Queer Power Hour
Thursday at 6 pm
KALW’s Queer Power Hour is full of stories that are old and new, local and global. Each week, we curate a show around a specific theme, featuring queer stories from our friends at Out in the Bay, Stereotypes, StoryCorps, TransLash Media, Making Gay History, LGBTQ&A and Slate's Outward, as well as the work of queer producers from around the world. Our goal: to explore and amplify the full diversity of the LGBTQIA+ experience.
We want to hear from you: Have a suggestion for a theme for a future episode? Want to introduce us to your favorite queer show? Is there a story we should feature? Drop us a note.
Latest Episodes
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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. -
Queer Power HourTo mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Tuesday, April 14, QUEER POWER HOUR is revisiting Making Gay History's series about the dark, overlooked history of Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people in the lead up to World War II and during the Holocaust. -
The LGBTQ+ and the public radio community lost one of its trailblazers last week. Marilyn Pittman passed away on Saturday, March 28. She was the co-host of KALW’s Out in the Bay from 2005 to 2015. Today, we're sharing two of our favorite episodes. -
All month, in honor of Women’s History, QUEER POWER HOUR is sharing stories from Making Gay History about lesbian and trans pioneers upon whose shoulders all queer people stand. We’ll hear from local heroes and power couples, authors, activists and musicians — and, yes, Ellen. -
All month, in honor of Women’s History, QUEER POWER HOUR is sharing stories from Making Gay History about lesbian and trans pioneers upon whose shoulders all queer people stand. We’ll hear from local heroes and power couples, authors, activists and musicians — and, yes, Ellen. -
QUEER POWER HOUR honors Black History Month with a special presentation of an audio documentary from Afropop Worldwide about how house and techno music emerged from the gay and Black communities of two Midwestern cities in the 1970s and 80s.
