Downing Street Celebrates LGBT History Month

Prime Minister Gordon Brown held the second reception for LGBT History Month on 24 February.

Both he and Harriet Harman reiterated their support for the successful month and assured the UK's LGBT communities that they would never walk the road alone in the journey to full equality.

After they left, Sarah Brown stayed and talked to guests for the remainder of the evening. Elly Barnes, David Watkins, Tony Fenwick and Sue Sanders, members of the History Month organising committee, were seen busily chatting to people and encouraging support and patronage.

Watch this space for news of new patrons to join our already illustrious list.

You can view photos of the event here on our flickr account. Pictures of last year's event can be found here.

(image: crown copyright, all rights reserved)

Same Sex Hand Holding Nominated for award

A Day in Hand - LGBT History Month's sister project, has been nominated to win the Pink Paper award for ‘best gay organisation’ –for A Day In Hand and for ‘best event’– for Same-sex hand holding Saturdays.

David Watkins, the project's founder, says: "So this is the final round, and essentially an easier box ticking exercise. Please can you help one more time and also send to friends and family and get them to do it. Just go to www.adayinhand.com/news/pinkpaperawards and follow instructions."

Voting closes on March 1st, so there's little time left.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 27th February - 5th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
Some good old classic films on Wednesday. Generation Gap on Radio 4 looks interesting.

TV
New
Dale Winton on The National Lottery: In It to Win It BBC1 8.30pm Saturday.
Come Dine with Me 8pm Sunday C4. My Name Is Muhammad is about 9 different characters with that name on BBC1 at 10.55 Sunday. Gay men dancing on Pineapple Dance Studios 6pm Sky1. Mad Men BBC4 11pm.
QI repeated on BBC2 10pm Monday.
Alan Cumming guests on a repeat of Eight out of Ten Cats C4 11.35pm Tuesday.
John Barrowman on Alan Carr: Chatty Man at 10pm C4 Thursday. Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man on BBC3 10.30pm.
John Barrowman again on Titchmarsh 5pm ITV1 Friday. Kingdom ITV3 10pm. Sky Arts1 features Jodie Foster 8pm and Truman Capote 1.10am. Simon Callow 7.30pm Sky Arts2.

Ongoing
Come Dine with Me at 4.25 on C4 and QI XL 10.15 BBC2 Saturday. Dr Who/Torchwood back to back on Watch from 7 on BBC3. Nurse Jackie BBC4 10.30pm. C4 repeats Chatty Man with Alan Carr at 11.45.
The Big Questions is on BBC1 at 10am on Sunday; LGBT content unknown. Glee on C4 at 5.30pm. Jason Gardiner oozes pus on Dancing on Ice at 6.45 and 8.50pm on ITV1.
C4 airs Will and Grace every morning at 8.55am. The Wright Stuff Five at 9.15am every weekday often has an LG guest. Come Dine with Me weekdays 5.30pm on C4 and at 9pm Monday More4.
On Monday: Dr Who on BBC3 at 7pm and on Watch at 8pm. More Glee on E4 at 9pm.
Shameless on C4 10pm Tuesday (repeated Wednesday 11).
BBC4 airs Mad Men at 10pm Wednesday.
Alan Carr Chatty Man C4 10pm Thursday. Skins on E4 at 10pm, followed by Glee. Brothers and Sisters on More4 at 10.
On Friday there’s QI on BBC1 at 8.30pm. Dr Who 8.10 BBC3. Torchwood Watch 8pm.

Films
Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan on BBC3 at 8.30pm (and Wednesday 9pm). Mamma Mia! on Screen 1 Sunday 6pm.
On Wednesday, A Streetcar Named Desire on Drama at 10.10pm. Victim on Film4 2.45pm and The Dreamers Film4 11.15pm, as well as Cabaret 11.55pm BBC1.
On Thursday, Silence of the Lambs on Drame at 12.35am and the camp and creepy Whatever Happened to baby Jane? at 1.30am on Classics.
Friday, Freaky Friday Fim4 4.55pm St Trinians Screen 1 9.35.

