LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 28th February - 6th March

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 28th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12:30pm: News Quiz – Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - The Talented Mr Ripley. first of a five-part season of Patricia Highsmith's novels about Mr Ripley
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 1st
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Paul O’Grady. Show tunes and music.
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz

Monday 2nd
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30 The Bottom Line.

Tuesday 3rd
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Carmen Miranda: The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat. Ruby Wax on Rio’s heroine
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: A Good Read. features Dancer by Colum McCann
Friday 6th
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Hairspray and Harmonies. Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the fortunes of barber shop singers; female ones in this case
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

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 28th
BBC1 - 2.00am: Jonathan Ross. Rpt.
BBC2 - 9pm: QI XL
ITV1 - 9.25&10.55am: Dancing on Ice
ITV1 - 7.45pm: Ant & Dec Takeaway. Katy Perry
C4 - 
4pm: Celebrity Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
E4 - 9.00: 100 greatest TV Ads Graham norton
Living - 6pm & 12.30am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 1st
BBC4 - 8pm: Sissinghusrt
ITV1 - 9.15: Dancing on Ice
E4 - 9.00pm: Desperate Housewives
Dave - 9pm: QI

Monday 2nd
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6.55&9.15am: Dancing on Ice
C4 - 8.30am: Fraiser
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 9.00pm: Desperate Housewives
E4 - 11.00pm: Skins
Dave - 9pm: QI

Tuesday 3rd
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 
10.45pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Fraiser
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
More4 - 9pm: Come dine with Me
More4 - 10pm: Jihad for Love - gay and lesbian muslims
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
E4 - 12.10am: Skins
Dave - 11.00: Graham Norton
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood

Wednesday 4th
BBC1 - 2.30am: Explore : Sex / Religion in Manila
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
BBC3 - 10.00: Little Britain USA
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.00: Celebrity Juice
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10.00: Desperate Housewives
C4 - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
C4 - 2.10am: Spectacle : Elton john
More4 - 9.00: Celebrity Come dine with Me
five - 10.00pm: Thelma & Louise
Dave - 12.10pm: Graham Norton
Watch - 11.00pm: Little Britain

Thursday 5th
BBC2 - 10pm: Graham Norton Show
BBC HD - 11pm: Beautiful People
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Fraiser
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10pm: Skins
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 6th
BBC1 - 9pm: QI
BBC1 - 10.35pm: Jonathan Ross – Annie Lennox
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Fraiser
C4 - 9.00am: Will & Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady

Films and drama
Saturday 28th
BBC4 - 10.00: Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock Daphne du Maurier
ITV1 - 9:00&10.35pm: Bourne Supremacy
five - 3.50pm: Wizard of Oz

Wednesday 4th
BBC4 - 10pm: The Yacoubian Building

Thursday 5th
Family - 8.00: Hairspray
Indie - 8.25: Notes on a Scandal

Downing Street Reception for LGBT History Month

NOTE: Due to the demise of David Cameron's son, Ivan, this event was cancelled and will now be taking place on Thursday 5 March.

The Prime Minister has invited Schools OUT and LGBT History Month co-chairs, Sue Sanders and Tony Fenwick, to 10 Downing Street this evening. The occasion is to celebrate LGBT History Month. It is an important endorsement of the work and achievements made by the Month in the 5 years since it came into being.

The reception will also include Harriet Harman and Michael Cashman.

"This is a fantastic moment for the LGBT community; we really are on the threshold of something big," according to Tony. "Who would have thought five years ago that a group wanting to put lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people into the National Curriculum would be welcomed by the Prime Minister of our nation?"

In what proves to be a busy day, Tony also appeared on BBC1's Breakfast TV as part of a report on education and LGBT people tomorrow. Katie Ivens, Vice-Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, also featured in the debate. The programme aired at 7.20am.

Finally, viewers in London will also see LGBT History Month featured on BBC1's Inside Out at 7pm tonight.

Top 1960's US Presidential Aid Was Probed for Homosexuality by FBI

When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatrical, snowy-haired president of the Motion Picture Association of America.

But back in 1964, Valenti was a Houston ad executive newly installed at the White House as a top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. And J. Edgar Hoover's FBI found itself quietly consumed with the vexing question of whether Valenti was gay.

Read the full article in the Washington Post here.

Milk Wins Two Oscars

Milk, the biopic of gay activist Harvey Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant, won two Oscars last night during the 81st award ceremony. Sean Penn walked away with the award for best actor while Dustin Lance Black received a statuette for best original writing.

Commenting on his victory, Dustin Lance Black said:
"If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he'd want me to say to all those gay and lesbian kids out there tonight - who have been told that they are less than by their churches, by the government, or by their families - that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures that are valued."

