Eric Jansen

Royal Oak

Journalist at KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)

Host at Out In The Bay

Articles

Visite privée : Atelier Vime, un parfum d'antan

2 days ago | serielimitee.lesechos.fr | Eric Jansen

Le lieu est beau et caché. Pour accéder à Vallabrègues, dans le Gard, il faut rouler un bon moment au milieu des arbres et des vergers, sans aucune construction à l'horizon. La gare d'Avignon TGV n'est qu'à trente minutes, mais on se sent très vite au milieu de nulle part. À l'arrivée, un petit village typique avec son cours Gambetta et ses platanes et, dans une ruelle, une maison ancienne qui ne laisse rien deviner de ce que cache sa façade traditionnelle.
La Fondation César et Tiffany & Co., sculptures de table

2 months ago | serielimitee.lesechos.fr | Eric Jansen

Par Eric JansenPublié le 4 avr. 2025 à 14:32Sa maison de Bruxelles est fameuse pour ses dîners. Le cadre est beau, parsemé d'oeuvres d'art, et Stéphanie Busuttil-Janssen aime recevoir au côté de son mari, le galeriste Sébastien Janssen. Ses placards regorgent de services en porcelaine et de verres aux origines variées. Serviettes brodées à leur chiffre, fleurs délicates, lumières tamisées, rien n'est laissé au hasard.
PRIDE MONTH: Meet Trans Singer-Songwriter Nick Lawrence

Jun 13, 2024 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

Pride Month continues on KALW’s Queer Power Hour with a special from Eric Jansen and Out in the Bay. Eric sits down with singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence. Nick talks candidly about the transgender experience, being a parent, and his music career. The episode includes songs from his album "I Am A Man," which is about his own transition.
PRIDE MONTH: Meet the world’s first Drag Laureate, D'Arcy Drollinger

Jun 5, 2024 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

We’ve heard of poet laureates. What is a drag laureate? And why has drag performance, although increasingly popular, become a political football in our culture wars? On this Pride Month episode from our friends at Out in the Bay, Eric Jansen goes deep with D'Arcy Drollinger — San Francisco's First Drag Laureate. Through performance clips, conversation and a visit to Sexitude dance class, D'Arcy shares with us the joy of drag and explains how it can help us all.
World’s first Drag Laureate shares joy, art, and politics of drag

May 25, 2024 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

We’ve heard of poet laureates. What is a drag laureate? And why has drag performance, although increasingly popular, become a political football in our culture wars? Through performance clips, conversation and a visit to Sexitude dance class, D'Arcy Drollinger shares with us the joy of drag and explains how it can help us all, on this Out in the Bay special edition supported by KALW's Queer Story Fund. Drollinger owns and operates San Francisco’s OASIS nightclub.
Writer Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’

Feb 16, 2024 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

Ratleff has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel – a memoir really – about his childhood. Dancing to the Lyrics takes us through his sudden uprooting at age 4 from small-town Ohio to one of Baltimore’s toughest neighborhoods, where he lives with his young mother, two sisters and often violent and abusive stepfather. For a while, their home was across the street from a state prison and outside their back door was a huge junkyard.
Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’

Jan 13, 2024 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?” An author and poet finds peers on the pier. Specifically, on the Pacifica Municipal Pier, closed this January due to storm damage. As we eagerly await its reopening, we re-present Toni Mirosevich reading from her book Spell Heaven and other stories and telling us about finding connection on the pier on this edition of Out in the Bay.
Pagans at Xmas? Making holidays queer-comfy

Dec 23, 2023 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions. If you’re queer, she says grin and bear it, even encourage those cringe-worthy questions. Dees believes that if asking out of love, all questions are opportunities to broaden understanding. So she wrote Queer Questions, Straight Talk: 108 frank & provocative questions it’s okay to ask your lesbian, gay or bisexual loved one.
How are LGBTQ civil rights 25 years after Matt Shepard?

Dec 1, 2023 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

Gay college freshman Matthew Shepard was viciously beaten, tied to a fence post and left to die on a cold night in Wyoming in October 1998. His murder shocked the nation. On Dec. 1, 1998, which would have been Matthew’s 22nd birthday — the Matthew Shepard Foundation was born. Through his parents' efforts, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability were added to federal hate crimes law in 2009. We’ve seen other advancements since then.
Matthew Shepard - in his mother’s words

Oct 22, 2023 | kalw.org | Eric Jansen

In October 1998, gay college freshman Matthew Shepard was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left outside on a cold night near Laramie, Wyoming. He died in a hospital five days later. His murder shocked the world. Through his grief-stricken mother Judy Shepard’s efforts, sexual orientation and gender identity were added to federal hate crimes laws in 2009. She was driven by her son’s killing to campaign for LGBTQ rights and anti-violence in general.