Radio
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 27th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding hangs out with Gustav Holst fans in Cheltnham
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30: And the Academy award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini on the genius of Gigi
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: the Moral Maze. Content unknown

Sunday 28th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Stage and film music show
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 4.30pm: News Quiz
BBC Radio 7 - 8" Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Monday 1st
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Generation Gap. A mother and son discuss how attitudes around sex are changing
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Tuesday 2nd
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: The Ballet Russes in England. 2/2: What Did Britain Do for Diaghilev?
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Generation Gap. An 82 year-old gay rights campaigner who counsels on homophobic bullying discusses changes in attitudes to LGB people
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Wednesday 3rd
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 3pm: E M Forster's Room with a View
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Thursday 4th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: The Comedy Hour. 1/6: And the Winner Is…Matt Lucas presents his own comedy awards (The Lucases) to his own favourite comedians
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Generation Gap. Irma Kurtz and Simone Bienne on changing attitudes to sex
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. With Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 9: The Moral Code. Adam Rutherford
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 3pm: E M Forster's Room with a View
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Friday 5th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Round the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
6 Music - 7.30: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 3pm: E M Forster's Room with a View
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing About!
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

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

United for Football v Homophobia

On Friday, community leaders and activists gathered together outside Manchester’s URBIS, the future home of the National Football Museum to show solidarity with the Justin Campaign’s Football v Homophobia Day.

Those endorsing the campaign include Sue Sanders, Co-Chair of Schools Out and LGBT History Month, Trevor Burchick MBE, Director of Pride Sports, Simon Smith of GFSN and Lou Englefield, UK Board member of European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation. Several staff from Manchester’s Lesbian and Gay Foundation also gave their support to the event.

Lindsay England, Justin Campaign volunteer explains why she feels it is essential that the campaign against homophobia in football is supported across the LGBT Community:

“Most of those who have turned out today are football fans, coaches, and players, but some are here to acknowledge the importance of a campaign tackling homophobia in football. Football is a sport with a huge influence on British society and an environment in which fans, coaches and players at all levels of the game continue to use homophobic abuse as a way to put each other down and wind up the opposition. Tackling homophobia in football will not end homophobia in the UK, but it is an important step to creating a just and inclusive society”

February 19, was launched this year as the International Day Opposing Homophobia in Football and follows the recent media debate around the FA’s cancelled launch of its ‘anti-homophobia film’.

The Justin Campaign has now received the support of Justin Fashanu's niece, Amal, 21.

For more information about Football v Homophobia visit www.thejustincampaign.com

Government Compromises on Sex and Relationships Education

Ed Balls has had to defend the amendments to the S&RE education proposals in the face of criticism from the pressure group ACCORD.

The proposals, which will go before the House today, will make S&RE a subject to be taught statutorily in all schools and will remove the get-out clause from pupils over 15. It will also enforce objective teaching and information giving about LGB relationships, as well as contraception and abortion. In the face of pressure from some religious lobbyists, however, faith schools are exempt from certain provisions in the proposals, which will allow them to express their religious convictions, including the right to say that homosexuality is wrong.

ACCORD, a group of religious, secular and trades union stakeholders in education, say that this will water down the provisions of the Bill and thereby fuel homophobia, to which the Department of Children Schools and Families has retorted that it will be illegal to teach homophobia in schools.

Schools OUT's Tony Fenwick says: "These amendments are an appeasement: a compromise. While we welcome the fact that no state school can get out of teaching Sex and Relationships education or cherry-pick the aspects it wants to teach, we are disappointed that they can play the faith card and tell LGB children that what they are thinking and feeling is wrong. To my knowledge there is no other area of the curriculum in which headteachers and teachers are permitted to make subjective judgements.

"And don't forget that one-third of the nation's schools are faith schools. We're not talking about handfuls here - nor are we talking about particular branches of the major religions. One-third of the schools in our country can use these amendments to exclude LGB pupils and marginalise them. If that isn't homophobia - what is?

"Furthermore, where does gender variance fit in to all this? Presumably some schools will allow their staff to tell children that changing gender reassignment is wrong too.

"There is guidance on the DCSF website on how to combat homophobia and transphobia in schools and we welcome that. But it is disheartening to hear that the same department is bowing to pressure from some groups who want to preach from the classroom as they do in their places of worship".

Could You Survive a 25% Rent Increase?

Could you afford to stay in your home if your rent or mortgage went up 25%? At a time of recession, when everyone is feeling the pinch in some way or other, few pockets or bank balances could support such a hike. Yet that is precisely the proposal facing Gay's the Word.

The nation's only dedicated LGBT bookshop, recently celebrating its 31st anniversary in its original Bloomsbury location, is a central London institution . As well as being a bookshop it is a resource, advice-shop and drop-in centre for many people within and from outside the capital. It is doing good business too - but not so good that it can absorb the overnight rent increase of 25% proposed by Camden Council.

