LGBT History Month UK: January 2009

Saturday, January 31, 2009

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 31st January - 6th February

Spotlight: LGBT History Month to Open with BBC1 Debate

Each year, there is a growing number of events being organised for LGBT History Month around the UK. You can view a list of events (or register and promote your own) by visiting our calendar. Feel free to also join the debate and make new friends on our forum.

Tony Fenwick, co-chair of Schools Out, will be interviewed on BBC1’s The Big Questions, this Sunday, which will be looking at ‘whether being gay or lesbian is a cause for celebration’.

The broadcast, from a primary school in Bristol, coincides with the first day of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month, a national event throughout February to celebrate LGBT history, culture and identities. This year’s theme is Education and Young People and Tony will be explaining to presenter Nicky Campbell the importance of challenging our invisibility in schools.

Tony was excited to be taking part:

‘History Month is really starting to take off in Schools. There’s still time to organise events for February. We’ve got some great resources on our website, and advice from successful initiatives in previous years.
‘The educational debate is often hijacked by hysteria over sex, so I’m looking forward to explaining how schools benefit when they treat LGBT issues like they do race and gender issues.’

The programme will be available on iPlayer for a limited amount of time here.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Iceland Selects Lesbian Prime Minister

Iceland’s next leader will be an openly lesbian former flight attendant and union organiser.

Last night the two parties forming Iceland’s new coalition Government backed Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, a Social Democrat, to take charge until new elections are held, probably in May.

The previous conservative-led Government resigned on Monday in the wake of an economic crisis triggered by the country’s big banks last year.

Find out more in the PinkNews article here and read their profile of the woman here.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Bulletin No 56

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

Schools OUT Conference, Saturday February 7th at The Drill Hall, Chenies Street, just off Tottenham Court Road, click here to find out more and to book.

No matter how big or how small, promote your event by putting it on our calendar.

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

Saturday, January 24, 2009

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 24th - 30th January

Friday, January 23, 2009

Angela Morley Dies

Angela Morley

1924 - 2009

Angela Morley was born in Leeds as Wally Scott, she was a composer of light classical music, including film scores: The Looking Glass War 1969 ; When Eight Bells Toll — Captain Nemo and the Underwater City; The Little Prince ; The Slipper and the Rose; Watership Down; E.T.; Home Alone; Schindler’s List; and TV scores: Dynasty; Superman; Star Wars; Dallas; Hotel; Falcon Crest and Cagney and Lacey

The Independent's obituary is available here

This post on the Jazz Forum is also worth looking at.

Angela Morley on Wikipedia

Gay's the Word to Mark 30th Anniversary

In February Gay's the Word, the first and now last surviving British gay bookshop, will be celebrating its 30th birthday with a month of special events and promotions.

Having pioneered access to gay books in the early 80's and surviving raids, high court battles and financial scares, it is a fantastic achievement to reach thirty years.

To celebrate, the shop has scheduled three book events.

The Greeks & Greek Love
A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
James Davidson (Author and Speaker)
Thursday 29th January. 7pm. Free.

From Sappho to Alexander the Great, Ancient Greek civilisation is full of famous same-sex lovers. For all those who came after them, this inescapable feature has caused amusement, puzzlement and concern. Victorians preferred to focus on the intellectual side if Ancient Greek homosexuality, coyly ignoring the sexual aspect. Later scholars sought to redress the balance by stressing the physical nature of 'Greek love'.

James Davidson asks us to forget everything we thought we knew about the intimate culture of the Ancient Greeks and start again from scratch. The result is an engrossingly rich and diverse picture of Greek love which takes in bizarre Spartan sex-acts, recently discovered paintings and fragments of broken text, and throws new light on Greek civilisation as a whole. 'Massively informed and informative...[A] vital and outstanding study.' Spectator

The Amazing Mrs Shufflewick
The Life of Rex Jameson
Patrick Newley (Author and Speaker)
Thursday 12th February. 7pm. Free.

In real life Mrs Shufflewick was the glorious creation of Rex Jameson, a music hall great and one of radio and TV's most original and brilliant comics. Shy, difficult, bisexual and alcoholic, his private and public life often reached spectacular highs and appalling lows. A candid and incisive biographical history of British comedy.

London and the Culture of Homosexuality 1885-1914
Matt Cook (Author and Speaker)
Monday 23rd February. 7pm. Free

Exploring the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalisation of all "acts of gross indecency" between men in 1885 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 - years marked by an intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic homosexual rights movement.

