LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 1st – 7th November

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.

Radio
Saturday 1st
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: The Fourth, the Fifth, the Minor Fall. Story of Leonard Cohen’s ballad ‘Hallelujah’ as it reaches its 25th anniversary. Should include KD Lang’s version
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30pm: Saturday Play: The Late Mr Shakespeare. Jim Broadbent as an aging Shakespearian actor recalling his youth playing female roles
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30pm: Stage to Screen. Paul Gambaccini on Gypsy
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 2nd
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Bond theme tunes. Another cornucopia of camp.
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops.
BBC Radio 3 - 8pm: Free Thinking. Topical and intellectual debate. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 7.55pm: John Sessions Radio 4 appeal for book bags
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes

Monday 3rd
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion. Edward II
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary. From 1992

Tuesday 4th
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman's Hour - includes: Can your sexual orientation hinder your success at work?
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Stage to Screen. Paul Gambaccini on On the Town
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion. Edward II
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Tina C's Election Night BBQ
BBC Radio 4 - 12midnight: US Election Special
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30pm: Counterpoint. With the late Ned Sherrin

Wednesday 5th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Midweek - discussing La Cage aux Folles (rpt 9.30pm)
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion. Edward II takes the throne

Thursday 6th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Misfits in France. Examines Victorian English writers abroad, including Oscar Wilde in Rouen, where he rekindled his relationship with Bosie
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion. Edward II and Gaveston continue to flout convention
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: The House on the Strand. By Du Maurier

Friday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: The Judy Garland trail
BBC Radio 2 - 7.30pm: Bond Night. Includes David McAlmont
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Ruling Passion. Final episode
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Brighton, London DAB and online: Gaydar Radio - 24/7

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk
10pm-1am: Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentary
Saturday 1st
BBC1 - 10am: Saturday Kitchen. Guest Mark Gatiss
BBC1 - 11.30pm: A Taste of My Life. Nigel Slater and John Hurt
BBC1 - 5.35pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC1 - 6.05pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC2 - 7.10pm: Stephen Fry in America. Part 3 Repeat from last Sunday. Mississippi
BBC HD - 6.05pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC HD - 7.30pm: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7.30pm and 9.50pm: X Factor. Will Young performs live. Must have a new album out.
ITV2 - 1.05pm: Britannia High
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 1pm and 6pm: Will and Grace
Living2 - 2am: GMT Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts 2 - 12.05am: The Art of Francis Bacon

Sunday 2nd
BBC1 - 8.15pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. 4/6 Rockies, Badlands and Houston
BBC1 - 10.20pm: Little Britain USA
BBC2 - 10.45pm: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 1.25pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 6.15pm: Britannia High. Brit version of Fame. Two and a half decades later
More4 - 4.30pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Biography - 6pm and 11am: Dirk Bogarde

Monday 3rd
BBC2 - 12.20pm: Beautiful People. Repeat from last Thursday
ITV2 - 7pm: Britannia High (rpt)
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace

Tuesday 4th
BBC1 - 11.15pm: American Elections Special
ITV1 - 11.45pm: American Elections Special
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11.15pm: Skins
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Living 2 - 10pm: The L Word

Wednesday 5th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not To Buy. Kristian Digby presumably did this before the credit crunch
ITV - 9pm: The Bill Made Me Famous. Paul O’Grady featured as a young sex worker
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Thursday 6th
BBC1 - 10.35pm: Question Time. With Brian Eno
BBC1 - 1.55am: Beautiful People. Last week’s with on screen signing
BBC2 - 9.30pm: Beautiful People. Simon and Kylie attempt to leave Reading
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show. With The Osbournes
BBC HD - 10pm: Beautiful People
C4 - 12.40pm: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10.35pm: Russell Brand’s Ponderland. Brand ponders family life. He’s still on C4
Dave - 10pm: Batteries not Included. Gadget show features Sue Perkins
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3pm and 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 7th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or not to Buy
BBC1 - 9.30pm: Little Britain USA
BBC2 - 9pm: Death of a Schoolfriend. Although not LGBT in nature, this personal account by Michael Portillo examines a teenage suicide and the devastating effects it can have.
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. (rpt)
BBC HD - 9.30pm: Little Britain USA
C4 - 12.40pm: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10pm: Alan Clark’s Celebrity Ding Dong
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace

Film and drama
Saturday 1st
Modern Greats - 7.05am and 4.25pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding
Film4 - 9pm: East is East

Sunday 2nd
C4 - 3.20pm: Carry on up the Khyber. Williams and Hawtrey being “saucy” in this 1968 “romp”
Film4 - 9pm: In and Out. Kevin Mline as an outed teacher

Monday 3rd
Film4 - 2am: Live Flesh. Almadóvar take on a Ruth Rendell mystery

Tuesday 4th
More4 - 10.15am: All about Eve. Fasten your seat belts…
Film4 - 11.05pm: Talk to Her. Almadóvar again. Two men look after two women in a coma. Chain of concidences…

Wednesday 5th
Indie - 10pm: Boys Don’t Cry. True life tragedy

Thursday 6th
Modern Greats - 10pm: The Krays

Friday 7th
ITV1 - 1.45am: Far From the Madding Crowd. Terence Stamp, Alan Bates and Peter Finch vie for Julie Christie as Bathsheba (1967)
Film4 - 9pm: In and Out
Film4 - 1.05am: Live Flesh

Transsexual Gene Link Identified

Australian researchers have identified a significant link between a gene involved in testosterone action and male-to-female transsexualism.

