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Richard Payne Evans, of North Chelmsford and formerly of Lexington, died on June 30, 2023.

This week, we’re digging deep into a century of research and writing about sexuality.

We remember the lives, love and activism of lesbian icons Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin — and drag legend Heklina, who passed away earlier this week.

Local communities like Gunnison want to electrify, but national natural gas providers are redirecting proposed polices.

Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.

While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped advance queer rights and now offer a glimpse of gay and lesbian life in those times.

This week, we’ll meet two men born 50 years apart. Both black. Both gay. Both Lawyers. Out in the Bay’s Eric Jansen sits down with the first openly gay justice to join California’s Supreme Court. Then Making Gay History’s Eric Marcus shares a conversation with Wendell Sayers, who risked his legal career to join a gay discussion group in 1950.

KALW’s new Queer Power Hour is a mashup of sorts that brings together two award-winning shows: our beloved Out in the Bay and Eric Marcus's podcast Making Gay History. Each week, you’ll hear queer stories that are old and new, local and global. You'll see how far we’ve come and hopefully find some inspiration to keep making gay history.

Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies to go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions.

In "Bad Hombres," playing at San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros through October 30, actor Rudy Guerrero plays seven characters that comically ("absurdly," said the solo show’s director) skewer stereotypes of queer Latinos.