FAT Hits Streets in May

The premier of FAT, AN EXTRA-LARGE FANTASY, a play about being gay and disabled, written and performed by Pete Edwards, will take place n Kennington, South London in May, as the opening show of the Oval House Theatre Summer Theatre Season 2009.

FAT is the multi-media journey of a gay disabled man in search of his heart’s desire. Combining innovative video projections and sound designs with bizarre and poignant anecdotes, FAT follows a queer wheelie in his surreal quest to find the fat man, eat some spaghetti and live happily ever after.

By placing the sexuality of a disabled man at the heart of the story, FAT challenges mainstream views of beauty and sexual practice, and dispels the myth that disabled people are not sexual beings. FAT examines perceptions of communication and the right to communicate, and employs numerous audio-visual techniques to convey the text of Edwards, a performer with a differing speech pattern.

FAT has been developed in Graeae’s Play Days Lab and through a Graeae/Writernet mentorship with SPILL Festival Director Robert Pacitti.

A free audience debate after the performance on Saturday 9th May 3.00pm: "How Live Artists use their bodies in their work”

FAT, An Extra-Large Fantasy
Oval House Theatre
52-54 Kennington Oval,
London SE11 5SW
8th & 9th May 7.45pm, Matinee 9th May 3.00pm
www.ovalhouse.com

All performances are British Sign Language interpreted and Audio-described. Flat ground-floor wheelchair access. There is an induction loop facility. Parking available in theatre’s car park for disabled visitors

Extra Issue of the Bulletin

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LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 25th - 1st May

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!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

Graham Norton and John Barrowman are back at the helm on BBC1; the former presenting the BAFTAs at 8pm on Sunday and the latter anchoring Tonight’s the Night on Saturday at 7pm.

ITV’s four part series Boy Meets Girl features Rachael Stirling and Martin Freedman as a couple who change bodies after being struck by lightning on Friday May 1st at 9pm, with much the same theme covered by the movie It’s a Boy/Girl Thing where Samaire Armstrong and Kevin Zegers play a sex-change couple on BBC3 at 9pm on Wednesday.

Rupert Everett fans can see him on My Best Friend’s Wedding, which has its first terrestrial airing on C4 Sunday at 9pm. For sheer camp go to How to Marry a Millionaire on C4 on Friday morning, with icons Gable, Monroe and Bacall. Also on C4 is The Cat’s Miaow, featuring Eddie Izzard as a youngish Charlie Chaplin. ITV3 airs An Ideal Husband at 9pm on Friday. The Full Monty on E4 Wednesday 9pm features the world’s most unlikely gay couple.

Over on Sky, Thursday’s Bones on Sky 1 and Sky 1HD at 9pm stars Stephen Fry in a cameo role as a psychiatrist

Returning to the BAFTAs; here are the ones to watch out for.
Entertainment Performance: Stephen Fry in QI
Drama Series: Dr Who and Shameless
Specialist Factual: Stephen Fry and the Gutenburg Press
Entertainment Programme: QI and The Friday/Sunday Night Project
Audience Award: Coronation Street and Skins

Regulars: Don’t forget John Amaechi torturing children in The Speaker. BBC2 Tuesday and Wednesday 8pm.

Radio
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.

Saturday 25th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1972 & 1986
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30pm: The Killing of Sister George. Play
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. Lively words and music show
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15: Two Pipe Problems. Afternoon Play. Stanley Baxter stars

Tuesday 28th
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Ruby Wax discusses Carl Jung with Matthew Parris
BBC Radio 4 - 11: The Secret World. Comedy starring Jon Culshaw 3/6

Friday 1st
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Last Word. Obituaries. LGBT content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz. Toksvig returns
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 - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Protest at 'Gay Cure' Conference in London

Whilst Tamil protesters waved banners and protested on the corner of Parliament Square last Saturday, April 25th, another protest was taking place down a quiet street just around the corner. A group calling themselves Anglican Mainstream was holding a conference to discuss the virtue of curing gays at the Emmanuel Centre in central London and a hundred or so protesters gathered around to give them an unexpected reception.