DNA analysis from 112 male-to-female transsexual volunteers showed they were more likely to have a longer version of the androgen receptor gene.

Read the full article on BBC News, click here.

Bulletin No 52

The latest edition of the LGBT History Month bulletin is now available, as usual packed-full of news, information, notices of upcoming events and quotations.

To access the latest bulletin please click on one of the links below:
word document
pdf file

You can view all previous bulletins here or register to our mailing list here.

New Lesbian Lutheran Minister Ordained

Jodi Barry, an openly lesbian pastor, was ordained Saturday at the Grace University Lutheran Church in Minneapolis as part of the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries efforts to test a new policy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church to avoid disciplining those who ordain openly gay people.

Jodi Barry is not the first lesbian to be ordained into a Lutheran ministry. But her ordination Saturday was a new step toward what supporters hope will be greater acceptance of gays and lesbian pastors by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Read the full article from the Minneapolis StarTribune here.

New Speaker Announced for LGBT History Month Pre-Launch

The Education Minister Kevin Brennan had been announced a few weeks ago as the key speaker for pre-launch event of LGBT History Month. However due to the recent reshuffle of the Cabinet, Brennan has now moved to the Cabinet Office and is therefore no longer able to attend.

We are therefore pleased to announce that Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department for Children, Schools and Families, will now be speaking at the pre-launch.

For more information about the event, please click here.

13% of Brits Have Had Same-Sex Experience

Sex Uncovered - The way we love now: Britain and sex in 2008, a survey published last week-end by The Observer reveals that while only six per cent of Britons define their sexual orientation as homosexual or bisexual, 13% of respondents have had a same sex experience in their lives.

On a darker note, 24% (1 in 4) think gay sex should be outlawed and 43% wouldn't have sex with someone of a different colour.

To see the results on homosexuality, click here.

Sex Uncovered - The way we love now: Britain and sex in 2008

A sample of 1,044 UK adults aged 16+ were interviewed by ICM Research in September 2008. Participants completed a confidential questionnaire, which was then placed in a sealed envelope. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. The statistical margin of error for this type of survey is about 3%.

New Toolkit on Transphobic Bullying in Schools

The British Home Office has commissioned the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) to develop a toolkit for combating transphobic bullying in schools.

GIRES has consulted widely in preparing this material and has already incorporated most of the good suggestions generated by that process into the current version of the document. The consultation process is ongoing and GIRES will be very happy to receive further suggestions for improving the material.

There are currently two versions of the toolkit. The first is designed for easy internet navigability and contains hyperlinks to other material within the toolkit and located externally. The second is an easy to print version. Like all GIRES material, the toolkit is subject to the charity's copyright policy however, schools, as well as other organisations, are specifically permitted to use it, in whole or in part, for internal discussion and teaching.

Both versions together with other resources for schools can be accessed from this page of our website.

Pink Paper Readers’ Awards 2009

The Pink Paper has now opened the nominations for its Readers’ Awards 2009.

The top five nominees in each category go to the final vote which goes live on pinkpaper.com on 13 November at 10am and finishes at 10am on 17 December. (The winners are announced on 8 January.)

If you want to nominate LGBT History Month or any other organisation or personality you think is worth rewarding, visit this page on the Pink Paper's website.

Pink Paper readers who take part will have the chance to win £500 of clothes shopping online.

Nominations are open until 10am on 11 November.

Moments in History, Converging Anew

For American gay culture this month marks a doubly somber anniversary.

Ten years ago, on Oct. 12, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, died in a Colorado hospital almost a week after two men viciously beat him and left him tied to a fence near Laramie, Wyo. That same night Terrence McNally’s play “Corpus Christi,” about 13 gay men who perform the story of Jesus, had its final preview performance at Manhattan Theater Club; due to weeks of protests and bomb threats, ticket holders had to pass through metal detectors before taking their seats.

Read the full article from the New York Times here.

Image: Alek and Steph - Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi,” which drew protests and bomb threats 10 years ago, is being restaged by 108 Productions.

October is also GLBT History Month in the USA.

LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 25th - 31st October

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.