Dustin Lance Black also thanked his mother for her acceptance of his sexuality, and promised homosexual young men and women that, "very soon you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours."

Sean Penn said:
"Thank you. Thank you. You commie, homo-loving sons of guns. I did not expect this and I want it to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often."

"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone."

The film has already garnered another 26 wins & 44 nominations since its release in October last year.

Milk on the IMDB

Spotlight: Living Library

A Living-Library-style event will aim to challenge prejudices and stereotypes of those who may have never met a gay man or transgender person and therefore hold on to the view they developed on basis of media and heteronormative society.

This is based on the theory that people are more likely to hold on to their prejudices if they do not know anyone who represents diversity strand in subject of prejudice or stereotype.

The Event is organised in partnership between Brent Youth Service's Mosaic LGBT Youth Centre, Willesden Library and Brent Diversity Team.

http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/calendar/LGBT%20History%20Month%20Events.php?recordID=704
Living Library
26 February, 6 - 9pm
Willesden Green Library Centre
95 High Road
Willesden
London NW10 2SF

Learn more about Living Library: living-library.org

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 21st - 26th February

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 21st
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 = 10.30: …And the Award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini on West Side Story
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: The Lady in the Van by and with Alan Bennett
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 22nd
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Paul O’Grady. Show tunes and music.
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’64 and ‘73
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15: Desert Island Discs. David Walliams
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz

Monday 23rd
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis (rpt)
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Off the Page. With Attila the Stockbroker

Tuesday 24th
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Carmen Miranda: The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat. Ruby Wax on Rio’s heroine

Wednesday 25th
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard. Glorious

Friday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Hairspray and Harmonies. Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the fortunes of barber shop singers; female ones in this case
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

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 21st
BBC1 - 6.35pm: Let’s Dance for Comic Relief
BBC1 - 1.35am: Jonathan Ross. Will Young (rpt)
BBC2 - 10pm: QI XL
ITV1 - 9.25am: Dancing on Ice: The skate-off
C4 - 4pm: Celebrity Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Living - 6pm & 12.30am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 22nd
BBC1 - 10am: The Big Questions. Religion and Sexual orientation
BBC4 - 8pm and 8.30pm: Sissinghusrt. Eight part documentary on Vita Sackville-West's garden
BBC4 - 11.50: The History Man. Antony Sher
ITV1 - 6.45 & 9.15pm: Dancing on Ice
C4 - 8pm: Celebrity Come Dine with Me
E4 - 11.10pm: Skins
More4 - 5.45pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm: QI
Bio - 6pm: Bette Davies
Bio - 12midnight: Katherine Hepburn

Monday 23rd
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.30: This Morning. With Gary Barlow
ITV1 - 12.30pm: Loose Women. Andy bell from Erasure guests
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Dave - 9pm: QI

Tuesday 24th
BBC1 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 11pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
E4 - 12.10pm: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 8pm: Art of Francis Bacon

Wednesday 25th
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
Dave - 11.30pm: Graham Norton
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts1 - 8 & 11am then 3pm: Francis Bacon

Thursday 26th
BBC HD - 11pm: Beautiful People
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10pm: Skins
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Bio - 6.30pm & 1am: Lindsay Lohan

Friday 27th
BBC1 - 9pm: QI
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.50am: Will & Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Sky Arts2 - 8pm: The Ballet Boyz on Dance
Bio - 10.30am: Lindsay Lohan
Bio - 9pm: Two Queens and a Castle

Film and drama
Saturday 21st
ITV1 - 11.35am: Tobruk. War drama starring Rock Hudson

Sunday 22nd
Drama - 9.25am: Romeo & Juliet. Zeffirelli’s 1968 version
Modern Greats - 11.50am: My Best Friend’s wedding

Wednesday 25th
C4 - 1.10am: Unconditional Love. Kathy Bates and Rupert Everett. Comedy murder mystery
Film4 - 9pm: Transamerica. Trans road movie

Thursday 26th
Five - 3.10: The Matthew Shepard Story. 2002 film about Matthew’s parents’ choice as to whether to request the death penalty for his murderers

Friday 27th
TCM2 - 9pm: Giant. Dean and Hudson

New York's Oldest Gay Bookstore to Close

New York City's only remaining gay and lesbian bookstore says it's closing after 41 years.

Oscar Wilde Bookshop owner Kim Brinster says "tough times" are the reason for the Manhattan store's closing on March 29. She says the city once supported three gay and lesbian bookstores.

