LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 28th March - 3rd April

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 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: Ripley under Water. 5/5 in the Ripley season
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. May have an LGB or even T guest
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 12midnight: GMT The Story of Doctor Who

Sunday 29th
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’63 and ‘69

Monday 30th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Third Reich and Roll. Stephen Fry explains the Nazis’ bizarre contribution to rock n’ roll; magnetic tape recording 3/3
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music quiz

Thursday 2nd
BBC Radio 4 - 9.00am: In Our Time: Sir Francis Bacon (rpt 9.30pm)
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Show. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 3rd
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne
BBC Radio 4 - 9pm: Friday Play - The Monkey's Mask, detective tale set in Sydney, adapted from the verse novel by Dorothy Porter.

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
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

24th March @ 6pm (last Tuesday of the month)
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Television

Entertainment and documentary
Saturday 28th
C4 - 4.15 and 5.45pm: Come Dine with Me (rpt)
Dave - 9pm & 11pm: QI
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken. Who will Ezra pick? Pass the sick bag
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 29th
BBC1 - 10am: The Big Questions. Semi-religious discuaiion anchored by Nicky Campbell. Julie Bindel on the panel. Schools OUT’s Tony Fenwick guests. Is it okay to make jokes about gays?
BBC2 - 11.35pm: Graham Norton Uncut
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
More4 - 5.50pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9 and 11pm: QI
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Bio - 10pm: Kenneth Williams
Bio - 10.30: Frankie Howerd
Bio - 5am: Tyrone Power

Monday 30th
BBC1 - 10.45pm: The Undercover Princes. First shown on BBC3. One of them’s gay
BBC2 - 10am: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. The anarchic, angry man asks whether PC has gone mad
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show v Pornography. Not specifically LGBT, the programme involves schools and poses questions about how internet porn damages young people. Repeated at 11.55pm
More4 - 12.10am: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 9 & 11.40pm: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Bio - 4pm: Kenneth Williams
Bio - 4.30: Frankie Howerd
Bio - 5am: Tyrone Power

Tuesday 31st
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
BBC HD - 10.45pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show vs. Pornography
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
E4 - 12.10am: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Dave - 11: Graham Norton
Dave - 12.40am: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Bio - 11am: Alan Bates

Wednesday 1st
BBC1 - 10.45pm: Queens of British Pop. Includes Dusty Springfield. Presented by Lisa Tarbuck 1/2
ITV1 -6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 6.30: Hollyoaks. Sarah shares a passionate dance with Lydia
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show vs. Pornography
C4 - 11.10: Shameless (rpt)
E4 - 11.10pm: Skins
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood

Thursday 2nd
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show vs. Pornography
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Fiver - 6am: the Ellen DeGeneres Show

Friday 3rd
BBC1 - 10.35pm: Jonathan Ross. Antony and the Johnsons perform live. Also on BBC HD
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 11.45: In your Dreams. Guests Rhona Cameron
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen deGeneres Show
Fiver - 11.40pm: gay, Straight or Taken?

Film and drama
Saturday 28th
BBC2 - 11.15pm: A Beautiful Mind. Bio of maths genius John Forbes Nash Junior with the inconvenient gay stuff rinsed out. Russell Crowe stars
C4 - 9.15pm: Brokeback Mountain

Sunday 29th
Sky Arts1 - 11.40pm: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Bowie’s 70s androgenous alter-ego in a full length feature
Indie - 8pm: Infamous. Toby Jones as Truman Capote

Monday 30th
Screen - 9.45am & 6pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding. Stars Rupert Everett

Tuesday 31st
Sci Fi / Horror - 7pm: X Men

Thursday 2nd
Action / Thriller - 11.10pm: The Bourne Ultimatum
Screen 2 - 1.55am: Boys Don’t Cry
Film 4 - 9pm: Four Weddings and s Funeral. Stop all the Clocks!

Friday 3rd
Classics - 7pm: Lover Come Back. Rock Hudson / Doris Day romcom

New Website Gathers Oral History of "Treatment" of Homosexuality

A website about the use of so-called "treatments" that aim to make homosexual people heterosexual was launched earlier this week.

www.treatmentshomosexuality.org.uk is based on research funded by the Wellcome Trust from 2001 to 2004 into the oral history of such treatments in Britain since 1950 and gathers together oral histories from lesbian, gay and bisexual people who have undergone treatment as well as from professionals who developed and conducted such treatments.