For more information visit www.gaystheword.co.uk

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Sigourney Weaver Breaks Ground in Gay Rights Activist Biobic

Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver stars in this television film based on the true story of a 1970s religious suburban housewife and mother who struggles to accept the homosexuality of her young son Bobby. Bobby's suicide causes Mary Griffith to question her faith; ultimately she changes her views to the point of becoming a gay rights activist.

“Prayers for Bobby”, which is based on the book with the same title by Leroy Aarons, will premier on 24 January on Lifetime.

Trailer:

"Related videos" on the right-hand side of this page offer further material on the film and its making.

Find out more about the film, the book and the family on Lifetime's website here.

Read reviews of the the film on AfterElton here and on Detroit Free Press here.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Notes to Obama: John Waters

As Barack Obama, the 44th and LGBT friendly president of the US is about to take the oath of office, queer filmmaker John Waters, gives him some advice.

View the video on the BBC News website here.

Blue Plaque for Tatchell: Your Chance to Vote

Peter Tatchell, who lives in the London Borough of Southwark, has been nominated for a Southwark Blue Plaque Award, which honours distinguished public figures and events.

Peter has been campaigning for LGBT rights for 40 years. He was a leading activist in the Gay Liberation Front in London in the early 1970s. In 1990 he was one of the people who co-founded the queer rights direct action group OutRage!.

He has also campaigned on a wide range of other human rights issues since the late 1960s: against the death penalty and the Vietnam War, and for Aboriginal rights in his homeland of Australia; plus campaigns against nuclear weapons, apartheid, the Iraq war, and his two attempted citizen's arrests of Zimbabwe tyrant Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001.

The Awards will be decided by an open public vote. The voting closes on March 31 2009.

To cast a vote for Peter, simply e-mail vote4icons@southwark.gov.uk and put "Peter Tatchell" in the subject field.

Here is an article from Southwark News about his nomination:

For more information about the 2008 Southwark Blue Plaque awards, click here.

Peter Tatchells's website.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 18th - 23rd January

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.

Please also note that Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour contains a lot of relevant content and is generally LGBT friendly, but a lot of its output is not available to us before we put this on the site. For the latest Woman’s Hour stuff, subscribe to the programme's newsletter here.

Radio
Saturday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Does the Team Think? Comedy panel game with Julian Clary
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig and Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
6 Music - 12midnigh:t BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Show tunes and music
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’65 and ‘88
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Graham Norton guests
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: The Food Programme. Egon Ronay
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Puccini: Touched by the Little Finger of the Almighty
BBC Radio 4 - 3: The Grand Babylon Hotel. Edwardian serial thriller with John Sessions leading the cast
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: The Canterville Ghost
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz (rpt)

Monday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45am & 7.45pm: All Passion Spent. Adaptation of Vita Sackville West novel
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Just a Minute. Julian Clary guests

Tuesday 20th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45am & 7.45pm: All Passion Spent. Adaptation of Vita Sackville West novel

Wednesday 21st
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45am & 7.45pm: All Passion Spent. Adaptation of Vita Sackville West novel
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard: The Definite Article. Recorded at The Shaftesbury Theatre

Thursday 22nd
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45am & 7.45pm: All Passion Spent. Adaptation of Vita Sackville West novel
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Five Meet to make up Myths. Gyles Brandreth examines the connections between 5 Victorian male authors – Oscar Wilde included

Friday 23rd
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45am & 7.45pm: All Passion Spent. Adaptation of Vita Sackville West novel
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: The Film Programme. Gus Van Sant on Milk
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

BBC Radio Manchester - 95.1 and online
Every Monday 8pm: The Gay Hour, Ashley Byrne and Andrew Edwards

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 - Brighton, London DAB and online 24/7

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Television

Entertaining and documentaries
Saturday 17th
BBC1 - 6.35pm: Your Country Needs You. Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd Webber go 2nd class X Factor
BBC2 - 10.20pm: QI. Extended edition from last night
ITV2 - 6am: Corrie Omnibus. First hour written by Jonathan Harvey
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 9pm: Derren Brown; Something Wicked This Way Comes. Repeat of last week’s show from the gay illusionist who claims not to be clairvoyant
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 6.10pm: Truman Capote

Sunday 18th
BBC1 - 2.15am: City Uncovered. Evan Davis analyses the role of the banks in the current economic crisis (rpt)
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC3 - 10: Family Guy
BBC4 - 7pm: Stephen Fry in America. Mississippi
ITV1 - 7.10: Dancing on Ice. Camp as it gets
C4 - 10pm: The Sunday Night Project. Alan Carr. Catherine Tate guest presents
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 6.15pm: Come Dine with Me
Living - 12noon: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts - 11.35am: The Singing Sculpture: Gilbert and George
Sky Arts - 12noon: What the Dickens?

