A Stonewall Veteran, 89, Misses the Parade

At noon on Sunday, thousands of marchers filled Fifth Avenue for New York City’s annual gay pride parade. Nearly six miles away, on the sixth floor of a nursing home in Brooklyn, the frail, white-haired woman in beige pajamas and brown slippers in Room 609 sat motionless at the edge of her bed, staring out her window.

Read the story of Stonewall veteran Storme DeLarverie in the New York Times here.

Forty Years of Gay Liberation Front

“We were just spectacular,” says Michael James, former drag queen and member of the 1970s’ Gay Liberation Front. “Visible, colourful, out loud, inventive, flamboyant and very, very funny.” It’s been 40 years since gay men and women put forward a radical notion – being gay wasn’t something to hide or apologise for, but rather something of which to be proud. This was revolutionary.

Helena Pozniak looks at the movement that involved changing society rather than adapting to it in the Independent, here.

The GLF's manifesto (1971) can be found here.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans trade unionists – Millthorpe Project

The first phase of a series of audio interviews carried out with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans trade unionists has been deposited with the British Library Sound Archive. These interviews have been carried out by the Millthorpe Project with support from the University and College Union (UCU) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The Millthorpe Project (which takes it name from the Yorkshire home of Edward Carpenter, the openly homosexual, nineteenth century socialist) is very conscious of the fact that history often overlooks or ignores the life stories of people from stigmatised minority groups. It recognises that increasing numbers of people choose to identify openly as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans, while also being involved in union organisation in their workplaces. The stories collected here illustrate how trade unionists from a variety of backgrounds have sought to integrate these two elements of their life experiences. Most of the interviewees have been influenced to some extent by the sexual politics which emerged in the 1970s; LGBT people wre encouraged to be honest about their sexuality and to come out in as many parts of their lives as possible. While these stories illustrate the political strategies and personal experiences of courageous individuals, they also cast light upon the role of self-organisation and collective action in supporting people’s decisions to come out and thus transform the trade union movement into something more reflective of the diverse society of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The first phase of the project began in 2007. The Millthorpe Project is now seeking funding to enable further data collection and the production of educational materials. It is particularly keen to collect stories by the end of 2011 from as wide a cross section of LGBT trade unionists as possible. Anyone interested in being interviewed can have a discussion with members of the Millthorpe Project team before they make a decision about taking part. There is also a confidentiality agreement which outlines the terms upon which others can access these stories.

More details from Bob Cant at bobchronic@aol.com or Seth Atkin at satkin@ucu.org.uk.

British Library Sound Archive online catalogue

Support Czech pride in Brno

On Saturday 26th June 2010, the 40th birthday weekend of PRIDE, Brno, the second city of the Czech Republic will host its 2nd PRIDE parade, known as the Queer Parade Brno. This parade is an opportunity for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people to celebrate and call for equal human rights and dignity. Tabor Queer Pride 2009 passed off smoothly in a good atmosphere, but Brno Queer Parade 2008 was attacked by extreme nationalist groups and threats of violence have once again appeared on some of nationalist websites.

Brno Queer Parade 2010 starts at 1pm at Freedom Square (náměstí Svobody), and participants will hear speeches and other greetings on the stage. The parade itself should take off at 2pm through the streets of historic city centre. "We expect a high turnout" said Jolana Navrátilová for the organising team. "Security measures have been developed in close co-operation with the police and their special anti-conflict team. We believe that Brno Queer Parade 2010 wil l be a great success."

The European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT rights has videoed a message in support of this year's pride and its Czech member Zuzana Brzobohatá is supporting the event. Among other patrons are Džamila Stehlíková for Government Council for Human Rights (former Czech Minister for Human Rights & Minorities) and Martin Ander for Brno city officials. Guests from the international LGBTIQ scene, including the Swiss singer Bettina Schelker, and British lesbian, Clare Dimyon, organiser of the EU Commission Photo Exhibition: "Fall of the Wall" meets Stonewall, which took place recently in London.

Clare Dimyon was recently awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of her "services to promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Central and Eastern Europe". Clare responded: "I am only a visitor to the PRIDE parades in Central and Eastern Europe. It is a great privilege to witness the determination of LGBT people (and their friends and families) to achieve their full human rights and dignity. This honour is really for them."

Sadly, there is not only support for the parade. Several counter-events are planned, among them the illegal gatherings of far right-wing groups. "They appeal to "decent" people, however the threats published on their websites are a disgrace. It gives us reason to be prepared for problems. However, we are confident that the police will protect our legal gathering and will not tolerate any disturbance. We believe it will be a victory for the rule of law and for tolerance", said another Queer Parade organiser, Mirek Zajdák.

After the parade, an Afterparty is planned in Semilasso club, with bands Like She, Tanec posledního dne, (The Dance of the Last Day), DJs and drag shows, and a TV Q-show speaker MC Barbara. The special guest of the pride opening, Bettina Schelker, will also perform. The organisers call for support and invite al l guests from over Europe to come to the Czech Republic for this third annual celebration of Czech PRIDE to participate in worldwide celebrations of the 40th birthday of PRIDE!

