You Make Me Real
You Make Me Real
Latest Episodes
Joey Cain Part 1
Joey Cain regales us with tales of his fascinating life. In this Part 1, we hear of him hitchhiking to New York City in 1972 at age 16 and walking from the George Washington Bridge to Christopher Street where Marsha P. Johnson took him on a tou...
Larry Byes
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 t...
JD Wade
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 ...
Brian Freeman Episode 2
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.
Brian Freeman Episode 1
First of a two-part episode with actor, writer, director, and public intellectual Brian Freeman. In this episode Brian talks about arriving in San Francisco in 1977, negotiating the race landscape of 1970s San Francisco as a black gay man, his ...