To coincide with the launch, a study, carried out by Professor Michael King and Dr Glenn Smith from UCL (University College London) and Dr Annie Bartlett from St George's, University of London was released.

The study of more than 1,400 psychiatrists and therapists in BMC Psychiatry found that 222 (17%) said they had treated at least one client to alter their homosexual feelings at some point. The researchers expected the cases to be concentrated in the past, but the 400 to 500 cases recorded were distributed evenly across the decades. "It is happening up to the present moment," Professor King said. It might only be the "tip of the iceberg". It also appeared that many practitoners carried out the therapies fully aware that they were ineffective.

“These statistics prove a practice that is truly shocking”, commented Schools OUT’s Tony Fenwick. “First, it questions the professional ethics of a lot of practitioners in the psychiatric profession, since they are carrying out an outmoded process that has been scientifically proven not to work.

“Worse than that, however, I have heard of gay and lesbian children being taken into Christian Brotherhood ‘boot camps’ to be cured in Poland. I have heard of such children being abducted and bundled into the boots of cars to be re-educated in Australia. This is a result of parental pressure and I thought such things could not go on here. Now it seems that they can – and do.

“But the worst thing of all is that many of these psychiatrists and therapists claim they were acting in the interests of the gay and lesbian youngsters themselves; that they ‘asked’ to be changed. What messages are our children getting from the outside world? The answer is that they believe that they are deviating from the norm. They don’t want to be gay or lesbian because they hear in the playground and in the media that it’s a bad place to be at.”

Find out more about the research on the Welcome Trust website here.

13 Love Stories

13LoveStories.com is a multimedia advocacy project that profiles the stories of thirteen couples whose lives were profoundly affected by Proposition 8 - the recent California ballot initiative that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.

This mobile photo exhibition and video project is presented by UCLA Art | Global Health Center and directed by Gideon Mendel. It debuted at UCLA on March 5th.

www.13lovestories.com

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 21st - 27th 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 21st
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: The Boy Who Followed Ripley 4/5 in the Ripley season
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. May have an LGB or even T guest
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 22nd
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’71 and ‘80
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 23rd
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Third Reich and Roll. Stephen Fry explains the Nazis’ bizarre contribution to rock n’ roll; magnetic tape recording 2/3
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music quiz

Tuesday 24th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Call Yourself a Feminist? Bettany Hughes examines feminism
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: A Good Read. Paul Gambaccini guests

Thursday 26th
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Show. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Last Word
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
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

last Tuesday of the month (24th March) - 6pm:
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 21st
BBC2 - 10pm: QI XL. Stephen Fry presents. Extended repeat of last night’s show
BBC3 - 9pm: Rough Trade at the BBC. Includes performance by The Smiths and Antony and the Johnsons (rpt)
C4 - 4pm: Come Dine with Me (rpt)
E4 - 9pm: 50 Greatest Comedy Films. Stephen Fry again
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken. Who will creative artist Jilina pick? Who cares?
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who. Captain Jack (John Barrowman) flies in
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky Arts2 - 6pm: Francis Bacon

Sunday 22nd
BBC2 - 1pm: Escape to the Country. Presented by Alistair Appleton
BBC2 - 11.30: Graham Norton Uncut
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 12.05: Coronation Street. Omnibus. Jonathan Harvey wrote the one in the middle. It turns from soap to classic sitcom when he scripts it
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
More4 - 5.50pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9 and 11.20pm: QI
Fiver - 11.35pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Sky Arts2 - 12noon: Simon Rattle: Berlin Gala

Monday 23rd
BBC1 - 10.35pm: The Undercover Princes. First shown on BBC3. One of them’s gay
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 6.30: Hollyoaks. Nancy catches Ravi and Kris in an uncompromising situation
E4 - 10.30: Derren Brown: Evening of Wonders (rpt)
More4 - 12.05am: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 9pm: QI

Tuesday 24th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
BBC HD - 10.45pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
E4 - 12.10am: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 11pm: Graham Norton
Watch - 9pm: Who Do You Think You Are? Stephen Fry in search of his ancestry
Sky Arts1 - 10.10pm: Fabulous! The story of Queer Cinema. US made trawl of Hollywood’s few and far between gay and lesbian bits. Stops at Brokeback Mountain in 2005
Bio - 10pm: Being the Campest Men