Radio
Saturday 25th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30pm: Stage to Screen. Paul Gambaccini on Richard Attenborough’s film adaptation of Oh What a Lovely War!
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Stage and Screen tunes. A cornucopia of camp.
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘71 and ‘84
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15pm: Words and Music. Britten and Noel Coward
BBC Radio 3 - 4.15am: Britten. Declamato; Largo
BBC Radio 4 - 6.05am: Something Understood. Anniversary of the fire at Royal Marsden Hospital features a reading from carol Ann Duffy
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes. Tchaikovsky

Monday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 7.48am: Thought for The Day. Rabbi Lionel Blue
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. With AA Gill
BBC Radio 4 - 9.4am:5 Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary. From 1992

Tuesday 28th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Stage to Screen. Paul Gambaccini on Gypsy
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Play: Number 10. Antony Sher plays PM
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston

Wednesday 29th
BBC Radio 3 - 1pm: Afternoon on 3. Tippett and Britten
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman’s Hour. Presented by Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
ClassicFM - 9pm: The Full Works. Tchaikovsky

Thursday 30th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman’s Hour. Presented by Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Misfits in France. Examines Victorian English writers abroad, including Oscar Wilde in Dieppe
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston

Friday 31st
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding presents
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London - 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Gaydar Radio
24/7: - Brighton, London DAB and online:

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk
10pm-1am: Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 25th
BBC1 - 5.20pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC2 - 7.10pm: Stephen Fry in America. Part 2 Repeat from last Sunday
BBC HD - 8.05pm: Torchwood (rpt)
BBC HD - 11pm: Joan Armatrading
ITV1 - 7.45pm and 10.10pm: X Factor
Sky2 - 11.30am: Hairspray The School Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living2 - 1am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts - 12.35pm: The art of Francis Bacon
Sky Arts - 2.30pm: Tim Marlowe on Francis Bacon
Sky Arts 2 - 5pm: Tim Marlowe on Francis Bacon
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who

Sunday 26th
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. Fry goes to Mississippi
BBC1 - 10.20pm: Little Britain USA
BBC2 - 12.40am: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 12.10pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 6.15pm: Britannia High. Fame meets Strictly in a new dance school drama written by Jonathan Harvey
ITV1 - 10.35pm: The South Bank Show. Cildos Meireles
C4 - 11.45pm: Brothers and Sisters
More4 - 4.30pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Sky1 - 3pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical.
Sky2 - 11am: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Sky Arts - 12.30pm: Truman Capote
Sky Arts - 3pm: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon
Sky Arts 2 - 7pm: Francis Bacon
Biography - 6 and 11am: Kenneth Williams
Biography - 6.30 and 11.30am: Frankie Howerd

Monday 27th
BBC2 - 11.20pm: Beautiful People. Repeat from last Thursday
ITV2 - 7pm: Britannia High (rpt)
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 1.30pm: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts 2 - 3.35pm: Francis Bacon

Tuesday 28th
BBC1 - 3.10am: Beautiful People (rpt)
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11.40pm: Skins
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Biography - 12noon: Raymond Burr

Wednesday 29th
ITV - 8pm: National TV Awards
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 11.05pm: The Art of Francis Bacon

Thursday 30th
BBC2 - 9.30pm: Beautiful People. Simon dyes Kylie’s hair
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC HD - 10pm: Beautiful People (rpt)
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 12midnight: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 31st
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. With John Sessions (rpt)
BBC HD - 9.30pm Little Britain USA (rpt)
ITV1 - 8.30pm: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey wrote this one
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 12.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10pm: Alan Clark’s Celebrity Ding Dong
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts2 - 3.30pm: Bernstein

Film and drama
Saturday 26th
ITV1 - 2.40am GMT: The Wicker Man. 1973 cult movie with Christopher Lee and Lindsey Kemp
Film4 - 9pm: Brokeback Mountain
Classics - 9pm: Some Like it Hot

Thursday 30th
Modern Greats - 9.50am and 6pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law
Indie - 10pm: Volver. Almadóvar directs Penelope Cruz

Friday 31st
Classics - 11.05pm: Psycho (1960)
Classics - 2.40am: Phantom of the Opera (1962)

Earlier this week, Kick It Out, the campaigning organisation against racism in football, and the Football Association co-hosted a forum titled 'Homophobia – Football's Final Taboo'.

The event, which included speakers such as Peter Tatchell, Lucy Faulkner from the FA, Barney Efthimiou from the Gay Football Supporters Network, and Jason Bartholomew Hall from the Justin Fashanu Campaign, was part of Kick It Out's One Game, One Community Weeks Of Action (16th and 28th October).

Also taking part, former Chelsea and Celtic defender Paul Elliott said that he has known around 12 top players who are gay. In his view, they have been reluctant to come out in the past because they fear negative reactions and abuse. The ex-central defender now advises the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

BBC commentator Bob Ballard, who chaired the event, accused the FA of having double standards and criticised it and Chelsea for allowing the appointment as Chelsea manager of Phil Scolari who had said that he would never have a gay player on his team and that he would kick out black or Jewish players.

Peter Tatchell seemed to concur by saying that 'The Football Association has great equality policies on paper but it often fails to put them into practice. It's time to turn the FA's opposition to anti-gay prejudice into action and give homophobia the boot.'

Tatchell also made some very concrete suggestions: "I would like to see the FA to organise a dozen premier league straight players to condemn homophobia in a MTV-style video. Straight voices are likely to have the strongest impact on homophobic fans.