Read the full article in the Herald Tribune here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 14th - 20th February

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 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 1.05pm: Does the team Think? Julian Clary guests
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30: …And the Award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini on how Crash beat Brokeback Mountain to Best Film.
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. with Will Young
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Saturday Review. Morrissey’s new album
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Poetry Please. Features Carol Ann Duffy
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 9am & 8pm: Talking Heads. Alan Bennett

Sunday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Show tunes and music. Includes Rocky Horror Picture Show
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’59 and ‘87
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Fry’s English Delight. Stephen Fry on cliché
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz

Monday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Features Morrissey’s new album
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis (rpt)

Tuesday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Life with Lucy and Desi. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, presented by Ruby Wax
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30: Darwin: My Ancestor. Ruth Padel on her great great grandfather
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Talking about Lionel. Lionel Bart (rpt)

Wednesday 18th
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard. Glorious

Thursday 19th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Blasted: The Life and Death of Sarah Kane
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30pm: Crossing Continents. The Gay Prince of Rajpipla. Coming out in Gujurat

Friday 20th
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

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 14th
BBC1 - 1.10am: Jonathan Ross. Morrissey (rpt)
BBC2 - 10: QI. Extended edition from last night
ITV1 - 9.55am: Dancing on Ice: The skate-off
ITV1 - 4.55pm: The Unforgettable Larry Grayson (rpt)
Living - 6pm & 12.30am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 2-7pm: What the Dickens? 10 episodes
Sky Arts2 - 7pm: The Art of Francis Bacon

Sunday 15th
BBC4 - 7pm: Stephen Fry in America. SW
BBC4 - 10.35: Mark Lawson Talks to Antony Sher
BBC HD - 10pm: Joan Armatrading at Glastonbury
ITV1 - 6.55 & 9.30pm: Dancing on Ice
C4 - 8pm: Celebrity Come Dine with Me. Currie feeds Biggins, and vice-versa
E4 - 10.55pm: Skins
More4 - 5.45pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 3.30: Will & Grace
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Watch - 11.40pm: The Catherine Tate Show. Paul O’Grady appears as himself

Monday 16th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.30: This Morning. With Ice-Queen Jason Gardiner
ITV2 - 7pm: All Star Family Fortunes. Brian Dowling and family
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: The Gangster and the Pervert Peer. Looks into the relationship between the Krays, Labour MP Tom Driberg and Tory peer Lord Boothby, united by their fondness for men
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 12midnight: Will and Grace

Tuesday 17th
BBC2 - 10pm: The Culture Show. Features Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 10.55pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood

Wednesday 18th
BBC2 - 9pm: Trouble in Amish Paradise. What happens to members of the Amish community when they dare to question the faith
BBC2 - 10: QI (rpt)
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 8pm: The Brits. Will Young and The Pet Shop Boys are up for one
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
Dave - 11.40pm: Graham Norton
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Thursday 19th
BBC2 - 11.20pm: Explore: Sex and Religion in Manila. The RC Church challenges efforts to distribute condoms in the Philippine capital
BBC HD - 11pm: Beautiful People
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
E4 - 10pm: Skins
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Bio - 6am & 12noon: Liza Minelli

Friday 20th
BBC1 - 9pm: QI
BBC1 - 10.35: Tonight with Jonathan Ross. Will Young
BBC2 - 11.35pm: The Culture Show Uncut. See Tuesday
BBC3 - 8.15pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.50am: Will & Grace
Watch - 4pm: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 5.55: Jodie Foster

Film and drama
Saturday 14th
BBC4 - 9pm: New Town. Off the wall murder mystery set in Edinburgh, with a pastiche of Gilbert and George
Sci-Fi - 9pm: X-Men
Indie - 12.05am: Boys Don’t Cry
Screen1 - 1.35pm: Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli’s 1968 version
Screen1 - 8: My Best Friend’s Wedding
Film4 - 5.35pm: Carry on Doctor
Film4 - 12.40am: Beautiful Thing

Sunday 15th
BBC4 - 9pm: The History Man. Antony Sher as serial womaniser
BBC4 - 11.35: Home. Starring Antony Sher
Family - 8pm: Hairspray
Indie - 6.25pm: Notes on a Scandal

Monday 16th
Classics - 12.45am: Psycho
Indie - 8pm: Infamous. Take on Truman Capote

Tuesday 17th
Sci Fi - 9pm: X-Men

Wednesday 18th
TCM - 9pm: Arthur. Brilliant performance from John Gielgud as the disdainful butler

Thursday 19th
Family - 8pm: Hairspray
Sci-Fi - 1.05am: Cat People

Friday 20th
Classics - 11pm: Psycho

Pride London Appeals for Ambassadors

The organisers of the UK's largest Pride event want to hear your experiences.

