David Boyer
Director of ProgrammingDavid Boyer is KALW's Director of Programming and former Managing Editor of KALW News. He is also the producer/host of the Murrow Award winning podcast THE INTERSECTION, which looks at our changing cities, one street corner at a time.
Past seasons of THE INTERSECTION focussed on street corner in the middle of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, an intersection in the middle of Google’s Mountain View campus and conceptual intersections at 2019’s Burning Man.
The writer-turned-radio maker is also the author of two oral histories Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom (Soft Skull Press) and Bachelor Party Confidential (Simon & Schuster).
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Queer Power HourREVISITING THE GAY LIFE is a new audio documentary series from KALW’s QUEER POWER HOUR that takes listeners back five decades and tries to make sense of the earth-shattering years that were bookended by the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS. The series explores that pivotal moment in LGBTQ history through the lens of THE GAY LIFE, a local radio show that aired from 1977 to 84. -
Queer Power HourCheck out the trailer for a new docu-series from KALW’s Queer Power Hour. Revisiting The Gay Life considers a pivotal moment in SF’s LGBTQ history through an unexpected lens: a radio show called The Gay Life that aired on KSAN, a commercial rock and roll station in the Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is being produced in collaboration with the GLBT Historical Society and The Gay Life's longtime host Randy Alfred. -
Queer Power HourIt’s Pride and Protest on KALW’s Queer Power Hour. We're sharing an interview from LGBTQ&A's Jeffrey Masters with Avram Finkelstein, a founding member of ACT UP and a co-creator of the SILENCE = DEATH poster. -
Queer Power HourThis week, QUEER POWER HOUR celebrates Asian- American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with profiles of a Japanese-American trans civil rights activist and a queer South Asian recording artist. -
Queer Power HourThis week on the Queer Power Hour, we’ll celebrate Asian and Pacific American Heritage month with the hosts of Nancy. -
Queer Power HourThis week on the Queer Power Hour, we’ll celebrate Asian and Pacific American Heritage month with profiles of Rock M. Sakura and author/artist Edward Gunawan. -
Queer Power HourThis week we celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a trio of queer Asian-American comics at different points in their careers. -
Queer Power HourStanding up for what you believe. That is why the LGBTQ+ community exists and why we have the rights we do. On this episode QUEER POWER HOUR shares the stories of LGBTQ+ folks who have been a part of the struggle for equality. -
Queer Power Hourin honor of Earth Day and Poetry Month, we’re sharing stories about two LGBTQ+ writers whose work celebrated the natural world: Rachel Carson and Walt Whitman. -
Queer Power HourIn honor of National Poetry Month, we're spotlighting LGBTQ+ themes and poets. This week, we’re talking to queer Native American poet Tommy Pico about writing about sex and to literary critic Stephanie Burt about what makes a poem gay.