Shouting "2, 4, 6, 8 There is no cure to make us straight" as well as a host of other ad-hoc chants, the wide-ranging group of LGBT people and their straight friends gathered together to tell the Conference and its organisers that gay is not a disease and we are not looking for a cure.

Jimmy Somerville was there, looking just the same as he did in the eighties, together with three of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. For political clout there was members of the Queer Youth Alliance, the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, Schools OUT and LGBT History Month Co-Chair Tony Fenwick, IDAHO's UK coordinator Derek Lennard, an Amnesty International representative, and a member of the Green Party.

For added colour, a glass canopy that topped the Home Office building behind the protesters included all the colours of the rainbow. When the sun came out it shone through the canopy and projected the rainbow colours onto the road where the protesters were gathered - so that the side of the road where the conference was taking place was shrouded in shade while the side of the road where the LGBT protesters were assembled was literally lit up with the rainbow colours. If there is a God s/he couldn't have managed that better.

American 'psychiatrists' Joseph Nicolosi and Jeffrey Satinover, and Doctor (of law) Arthur Goldberg, co-director of JONAH and president of PATH, spoke at the Conference, entitled Sex in the City. All three have built a career on the premise that gay people can be turned straight if they want it hard enough. The line was that there are young people who don't want to have same sex attraction and it's their human right to have the option of a cure.

Nicolas Chinardet, a friend of LGBT History Month and Schools OUT, organised the protest - his first. He said: "While we were taking a stand against the so-called psychiatrists, I could not forget the fact that there were also gay people inside that building. People like us who were suffering and, I believe, being exploited. Sending them a positive and fun image of the community, contradicting what they no-doubt had been led to believe, was an added and significant benefit of our action".

Schools OUT's Tony Fenwick added: "I'm here today for all the children who can't come out because their schools are still not safe spaces. Young LGBT people need understanding; not cures."

But the winning argument of the day came from a young Jewish man, smartly dressed and with a skull cap, who spoke clearly about how he joined JONAH to be cured of his gayness. He was forced into a marriage and had 3 children. His wife found out about his past and left him, taking their children with her. He is still gay and his life, he says, has been ruined by these people. He then wandered over the road to try to tell the Conference his story.

For the UK Gay News report go to here. For Nic's own write-ups, which include handy hints on how to organise your own protest, go to here.

Bi-Novelists Talk About Their Love for Each Other

A lesbian novelist who used to attack bisexuals and a bisexual author have talked about their relationship four years on.

To coincide with his new novel, Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm, tells the Guardian about his relationship with Stephanie Theobold, whilst Theobold herself explains how she had to take her views back to the drawing board when she fell in love with a man.

Read the full story in the Guardian here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 18th - 24th 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 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1968 & 1981
BBC Radio 2 - 8pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. Jason Donovan on Priscilla
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. Lively words and music show
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 20th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen’s Men of Fashion. Cary Grant
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The Unbelievable Truth. Panel game. Sue Perkins guests

Tuesday 21st
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Blonde on Blonde. Mariella Frostrup on Marylin Monroe. 2/3
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Hollywood Charmers. Michael York on Errol Flynn 2/4
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. David Mellor discusses Thomas Beecham with Matthew Parris

Thursday 23rd
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: Clive Anderson’s Chat Room. Topical debate with Clive Anderson and guests – of which one may be LGBT
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Test. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 24th
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Last Word. Obituaries. LGBT content unknown
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 - 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 18th
BBC1 - 6.55pm: Tonight’s the Night. BBC’s answer to Britain’s Got Talent is presented by John Barrowman 1/6 It’s on HD at the same time
BBC2 - 10.25pm: Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Christopher Biggins guests (rpt)
BBC3 - 7pm: Snog, Marry, Avoid? Like Gay, Straight or Taken? this is “Why, oh Why?” television
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken. See above
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Living - 11am: Will and Grace

Sunday 19th
BBC2 - 10.50pm: The Graham Norton Show Uncut
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
More4 - 5.50pm: Come Dine with Me
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 9am: Dr Who
Living - 11am: Will & Grace
Sky Arts1 - 2.30pm: Pet Shop Boys