Pride London was attended by more than 800,000 people on July 5th last year. The parade was led by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. The event dates back to the 1970s, when it was a more explicitly political event.

Pride London organisers want people whose lives have been changed by Pride events to act as ambassadors for Pride London 2009.

"We would love to hear from those who took part in Pride prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality," Pride organisers said. "Maybe your first Pride London Parade helped you to realise it was OK to be gay, perhaps you and your partner met at Pride?

"Whatever your story we are looking for volunteers to be involved in some of our media work leading up to Pride '09 and we would love to hear from you."

Anyone who would like to take part should visit www.pridelondon.org

London is to host World Pride in 2012, just weeks before the city's Olympic Games.

(With thanks to PinkNews)

Spotlight: Kent Police Launch LGBT Schools Competition

Kent police is asking children to write an essay as part of a month-long celebration of “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History”. The county force, recently recognised as one of 'the most gay friendly employers in Britain", has a series of events throughout February.

Events include exhibitions, a quiz, a “celebration dinner dance” and the competition which includes an under-14s category. Youngsters are asked to write an essay explaining what this month’s slogan “All different, same respect” means to them.
It also has a 15 to 17 category and an 18-plus section with the winners receiving a £25 book token and a Kent police shield.

Spotlight: Imaan Fundraiser and Screening of 'A Jihad for Love'

To mark Valentine's Day and to raise fund for its work, Imaan, the UK's support group of LGBT Muslims, their families and friends, is screening the documentary A Jihad for Love.


Filmed over 5 1/2 years, in 12 countries and 9 languages, "A Jihad for Love" comes from the heart of Islam. Looking beyond a hostile and war-torn present, this film seeks to reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, which can mean 'an inner struggle' or 'to strive in the path of God'. In doing so the film and its remarkable subjects move beyond the narrow concept of 'Jihad' as holy war. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.

Date: 14 February 2009
Time: 19:00 - 23:00
Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Street: Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG
Town/City: London, United Kingdom
Tickets: from £10

This event has received financial support from the Paul Patrick Memorial Awards, administered by the LGBT Consortium.

Chronicler of New York's Gay Liberation Dies

One of the founders of one of the first gay rights groups in America who later chronicled the movement has died. G Donn Teal was 76 years old.

In December 1969 he co-founded the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), months after the Stonewall riots in New York, regarded as the spark for the modern gay rights movement.

Read the full article on PinkNews here.

German gay footballer to get biopic treatment

The story of a former East German footballer who left the professional game after deciding to come out of the closet is to be made into a film.

Marcus Urban, 38, was sent to a sports boarding school at aged 13 and played for the national youth teams in the 1990s before settling at second division club Rot-Weiss Erfurt.

Read the full article on PinkNews here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 7th - 13th February

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 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 1.05pm: Does the team Think? Rhona Cameron guests
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30: …And the Award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini on Shakespeare in Love
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: On the Ceiling. Two painters on the scaffolding of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel whinge about their boss, Michaelangelo
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.3:0 The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 8pm: The Comedy Controller. Tom Robinson selects his favourite comedies

Sunday 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 11am: Michael Ball’s Sunday Brunch. Bette Midler
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Show tunes and music. Includes Kiss of the Spiderwoman
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’66 and ‘84
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Fry’s English Delight. Stephen Fry on the quotation
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please. Carol Ann Duffy
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz

Monday 9th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Features world exclusive of The Pet Shop Boys new single
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play. The Need for Nonsense. Edward Lear’s lifelong friendship with his servant Giorgio
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute! Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis (rpt)

Tuesday 10th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Parne’s People. Malcolm McLaren remembers 50s/60s Rock and pop impresario and talent scout Larry Parnes, whose gayness gave him an insight into what would sell with teenage girls, including false names like Tommy Steele. Georgie Fame, Billy Fury, Marty Wilde etc.
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30: Darwin: My Ancestor. Ruth Padel on her great great grandfather

Wednesday 11th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15pm: The Correspondent
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard. Unrepeatable

Friday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Celebrity Memoirs. Including Paul O’Grady and Alan Carr
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

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 7th
BBC1 - 8.50: Casualty. Homoerotic bits with Adam and Jordan
BBC1 - 1.40am: Jonathan Ross. Anna Friel (rpt)
BBC2 - 9pm: Iran and the West. Marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution
BBC2 - 10: QI. Extended edition from last night
ITV1 - 10.25am: Dancing on Ice: The skate-off
Living - 6pm & 12.30am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 4pm: What the Dickens? Sandi Toksvig presents
Sky Arts2 - 8am: Handel: Water and Fireworks