"To challenge and diminish prejudice, this video could be distributed to football clubs, schools and youth clubs, and it could be played on stadium screens before matches and at half-time.

"The FA and individual clubs should have snappy, visual anti-homophobia messages on tickets, match programmes and billboards near stadiums."

Gay Football Supporters Network
Justin Fashanu Campaign
Kick It Out

Revival of A Patriot for Me

A groundbreaking play about gays by acclaimed write John Osborne will be performed in London later this month. A Patriot for Me caused a sensation when it was first performed in 1965.

The Lord Chamberlain, who still had powers to censor the theatre, only allowed it to be performed to private members' clubs. Despite the controversy, A Patriot for Me went on to win the Evening Standard Best Play of The Year. It crossed new boundaries in the representation of gay lives and loves.

This revival is directed by David Harris.

The play is based on the life of Alfred Redl, an Austrian officer who rose to head the counter-intelligence in Austria-Hungary despite also spying for their enemies, the Russians.

His homosexuality was used to blackmail him into giving inaccurate estimates of Russian troop strength, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen in World War One.

Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell will hold a question and answer session and "offer a perspective on the cultural changes since the play was written, and the still unequal status of LGBT people in contemporary Britain" after a peformance of the play at The New Players Theatre on Thursday 30th October.

A Patriot for Me
New Players Theatre
London - until 1st November.
Website

A Patriot for Me on Wikipedia


With thanks to PinkNews

Larry Kramer in Conversation

AIDS activist, novelist, prophet, filmmaker and playwright Larry Kramer makes a very rare trip to the UK exclusively for Outsiders, the 5th annual Liverpool Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival, as part of our European Capital of Culture Year programme.

At 73 years old, and HIV+, Larry is as combative as ever, and has just as much (if not more) to say about AIDS and America, as you will discover at this benefit in aid of Sahir House (www.sahir.uk.com), a local charity supporting people affected by HIV. Please note this is a very rare opportunity to meet, and question, the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart.

In 1981, with five friends, Larry Kramer founded GMHC, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, one of the world’s largest providers of services to persons with AIDS. In 1987, he founded ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, which has been responsible for the development and release of almost every life-saving treatment for HIV and AIDS.

His most famous play, The Normal Heart, was selected as one of the 100 Best Plays of the 20th Century by the Royal National Theatre and is the longest running play in the history of New York’s Public Theater. Larry’s screenplay of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, a film he produced while living in London in the 1960s, was nominated for an Academy Award. His novel, Faggots, continues to be one of the best-selling of all gay novels, while his book of essays on the AIDS epidemic, Reports from the Holocaust, remains essential reading about the plague.

Larry is a recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was the first openly gay person and the first creative artist to be honoured by an award from Common Cause.

For many years he has been writing a very long book about the plague, The American People, which is now some 4000 pages long. His most recent book, The Tragedy of Today’s Gays, is published by Penguin. It will tell you much about what you need to know about AIDS, and about America today.

“There is no question in my mind that Larry helped change medicine in this country. And he helped change it for the better. In American medicine there are two eras - before Larry and after Larry.” Dr. Anthony Fauci

Larry Kramer in Conversation
24th and 25th October at FACT in Liverpool
Website

LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 18th - 24th October

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.

Radio
Saturday 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 2 - 1.30pm: Clive Anderson’s Chat Room. With David Starkey
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 3 - 6pm: The Rake’s Progress
BBC Radio 3 - 9pm: The Wire. Dirty White Girl
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Presented by Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30am: Honouring the Office. Paul Gambaccini on the cultural role of the White House
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Guest Barbara Cook
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘75 and ‘81
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes. Tchaikovsky

Tuesday 21st
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Play: Number 10. Antony Sher plays PM

Wednesday 22nd
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Byzantium Unearthed. Account of a land ruled by women and eunechs

Thursday 23rd
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Misfits in France. Examines Oscar Wilde in Dieppe

Friday 24th
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: The Judy Garland Trail
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding presents
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London - 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Gaydar Radio 24/7 - Brighton, London DAB and online

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk
10pm-1am: Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 18th
BBC1 - 5.25pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents. Amy Lamé guests
BBC1 - 10.05pm: Little Britain USA
BBC2 - 7.10pm: Stephen Fry in America. Part 1 Repeat from last Sunday
BBC2 - 11.50pm: Beautiful People (rpt)
BBC HD - 8.10pm: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7.25pm and 10.10pm: X Factor. At least one of them must be: probably the most talented
Sky1- 3pm: Hairspray The School Musical
Sky2 - 11.30am: Hairspray The School Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living2 - 2am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts - 9.30am: Francis Bacon
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who

Sunday 19th
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. Fry goes to West Virginia and North Carolina
BBC2 - 11pm: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended. Sandi Toksvig and Goldie Hawn guest
ITV1 - 12.10pm: X Factor
More4 - 4.35pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Dave - 9.40pm: QI
Sky1 - 6pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical.
Sky2 - 11am: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls

Monday 20th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky1 - 5pm: Hairspray
Sky2 - 8pm: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 7pm: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts2 - 3pm: Francis Bacon

Tuesday 21st
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 2.05am: Beautiful People.
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11pm: Skins. Series one
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 3.20pm: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts2 - 5pm: Francis Bacon

Wednesday 22nd
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
C4 - 12.3pm:0 Come Dine with Me
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10.30pm and 3.05am: Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World. Last in series
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts - 6.15pm: Truman Capote
Sky Arts - 9pm: Queen in Montreal

Thursday 23rd
BBC2 - 9.30pm: Beautiful People. Simon’s birthday secret goes out in the school tannoy
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show. Anastasia
BBC HD - 10pm: Beautiful People (rpt)
C4 - 12.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11pm: How to Look Good naked USA with Carson Kressley
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts1 - 9am: Queen
Sky Arts - 10.40am: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts - 12.05pm: Queen
Sky Arts - 5.40pm: Francis bacon
Sky Arts - 6.30pm: Suggs on Caravaggio
Sky Arts - 9pm: Queen
Sky Arts - 10pm: Queen
Sky Arts - 12.15am: Queen
Sky Arts - 1.30am: Suggs on Caravaggio
Sky Arts2 - 6pm: Francis Bacon

Friday 24th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 9.30pm: Little Britain. Same old characters across the pond
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
BBC HD - 9.30pm: Beautiful People (rpt)
ITV1 - 5pm: Britain’s Best Dish. With Christopher Biggins
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10pm: Alan Clark’s Celebrity Ding Dong
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 11.40pm: QI
Sky1 - 9pm: Hairspray; The School Musical
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace

Film and drama
Saturday 18th
Sky Comedy - 6pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding. Rom com with Rupert Everett

Tuesday 21st
Film4 - 9pm: Brokeback Mountain

Thursday 23rd
Modern Greats - 12.45 and 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch
Screen1 - 6pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding

Friday 24th
More4 - 9pm: Gosford Park. Stephen Fry stars in Alan Parker whodunnit based on class
Modern Classics - 4pm and 10.35pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Do the pelvic thrust!
Modern Classics - 1,20pm and 8pm: West Side Story

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life

A new exhibitions opened yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery until 1 February 2009. Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes over 150 photographs by the celebrated lesbian photographer, encompassing well-known work made on editorial assignment as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. "I don't have two lives," Leibovitz says. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it."

Find out more here.

LGBT Museum In London within 3 years

It's been in the pipeline since 2004 and earlier this year, an online version of the museum was launch by Proud Heritage, the organisation spear-heading the project.

Now it seems that things are getting serious if one is to believe an article recently published in the Independent, where we learn that funding is being gathered as well as artifacts and that the new museum should be opening within the next 3 years near King's Cross station.

Read the full article here.

Proud Heritage

Matthew Shepard - 10 Years On

Judy Shepard, mother of murdered teenager Matthew Shepard, speaks out as she marks the tenth year since the savage murder of her son on October 12th 1998.

It’s hard to believe that it has been ten years since Matthew’s death.

So much has changed yet so much remains the same.

I want to thank all of the individuals and organisations that have given us the Foundation and our family their unwavering support.

Our work is far from over. I don’t mean the work of the Foundation only, I mean the work we all need to do at a personal level.

We need to continue talking to our friends, families and co-workers.

Unless we are honest about who we are and are able to share with those who love us what our lives are like, they will not know how to help us.

We need those allies in this struggle to achieve equality across the board to realise all of our civil rights.

Great advances have been made in changing people’s attitudes and eliminating ignorance about the gay community even in my wonderful state of Wyoming.

At least I thought so, until I read the readers’ comments following an article about the ten year observance of Matt’s death in the Cheyenne, Wyoming newspaper.

I understand that the readers who take the time to write in are doing so because they absolutely disagree with the article and those who do agree won’t bother to write comments.

However, it brought home to me how much work is left to do to make the world an accepting place. The level of ignorance is astounding.

The continuing belief that what happened to Matt was not a hate crime and the notion that ‘special people shouldn’t have special rights’, is beyond my comprehension.

The level of ‘hate’ is frightening.

Our family and the Foundation staff are committed to doing all they can to ensure the message - ‘erase hate’ - is one that is known to the community and its allies as well as those who are trying learn more about the Foundation and the LGBT community at large.

It is ignorance that ultimately results in hate and that may escalate into physical violence. The only way to combat that ignorance is to educate and tell our stories.

We are all aware of how important this election cycle is to all of us. Please take the time to know the issues and what is at stake for the LGBT community. Share your stories with those who care about you. It is the only way they will know how to vote to support you.

The privilege of having the right to vote is also a responsibility.

We must remember that we are not voting only for a new President but also for representatives at the local, county, state and national level.

Please vote and encourage everyone you know to vote. Apathy is unacceptable. We are at a cross roads in the movement and we need to show our support for those who support the LGBT community. We are all hoping the next ten years will be our time.