Monday 20th
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. Lady Gaga guests
Five - 10.45: Trish. Lesbian daughter crisis
ITV3 - 7.05am: Jeeves and Wooster. Stars Stephen Fry
Dave - 9pm: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts - 11pm: What the Dickens? Presented by Sandi Toksvig

Tuesday 21st
BBC2 - 8pm: The Speaker. John Amaechi is one of the judges in a teenage public speaking competition 3/8
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 9.55: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix. Gok Wan tells women what to wear 2/8
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Dave - 11: Graham Norton
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Gold - 11.10pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Sky Arts1 - 12.35pm: What the Dickens?
Bio - 11am & 3pm: Mae West

Wednesday 22nd
BBC2 - 8: The Speaker. John Amaechi among the judges
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV3 - 7.40am: Jeeves and Wooster
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. Eddie Izzard guests
C4 - 11: Shameless (rpt)
Gold - 12.50am: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Fiver - 6am: Ellen DeGeneres
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky Arts1 - 1.20am: What the Dickens?

Thursday 23rd
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC4 and HD - 10pm: Crooked House (rpt) only in one episode is there a gay character
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 10.30: This Morning. John Barrowman guests
ITV2 - 7pm: All Star Mr and Mrs. Stars Julie Goodyear and Christopher Biggins
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Fiver - 6am: the Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 7: Torchwood
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky1 - 11.25pm: What the Dickens?

Friday 24th
BBC4 - 7.30: Spartacus. Breathtaking ballet
BBCHD - 12.45am: Beautiful People
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
ITV1 - 7.30 & 8.30pm: (ITV2 at 11pm) Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey scripts
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sky1 - 12.25pm: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Saturday 18th
BBC4 - 9pm: Let’s Get Lost. Bruce Weber ‘88 bio-pic of Chet Baker
ITV3 - 11.40am: Some Like it Hot. “Well, we can’t all be perfect.”

Sunday 19th
ITV3 - 9.40am: Some Like it Hot
TCM - 11.55pm: The Sergeant. Rod Steiger plays a gay army sergeant in this powerful 1968 drama. Unable to come to terms with his love for a soldier, he bullies him

Monday 20th
E4 - 10.30pm: First Wives’ Club. Stars Bette Middler
Indie - 10pm: Boys Don’t Cry

Wednesday 22nd
Comedy - 3 & 11.40pm: Carry on Columbus
Family - 2am: Anna and the King. Jodie Foster plays governess

Thursday 23rd
Film4 - 9pm: The Talented Mr Ripley

Friday 24th
Film4 - 9pm: East is East
Modern Greats - 10pm: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Pull your knees in tight
Comedy - 8pm: St Trinians. Rupert Everett as headmistress
Family - 1.15 & 8pm: Hairspray

US schools mark National Day of Silence

Schools in the US marked the National Day of Silence today to bring attention to LGBT bullying.

This year's date is considered especially significant as Carl Walker-Hoover, of Massachusetts, would have been 12 today. Carl killed himself last week after suffering months of homophobic bullying at school.

Read the full article in PinkNews here.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Dies

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

1950 - 2009

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a prominent theorist who is often cited as one of the founders of queer theory, has died of breast cancer. She was 58. She was the other, among others, of Epistemology of the Closet.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on Wikipedia

Tory Councillor Suspended for Anti-Gay remarks

A Conservative county councillor said he was "saddened" after being suspended from his party over remarks he made regarding homosexuality.

Patrick Clark, the former deputy Conservative group leader for Derbyshire County Council, was suspended from his group on Wednesday.

It followed an article he had written in the Duffield Scene newsletter, in which he stated: "I object to being required to embrace an agenda that actively supports and positively discriminates in favour of people who I consider to be sexual deviants and who engage in practices contrary to my religious beliefs."