Monday 19th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy. Kristian Digby
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me. New series
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 12.02am: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 12midnight: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts - 12.40am: Andy Warhol

Tuesday 20th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy. Kristian Digby
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 11pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
E4 - 8.35am: Ugly Betty
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm &1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood

Wednesday 21st
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, Sell it, Bank it?
BBC2 - 9pm: City Uncovered. Evan Davis
BBC2 - 10: QI (rpt)
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 8pm: Andy Warhol’s Factory People

Thursday 22nd
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, Sell it, Bank it?
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC3 - 10.30: The Undercover Princes. Reality show set in Brighton. One suitor is gay
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
E4 - 10pm: Skins
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will & Grace
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 10am: Andy Warhol’s Factory People

Friday 23rd
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy
BBC1 - 9pm: QI
BBC1 - 10.35: Jonathan Ross. Out of exile. Stephen Fry guests
BBC3 - 8.30pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 9am: Will & Grace
C4 - 5.30: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 11.35: The Sunday Night Project (rpt)
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts2 - 12midnight: Gilbert and George
Bio - 6 & 11am: Alan Bates

Film and drama
Sunday 17th
BBC2 - 12midnight: Gods and Monsters. Ian McKellen as gay horror director James Whale
C4 - 11pm: Volver

Monday 19th
Family - 2.45 & 8pm: Hairspray

Tuesday 20th
Comedy - 1.25 & 8pm: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. This channel continues to repeat and repeat this offensive film

Wednesday 21st
Classics - 9pm: Lover Come Back. Hudson/Day comedy from ‘61
Modern Greats - 8pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I’ll get you a satanic mechanic!
TCM - 3pm: (TCM2 9pm) Arsenic and Old Lace

Thursday 22nd
Indie - 11am: La Vie en Rose

Friday 23rd
Film4 - 7.05pm: Just My Luck. Romcom with Lindsay Lohan

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Special Bulletin

This is an extraordinary edition to tell you about the latest news about LGBT History Month 2009

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.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Of Course Tintin is Gay. Ask Snowy

His adventures have sold more than 200 million copies and been translated into 50 languages, and this weekend he celebrates his 80th birthday. But how well do we really know Tintin? For Matthew Parris, one thing's for certain, he is one of the boys...

Read the full article from The Times here.

The article was not to the taste of Tintin fans as Pinknews explains here.

Image: "Tintin, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and Snowy" by Andy Field. Some Rights Reserved.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 10th - 17th January

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.

Please also note that Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour contains a lot of relevant content and is generally LGBT friendly, but a lot of its output is not available to us before we put this on the site. For the latest Woman’s Hour stuff, subscribe to the programme's newsletter here.

Radio
Saturday 10th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage: includes the travelogue 18th century Mary Lacy who disguised herself as a man and joined the Navy
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: News Quiz. (rpt)
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Walter Now. Ian McKellen revives his role as the eponymous grown up with learning difficulties that featured in C4’s first ever drama. Includes a gay character.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Show tunes and music
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’75 and ‘85
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15pm: Words and Music. Through the Looking Glass. Derek Jacobi is one of the narrators
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15: Desert Island Discs. Ruth Padel
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Julian Clary guests
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Belsen after Belsen. Programme commemorating the Holocaust
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: The Canterville Ghost. 2/3

Monday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Handel
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Just a Minute. Graham Norton guests

Tuesday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Take Two. Musical Partnerships. Billie Holliday and Lester Young
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Great Lives. Tony Hancock by Pam Ayres. Presented by Matthew Parris

Wednesday 14th
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard: The Definite Article. Recorded at The Shaftesbury Theatre

Thursday 16th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: The Rest is Noise. The realism of Britten’s Peter Grimes

Friday 17th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Great Lives (rpt)
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local
Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

BBC Radio Manchester - 95.1 and online
Every Monday 8pm: The Gay Hour, Ashley Byrne and Andrew Edwards

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 - Brighton, London DAB and online 24/7

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Television

entertainment and documentary
Saturday 10th
BBC1 - 6.45pm: Your Country Needs You. Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd Webber go Eurovision
BBC2 - 10.30pm: QI. Extended edition from last night
C4 - 11.50: Morrisey. Sneak preview of the video I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 8: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 11th
BBC4 - 7pm: Stephen Fry in America. Deep South
C4 - 10pm: The Sunday Night Project. Alan Carr
More4 - 6.15pm: Come Dine with Me
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts - 12noon: What the Dickens?

