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You Make Me Real

You Make Me Real

By: Bob Ostertag
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 Writer, musician, and film maker Bob Ostertag presents oral histories of the characters and contributions that have made queer life in the Bay Area so beautiful.© 2024 Robert Ostertag Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • Larry Byes

    Larry Byes
    Aug 19 2024

    Larry Byes tells of the extreme racism he experienced growing up as a poor black sissy kid in Ohio, the incredible story of his arrival in San Francisco in 1975, his experience in Black and White Men Together and at Glide church, the worst of the AIDS epidemic, and more.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • JD Wade

    JD Wade
    Aug 19 2024

    JD Wade arrived in San Francisco in 1965, making him the earliest arrival of all our guests thus far. Among other things, he discusses the role of gay hippies, both within the wider hippie scene and also in the development of what would become the gay world of San Francisco.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Brian Freeman Episode 2

    Brian Freeman Episode 2
    May 9 2023

    In this second episode, Brian Freeman talks about the creation of not ine but TWO iconic works by black gay men, the movie Tongues Untied and the theater company PomoAfroHomos.
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    38 mins
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