David Boyer

OUTLAWED: Trans Kids in the USA is a new audio documentary series from KALW Public Media that chronicles the decisions and disappointments, resilience and resistance of American families with trans kids—under threat, misunderstood and pretty much on their own.At a time when transgender kids and their families are relentlessly demonized by the media and our leaders, this series offers an unprecedented opportunity to hear directly from parents facing an impossible choice: hide and hope for the best—or flee their state or even their country.We have done more than 100 interviews with people across the country and now around the globe. We have talked with transgender kids, their parents and grandparents, their doctors and therapists and lawyers and advocates.In this unprecedented series, you will hear all of those voices. But for their safety, we are not using their names and, in some instances, places and details have been omitted.OUTLAWED: Trans Kids in the USA is coming this winter from KALW Public Media.

Our friends at New Angle: Voice share a new documentary “The Old Girls’ Network: Eleanor Raymond and the Modern House.” Turns out the most interesting thing about Eleanor Raymond isn't her work on the first solar house in 1948.

This week, KALW is moving to our new home at the corner of Market and Taylor on the edge of the Tenderloin. A decade ago, KALW's David Boyer spent a year documenting a corner just two blocks away for season one of THE INTERSECTION.

This week, KALW is moving to our new home at the corner of Market and Taylor on the edge of the Tenderloin. A decade ago, KALW's David Boyer spent a year documenting a corner just two blocks away for season one of THE INTERSECTION.

This week, KALW is moving to our new home at the corner of Market and Taylor on the edge of the Tenderloin. A decade ago, KALW's David Boyer spent a year documenting a corner just two blocks away for season one of THE INTERSECTION.

This week, KALW is moving to our new home at the corner of Market and Taylor on the edge of the Tenderloin. A decade ago, KALW's David Boyer spent a year documenting a corner just two blocks away for season one of THE INTERSECTION.

It's 1984. The mysterious illness stalking the gay community has a name and has killed more than 2000 people. Sadly, this is just the beginning of the horrors that the LGBTQ+ community will face in the coming decade. In the final episode of Revisiting The Gay Life, we hear from patient-turned-AIDS-activist Bobbi Campbell in the last month of his life.

In this episode of Revisiting The Gay Life, we relive the early, uncertain days of what will eventually be called HIV/AIDS with one of the first people to come out publicly as having the disease: Bobbi Campbell.

In this episode of Revisiting The Gay Life, we're looking at how queer people have been represented — and misrepresented — on the big screen up through the early 1980s, including interviews with film historian Vito Russo and filmmaker Artie Bressan.This limited series tries to make sense of the years between the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS by digging into the archive of a gay radio show that was hosted by Randy Alfred from 1979 to 1984.

In this episode of REVISITING THE GAY LIFE, we meet four queer witches who were practicing in San Francisco in the late 1970s and 1980s.This limited series tries to make sense of the years between the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS by digging into the archive of a gay radio show that was hosted by Randy Alfred from 1979 to 1984.