If you wish to learn more about the Foundation and the work we are doing now, please visit www.MatthewShepard.org or www.MatthewsPlace.com

International Coming Out Day

International Coming Out Day is a civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about LGBT issues. It is observed on 11th October in the United States and 12th October in the UK, by members of the LGBT communities and their allies.


In the United States, the Human Rights Campaign manages the event under the National Coming Out Project, offering resources to LGBT individuals, couples, parents and children, as well as straight friends and relatives, to promote awareness of LGBT families living honest and open lives. Candace Gingrich became the spokesperson for the day in April 1995.

Despite its name, National Coming Out Day (so called because it originated as an event in the United States) is in fact observed in many countries, including Switzerland, Germany Canada and the United Kingdom. As of 2008 The Netherlands also has Coming Out Day on 10-11.

More information available on the Human Rights Campaign's website, here, on that of the Queer Youth Network UK, here and on Wikipedia, here.

LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 11th - 17th October

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.

Radio
Saturday 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Jonathan Ross. David Walliams guests
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 3 - 2pm: Lunchtime Concert. Includes Britten
BBC Radio 3 - 5.45am: Britten
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
Classic FM - 10pm: Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings

Sunday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘87 and ‘93
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes
Classic FM - 10pm: Britten and Tchaikovsky

Monday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple

Tuesday 14th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Play: Number 10. Antony Sher plays PM

Wednesday 15th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Byzantium Unearthed. Account of a land ruled by women and eunuchs

Thursday 16th
BBC Radio 3 - 10am: Britten and Tchaikovsky
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple

Friday 17th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding presents
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Sue Perkins guests
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Brighton, London DAB and online: Gaydar Radio 24/7

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk
10pm-1am: Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 11th
BBC1 - 5.30pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents. Amy Lamé guests
BBC1 - 9.50pm: Little Britain USA
BBC2 - 9.40pm: Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Stephen Fry (rpt)
BBC2 - 10.10pm Beautiful People (rpt)
BBC HD - 7.05pm: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7.15pm and 10pm: X Factor. At least one of them must be: probably the most talented
Sky2 - 11.30am: Hairspray The School Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Livign - 6pm: Will and Grace
Biography - 6am and noon: Lindsay Lohan

Sunday 12th
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. Fry goes to New England in a black cab in the first part of his US travelogue
BBC2 - 11.30am: Film 2008 with Jonathan Ross. Dorian Gray
BBC2 - 11pm: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 12.15pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 7pm: For One Night Only. Will Young sings live
C4 - 8pm: Peter Kay’s Britain’s got the Pop Factor and Possibly a new Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice
More4 - 4.35pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Dave - 9.40pm: QI
Sky1 - 6pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical.
Sky2 - 12noon: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Sky Arts - 12noon: Barry Manilow
Sky Arts - 5pm: Rufus Wainwright sings Judy Garland

Monday 13th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Christopher Biggins guests
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 9pm: QI
Sky1 - 5pm: Hairspray
Sky2 - 8pm: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace

Tuesday 14th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 3.15am: Beautiful People
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8pm: The Sex Education Show. Final
E4 - 11pm: Skins. Series one
five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. With Christopher Biggins
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 10.40pm: QI
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 9pm: Francis Bacon

Wednesday 15th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10.30pm and 3.05am: Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World.
five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. With Christopher Biggins
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
five - 9pm: Paul Merton in India. Merton meets eunuchs in Ahmedabad
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 9pm: Gilbert and George

Thursday 16th
BBC2 - 9.30pm: Beautiful People. Mother dabbles with the occult and Gran changes personality
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show. Goldie Hawn
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Christopher Biggins
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 10pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace

Friday 17th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 9.30pm: Little Britain. Same old characters across the pond
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
BBC HD - 9.30pm: Beautiful People
ITV1 - 8.30am: Richard Arnold on the weekend’s TV
ITV1 - 10pm: Al Murray’s Happy Hour. Guests Joanna Lumley
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Christopher Biggins
five - 11.30am: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 11.40pm: QI
Sky1 - 9pm: Hairspray; The School Musical
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace

Film and Drama
Saturday 11th
five - 3.15pm: Candleshoe. Family comedy with David Niven and Jodie Foster
Sky Premiere - 10am and 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch
Sci-Fi - 9pm: X-Men. Ian McKellen as mutant baddie

Sunday 12th
Sky Premiere - 10am and 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch

Monday 13th
Sky Premiere - 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch
Indie - 12.20am: Infamous. Truman Capote biopic

Tuesday 14th
Sky Premiere - 10am and 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch

Wednesday 15th
Sky Premiere - 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch
Classics - 5.05pm: Some Like it Hot. Monroe, Curtis and Lemmon classic
Film4 - 1.15am: Prick up Your Ears. Joe Orton biopic

Thursday 16th
Sky Premiere - 10am and 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch

Friday 17th
Sky Premiere - 8pm: Hairspray. 2007 remake of Waters’ classic with John Travolta as the matriarch

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

Edward Carpenter was the Victorian Morrissey, the English Walt Whitman – and the original vegetarian, sandal-wearing socialist. So why is this gloriously eccentric figure almost forgotten today?

