We relaunched Out in the Bay-Queer Radio from San Francisco a year ago this week. Or at least that's when our first episode since 2015 aired on San Francisco Public Press' radio station, KSFP 102.5 FM, and was posted on podcast platforms.
But we — producers Truc Nguyen, Kendra Klang, and I — had started working on the relaunch in early 2020. Before March when COVID-19 changed everything; before May when George Floyd's videotaped killing at the hands of police changed still more things.
We didn't plan to relaunch during a global pandemic or during nationwide demonstrations over our country's history of systemic racism.