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Show Notes – July 26, 2026
This month we talk with representatives from Mental Health America of California about how they support local organizations that provide vital mental health support for LGBTQ+ people in our state. LIVE (LGBTQ+ Inclusivity, Visibility and Empowerment) is a program of changemakers, that celebrates...
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Show Notes – June 28, 2026
Happy Pride Month! We are celebrating with two guests including Charley Beal, president of the Gilbert Baker Foundation, who will tell us all about how the rainbow Pride flag is flying once again at the Stonewall National Monument despite the wishes of the Trump administration. Finn Deerhart will...
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Show Notes – May 24, 2026
Tonight we have two locals with us to share their stories and really interesting work. We start with Jill Nagle, who I met randomly while having coffee at my new favorite coffee shop, Pillowfight, in Kenwood. Jill has been an activist, author, and is now developing an innovative conflict…
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Show Notes – April 26, 2026
This month Nathan Manske, founder and creator of I’m From Driftwood.com returns with some exciting news about what’s coming up next with this amazing story-telling archive. Finn Deerhart talks with Jordy Rosenberg, an author and a professor in the department of English and Associated MFA Faculty…
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Show Notes – Mar. 22, 2026
This month we celebrate women’s history month with two guests. First, Finn Deerhart talks with Ray Stoeve, the author of the young adult novels Worst-Case Scenario, The Summer Love Strategy, Arden Grey, and Between Perfect and Real. They also contributed to the young adult anthology Take the Mic:...
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Show Notes – Feb. 22, 2026
This month Gerard Koskovich returns and joins Dr. Jen Reck to talk about their new history of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood titled, “The Castro.” This new publication just scratches the surface of a long and detailed history of the neighborhood and it’s place in greater San Francisco gay...
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Show Notes – Jan. 25, 2026
This month we talk with Roberto Ordenana, CEO of the GLBT Historical Society, and Gerard Koskovich, one of the founding members of the GLBT Historical Society. As the federal administration continues its efforts to erase us, the GLBT Historical Society is doubling down to ensure we remain…
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Show Notes – Dec. 28, 2025
One of the most popular series on Netflix this fall was “Boots” – a story based on the life of Greg Cope White as told in his book, “The Pink Marine.” A month after the Department of War criticized the show, Netflix announced that they are canceling production of the 2nd season. Greg White joins…
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Show Notes – Nov. 23, 2025
This month we introduce you to Kevin McAllister, the new executive director of Face to Face. Kevin will share his story with us as well as his vision for Face to Face. Raif Derrazi will have this month’s HIV news round-up and Finn Deerhart will share his conversation with Rick Miller, a...
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Show Notes – Oct 26, 2025
Join us and meet Episcopal Priest, Bill Glenn. Bill was recently ordained after serving the LGBTQ+ community for his working life. His new book, “I Came Here Seeking A Person: A Vital Story Of Grace” tells the story of his life growing up in the Catholic Church. He will fill us in on how he ended...
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Show Notes – Sept. 28, 2025
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,...
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Show Notes – Aug. 24, 2025
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...
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Show Notes – July 27, 2025
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...
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Show Notes – June 22, 2025
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...
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Show Notes – May 25, 2025
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...
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Show Notes – April 27, 2025
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…
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Show Notes – Mar 23, 2025
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…
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Show Notes – Feb. 23, 2025
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...
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Show Notes – Jan. 26, 2025
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...
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Show Notes – Dec. 29, 2024
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…
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Show Notes – Dec. 22, 2024
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.…
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Show Notes – Nov. 24, 2024
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…
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Show Notes – Oct. 27, 2024
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...
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Show Notes – Sept. 22, 2024
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…
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Show Notes – Aug 25, 2024
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...
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Show Notes – July 28, 2024
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”…
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Show Notes – June 23, 2024
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...
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Show Notes – May 26, 2024
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...
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Show Notes – April 28, 2024
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…
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Show Notes – March 24, 2024
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…
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Show Notes – Feb. 25, 2024
This month we continue our look at some of the issues at stake in this year’s election cycle and the upcoming initiative on the November ballot to remove the language in California’s Constitution put there by Proposition 8 back in 2008, defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.…
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Show Notes – Jan 28, 2024
We start the new year looking ahead to the November election and at some of the critical issues facing the most risk. We begin this month with HIV/AIDS. Jirair Ratevosian has spent his entire career working on the political side of the pandemic. Jirair was appointed by President Biden as the most...
