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Why do tens of thousands of people trek to a temporary tent city in an alkaline Nevada desert every August? Is Burning Man worth the heat and dust? What’s queer about it?

Airs 6 pm Thursday As a young girl, future Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Kelli Evans was more excited about the bookmobile coming through her Denver neighborhood than the ice cream truck.

In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we present Lauren Hough. She grew up in the infamous Christian cult The Family, which her father had joined to dodge the Vietnam War. At 18, Hough fled to the Air Force, where she got anti-lesbian death threats and her car was set ablaze.

Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His new album, I Am A Man, is about his own transition.

How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier.

Escape with Out in the Bay to a simpler place and time. Before monkeypox, before COVID, before traveling got so fraught. To a town its promoters claimed then was gayer than San Francisco (and where September is superb). Sit back, relax and hit “play.”

Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His new album, I Am A Man, is about his own transition.

How do we find human connection and meaning? An author and poet finds peers on the Pacifica Pier.

Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads four selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the Bay and shares some of her life story.

San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury was iconic as the center of 1960s - early ‘70s "hippie" counterculture. Often forgotten is its role in LGBTQ history. That role gets loving attention in performance-driven walking tour.