Hosted by Bob Ostertag · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 17 episodes
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Writer, musician, and film maker Bob Ostertag presents oral histories of the characters and contributions that have made queer life in the Bay Area so beautiful.
Bob Ostertag hosts You Make Me Real, a history show with 17 episodes published.
Joey Cain regales us with tales of his fascinating life. In this Part 1, we hear of him hitchhiking to New York City in 1972 at age 16 and walking from the George Washington Bridge to Christopher Street where Marsha P. J
Larry Byes tells of the extreme racism he experienced growing up as a poor black sissy kid in Ohio, the incredible story of his arrival in San Francisco in 1975, his experience in Black and White Men Together and at Glid
JD Wade arrived in San Francisco in 1965, making him the earliest arrival of all our guests thus far. Among other things, he discusses the role of gay hippies, both within the wider hippie scene and also in the developme
First of a two-part episode with actor, writer, director, and public intellectual Brian Freeman. In this episode Brian talks about arriving in San Francisco in 1977, negotiating the race landscape of 1970s San Francisco
In this second episode, Brian Freeman talks about the creation of not ine but TWO iconic works by black gay men, the movie Tongues Untied and the theater company PomoAfroHomos.
One day after his 70th birthday, we interview none other than Timmy Spence - actor, musician, drag queen, provocateur par excellence. From growing up in Philly to landing in San Francisco at age 19 with nothing but $35;
As fate would have it, Gerry Kirby passed away peacefully during the night just hours before this fourth and final episode of his oral history was published. RIP Gerry. We will miss you, dear friend. We are so happy were
Danny Nicoletta remembers arriving in San Francisco's Castro district in the mid-1970s, becoming Harvey Milk's employee and occasional sex partner, the journey through drugs for both him and his community, and Harvey's l
In this third of four episodes, Gerry talks us through his adventures in Europe with aTom of Finland's principal model, touring Europe with Donna Summers, returning to NYC to work in a male bordello, moving to San Franci
Part 2 of Gerry Kirby. In this episode, Gerry goes into detail about his extraordinary experiences arriving in NYC in 1969 at age 18, opening for Bette Midler at the Continental Baths, performing on Broadway with Pearl B
Drag icon Heklina talks about arriving in San Francisco at the peak of AIDS, joining the Sick and Twisted Players, creating the legendary drag club Trannyshack and running it for 12 years, and co-founding San Francisco's
Gerry Kirby talks about performing on Broadway in Pearl Bailey's all-black production of Hello Dolly!, opening for Bette Midler at a gay bathhouse, touring Europe with Donna Summer, his collaborations with Sylvester, and
Andrew Brown talks about growing up in Philadelphia, coming out as gay when then Black Panthers welcomed gays, black gay music and black gay bars in San Francisco, and making THE WORD IS OUT, the first documentary film i
The first episode of the story of Mr. David Glamamore and Juanita More, the grandmother and mother of the House of More. Forty years of drag, fashion, revelry, and an unparalleled level of drag philanthropy. The current
Special guestTerence Alan Smith aka Joan Jett Blakk. First drag queen to run for US President. On the Queer Nation ticket. Beautiful soul.
Featured guest is Lynn Breedlove, punk rocker, writer, poet, comedian, and queer entrepreneur.
Featured guest is Tom Ammiano: teacher, comedian, activist, political leader. Tom discusses his new memoir, "Kiss My Gay Ass; My Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road Through Activism, Stand-up, and Politics.
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