Monday 12th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy. Kristian Digby
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 7.30pm: Coronation Street. First of tonight’s editions concerns Tyrone and Molly’s nuptials. Jonathan Harvey wrote this one…
ITV1 - 8.30: Coronation Street…and this one too
C4 - 9pm: Will and Grace
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 10pm: Queen Victoria’s Men. Examines the myth of sexual repression in the Victorian era
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts - 12.30am: Andy Warhol

Tuesday 13th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy. Kristian Digby
BBC2 - 10pm: The Culture Show. Anthony and the Johnsons
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC4 - 9pm: The High Life. Nineties mile high comedy with a young Alan Cummings as a gay air-steward. Who’d have thought?
BBC HD - 7pm: Raven. Fantasy game show.
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 10pm: Derren Brown: Evening of Wonders. Clairvoyant or conjuror? Our gay Svengali performs at the Garrick
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm &1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3am: Da Vinci Inquest
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 12noon: Andy Warhol

Wednesday 14th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy?
BBC2 - 9pm: The City Uncovered with Evan Davis. Banks exposed
BBC2 - 10: QI (rpt)
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 11.40pm: The Convention Crusher. Justin Lee Collins meets a hermaphrodite ventriloquist!
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 7.30pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts1 - 8: Andy Warhol’s Factory People

Thursday 15th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy?
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC3 - 8pm: The World's Strictest Parents
BBC3 - 10.30pm: The Undercover Princes - includes Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the first Indian royal to come out
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will & Grace
C4 - 10pm: Paul Burrell: What Really Happened. Jacques Peretti pokes around in the Royal Butler’s drawers
C4 - 11.05: Paul Burrell: In His Own Words. Self-explanatory really
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 9.30: Derren Brown (rpt)
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 9.30am & 1.30pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts1 - 3: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
UKTV Style - 3 & 9pm: Escape to the Country
Bio - 6.30pm: Drew Barrymore

Friday 16th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy?
BBC1 - 9: QI
BBC2 - 11.35pm: The Culture Show. Anthony and the Johnsons
BBC3 - 9pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 9am: Will & Grace
C4 - 11.35pm: The Sunday Night Project
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
Dave - 9.40pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 12.50am: What the Dickens?
Bio - 10.30: Drew Barrymore

film and drama
Sunday 11th
C4 - 11.10pm: In and Out. Kevin Kline as an outed teacher
Drama - 10.10pm: Le Vie En Rose
Screen1 - 10.50pm: Rocky Horror Picture Show. Dammit, Janet, I love you

Monday 12th
Classics - 11.05: Psycho

Wednesday 14th
Film4 - 9pm: Volver. Almadóvar melodrama with Penelope Cruz

Thursday 15th
Indie - 10pm: Volver

Friday 16th
Classics - 11.20pm: Psycho

Friday, January 9, 2009

Closet Door

10 January 2009 - 25 January 2009

To celebrate the release of Milk, and with the ongoing struggle for gay civil rights firmly in mind (Proposition 8 anyone?), we have a preview of Van Sant's biopic plus a season of documentaries by pioneering film-makers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, in partnership with Verve Pictures and London Navigaytor.

More information at www.ica.org.uk/closetdoor

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Nigel Owen: The Only Gay on the Pitch

After a failed attempt to kill himself, it took guts for professional referee Nigel Owens to come out in the rough, tough world of rugby. But he was surprised by the reactions.

Read the full Guardian article here.

The (rather confused and confusing) article in the Telegraph can be found here.

Hanner Amser, Nigel Owens's autobiography will be available in English in the Autumn.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 3rd - 9th January

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.

Please also note that Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour contains a lot of relevant content and is generally LGBT friendly, but a lot of its output is not available to us before we put this on the site. For the latest Woman’s Hour stuff, subscribe to the programme's newsletter here.