Assistant Manager, Uli Lenart, comments that while Camden has one of the most dynamic LGBTQ local authority forums in London, one that it should be rightly proud of, it seems to be suffering from a lack of joined- up thinking. "We are reasonable people," he says, "and happy to engage with Camden about a reasonable rent increase. We don't make tangible profits, or pay ourselves large wages; we exist to provide a community service and a unique national outlet for queer literature. Camden should be doing all it can to support local businesses, not sticking the knife in."

"It'd be a political, cultural, communal and human loss if it went.” – Ali Smith

Gay's the Word

Event: Gay Africa

GAY AFRICA is a response to the human rights and sexuality crisis sweeping the continent. In Uganda they propose to execute gays, in Malawi they imprison gay men who marry, in Nigeria they ban all meeting and support for LGBT people.

How far does the American Christian Right support homophobia in Africa? Is South Africa a shinning example of human rights or a special case? Do activists and the media in the West help or hinder African lesbians and gays? How does what’s happening in Africa impact on LGBT people throughout the world?

Performers and Special Guests include:
Dr Antoine Rogers (Lecturer in Social Policy)
Bisi Alimi (Nigerian LGBT Activist)
Campbell (Filmmaker/Curator)
Gaylene Gould (Broadcaster)
Godwyns Onwuchekwa (Nigerian LGBT Activist)
Dr Iain Reeves (Consultant in HIV Medicine)
Inua Ellams (Performance Poet)
Jasmine Cooray (Performance Poet)
John Bosco (Gay Ugandan Refugee)
Keith Jarrett (Performance Poet)
Lee Jasper (Black Human Rights Activist)
Michael Senyonjo (Ugandan Human Rights Activist)
Mojisola Adebayo (Writer/Performer)
Phyll Opoku (UK Black Pride)
Rhymes Won’t Wait Collective
Rev. Rowland Jide Macaulay (House of Rainbow)
Shaun Newport (Pride London)
Skye Chirape (Zimbabwean LGBT Activist)

Short films screening:
Souljah by Rikki Beadle-Blair (Best Short Film at Rushes Soho)
Young Black & Gay by Dean Atta (Channel 4, bfm IFF, LLGFF)

Gay Africa
Sunday 28th February 2010
4pm – 8pm
Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA
Free
Facebook event

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 19th - 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
TV is rubbish this week but radio’s good. Is Radio 4 covertly celebrating LGBT History Month?

TV
New
Behind the Scenes of True Blood on Saturday FX at 10pm.
The BAFTAs on BBC1 at 9pm Sunday. Gay men dancing on Pineapple Dance Studios 6pm Sky1.
Christopher Biggins on Titchmarsh ITV1 at 5. BBC4 airs Mad Men at 10pm Wednesday.
John Barrowman on GMTV Thursday.

Ongoing
Come Dine with Me at 4.25 on C4 and QI XL 10.15 BBC2 Saturday. Dr Who/Torchwood back to back on Watch from 7 on BBC3. Nurse Jackie ends its first series at 11pm BBC4 (don’t worry; there’s another one). C4 repeats Chatty Man with Alan Carr at 11.35.
The Big Questions is on BBC1 at 10am on Sunday; LGBT content unknown. Glee on C4 at 5.30pm. Jason Gardiner oozes pus on Dancing on Ice at 6.45 and 8.50pm on ITV1.
C4 airs Will and Grace every morning at 8.55am. The Wright Stuff Five at 9.15am every weekday often has an LG guest. Come Dine with Me weekdays 5.30pm on C4 and at 9pm Monday More4. Glee 5.30pm C4.
Nurse Jackie at 10pm BBC2 Monday. Dr Who on BBC3 at 7pm and Torchwood on Watch at 8pm. More Glee on E4 at 9pm.
Shameless C4 10pm Tuesday (repeated Wednesday 11).
Alan Carr Chatty Man C4 10pm Thursday. Skins on E4 at 10pm, followed by Glee. Brothers and Sisters on More4 at 10.
On Friday there’s QI on BBC1 at 8.30pm. Dr Who 8.10 BBC3. Torchwood Watch 8pm.

Films
Ziigy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars on Sky Arts1 at 9pm and St Trinians on Family Saturday 9.45pm.
On Monday there’s Mamma Mia! on Family at 9.45pm and Jodie in Silence of the Lambs on Drama at 10.40pm.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julia Newmar at 4.05am Tuesday (i.e. Wednesday). Also on Wednesday, West Side Story on Screen 1 at 10am.
On Thursday, Mamma Mia! on Family at 8pm and the camp 60’s classic Modesty Blaise at 9pm on Classics.

