Get your growl on!!! Join co-hosts and wives, Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna Grayer, as they interview author ANNIE RACHELE LANZILLOTTO, a read Italian Bronx Butch, discussing her memoir, L is for Lion.
The Advocate magazine is the oldest running LGBT print magazine in country. Editor in Chief, Matthew Breen joined us this month to talk about how the magazine is evolving to keep up with the explosion of LGBT news and the Internet. He talked about how the publication has diversified its content to provide on-demand and emerging news online while maintaining a bi-monthly print publication that takes a closer look at the people making LGBT news. The Advocate continues to have great influence both politically and socially. Matt explained how The Advocate’s new mobile app works and how listeners can stay connected to the LGBT community. The Advocate is one of our major sources of news for our weekly Outbeat News segments.
With Valentines Day this month, we explored the world of online dating with one of the original dating sites, gay.com. Brett Edward Stout was on to talk about how gay.com recently reinvented itself. It is now an online community offering users the chance to search for everything from a hook-up to a life partner. The site is literally an online social center offering connections, news, and entertainment. Brett talked about how gay.com is different from other sites in way users can set up expanded profiles. It really is about making connections on a variety of levels and for many purposes. We also talked with Brett about some basic safety tips for anyone using an online dating site and how gay.com helps to protect its users from predators.
On this month’s Outbeat Youth segment, we shared the courageous story of Jacob Rudolph who came out to his entire high school during an awards ceremony.
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Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele welcome Emily Webster, the Program Director of Sebastopol Area Senior Center, who has organized the second LGBT and Friends Dance and Meet-Up. Â Later in the hour, Raynetta James from the Occidental Center for the Arts will discuss the Center’s new Friday night film series.
Host Mikala Kennan celebrates Pledge month with local musician Nancy Vogl and the freestyle, danceband sound of Sonoma County’s own ‘Polkanomics.’ The music features a lively, innovative mix of traditional polka, Tex-Mex, latin, and current pop tunes with conversation to match. Join us!
The Campbell Clan is in the house! Â Join co-hosts Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna Grayer as they interview LYN CAMPBELL along with JAMIE and CRISTINA CAMPBELL who carried Adam and Justin’s daughter Parker Rose, 2 1/2, and twins Milo Scott and Quinn Noelle, 4 months! Discover this very, very alternative ALTERNATIVE family!!!
This is our Outbeat News In Depth premier! We began by introducing our Washington DC correspondent, Ryan Olson, who reported on last Sunday’s historic inauguration and speech by President Barack Obama. We started with another segment from our Campus Pride National Voice In Action Spotlight series featuring JeShawna Wholley, programs and outreach associate with the National Black Justice Coalition, talked with us about the upcoming Black History Month. We also talked with Derek Nance, a former Boy Scout Camp Program Director, who last week “came out” in a YouTube video with an important message about acceptance.
On the Outbeat Youth segment, members of the Maria Carrillo High School Gay-Straight Alliance join us with their faculty advisor to talk about all they are doing at their school to make it a safe place for all students.
It was a packed show, but a sample of our news magazine style format that we hope will give you a more in depth look at the events and people making LGBT news headlines.
Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele welcome in the New Year with local writer Venus Maher, who is also known as The Singing Chiropractor. Â Writer Jennie Orvino will join us to chat about her new book “Poetry, Politics and Passion.” Â Also the Arts and Entertainment Calendar.
Host Mikala Kennan takes us on a journey of electronic sounds, textures and ambient impressions for the new year. Featured LGBT artists include Mark Barnes, Brian Crain, Jeff Agler and more!
Join co-hosts Sheridan Gold and Dr. Dianna L. Grayer as they offer steps toward individual and relational change in moving toward an enriching and satisfying new year.
On Outbeat Extra we take a look back at the people, events, and music that made LGBT news headlines. The Huffington Post said that was, “the best of times and the worst of times” for the LGBT community.  Celebrities and professional athletes “came out” with little or no fanfare and we saw the social conscious of the country change in November when the first president to support marriage equality for same-sex couples was re-elected to a second term. More LGBT candidates were elected into office in one election than ever before. Tami Baldwin became the first “out” member of the United State Senate as Barney Frank, the first “out” member of the United States Congress retired. Religious extremists, including the Pope, spoke out loudly and frequently against us while the Boy Scouts of America re-affirmed its policy prohibiting gay people from participating in their programs. The year concluded with the United States Supreme Court deciding to hear California’s Proposition 8 appeal and several appeals related to the Defense of Marriage Act. 2013 promises to be just as exciting as 2012.
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