Read the full article in This is Derbyshire here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 11th - 17th 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 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1965 & 1985
BBC Radio 2 - 8pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Features John Amaechi
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
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: Doctor Who: The Commentaries

Sunday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. New show in which people nominate real life heroes by letter. There’s good miusic too, including Dusty Springfield and Northern Soul
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. Features Peter Ackroyd and Michael Portillo
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen’s Men of Fashion. Byron
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Matthew Parris on Napoleon

Tuesday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Blonde on Blonde. Mariella Frostrup on Doris Day. 1/3
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Hollywood Charmers. Michael York on Errol Flynn 2/4
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Polly Toynbee among others fight over the reputation of Roy Jenkins with Matthew Parris

Wednesday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen’s Man of Fashion. The Victorians; including Oscar Wilde

Thursday 16h
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: In Our Time. Suffragism
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Test. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: O’Kane and Co. Comedy chat includes ex-lesbian Jackie Clune
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

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 documentaries
Saturday 11th
BBC1 - 6.45pm: Dr Who. Easter Special in which a London bus goes to hell
BBC3 - 8.30pm: Dr Who Confidential. Hell is Dubai
ITV1 - 7.45pm: Britain’s Got Talent. There was a drag queen last year. I know. It’s desperate
C4 - 4pm: Come Dine with Me (rpt)
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken
Living - 11am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Comedy Central - 10pm: Alan Carr: The Tooth Fairy Live

Sunday 12th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Repeat of yesterday’s special
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10pm: Chris Moyles Quiz Night. Stephen Fry joins Chris Moyles, Gary Barlow and Denise Van Outen. Why?
More4 - 5.45pm: Come Dine with Me
Five - 9pm: The Abba Years
Five - 10: Mama Mia: Where Did It All Go Right?
Living - 11am: Will & Grace
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who

Monday 13th
BBC1 - 5pm: Dr Who (rpt.) On HD too
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 11.05pm: Chris Moyles’s Quiz Night. So good they’re repeating it!
4Music - 10pm: Star Stories: George Michael
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Fiver - 11am & 9pm: Mamma Mia: Where Did It All Go Right?
Fiver - 8pm: The Abba Years

Tuesday 14th
BBC2 - 8pm: The Speaker. John Amaechi is one of the judges in a teenage public speaking competition 3/8
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
BBC3 - 10.30 and 12.45am: Horne and Cordon. Will Young guests
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 9.55: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix. Gok Wan tells women what to wear 1/8
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 11: Graham Norton
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 7pm: Dr Who
Watch - 8: Torchwood
Watch - 9: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 12midnight: What the Dickens. Panel quiz presented by Sandi Toksvig
Blighty - 9.30pm: My Brilliant Britain. Alan Cumming on British eccentrics

Wednesday 15th
BBC2 - 8: The Speaker. John Amaechi among the judges
BBCHD - 9pm: Who Do You Think You Are? Graham Norton
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 - 11: Shameless (rpt)
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 1.10pm: Truman Capote
Sky Arts1 - 11.10: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts2 - 7pm: The Divine Michelangelo

Thursday 16th
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10.35pm: Star Stories: Elton John
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Gold - 10.55pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Fiver - 6am: the Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 7: Torchwood
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky1 - 11.15pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts2 - 11.30am: Michelangelo
Bio - 11am & 3pm: Rock Hudson

Friday 17th
BBC3 - 8pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: A Place in the Sun: Home or Away. Gay item Craig and Daniel have to choose between Brighton and Gran Canaria
E4 - 11.05pm: Alan Carr: Tooth Fairy Live
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen deGeneres Show
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Sky1 - 11pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts2 - 11.30am: The Divine Michelangelo
Sky Arts2 - 9.50pm: Handel: Water and Fireworks
Sky Arts2 - 11: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Saturday 11th
Family - 6pm: Hairspray
Screen1 - 8pm: St Trinians. Rupert Everett as Headmistress
Screen2 - 7pm: X-Men. Ian McKellen
Film1 - 1.05am: The Innocents. Brit-chiller from ’61 stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave & Peter Wyndgarde
TCM - 3pm (9pm on TCM2): Gypsy. Tim Curry based Frank n’Furter on Rosalind Russell’s pushy mother role in this musical bio-pic of Gypsy Rose Lee. Natalie Wood is Gypsy.
TCM - 1.30am: O, Lucky Man. Lindsay Anderson directs