Radio
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 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 2 - 10: Simply Red: Stars in the RADIO Theatre. Archive SR concert presented by Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding in Anglesey with the North Wales Gay Outdoors Club
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30: And the Academy award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini on the genius of The Deer Hunter
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: the Moral Maze. Content unknown

Sunday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Stage and film music show
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 6.05am: Something Understood. Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the challenges of the 21st century
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 2.45pm: Head to Head. Edward Stourton with archive footage of the ‘70’s debate between Clive James and Gore Vidal and the impact of Christianity
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 4.30pm: News Quiz
BBC Radio 7 - 8: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Monday 21st
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Around the World in a Hundred Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play. Torchwood: Lost Souls
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute. Graham Norton guests
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Tuesday 22nd
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Around the World in a Hundred Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: The Ballet Russes in England. ½: What Did Britain Do for Diaghilev?
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Wednesday 23rd
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Thinking Allowed. Why Do Men Go with prostitutes? Julie Bindel contributes to the discussion
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Content unknown
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 7 - 11: Eddie Izzard: The 2003 Sexy Show

Thursday 24th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: The Comedy Hour. 1/6: And the Winner Is…Matt Lucas presents his own comedy awards (The Lucases) to his own favourite comedians
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Ramblings. Clare Balding in Anglesey with the North Wales Gay Outdoors Club
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30pm: The Bottom Line. With Evan Davies

Friday 25th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: News Quiz. Presented by Sandi Toksvig
6 Music - 7.30: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing About!
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
BBC Radio 7 - 9: Clare Balding in Anglesey with the North Wales Gay Outdoors Club
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

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

What the Uganda anti-gay bill is about in 3min

19 February is Football v. Homophobia Day

On February 19th 2010, The Justin Campaign are launching an initiative, Football v Homophobia, to raise awareness of homophobia in amateur and professional football; to unite clubs, players and fans internationally by using the game of football to bring communities together in opposing hate and intolerance in the world’s favourite sport.


The Justin Campaign believe that to tackle homophobia in football effectively a collective show of opposition needs to be made by all involved to get a message of zero tolerance across to the perpetrators of homophobic insults and abuse.

They intend that Football v Homophobia on Feb 19th will become the one day out of each year where individuals, community groups & teams and clubs internationally can express their disapproval of homophobia in football by celebrating under the banner of Football v Homophobia.

The launch in the UK this year will also coincide with LGBT History Month, a full month of activity celebrating the lives and achievements of the LGBT community.

Find out more (including a list of events) on the Justin Campaign website here.

Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton at The Drill Hall

Throughout February The Drill Hall is exhibiting a display of the work of the two UK pioneers in queer cartoons. The work of Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton can be seen in the basement of the nation's most loved queer theatre venue for the rest of the month of February, with guided tours on the 18th and 25th and a free day on the 20th.

Click here for details.

Gay and Lesbian or Homosexual? What's in a Word?

In a New York Times/CBS poll researching how Americans felt about the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy in the US military, citizens were asked how they felt about homosexuals serving in the army. Citizens were also asked how they felt about gay men and lesbians serving in the army. The results are as follows:

	Should homosexuals serve in the US army? 2010	Should gay men and lesbians serve in the US army? 2010	Should homosexuals or gay men and lesbians serve in the US army? 1993
Strongly support	34%	51%	42%
Somewhat support	15%	19%
Somewhat oppose	10%	7%	57%
Strongly oppose	19%	12%

As we can see, attitudes have changed for the better since 1993, but there is a marked difference between the numbers of supporters when the words 'lesbian' and 'gay' are used, as opposed to the word 'homosexual'.

When those surveyed were broken down into sub-categories, these were the results of those who were supportive.

	All women	All under 30	All who have a gay friend or relation (sic)	Seniors	All who don’t know any gays (sic)	All men
People who support gay men and lesbians in the military	84%	81%	81%	69%	66%	65%

This shows that women are much more accepting of LGB people than men. It also shows that younger people are more accepting than older people. It demonstrates further that people are more afraid of what (or whom) they don't know.

Finally, it suggests that young women - lesbian and straight - are a gay man's best friend.

Hands up if you're an advocate of equalities and you didn't know all this already!