We could hazard the hypothesis that it is because he was gay and that gay lives have a habit of getting swept back into the closet but Mark Simpson, in the following article in the Independent marking the release of a new biography of Carpenter, seems to have another theory.

Read the full article here: The lost Utopian: Why have so few of us heard of Victorian poet and renowned socialist Edward Carpenter?

The book will be launched on Thursday 9th October, 6:30pm at Bookmarks, the socialist bookshop, at No 1 Bloomsbury Street, London. Visit the website for details.

* Edward Carpenter: A life of liberty and love, By Sheila Rowbotham (Verso)
* Edward Carpenter Community
* Edward Carpenter on Wikipedia

Lagos / London 2008 - Andrew Esiebo and Nilu Izadi

Lagos / London 2008 - Photographers Andrew Esiebo and Nilu Izadi in conversation about their recent work

Wednesday, 8 October, 3.30 pm - 5 pm, Goldsmiths University, RHB 139 (aka Main Building)

Andrew Esiebo is a photographer working in Ibadan and Lagos, Nigeria, and a member of the Black Box photographers' collective. His projects and residencies have brought him to London and Paris, where he has an ongoing audio-visual project Living Queer African and Eyes from South to West. His photographs have been exhibited, most recently, at the Thought Pyramid Gallery, in Abuja, and in the Tea Pavilion of the Guangzhou Triennial.

Nilu Izadi is a photographer with a fine arts background based in London, and a member of the Photo Debut photographers' collective. She has travelled extensively to build site-specific camera obscura around the world. These include, in Bassa Blanca, Spain, an army bunker conversion and a tent camera sewn with the members of a refugee camp in the Western Sahara. She has set up pinhole photography workshops for galleries including Serpentine and The Photographers' Gallery in London.

This event is free and open to the public.

Campus map and directions:
Goldsmiths CCS: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/
Queries to Dr. Jennifer Bajorek at j.bajorek@gold.ac.uk

A Night with Andy Warhol's Superstars

Holly Woodlawn will be appearing with Bibbe Hansen and Mary Woronov at the Purcell Room on October 9th.

Woodlawn is the subject of Lou Reed's song Walk on the Wild Side and the star of Trash. Hansen, the youngest Warhol Superstar, is the daughter of Fluxus artist Al Hansen and the mother of the recording artist Beck and appeared with Edie Sedgwick in Prison and Restaurant. Mary Woronov appeared in The Chelsea Girls and danced with the Velvet Underground as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

The stars of Warhol's underground movies will discuss the decadent glamour of the scene that revolved around Warhol.

To find out more about Warhol's stars visit www.warholstars.org.

A Night with Andy Warhol's Superstars
Southbank Centre
Thursday 9 October, 7pm
website

LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 4th - 10th October

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.

Radio
Saturday 4th
BBC Radio 2 - 1.30pm: Clive Anderson’s Chat Room. New topical show. Rhona Cameron and Julian Clary guest
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 3 - 6pm: Berntein’s Candide
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30am: Let Me Entertain You. John Sessions’ history of popular entertainment takes us to the Victorian era
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 1.15pm: Any Questions? With Alan Duncan MP
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘64 and ‘83
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15am: Desert Island Discs. Opera director David McVicar
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes

Monday 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Bette Midler guests
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45 am and 12.30am: Book of the Week: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks. Works of the late Alan Coren read by John Sessions
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins

Tuesday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Bette Midler guests
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45 am and 12.30am: Book of the Week: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks. Works of the late Alan Coren read by John Sessions
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Play: Number 10. Antony Sher plays PM

Wednesday 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Bette Midler guests
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45 am and 12.30am: Book of the Week: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks. Works of the late Alan Coren read by John Sessions
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 7 - 8am, 12noon and 7pm: Beyond Our Ken

Thursday 9th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Bette Midler guests
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45 am and 12.30am: Book of the Week: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks. Works of the late Alan Coren read by John Sessions
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple

Friday 10th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Bette Midler guests
BBC Radio 2 - 7.30pm: Friday Night is Music Night. John Barrowman hosts a 60th birthday tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: desert Island Discs. Opera director David McVicar
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45 am and 12.30am: Book of the Week: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks. Works of the late Alan Coren read by John Sessions
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45 and 7.45pm: Woman’s Hour Drama. Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding presents
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: The Film Programme. Hanif Kureshi and Stephen Frears on My Beautiful Launderette
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London 94.9 and online
Sunday 9am-12noon Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins
Monday – Friday 3-5pm Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

Brighton, London DAB and online: Gaydar Radio 24/7

Television

Entertainment and documentary
Saturday 4th
BBC1 - 5.30pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC1 - 10pm: Little Britain USA
BBC1 - 12.55am: Jonathan Ross. Alan Carr
BBC2 - 10.50pm: Beautiful People (rpt)
BBC HD - 8.05pm: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7.45pm: X Factor. At least one of them must be: probably the most talented
ITV1 - 11.30pm: TV’s Naughtiest Blunders. Includes John Barrowman
Sky1 - 3pm: Hairspray The School Musical
Sky2 - 11.30am: Hairspray The School Musical
Sky Arts - 8pm: Frida Kahlo
Sky Arts - 10.55pm: Rufus Wainwright
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace

Sunday 5th
BBC2 - 11.10pm: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 1.30pm: X Factor
C4 - 9pm: The secret Policeman’s Ball.Includes Norton, Izzard and Alan Carr
More4 - 4.30pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Sky1 - 7pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical. An Enfield school takes the Broadway musical on. Presented by Denise van Outen
Sky2 - 1pm: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 9am & 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 8pm: Living with Boy George
Sky Arts - 8pm: Rufus Wainwright sings Judy Garland
Sky Arts - 9pm: Rufus Wainwright
Biography - 6am: Frankie Howerd
Biography - 6.30am: Kenneth Williams

Monday 6th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC HD - 10pm: Friday Night with Jonathon Ross. Matt Lucas and David Walliams
ITV1 - 10.30am: This Morning. With Christopher Biggins
C4 - 9.30am: Gay to Z
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
five - 12.45pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 9pm: QI
Sky1 - 5.40pm: Hairspray
Sky2 - 8pm: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 8pm: Barry Manilow
Sky Arts - 12.20am: Rufus Wainwright
Biography - 5pm: Freddie Mercury

Tuesday 7th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby gets persuasive
BBC1 - 11.35pm: Film 2008 with Jonathan Ross. On the set of Dorian Gray
BBC2 - 10pm: Later with Jules Holland. Velvet Underground and Amy LaVere
C4 - 9.30am: Gay to Z
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8pm: The Sex Education Show. Part 5 of 6
E4 - 11pm: Skins. Series one
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
five - 12.45pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 10.40pm: QI
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 9am: Frida Kahlo
Sky Arts - 8pm: Rufus Wainwright sings Judy Garland

Wednesday 8th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
C4 - 9.30am: Gay to Z
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10.30pm and 3.05am: Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World.
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
five - 12.45pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 8pm & midnight: Grey’s Anatomy

Thursday 9th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. With Kristian Digby
BBC2 - 9pm: Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Stephen Fry guests
BBC2 - 9.30pm: Beautiful People. School play: Joseph
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show. Harry Jennifer Saunders and Cindy Lauper
C4 - 9.30am: Gay to Z
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 12.10am: Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
Dave - 10pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace

Friday 10th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 9.30pm: Little Britain. Same old characters across the pond
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
BBC2 - 11.40pm: Later with Jules Holland. Amy LaVere
ITV1 - 8.30am: Richard Arnold on the weekend’s TV
ITV1 - 10.30am: This Morning Alan Carr and Cyndi Lauper guest
ITV1 - 7.30pm: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey wrote this one.
C4 - 9.30am: Gay to Z
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10pm: Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong
C4 - 10.50pm: The Secret Policeman’s Ball (rpt)
five - 11am: How not to Decorate
five - 12.45pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky 1 - 9pm: Hairspray; The School Musical
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 1am: Pet Shop Boys
Biography - 8pm: Lindsay Lohan

Film and drama
Saturday 4th
Classics - 11pm: Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli version

Monday 6th
Indie - 4.20pm: Ballets Russes

Tuesday 7th
Comedy - 8pm: Devil Wears Prada

Wednesday 8th
Film4 - 7.05pm: An Ideal Husband. Rupert Everett
Indie - 8pm: Infamous. Truman Capote biopic

Thursday 9th
TCM - 9pm: The Go Between. Alan Bates

Friday 10th
Indie - 2.40pm: Volver

HIV/AIDS Emerged as Early as 1880s

New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanisation in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The estimated period of origin, considerably earlier than the previous estimate of 1930, coincides with the establishment and rise of urban centers in west-central Africa where the pandemic HIV strain, HIV-1 group M, emerged. The growth of cities and associated high-risk behaviors may have been the key change that allowed the virus to flourish.

Read the full press release from the University of Arizona here.

HIV/AIDS Emerged as Early as 1880s, National Geographic (2 pages).

The paper of the research is published in the journal Nature and can be found here (not free).

Black History Month 09

As Labi Siffre joins the merry band of its patrons, LGBT History Month UK is proud to celebrate Black History Month this October.

Please visit the resource pages we have put together to mark the month. These include some information about prominent black LGBT people and black LGBT organisations.

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Romeo and Julien

A Leytonstone school is set to challenge homophobic bullying with a reworking of Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers.

Intended to combat the growing use of terms such as “gay” and “batty boy” as insults, Romeo and Julien will star two male actors, who fall in love but come from rival gangs.

It will be staged at the Cochrane Theatre, in Holborn, next Monday, as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival and the 30-minute abridgement of Shakespeare’s original text will focus mainly on the relationship between the two boys.

Find out more here.

Romeo and Julien
Monday 6 October
Cochrane Theatre
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP

Shakespeare Schools Festival