Sunday 12th
BBC4 - 10pm: Suddenly Last Summer. Richard Eyre adaptation of Tennessee Williams classic. Stars the late Miranda Richardson
6.35am & 1.25am Carry on Columbus. Julian Clary stars

Monday 13th
Modern Greats - 8pm: The Color Purple. Adaptation of Alice Walker novel. Stars Whoopi Goldberg
Film4 - 5.10pm: Just My Luck. RomCom. Stars Lindsay Lohan
Gold - 9.15am & 2.15pm: Carry on up the Jungle. Frankie Howerd
Gold - 11: Carry on Follow that Camel. Phil Silvers
Gold - 12.45pm: Carry on Henry
Gold - 2.30 and 12.15am: Carry on Matron

Tuesday 14th
More4 - 10pm & 12midnight: Deliver Us from Evil. Chilling documentary of serial child abuser Father Oliver O’Grady, who molested thousands of children of both sexes from the 70s to the 90s.
Modern Greats - 11.50pm: Taxi Driver. Classic psycho drama starring Jodie Foster
Film4 - 11.45pm: The Innocents. See Saturday
Film4 - 1.50am: Live Flesh. Almadóvar adapts Ruth Rendell

Wednesday 15th
ITV1 - 10.35pm: Maverick. Comedy starring Jodie Foster
Classics - 4.45pm: Lover Come Back. Day/Hudson romcom
Classics - 6.35: Sweet Charity. Because it’s camp!
Film4 - 1.30am: Bright Young Things. Stephen Fry in this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies

Thursday 16th
Screen1 - 8pm: St Trinians
Screen2 - 12.30pm: Le Vie en Rose
Screen2 - 1.20am: The Brave One. Stars Jodie Foster

Friday 17th
Drama - 1.20pm: West Side Story
Indie - 11.35pm: Boys Don’t Cry

Schools reminded to use DCSF Guidance on homophobic bullying

The government has raised concerns over a lack of awareness within schools of their responsibility to address homophobic bullying.

Children's minister Delyth Morgan sent a letter to all headteachers and directors of children's services this week, instructing them to familiarise everyone with existing guidance on preventing and tackling homophobic bullying.

In the letter, Morgan stated that the Department for Children, Schools and Families had learned that in some instances school staff and governors were not aware of the guidance.

The Oldham Teachers Survey, conducted for the NUT last year, unearthed the horrific truth that 98.8 per cent of teachers were aware of homophobic bullying in their schools and that subsequently nearly all teachers want training on how to deal with it and help to eliminate it.

Schools OUT's Tony Fenwick said, "This is a start towards dealing with homophobic bullying and there is guidance on the way to challenge transphobic bullying too. We welcome this timely reminder of the need to use the guidance and we would invite heads, teachers and pupils to look at the Schools OUT Student toolkit as well."

But he added that more is needed. "I hope, however, that this useful reminder is to be backed up with effective INSET training for serving teachers and Teacher training for student teachers on how to work collaboatively to eliminate homophobic and transphobic bullying."

Bulletin No 58

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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Why I blame myself for the murder of Joe Orton

It was a Sixties cause celebre - the bludgeoning of an outrageous playwright by his gay lover. Now, with Orton's best-known work revived in the West End, comes this startling confession from theatre and film critic Michael Thornton...

Read the full article in the Daily Mail, here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 4th - 10th 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 4th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1970 & 1980
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends features David Starkey
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 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. New show in which people nominate real life heroes by letter
BBC Radio 3 - 8pm: Drama: The Trial and Death of Socrates
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15am: The Reunion. Remembering the opening of the National Theatre in 1963 under the directorship of Lawrence Olivier. Derek Jacobi guests
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 6th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music quiz

Tuesday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Blonde on Blonde. Mariella Frostrup on Doris Day. 1/3
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Hollywood Charmers. Michael York on David Niven. ¼
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Matthew Parris on Napoleon

Thursday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Show. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 10th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: The Reunion. Repeated from Sunday
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