Review: Bette Bourne, A Life in Three Acts

Review, by Tony Fenwick

The veteran actor, campaigner and drag / cabaret artist Better Bourne is celebrating his 7oth year with a triumphal show A Life in Three Acts, which he brought from the Edinburgh Festival and now performs at The Soho Theatre. It provides an essential look into a gay man’s life in the latter half of the twentieth century.

The play is in the format of a broadcast interview, with Mark Ravenhill as the interviewer and Bourne as the interviewee. Ravenhill’s questions are presumably pre-ordained and scripted, whilst Bourne uses a song-sheet for prompts so he can give full answers. In partial drag with make-up, he describes events throughout his life with passion and enthusiasm, referring to pictures that appear in the background and occasionally bursting into the odd recital. At one point we hear a worn recording of his mother singing!

He describes his family with candour and then goes on to talk about his friends, the protests, The Blue Lips Cabaret days, the squats, the sex and the drugs. As he brings his heady youth to life the photos behind add clarity, showing first, what a good looking young man he was and, second, what fun life could be when homosexuals were outlawed and marginalised, despite the obvious dangers.

The evening becomes much more sombre, however, when Bourne speaks of those who lost during the AIDS epidemic and describes his anger at the initial silence around it; a silence that cost so many lives.

Overall, though, the audience leaves feeling that Bourne’s life has so far been a happy and successful one, with many landmarks and achievements along the way. Bourne is almost a contemporary of Joe Orton and this is a must see for those who want a first hand account of how we came to be where we are now.

Bette Bourne: A Life in Three Acts can be seen at The Soho Theatre in Dean Street at 7.30pm till the end of February

Michelangelo's dreams of male muse go on show at Courtauld

London gallery displays finest of Renaissance artist's drawings for his friends, with loans from the Vatican and the Queen.

Some of the most magnificent drawings ever executed – physical manifestations of Michelangelo's love and infatuation for a handsome and intelligent teenage boy – will on Thursday go on display as a group for the first time.

The groundbreaking show at the Courtauld gallery in London, with loans from the Vatican and the Queen, is essentially a joyously gay love story.

Read the full article in the Guardian here.

See also, in the Guardian, Michelangelo's drawings at the Courtauld gallery are intimate encounter with an artist in love.

Michelangelo's Dream
Courtauld gallery,
London
Starts 18 February
Until 16 May
website

Convicted for buggery 51 years ago – and still paying a price

The crime no longer exists but, half a century on, John Crawford's criminal record dogs his every step.

For more than half a century John Crawford's crime has cast a shadow over his life; a permanent stigma etched into the files of the national police database. His conviction in 1959 was for consensual sex with another man – which is no longer a crime – and based on a confession extracted only after weeks of beatings in a police cell.

But 51 years later, Crawford has been told he is legally bound to disclose his criminal record for "buggery", received when he was just 19, when applying to work with vulnerable people. The retired butler, now 70, is seeking to clear his name in what he hopes will be a landmark legal campaign against the residual consequences of laws which, although expired, continue to persecute homosexuals.

Read the full article in the Guardian here.

France strikes transexualism from list of mental illnesses

France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transexualism, from its list of officially recognised mental illnesses. This is huge news but seems yet to have been picked up by English language news sources.

The news was reported in the French national daily Le Figaro and by the AFP newswire in French and English, so my details are from the Spanish language report (e.g. this report in Colombian national El Tiempo).

My translation of an excerpt from the Spanish-language AFP newswire report:

The Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot, had announced on 16th May 2009, before the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, that transexualism would not be not considered a psychiatric disorder in France.

On that occasion, numerous personalities from the world of politics and science had signed an article that appeared in the press to petition the World Health Organisation to stop "considering transexuals as affected by mental illness".

"France is the first country in the world that does not consider transexualism as a mental illness" said Joël Bedos, French representative of IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia), to AFP on Friday. "It's historic", added Philippe Caste, spokesperson for the 'Interasociativa lesbiana, gay, bi y trans'. "It was something very important and was greatly anticipated since the promise was made" added Roselyne Bachelot.

This move will likely be widely supported by the transgender community. However, the prospect of the diagnoses being removed in all countries might be a double-edge sword for some. Although the fact that being diagnosed as mentally ill is a requirement to obtain sex-reassignment in some places has been resented, the removal of the diagnosis could raise fears that the procedure may become less accessible.