Radio
Saturday 3rd
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 3 - 6pm: La Fanciulla del West
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig.
BBC Radio 4 - 2pm: Scraps of Bacon. James Maw finds out bits about Francis Bacon’s social life and circle
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 4th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Show tunes and music
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’72 and ‘80
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15pm: Words and Music. Michael Tippett provides some of the music
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Graham Norton guests
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: The Canterville Ghost. 1/3

Monday 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30: Ken Bruce. Grace Jones picks her ‘tracks of my years’ every day at 11.30
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 3 - 10.51am: Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Just a Minute. Julian Clary guests

Tuesday 6th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Femme Fatale: The story of Nico
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Presented by Matthew Parris. Bette Davis

Wednesday 7th
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard: The Definite Article. Recorded at The Shaftesbury Theatre

Thursday 8th
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play: Left in Trust
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: Scottish Shorts: Pillars of the Community
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini

Friday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local
Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

BBC Radio Manchester - 95.1 and online
Every Monday 8pm: The Gay Hour, Ashley Byrne and Andrew Edwards

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 - Brighton, London DAB and online 24/7

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 3rd
BBC1 - 5.35pm: Dr Who Confidential. A look at the 10 TV Doctors
BBC1 - 7.10: Your Country Needs You. 1/5 Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd Webber in a dressed-up search for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 entry
BBC1 - 8.40: Casualty. Toby fights for his life
BBC2 - 11pm: Lock up your Daughters: Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll in the UK. Despite the sexist hettie title, this examination of 5 decades of rock and pop inspired hedonism includes Boy George among its contributors
ITV1 - 7.20pm: Demons. MacKenzie (Office) Crook, Philip (70’s detective) Glenister and Christian (Echo Beach) Cooke in a camped-up modern take on Dracula
ITV3 - 7.10am: Elton John’s New Year’s Eve Party. From the 02 Arena (rpt)
C4 - 11.45am: Celebrity Bib Brother Launch (rpt)
C4 - 9pm: Celebrity BB
E4 - 1.05pm: Celeb BB Live. Thought they weren’t doing that this time round!?
E4 - 6.40: Celeb BB Launch (rpt)
E4 - 9pm: 100 Greatest TV Ads. Hosted by Graham Norton
E4 - 12.05-6am: Celeb BB Live
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 1pm: Dr Who. Five hours of
Watch - 8: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky Arts2 - 1.30pm: Francis Bacon

Sunday 4th
BBC1 - 4.30pm: The Weakest Link Special. West End Musical stars (rpt)
BBC4 - 7pm: Stephen Fry in America
BBC HD - 6pm: Dr Who at the Proms (rpt)
C4 - 12.30pm: CBB
C4 - 1.40: CBB’s Little B
E4 - 3.30pm: CBB Live
E4 - 5.55: CBB
E4 - 10.40: Alan Carr: Tooth Fairy Live
E4 - 11.50: CBB Live
More4 - 4.45pm: Come Dine with Me
Living - 3am: Da Vinci’s Inquest
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Watch - 8am: Dr Who. 4 hours
Bio - 11pm: Alan Bates

Monday 5th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, ell it, Bank it? Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 10.35: The Secret Diary of the Holocaust. The story of Rutka Laskier; the “Polish” Anne Frank
BBC2 - 8.30pm: Masterchef
BBC HD - 10: Neil Diamond Live at Glastonbury
BBC HD - 10.35: The Secret Diary of the Holocaust
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 7.05am: CBB Little Bro
C4 - 8.05: CBB
C4 - 9.05: Will and Grace
C4 - 3.10pm: Come Dine with Me Extra Portions
C4 - 9: CBB
C4 - 1.15am: CBB Live
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 1.05: CBB
E4 - 2.05: CBB Live
E4 - 6pm: CBB Little Bro
E4 - 7: Hollyoaks. Malachy feels guilty after Mercedes’ HIV test
E4 - 11: CBB Big Mouth
E4 - 11.30: CBB Live
Five - 9.30am: Colin and Justin’s How Not to Decorate (rpt)
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3: Da Vinci’s Inquest
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Bio - 11am & 3pm: Alan Bates
Bio - 6pm & 2am: Lindsay Lohan

Tuesday 6th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, Sell it, Bank it?
BBC2 - 8.30pm: Masterchef
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 7.30am: CBB Little Bro
C4 - 8: CBB
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 3.05pm: Come Dine with Me Extra Portions
C4 - 4.55: Ditto
C4 - 9: CBB
C4 - 10: Dead Set. 1/3. Zombies hit the BB house
C4 - 11.05: CBB
C4 - 2.35am: CBB Live
E4 - 8.35am: Ugly Betty
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 1.05pm: CBB
E4 - 2.10: CBB Live
E4 - 6pm: CBB Little Bro
E4 - 11.30: CBB Big Mouth
E4 - 12midnight: CBB Live
More4 - 9pm: Celeb Come Dine with Me
Five - 9.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate (rpt)
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm &1am: Will and Grace
LIving - 3am: Da Vinci Inquest
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood
Bio - 6 & 11am: Katherine Hepburn
Bio - 7pm & 1am: Brando

