Out in the Bay

Marilyn Pittman's guest on Out in the Bay is San Francisco cabaret singer Jason Brock. Brock's singing was fabulous and he was openly gay on his recent nationally televised appearances on X Factor. Many wonder how much his being proudly out factored in viewers voting him off the "reality" TV show.  Hear him sing and judge for yourselves on this week's Out in the Bay ... then go see his New Year's Eve show, "Glitter Explosion!" (Broadcast Dec. 13, 2012)

‘Success’ and a Faun’s Afternoon. Richard Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator, amuses us while musing on French fauns, ghosts of all-but-forgotten New York cruising spots, and the cultural figures he’s memorialized or channeled in verse – including painter Alice Neel, dancer Isadora Duncan and Madame Charles de Gaulle.  Now in his eighties, this “living legend” shares his poems, tells how translating can be erotic and reflects on gay life before many of us were born. 

Have you ever been having an adult beverage in your favorite bar and got irritated about the smoke coming in from the smokers on the patio or sidewalk? The rates of LGBT people are almost twice that of the mainstream population. Marilyn talks with Brian Davis, from "Freedom from Tobacco," a project of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and Rachel Nolan, his associate. They say it's time for bar owners to stop enabling the smokers and endangering the public. The show airs at 7:00 pm Pacific Thursdays  http://www.fftsf.org/