Wednesday 25th
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 11.10: Shameless (rpt)
E4 - 11pm: Skins
Five - 10pm: Interview with a Cannibal. Interview with Armin Meiwes, who is languishing in a German prison as a result of his fatal fetish (rpt)
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood

Thursday 26th
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show. David Walliams and The Pet Shop Boys
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: 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 - 7pm and 2am: Lindsay Lohan

Friday 27th
BBC3 - 8.15pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 5p:m Paul O’Grady
Fiver - 11.40pm: gay, Straight or Taken?
Bio - 6am: Lindsay Lohan
Bio - 5am: Deborah Kerr

Film and drama
Saturday 21st
C4 - 9pm: Gosford Park. Stephen Fry as the detective and Alan Bates and Derek Jacobi amongst the suspects in a 1930’s English manner, where a murder takes place. The real crime in this Robert Altman movie is the British class structure.
Five - 5.50pm: Ice Station Zebra. 1968 Arctic adventure starring Rock Hudson
Sci Fi/Horror - 5pm: X-Men. Stars Ian McKellen

Sunday 22nd
five - 3.10pm: Ben Hur. Epic that includes a bath scene where Charlton Heston gets unwittingly seduced by Tony Curtis

Monday 23rd
Comedy - 1am: Serial Mom. Camp John Waters comedy
Family - 8pm: Hairspray
Modern Greats - 4.25: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Modern Greats - 2am: The Wicked Lady. Stars Denholm Elliott, Alan Bates and John Geilgud

Tuesday 24th
Modern Greats - 3.45pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding

Wednesday 25th
Film4 - 1pm: Let’s Make Love. Marilyn Monroe

Thursday 26th
Family - 10pm: Anna and the King. Jodie Foster as the governess

Friday 27th
Classics - 12.10pm: Lover Come Back. Hudson / Day romcom
Indie - 5.25pm: La Vie en Rose
TCM2 - 11.20pm: Giant. Dean and Hudson epic

Lorca was censored to hide his sexuality, biographer reveals

Many recognised his homosexuality from the start, but for decades Spain's literary establishment, and even his own family, refused to acknowledge that the country's best loved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was gay. Now his biographer, Ian Gibson, has conclusive evidence that Lorca's poetic achievements sprang from his lifelong frustration at concealing his homosexuality.

In Lorca y el mundo gay (Lorca and the Gay World), published in Spanish on Monday, Gibson describes how the poet's works were censored to conceal his sexuality.

Read the full article in the Independent here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 14th - 20th 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 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Jonathan Ross. The Pet Shop Boys guest
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: Ripley’s Game 3/5 in the Ripley season
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Paul O’Grady. Show tunes and music.
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’69 and ‘87
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm:Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Reluctant Beat
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Film Programme. Sally Ann Field talks about Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Monday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Spotlight on The Pet Shop Boys album Yes
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Third Reich and Roll. Stephen Fry explains the Nazis’ bizarre contribution to rock n’ roll; magnetic tape recording
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music quiz
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15: Afternoon Play: Where Three Roads Meet. John Hurt plays Sigmund Freud and Oedipus in Sarah Vickers’ adaptation of her own novel. LGBT content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Front Row. Mathew Horne and James Cordon on their controversial film Lesbian Vampire Killers
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis (rpt)

Tuesday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Spotlight on The Pet Shop Boys album Yes
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Call Yourself a Feminist? Bettany Hughes examines feminism in Thatcher’s Britain, with contributions from Linda Bellos and Beatrix Campbell. Repeated at 9.30pm

Wednesday 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Spotlight on The Pet Shop Boys album Yes
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard. Sexie Show