Sunday 8th
BBC1 - 9pm: BAFTAs. Milk anyone?
BBC2 - 8pm: BAFTAs. Starts here and changes channel mid-evening apparently
BBC4 - 7pm: Stephen Fry in America. SW
ITV1 - 10.25: Corrie Omnibus. Only because Jonathan Harvey wrote one of them. Hold out for 11.45
C4 - 10.05pm: The Sunday Night Project. Alan Carr. Lilly Allen guest presents
E4 - 11.05pm: Skins
More4 - 4.35pm: Come Dine with Me
Living - 3.30: Will & Grace
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 8.35pm: Jodie Foster

Monday 9th
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
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Stephen K Amos
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 12midnight: Will and Grace
Sky Arts1 - 4 & 6pm: Rufus Wainwright

Tuesday 10th
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
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Stephen K Amos
Living - 7pm Will and Grace
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 8am: Frida Kahlo

Wednesday 11th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy
BBC2 - 10: QI (rpt)
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
C4 - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Stephen K Amos
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace

Thursday 12th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy Or Not to Buy
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 11pm: Beautiful People
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
E4 - 10pm: Skins
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Stephen K Amos
Dave - 10pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will & Grace
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 13th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy
BBC1 - 9pm: QI
BBC1 - 10.35: Tonight with Jonathan Ross. Morrissey
BBC3 - 8.15pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 9am: Will & Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 11.05: The Sunday Night Project (rpt)
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Stephen K Amos
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace

Film and drama
Sunday 8th
BBC HD - 9pm: Daphne. Drama about the life of Daphne du Maurier
Screen 1 - 10.50pm: Rocky Horror Picture Show. I didn’t make him for you!

Monday 9th
ITV1 - 9pm: Whitechapel. With Steve Pemberton
Film 4 - 6.55pm: Never Been Kissed. Drew Barrymore

Tuesday 10th
Indie - 1.10pm: Fire. Indian lesbian drama

Wednesday 11th
C4 - 1.20am: Get Real. Ben Silverstone plays a gay sixth former who falls in love with a sports hero
Family - 8pm: Hairspray. John Travolta
Classics - 11pm: Psycho
Film 4 - 7.10: Carry on Doctor

LGBT Event in Dublin

Since Eire doesn't have LGBT History Month and we don't have Eire on our calendar yet, here is some news from the Republic of Ireland.

There is a month long in-library promotion/display of specially selected titles to coincide with LGBT History Month at
County Library Tallaght
Town Centre
Tallaght
Dublin 24.

For more details contact Mark on 0035 314 620 073

Cleve Jones, Still Recruiting

Gay rights activist Cleve Jones, who is portrayed in the movie "Milk," spoke at UC Berkeley last Thursday, urging the younger generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to continue the fight for equality that Jones' friend and mentor, Harvey Milk, began more than 30 years ago.

"In 1972, when I came to San Francisco, if someone had told me that I would be fighting for the right to get married or join the Army in 2009, I think I would have started dating women," said the 54-year-old Jones, jokingly.

Jones, the founder of the AIDS quilt, the world's largest community arts project that now contains more than 40,000 panels dedicated to people who have died from the disease, and the co-founder of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, was equally comedic and serious during a 90-minute talk and question-and-answer session for several hundred students and community members Thursday.

Find out more on the Inside Bay Area website here.

Spotlight: Police Stations Fly the Rainbow Flag for the Month

North Wales Police have shown their solidarity and support for LGBT History Month 2009 by flying the rainbow flag above their HQ.

Read the story on the News Wales website here.

In the meantime, the Limehouse Station in east London also tried to flly the flag but have been told by newly appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service to take the flag down and replace it by the usual Union Flag.

Read the story on the Daily Mail website here. Some of the comments at the end of this article are a good example of why the Month is very much needed.

A similar decision to fly the rainbow flag in two Suffolk stations has also be criticised by 2 MPs. Read the story on the Fenland Citizen website here.

Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by HG Cocks

[...] in 1915, while other men fought the battles of Loos and Ypres, a comic novelist called Alfred Barrett, the former editor of Family Circle, spotted a gap in the market for a new magazine. He called it Link, and advertised it as “the only monthly practically devoted to love interests”.

[...] The police were particularly interested in the number of young men who claimed to be artistic, musical, unconventional, or fans of Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman. Officers also had their doubts about women who claimed to be “jolly” or “sporty”, thinking this might be a euphemism for what might now be called “up for it”.

Read the full review of the book by the Sunday Times online here