Out At The Top
For the first time, top corporate executives are telling their stories of being out in the workplace in a new anthology, “Out and Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office.” Some of these contributors lost their jobs, family, friends and some nearly their lives. But by being their authentic selves at work, many saw [...]
Karinda Dobbins: Black, Gay, Funny, Single Mom
Karinda Dobbins is an edgy up and coming comedian who lives in Oakland with her teenage daughter. Host (and ‘out’ comic) Marilyn Pittman talks with Karinda about her life in Oakland, her daughter, her stand-up act, and what it was like opening for W. Kamau Bell of FX’s ‘Totally Biased” last week at Stagewerx on [...]