Thursday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Spotlight on The Pet Shop Boys album Yes
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Show. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Spotlight on The Pet Shop Boys album Yes
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: Any Questions. Includes the homophobic Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali
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
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 14th
BBC3 - 9pm: Rough Trade at the BBC. Includes performance by The Smiths and Antony and the Johnsons (rpt)
C4 - 4pm: Come Dine with Me (rpt)
E4 - 9pm: Skins. Triple
Gold - 11pm: A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Fiver - 11.35pm: Gay, Straight or Taken. Here is the format; courtesy of Wikipedia: A female contestant goes on a group date at a spa or resort with three men. Shortly after meeting the men, the contestant receives a cell phone call from a woman who advises her that one of the three men is her boyfriend. Moments later she receives a second call from a man informing her that another of the men is his boyfriend. Now she must try to figure out which man is gay, which one is straight but taken, and which one is straight and available. During the course of the date, the contestant has the opportunity to spend "alone time" with each of the men, selecting activities which she believes will give her clues as to the sexuality and relationship status of each. At the end of the date, the contestant prepares to announce her decision, but before she can the girlfriend and boyfriend of the two involved men appear on the scene. The contestant then announces which man she believes is gay, which is taken, and which is available. If the contestant correctly chooses the straight and available man, the two of them win a vacation together. If she is wrong, the man she picks wins the trip with his partner.
Living - 12noon: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who. Captain Jack (John Barrowman) flies in
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 15th
BBC2 - 1pm: Escape to the Country. Presented by Alistair Appleton
BBC2 - 11.30: Graham Norton Uncut
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9pm: Peter Kay: Raider of the Pop Charts. Stars Matt Lucas
More4 - 5.45pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9 and 11.50pm: QI
Fiver - 11.35pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Bio - 11pm: Lindsay Lohan’s Most Shocking Moments

Monday 16th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
More4 - 12.10am: Brothers and Sisters
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Scott Capurro guests
Dave - 9pm: QI

Tuesday 17th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 11pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.35pm: South bank Show. Follows Will Young as he promotes his latest album
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
E4 - 12.10am: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood
Sky Arts2 - 1am: Art of Francis Bacon

Wednesday 18th
BBC2 - 12.10am: How to Write a Mills and Boon. Stella Duffy shows us how.
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
E4 - 11pm: Skins
Dave - 12.10pm: Graham Norton
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Thursday 19th
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC4 - 9pm: Tom Driberg and Me. William G Stewart, whom we know as the presenter of 15 to 1, digs under the surface to find out if his former boss from the 1960’s, Labour MP Tom Driberg, was spying for the KGB. As a gay man who died in 1976, Driberg’s reputation is lost in a fog of rumours and allegations. Repeated at 11pm
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10pm: Skins
E4 - 11.10: Alan Carr: The Tooth Fairy Live
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 20th
BBC1 - 9pm: QI
BBC3 - 8.50pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady

Film and drama
Saturday 14th
Classics - 1pm and 9pm: Some Like it Hot
Modern Greats - 12.40pm and 1.55 pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Sunday 15th
Comedy - 6.25pm: Carry on Colombus. 1992 revamp with Julian Clary
Family - 8pm: Hairspray
Indie - 1.35pm: La Vie en Rose

Tuesday 16th
Comedy - 8pm: St Trinian’s. 2007 remake with Rupert Everett in the role of Alistair Sims

Wednesday 17th
Comedy - 10pm: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Screen One - 8pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding. Rupert Everett

Thursday 18th
Indie - 10pm: La Vie en Rose
Screen One - 8pm: Hairspray

Brixton Gay Squatters Tell Their Stories

The Brixton Gay Community of the 1970s formed around the UK’s first gay centre and a series of nearby squatted houses.

Between 50 and 60 men lived in these squats for anything from a week to ten years. In oral testimonies many of them describe how their experience shaped their politics, their ideas about sexual identity and community, and their creative lives. The South London Gay Liberation Front, the journal Gay Left and the Brixton Faeries are each linked to the squatting community, which in the mid-1980s was absorbed into the Brixton Co-op.

The houses – and the communal garden that connects them – are still reserved for gay and lesbian tenants: a tangible legacy of the earlier community.

This talk by Dr Matt Cook, Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Continuing Education, Birkbeck, University of London. describes the genesis and contours of the community, and explores the attempt by those involved to live differently.

Squatting In Brixton – the Brixton Gay Community of the 1970s.
Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association
Friday 13 March, 7.30pm
Conway Hall,
Holborn, London
The event is free

End of the road for old-school drag queens

"The old drag queen is dead; long live the new drag queen. As Jason Donovan dons a frock this week in the stage version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, cabarets and clubs across Britain are dispensing with "old school" drag artists in their thick make-up, grandiose wigs and extravagant outfits. They are being replaced by a new generation of sassy and sophisticated young men in make-up who are rejecting the "misogyny" of the grotesque female impersonator."

Read the full article in the Independent here.

Bulletin No 57

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.

