The night of storytelling, live music and performances is part of KQED’s LGBT Pride Month celebrations.
Bay Area’s LGBTQ community is invited to share stories that will be celebrated and preserved with the help of StoryCorps’s newest initiative.
Join KQED and StoryCorps for OutLoud San Francisco, a night of storytelling, live music and performances to celebrate the launch of StoryCorps OutLoud, a multi-year initiative dedicated to recording and preserving LGBTQ stories across America.
Hosted by StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and Baruch Porras-Hernandez from the San Francisco Queer Open Mic, this event will feature live music by MAD NOISE and performances by Morgan, Jaime Cortex and Matt Leavitt. Outloud San Francisco takes place Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 7-10pm at The Chapel (777 Valencia Street, San Francisco). It is 21+, free to the public and expected to sell out. RSVPs are required and can be made at outloud-sf.eventbrite.com.
StoryCorps airs every Friday morning during Morning Edition on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM. StoryCorps, which is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, has collected and archived more than 50,000 interviews from more than 90,000 participants. With the idea that “every story needs to be told OutLoud,” StoryCorps recognizes the profound historical importance of capturing the stories of the LGBTQ community and the urgent need for this work to happen now. The OutLoud initiative will honor the stories of those who lived before the 1969 Stonewall uprisings, celebrate the lives of LGBTQ youth, and amplify the voices of those most often excluded from the historical record. The end result will be a diverse collection of stories that will enrich our nation’s history.