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Show Notes – Nov. 26, 2023
October marked 25 years since the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. Since that time, Judy and Dennis Shepard have lead the Matthew Shepard Foundation. This month on Outbeat News In Depth we will share highlights from this year’s 25th commemoration which took place in Denver…
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Show Notes – Oct. 22, 2023
This month we introduce you to some of the new leadership at Positive Images, Sonoma County’s oldest LGBTQ+ youth organization. “Positive Images is a grassroots nonprofit organization serving Sonoma County since 1990. Our LGBTQIA+ Community Center hosts multiple weekly support groups, a youth...
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Show Notes – Sept. 24, 2023
This October marks 25 years since the murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. It also marks a quarter century since the Techtonic Theater Project created “The Laramie Project” – a play that recounted for the world how the people of the town reacted to this horrific hate crime. In...
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Show Notes – Aug. 27, 2023
This month Charley Beal and Cleve Jones return to our show to talk about the Flag in the Map exhibit coming to Napa Valley College on October 6, 2023. This is going to be a free event open to the general public and will feature a speaking program at 7:30PM that night with Charley Beal and Cleve...
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Show Notes – July 23, 2023
Sonoma County has become a destination for fine dining, wine and fresh food. This month we talk with Clark Wolf, a local gay man, who has more than 25 years of experience in the food industry and is the founder and president of Clark Wolf Company, a New-York based food and restaurant consulting...
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Show Notes – June 25, 2023
For this year’s Pride show, we are sharing the story of a proud gay man who served in the United States military, as a local deputy sheriff, and as a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the Obama family. His new memoir titled, “Breaking Free: A Saga of Self-discovery by a Gay Secret Service...
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Show Notes – May 28, 2023
Natalie Thompson from InterPride joins us for an in-depth look at the oppressive laws targeting LGBTQ+ people in Uganda. You might be surprised where the incentive to create these laws is coming from. Get all the details you need for this year’s Sonoma County Pride celebration happening June 2...
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Show Notes – April 23, 2023
There are over 400 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation pending in state legislatures across the country. Many of these bills are targeting transgender people and specifically transgender youth. This month we talk with attorney Michel René Huff, a transgender man and the current president of Oakland...
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Show Notes – March 26, 2023
Nathan Manske, founder and creator of “I’m From Driftwood” returns to Outbeat Radio for an update on his work and to share some of the highlights of the 14 years worth of coming out videos he has collected since being inspired by Harvey Milk to create this collection. “I’m From Driftwood aims to...
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Show Notes – Feb. 26, 2023
In celebration of Valentine’s Day this month, we will talk with Tammy Shaklee, an LGBTQ+ match maker who will share some great advice for finding that special someone in today’s dating world. She will also share important personal safety advice when meeting someone for the first time. The annual...
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Show Notes – Jan. 22, 2023
“The National LGBTQ Task Force – the country’s oldest LGBTQ advocacy group – celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023, honoring 50 years of advancing freedom, justice, and equality for LGBTQ people. This milestone year will recognize and celebrate the Task Force’s rich history of driving…
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Show Notes – Dec. 25, 2022
Our guest on this special Christmas Day show is Bryan Ruby, one of Out magazine’s “Out 100” of 2022. Bryan is a professional baseball player and a professional country music singer-song writer. He is also an openly gay man. Aside from traveling 75,000 miles last year playing baseball and…
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Show Notes – Nov. 27, 2022
The holidays are upon us! These can be particularly stressful times for LGBTQ+ people. This month we’ll introduce you to a young gay man who is doing something to help LGBTQ+ navigate coming out and living an authentic life. Kollyn Conrad is the founder of Publicly Private, an organization that...
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Show Notes – Oct. 30, 2022
This week we have a special Outbeat Extra edition of Outbeat News In Depth celebrating LGBTQ history month. LGBT author and historian, Eric Marcus, is our guest. He is the founder of the Making Gay History podcast and MakingGayHistory.com. You might remember him from our special series last year...
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Show Notes – Oct. 23, 2022
Zander Moricz was the class president of Pine View High School in Sarasota, Florida when the state’s “don’t say gay” bill was passed and signed into law. His graduation speech was censored by the school principal and so Zander decided to fight back and is now leading huge effort to overturn the...
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Show Notes – Sept. 25, 2022
Coming out as transgender it tough enough, but imagine coming out as a transgender woman in the fire department. Bobbie Scopa did just that years before most others and ended up having a hugely successful 45 year long career! Her new memoir titled, “Both Sides of the Fire Line” comes out this…
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Show Notes – August 28, 2022
Monkeypox is the latest health emergency in the United States and men who have sex with men seem to be among a large group being infected. This month we will share the facts and myths about Monkeypox with Lorie Violette, Prevention Director at Face to Face here in Sonoma County. Monkeypox Virus...
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Show Notes – July 24, 2022
With the recent Supreme Court decision taking away the right to an abortion comes worry that LGBTQ+ civil rights could be next. This month we talked with Dr. Jack Drescher, past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric...
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