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LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 7th - 13th 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 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Does the Team Think? Comedy panel included Rhona Cameron
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30pm: Saturday Play: The Complete Ripley; Ripley Under Ground 2/5
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 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Paul O’Grady. Show tunes and music.
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’67 and ‘78
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Stand-Up with the Stars. R4’s contribution to Comic Relief features Evan Davies as a stand-up comedian
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz

Monday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. Mark Ravenhill is one of Andrew Marr’s guests
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. music quiz with Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis (rpt)
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30: Start the Week (rpt)
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Stand-Up with the Stars (rpt)

Wednesday 11th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: I’ve Never Seen Star Wars. Sandi Toksvig guests
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard. Sexie

Thursday 12th
BBC Radio 4 - 7pm: Front Row featuring a review of two editions of Edward FitzGerald's translation of Rubaiyat

Friday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play: Mayflies. Derek Jacobi as a retired astronomer who is spooked by an alien
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: The Film Programme. Sally-Ann Field talks about ‘60s Brit ground-breaker Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, in which she played the wife of a man who was having an affair with another man
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
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

BBC Cambridgeshire and BBC Essex
10pm-1am Ern and Vern. Outrageous camp duo

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 7th
BBC2 - 10pm: QI XL
BBC3 - 10.55pm: Live at The Apollo. Stand up comedy includes Stephen K. Amos
Gold - 11pm: A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Living - 12noo:n Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 8th
BBC2 - 11pm: Graham Norton Uncut
BBC HD - 10pm: Joan Armatrading Live at Glastonbury
ITV3 - 11.40: Cadfael. Stars Derek Jacobi
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
More4 - 5.45p:m Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9 and 11.30p: QI

Monday 9th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.30: This Morning. With Katy Perry
ITV1 - 8.30: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey wrote the script. Repeated on ITV2 11pm
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Dave - 9pm: QI

Tuesday 10th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC HD - 10.45pm: Torchwood
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
E4 - 12.10am: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 11.45pm: Graham Norton Show
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood

Wednesday 11th
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. John Sessions guests (rpt)
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C$ - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
Dave - 12.15am: Graham Norton
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Thursday 12th
BBC1 - 9pm: Comic Relief Does The Apprentice. Celebrity edition with Alan Carr
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10pm: Skins
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts2 - 11.05pm: Francis Bacon
Bio - 6.30pm & 1am: Lindsay Lohan

Friday 13th
BBC1 - Red Nose Day. Alan Carr at 10.35pm and Graham Norton at midnight
BBC4 - 10.30pm: Rough Trade at the BBC. Including The Smiths and Antony and the Johnsons
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady

Film and drama
Saturday 7th
BBC2 - 11.15: A Prairie Home Companion. Altman’s tribute to Garrison Keiller’s radio show features Lindsay Lohan
Film4 - 4.55: An Ideal Husband. Adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play. Stars Rupert Everett

Sunday 8th
C4 - 9pm: She’s the Man
Drama - 1.30pm: West Side Story
Sci-Fi/Horror - 7pm: X-Men

Monday 9th
C4 - 12.50: All about Eve. Bette Davis classic

Wednesday 11th
Film4 - 9pm: X-Men – The Last Stand
Film4 - 11: Get Real. UK teenage coming out drama
Film4 - 1.10am: C.R.A.Z.Y. Canadian teenage coming out drama
TCM - 9.20am: Giant. Dean and Hudson

Thursday 12th
Sci-Fi/Horror - 7.10pm: X-Men

LGBT History Month in Downing Street

Sue Sanders and Tony Fenwick outside 10 Downing Street, last night.

Gordon Brown hosted a reception at Number 10, last night, in celebration of LGBT History Month. The month was celebrated throughout February, and this year’s theme was Education and Young People.

The reception itself will go down in history as the first ever reception at Number 10 for LGBT campaigners.

The Prime Minister spoke passionately about the fight for LGBT rights and paid tribute to the work of Schools Out. Harriet Harman, a long standing supporter of the LGBT community, said it was the best reception she had ever been to. Amy Lamé was celebrating her hen night, as she will be having her Civil Partnership ceremony tomorrow. Other guests included LGBT politicians, civil servants, campaigners, entertainers, teachers and clergy.

Co-chair Sue Sanders was overjoyed: “It was a magnificent night and a great honour to receive such a tribute to all our work. We can only hope that it will make next year’s celebrations even bigger and greater, and truly mainstreamed in schools, colleges and local authorities up and down the land.”

A more extensive report on the event, including quotes of what Gordon Brown said, is available via PinkNews here.
More pictures are available on our Flickr account here.