Simply being transgendered or having trangender desires itself does not currently qualify for the diagnoses, as it requires significant psychological distress to also be present. However, campaigners argue that this distress is largely caused by discrimination and stigma, to which the diagnosis contributes.

The move by France, however, does not de-list the diagnoses from the World Health Organisation's ICD-10 classification or the American Psychiatric Association's DSM and, in fact, the draft DSM-V only slightly modifies the criteria for the diagnoses in children and adults although does rename it 'gender incongruence'.

Nevertheless, this will put pressure on both the World Health Organisation and the American Psychiatric Association to remove the diagnoses which have a long-standing target of criticism from the LGBT community.

Original article on Mind Hacks

Jane Andrews Dies

Jane Andrews
1950 - 2010

Lesbian breast cancer sufferer and activist Jane Andrews has died aged 60

Her friend Rosemary Auchmuty remembers her in this obituary in the Guardian.

Ofsted urges schools to relax internet restrictions

Many schools have a blanket lockdown policy on their internet connections so learners can’t see sites like LGBT History Month and Schools OUT. It is up to individual head teachers and governors how they deal with the internet. If they have a system that blocks sites they can also unblock certain sites however Oftsed has come out with this new report which you might find useful to get sites unblocked

Ofsted urges schools to relax internet restrictions

By Joe Lepper

Children & Young People Now

9 February 2010

Schools are being called on to relax their restrictions on pupils' internet use, in a report by Ofsted.

The report, The Safe Use of New Technologies, argues that the children are safer online when they are given more responsibility in their use of the internet.

Looking at 35 schools, Ofsted found that five were outstanding in terms of e-safety, 16 were good, 13 satisfactory and one inadequate. All five of the best schools used a "managed" system, which banned only a small number of websites and encouraged pupils to think more responsibly when online.

The worst schools in contrast had a blanket "lockdown" policy on a far greater range of websites.

While this initially kept children safe online, pupils were not learning how to use the internet safely and "were therefore more vulnerable overall" when using the internet outside schools, says the report.

Training for staff on e-safety was also a concern among a number of schools visited for the report. Training did "not always involve all the staff and was not provided systematically", says the report.

The government and councils are being called on to encourage schools to adopt a "managed" system of internet use and ensure all staff are trained in e-safety.

Schools are also being urged to work more closely with families to promote e-safety.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 13th - 19th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
Same sex couple on ITV’s Mr and Mrs. Whoopee!
Something we missed on Thursday last week (links are to BBC iPlayer):
BBC Radio 5 live Sport - 7.39pm: The Headline Hour. Gareth Thomas talks to Donal Og Cusak about homosexuality in sport. (the missing part at the end is here).
BBC Radio 5 live Sport - 10pm: second part of Gareth Thomas' chat with Donal Og Cusak, plus phone in

TV
New
Saturday ITV1 guests George Takei and his husband on Mr and Mrs at 8.45. Benidorm repeated at 9.45. C4 repeats Chatty Man with Alan Carr at 10.50.
Derren Brown’s Evening of Wonders repeated C4 at 10pm Sunday.
On Monday, QI Dave 10.50pm.
QI Dave 9pm Tuesday.
Derren Brown repeated on C4 at 10.50pm C4 Thursday.
Bette Davis 6am Bio Friday.

Ongoing
Come Dine with Me at 4.25 on C4 and QI XL 10.15 BBC2 Saturday. Dr Who/Torchwood back to back on Watch from 7 on BBC3. There’s also Nurse Jackie 11pm BBC4.
The Big Questions is on BBC1 at 10am on Sunday; LGBT content unknown. Glee on C4 at 5.30pm. Jason Gardiner oozes pus on Dancing on Ice at 6.45 and 8.50pm on ITV1.
C4 airs Will and Grace every morning at 8.55am. The Wright Stuff Five at 9.15am every weekday often has an LG guest. Come Dine with Me weekdays 5.30pm on C4 and at 9pm Monday More4. Glee 5.30pm C4.
Nurse Jackie at 10pm BBC2 Monday. Dr Who on BBC3 at 7pm and Torchwood on Watch at 8pm. More Glee on E4 at 9pm.
Shameless on C4 10pm Tuesday (repeated Wednesday 11).
Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers on BBC1 7.30pm Wednesday then Mad Men, BBC4, 10pm.
Alan Carr Chatty Man C4 10pm Thursday, followed by Derren Brown. Skins on E4 at 10pm, followed by Glee. Brothers and Sisters on More4 at 10.
On Friday there’s QI on BBC1 at 8.30pm. Dr Who 8.10 BBC3. Torchwood Watch 8pm.