Wednesday 7th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, Sell it, Bank it?
BBC2 - 8.30pm: Masterchef
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.3:0 This Morning. With stylist to the stars Matthew Soobroy
C4 - 7.05: CBB Little Bro
C4 - 7.30: CBB
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 3.05pm: Come Dine with Me: Extra portions
C4 - 4.55: Come Dine with Me: Extra portions
C4 - 9: CBB
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 1.05: CBB
E4 - 2..40: CBB Live
E4 - 6: CBB Little Bro
E4 - 11: CBB Big Mouth
E4 - 11.35: CDBB Live
Five - 9.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate (rpt)
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 7.30pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts1 - 8: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
Bio - 6 & 11am: Bette Davis
Bio - 7pm: Brando

Thursday 8th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, Sell it, Bank it?
BBC4 - 8.30pm: House of Chanel. Starts an evening of programmes about style and fashion
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 7am: CBB Little Bro
C4 - 8: CBB
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 3.05pm: Come Dine with Me Extra Portions
C4 - 4.55: Ditto
C4 - 9: CBB
C4 - 10: Dead Set
C4 - 1am: CBB Live
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 1.05: CBB
E4 - 2.10: CBB Live
E4 - 6: CBB Little Bro
E4 - 11: CBB Big Mouth
E4 - 11.35: CBB Live
Five - 9.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 9pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 9.30am & 1.30pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts1 - 10am: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
UKTV Style - 3 & 9pm: Escape to the Country
Bio - 7pm: Brando

Friday 9th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it, Sell it, Bank it?
BBC1 - 9: QI. New series
BBC3 - 9pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 7.30am: CBB Little Bro
C4 - 8: CBB
C4 - 9: Will and grace
C4 - 3.05pm: Come Dine with Me Extra Portions
C4 - 4.55: Ditto
C4 - 9pm: CBB Live Eviction
C4 - 10.35: CBB Live Eviction
C4 - 11.40: The Sunday Night Project
C4 - 2.35am: CBB Live
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 1.05: CBB
E4 - 2.10: CBB Live
E4 - 6: Cbb Little Bro
E4 - 11: CBB Big Mouth
E4 - 11.50: CBB Live
Five - 9.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 12.25am: What the Dickens?
Bio - 5pm: Brando

Film and drama
Saturday 3rd
Five - 4.20pm: Big Business. Bette Midler
Gold - 6.20pm: Oliver! Lionel Bart musical

Sunday 4th
BBC2 - 10pm: Kinky Boots
BBC2 - 12.30am: Heaven
BBC2 - 2.10: The Stringer
ITV3 - 1.30pm: Carry on Cruising
ITV3 - 3.15: Carry on Jack
ITV3 - 5.05: Carry on Cowboy
ITV3 - 7: Carry on Screaming
ITV3 - 9: Carry on Cleo
Film4 - 5.40pm: Big Top Pee-Wee
Indie - 10pm: Happiness

Monday 5th
BBC1 - 7pm: Diary of Anne Frank. Dramatisation shown nightly in the build-up to International Holocaust Day

Tuesday 6th
BBC1 - 7pm: Diary of Ann Frank
Modern Greats - 10pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Do you want her to see you…like THIS?
TCM2 - 9pm: Easter Parade. Judy Garland musical

Wednesday 7th
BBC1 - 7pm: Diary of Ann Frank
BBC1 - 8pm: Waterloo Road. New series from the dysfunctional school with the dysfunctional pupils and the dysfunctional staff
Indie - 8.25pm: Notes on a Scandal. Judi Dench as the vindictive lesbian in this controversial drama

Thursday 8th
BBC1 - 7pm: Diary of Ann Frank
Indie - 10pm: Volver

Friday 9th
BBC1 - 7pm: Diary of Ann Frank. Final part
BBC1 - 11.55pm: Ruthless People. Wacky comedy with Danny DeVito and Bette Midler
BBC4 - 7.30pm: Anne Frank Remembered
More4 - 9pm: The Talented Mr Ripley
Indie - 12.30am: Happiness. Controversial black comedy
TCM - 6.50pm: Arsenic and Old Lace