Out in the Bay proudly features a new queer podcast this week: "Stereotypes — Straight Talk from Queer Voices," produced and hosted by KALW and KQED colleague Christopher Beale, a former commercial radio personality.
On the pilot episode, "Still Coming Out," Beale treats us to two beautifully told coming out stories. One is from Beale himself, who shot out of the closet quite suddenly at age 15; the other is from Rae Strozzo, originally from Georgia, who over many years traveled through butch lesbian to trans man to nonbinary. "My mom would be super-confused if she knew I wore skirts now," Strozzo said, laughing in the podcast, played almost in its entirety on this week's Out in the Bay. "As if I haven't confused her enough already." For