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 documentaries
Saturday 4th
BBC1 - 5.25pm: Hole in the Wall.
C4 - 4pm: Come Dine with Me (rpt)
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken
Living - 11am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 5th
BBC2 - 12.15am: Graham Norton Uncut
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10pm: Chris Moyles Quiz Night. Alan Carr joins human emetics Chris Moyles, Davina McCall and Jerry Springer
E4 - 1.15pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 5.50pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm and 1am: QI
Living - 11am: Will & Grace
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Bio - 6pm: Raymond Burr

Monday 6th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 11.05pm: Chris Moyles’s Quiz Night. Repeat of last night’s ordeal featuring Alan Carr
C4 - 11.55: 8 out of 10 Cats. Scott Capurro guests (rpt)
C4 - 12.25am: The Gangster and the Pervert Peer. Investigation of the dealings between Ronnie Kray and Lord Boothby (rpt)
Dave - 9 & 11.40pm: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Bio - 6am: Raymond Burr

Tuesday 7th
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: Dawn French. Sitting in for Paul O’Grady. John Barrowman guests
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Dave - 11: Graham Norton
Dave - 12.40am: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 7pm: Dr Who
Watch - 8: Torchwood
Watch - 9: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 9am: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
Sky Arts1 - 12noon, 3.40&10.55pm: What the Dickens. Panel quiz presented by Sandi Toksvig

Wednesday 8th
BBC1 - 8pm: Waterloo Road. A student is humiliated in a sex education class
BBC1 - 10.45pm: Queens of British Pop. Includes an interview with Andy Bell. Presented by Lisa Tarbuck 2/2
BBC2 - 7pm: Escape to the Country. Alistair Appleton presents
BBC2 - 8: The Speaker. John Amaechi among the judges
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 11.05pm: Shameless (rpt)
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky 1 - 11.55am & 11.55pm: What the Dickens?

Thursday 9th
BBC1 - 9pm: Panorama Special: Britain’s Homecare Scandal. Joan Bakewell on behalf of older people’s rights. LGBT content unknown.
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Fiver - 6am: the Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 7: Torchwood

Friday 10th
BBC3 - 8.05pm: Dr Who Double Bill
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen deGeneres Show
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Sky 1 - 12.05 & 11.35pm: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Saturday 4th
Screen 1 - 12.05am: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Monday 6th
Action/Thriller - 9.50am & 6pm: X-Men. Ian McKellen stars
Comedy - 8pm: St Trinians. Rupert Everett as the Headmistress
Family - 12.15 & 8pm: Hairspray
Classics - 10.50pm: Lover Come Back. Hudson / Day romcom

Tuesday 7th
C4 - 1.55pm: An Ideal Husband. Oscar Wilde wrote and Rupert Everett stars
Drama - 2pm: West Side Story
Film4 - 9pm: Boat Trip. Two straights find themselves on an all-gay cruise. How hysterical!

Wednesday 8th
Screen 1 - 8pm: Hairspray

Friday 10th
ITV1 - 11.15: De-Lovely. Bio-pic of Cole Porter, played by Kevin Kline
Classics - 9pm: A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando classic
Indie - 6.35pm: Notes on a Scandal. Judi Dench as a nasty closet lesbian
Modern Greats - 5am: Little Man Tate. Stars Jodie Foster
Fim4 - 1.55am: Live Flesh. Pedro Almadóvar does Ruth rendell

A Gay Childhood in Derbyshire

On 25 March 2009, Narvel Annable, a local author, spoke to an audience in Derby about growing up gay in the 50s and 60s. He has kindly donated notes from his speech.

This is a fine moment for me! Here we are - gathered here this afternoon in Derby - me facing an audience about to announce that I am a homosexual! Who would have thought it? At long last, after all these years, I think we have become respectable!

It’s been a painful road since those days, long ago when I was standing in the Corporation Hotel passageway - a scruffy chicken – hoping to meet other chickens. Homosexuals – restricted to that passageway - were not allowed in any other part of that public house. The law, prejudice, ignorance, bigotry and discrimination have made life very difficult for many of us over this last half century.

I was thrilled to be invited by Derby City Council and be a part of this encouraging and commendable event which, among other laudable aims, seeks to give gay men and lesbians the collegiate support denied to me during the years when I was isolated - when I was a frightened, closeted teacher.

You can read the rest of Narvel's words in the Personal Histories section of our website here.