Out in the Bay

Maura Halloran plays two lesbian lovers, their cat and their nosy landlady in “Pussy,” and Genevieve Jessee plays herself, her hippie mom and her Deep South grandmother in “Girl In, But Not Of, The ‘Hood.”  On this week’s Out in the Bay, hear Jessee and Halloran perform selections from their intriguing solo shows and talk about their work and about DIVAfest, a celeb

Are lesbian, gay and transgender seniors getting proper and respectful care in nursing homes, day-care centers and in their own homes?  A groundbreaking state-funded survey in Alameda County showed very encouraging trends, and also room for improvement. Dan Ashbrook of the non-profit group Lavender Seniors conducted a series of caregiver trainings also funded by the state grant.

‘Success’ and a Faun’s Afternoon. Richard Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator, amuses us while musing on French fauns, ghosts of all-but-forgotten New York cruising spots, and the cultural figures he’s memorialized or channeled in verse – including painter Alice Neel, dancer Isadora Duncan and Madame Charles de Gaulle.  Now in his eighties, this “living legend” shares his poems, tells us about the eroticism of translation, and reflects on gay life before many of you were born.

Marilyn Pittman interviews Dr. Glenda Corwin, the author of "Sexual Intimacy For Women: A Guide For Same-Sex Couples." It's called by those in the lesbian community, "lesbian bed death," a term that was first coined by author JoAnn Loulan in her 1984 book, "Lesbian Sex."  Dr. Corwin's discusses her clinical study that reveals the truth of this phenomenon and talks with Marilyn about what contributes to it and how lesbian couples, and other couples, for that matter, can work to improve their sex lives. http://drglendacorwin.com/

Pacifica Pier Poetry & "Pier Pressure":   Poet and San Francisco State University writing professor Toni Mirosevich got a grant to write about “the strange, untamed world of the Pacifica Pier,” which juts into the ocean from the usually cool and foggy town of Pacifica, just south of San Francisco.