Films
Penelope Cruz in Almadóvar’s Volver on C4 Saturday 9.30pm. The Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy at 8.50 and 11.10 respectively on ITV2. Mamma Mia at 6pm Screen 1.
Rocky Horror Picture Show 1.10pm and 11.35pm Indie Sunday.
Mamma Mia Family 8pm Tuesday. A Streetcar named Desire Classics 11.25.
My Beautiful Launderette Thursday Film4 1.25am.
Milk at midnight on Sky Premiere Friday. Mamma Mia 4pm Family.

Radio
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 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. New Series. Clare Balding in Gloucestershire
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line.
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: the Moral Maze

Sunday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Alexander McQueen
BBC Radio 7 - 4.30pm: News Quiz

Monday 15th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: The Ocean. New series on how the sea has inspired music. Belle and Sebastian are among the contributors
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Around the World in a Hundred Objects. Neil McGregor on The Flood Tablet

Tuesday 16th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: David Puttnam’s Century of Cinema. Revised repeat with contributions from Dirk Bogarde
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Around the World in a Hundred Objects

Wednesday 17th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects

Thursday 18th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Ramblings
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30pm: The Bottom Line. With Evan Davies

Friday 19th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: News Quiz. Presented by Sandi Toksvig
6 Music - 7.30: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing About!
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

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

Sue Watson Dies

Sue Watson
1956 - 2010

Sue, also known as Sue Lenka, died peacefully on 4 February. She was 53 years old.

Her friend Val Stein says:
"Sue worked for London Lesbian Line in the 1980s, and for other feminist organisations including Cinema of Women. She lived in Brighton and in London, and later, having become disabled, she moved to Polegate in Sussex.

Sue has been supported for the last few years by a network of loving and devoted friends. Battling bureaucracy and the anti-lesbian attitudes of both social services and Sue's biological family, they managed to get her transferred from an inappropriate and poorly-run nursing home into the more peaceful environment of a hospice.

We will miss her, and remember her as a rambler and lover of nature, as a witty and highly intelligent woman, and a true friend."

Tatchell to speak at Anti-Vatican Rally

Peter Tatchell is to speak at a rally against the Pope's planned visit in London, this Sunday.

Timed to coincide with a demonstration against the Vatican and its influence in Italy, the rally is organised by those who want a secular Europe free of religious interference in its laws and its governance.

Program of the demonstration:

- Assemble: 1pm at Westminster Cathedral (Ambrosden Ave, by the side of the Cathedral)
- March: 2pm - 3pm from Westminster Cathedral to the Italian embassy
- Rally: 3pm - 5pm at the Italian embassy (Grosvenor square)

Speakers at the Italian embassy (3pm) :

* Bob Churchill (British Humanist Association),
* Derek Lennard (Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association)
* Maryam Namazie (One Law for All)
* Gerard Phillips (Protest The Pope)
* David Pollock (European Humanist Federation)
* Terry Sanderson (National Secular Society)
* Peter Tatchell (OutRage!)
* Josh Kutchinsky (Central London Humanist Group)

To meet for the rally, go to Westminster Cathedral (not Westminster Abbey) at 1pm on Sunday February 14th.

More details can be found on the Facebook Event or on this webpage.

Alexander McQueen Dies

Alexander McQueen
1969 - 2010

The celebrated fashion designer Alexander McQueen has died, aged 40.

Obituary on PinkNews.co.uk
Entry on Wikipedia

A Single Man Released

The film adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man was released in UK cinemas yesterday.

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Man, is the story of George Falconer, a 52 year old British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters, ultimately leads him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim. George is consoled by his closest friend Charley (Julianne Moore), a 48-year-old beauty who is wrestling with her own questions about the future. A young student of George's, Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), who is coming to terms with his true nature, stalks George as he feels in him a kindred spirit.

The film is directed by gay fashion designer Tom Ford. Colin Firth has been nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of George.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 6th - 12th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
Better than last week. Channel 4 is building up a good stock of dramas that just happen to have LGBT people in them, both home grown and from the US. Radio 4 Wednesday 11.30pm for the lesbian novel. It’s a bad week for films, though.

TV
New
Saturday Stephen Fry pops up on The Virtual Revolution, talking about the web on BBC2 at 8.15pm. He follows on with QI XL straight after at 9.15. C4 repeats Chatty Man with Alan Carr at 11.15pm.
Jason Gardiner oozes pus on Dancing on Ice at 6.25 and 9.30pm on ITV1 Sunday. Anne Widdecombe defends the Bible as a way to live your life against Stephen Fry amongst others on The Bible: a History at 7pm on C4. Judy Garland on Sky Arts2 at 3pm.
On Monday, Christopher Biggins is on This Morning at 10.30am ITV1.
Derren Brown repeated on C4 at 10.50pm C4 Thursday.
Nurse Jackie repeated at12.30am BBC2 Friday.

Ongoing
Come Dine with Me at 4.10 on C4 and QI XL 9.25 BBC2 Saturday. Dr Who/Torchwood back to back on Watch from 7 on BBC3. There’s also Nurse Jackie 11pm BBC4. Old QI on Dave at 10pm
The Big Questions is on BBC1 at 10am on Sunday. LGBT content unknown. Glee on C4 at 5.30pm.
C4 airs Will and Grace every morning at 8.55am. The Wright Stuff Five at 9.15am every weekday often has an LG guest. Come Dine with Me weekdays 5.30pm on C4 and at 9pm Monday More4. Glee 5.30pm C4.
Nurse Jackie at 10pm BBC2 Monday. Dr Who on BBC3 at 7pm and Torchwood on Watch at 8pm. More Glee on E4 at 9pm.
How to Look Good Naked-with a Difference on C4 with Gok Wan at 8pm Tuesday. Shameless on C4 10pm Tuesday (repeated Wednesday 11).
Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers on BBC1 7.30pm Wednesday. Morrissey Live Sky Arts1 11pm.
Alan Carr Chatty Man C4 10pm Thursday. Skins on E4 at 10pm, followed by Glee. Brothers and Sisters on More4 at 10.
On Friday there’s QI on BBC1 at 8.30pm. Dr Who 8.10 BBC3. Torchwood Watch 8pm.

Films
Drew Barrymore in Music and Lyrics on ITV1 Saturday 9.30pm
The Devil Wears Prada at 8pm C4 Sunday. Mamma Mia on Family at 8pm and Almadóvar’s Live Flesh on Film4 at 1.15am.
X-Men: The Last Stand 9pm Film4 Tuesday

Radio
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 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. New Series. Clare Balding in Yorkshire
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 1.10: Any Questions? Brian Paddick
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line.
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends

Sunday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm Elaine Page. With a bit of Mamma Mia
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Expect something about the Pope and the Equality Bill
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15: Desert Island Discs. Gok Wan
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Chris Neill
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 11: The Film Programme. Interview with Francine Stock, director of A Single Man
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: News Quiz

Monday 8th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: The Ocean. New series on how the sea has inspired music. Belle and Sebastian are among the contributors
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Around the World in a Hundred Objects. Neil McGregor on The Flood Tablet
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Beyond Belief: History of the World Special. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Flood
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute. Graham Norton and Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Off the Page. 1/7: Leaving the Comfort Zone. Repeat in which Rhona Cameron joins a panel that discusses just that

Tuesday 9th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30am: Famous Footsteps. Interview with the daughter of Daphne du Maurier (that's either Tessa or Flavia - her name isn’t given in the listings!)
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: A Good Read. With Stella Duffy

Wednesday 10th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play: Postcards for a Cataclysm. In a series of vignettes, nine people describe their reactions as an asteroid hurtles towards the planet Earth
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard Glorious!

Thursday 11th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15: Afternoon Play: Say What You Want to Hear-The Start up. 1/2. It’s interactive, so you can make it as queer as you want it to be
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30pm: The Bottom Line. With Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: From the Ban to the Booker. 1/2 Val McDermid on the rise of the lesbian novel, with Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters and Ali Smith
BBC Radio 5 live Sport - 7.39pm: The Headline Hour. Gareth Thomas talks to Donal Og Cusak about homosexuality in sport.
BBC Radio 5 live Sport - 10pm: second part of Gareth Thomas' chat with Donal Og Cusak, plus phone in

Friday 12th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: Claudia Winkleman. Interview with Anthony Sher about his role in Enemy of the People at The Crucible, Sheffield
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: News Quiz. Presented by Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Any Questions? Panel includes Haleh Afshar , professor of politics and women’s studies at York
6 Music - 7.30: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 4 - 11: A Good Read - Stella Duffy
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: From the Ban to the Booker. 2/2
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing About!
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

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

Bulletin No 69

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