Contact: Jolana Navrátilová, tel. + 420 777 817 499, Miroslav Zajdák, tel. +420 724 266 833
Contact for UK: Clare Dimyon: +44 7954 578528
www.queerparade.cz ; info@queerparade.cz

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 26th June - 2nd July

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!

LGBT TV and radio

Of course if we had out lesbian and gay footballers and tennis players this week would be a different story!

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 26th

Terrestrial

BBC1 - 10: National Lottery. Dale Winton
C4 - 4.05: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.15: Glastonbury. The Pet Shop Boys
BBC3 - 11.50: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI

Satellite and cable
Sky 1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios
Comedy Central - 9am: Frasier
Comedy Central - 10am: Everybody Loves Raymond
FX - 11.30: Family Guy
Bio - 10: Ricky Martin

Film
Classics - 1.50am: Pillow Talk. Doris Day and Rock Hudson

Sunday 27th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10am: The Big Questions
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 10: Alan Carr: Chatty Man

Freeview
BBC3 - 10: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Desperate Housewives
More4 - 5.10: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios

Monday 28th
BBC1 - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
BBC2 - 9: Mary Queen of Shops. Mary Portas presents
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 12.35: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Big Bro
C4 - 11.40: Alan Carr: Chatty Man rpt.

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBCHD - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 11: Shameless
More4 - 12.05am: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 7.30: Pineapple Dance Studios
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Classics - 7.15: Wizard of Oz
TCM - 6.30: The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Peter Finch as the eponymous subject. Made in 1960, when male homosexuality was illegal in the UK

Tuesday 29th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10.35 Alan Yentob meets Dian Athill
BBC1 - 11.35: The Graham Norton Show. Rpt.
ITV1 - 7: Emmerdale. Aaron and Jackson the morning after
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
More4 - 9: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
Sky Arts1 - 7: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Wednesday 30th

Terrestrial
C4 - 8.15am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 10: Desperate Housewives

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.45: American Dad
Dave - 10.10: QI
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Sky Arts1 - 7: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 8: Boy George

Thursday 1st
C4 - 8.25am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 1: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10: Big Bro
C4 - 11.15: Skins

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 10.30: Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Rpt.
More4 - 10: Southland

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 9.30: Modern family
Living - 9: Grey’s Anatomy
FX - 10: American Dad
FX - 9 & 11.05: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 2 & 8: Come Dine with Me
Film - 11.45am & 11.35: Milk

Friday 2nd

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10.35: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
ITV1 - 7.30: Coronation Street. Jonathan Ross wrote this one
C4 - 8.30: Frasier
C4 - 10.40am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 10.35: Big Bro
Five - 11.05: Grey’s Anatomy

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.50: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Gok’s Fashion Fix
E4 - 10: Supersize vs. Superskinny
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Classics - 9: Ben Hur. Watch Tony Curtis seduce an unwitting Charlton Heston

Radio

Saturday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 2 - 10: Glastonbury. With The Pet Shop Boys
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding is still on the South Downs Way. Someone ought to send out a rescue party
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Sunday 27th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word

Monday 28th
BBC Radio 3 - 11: Couples. Frederick Raphael on couples since Adam and Eve. All straight? I hope not!
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects

Tuesday 29th
BBC Radio 2 - 10: The Glory of Glam
BBC Radio 3 - 11: Couples
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 11: The Odd Half-Hour. Stand-up show includes Stephen K. Amos

Wednesday 30th
BBC Radio 2 - 10: The Glory of Glam. Part 2 of 2
BBC Radio 3 - 11: Couples. Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. No they weren’t.
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Bear pit debate that often touches on LGBT issues; often very negatively
BBC Radio 4 - 11: The Odd Half-Hour. Stand-up show includes Stephen K. Amos

Thursday 1st
BBC Radio 3 - 11: Couples. DH Lawrence
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Ramblings. See Saturday
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Front Row. Another Caravaggio biography
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Friday 2nd
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 12noon & 7: Round the Horne

Local and web

If you want us to tell everyone about your radio broadcasts, email fenwicktony[at]hotmail.com

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

Radio North Manchester 106.6 FM
Sundays - 11am: Passport. Also look out for their women's programmes

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

In memory of Leonard Matlovich

Leonard Matlovich, a vietnam veteran and gay rights and AIDS activist died 22 years ago today. The epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today's headlines: 'When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one'.

To mark this anniversary, a video commemorating him has been uploaded to Youtube.

visit www.leonardmatlovich.com to find out more

ConDems to Allow Civil Partnerships in Places of Worship

In the first ever LGBT Downing Street reception by a non-Labour leadership, David Cameron announced last Wednesday that from that day, the 16th of June, same sex couples would be able to hold Civil Partnership ceremonies in places of worship, as long as their religion allowed it. Whilst falling far short of a commitment to same-sex marriage, which some campaigners – including Peter Tatchell – are demanding, it will provide some comfort to LGBT people of religion.

The Government also used the Number 10 reception – the first reception to be held by this Government and the first LGBT reception in the Rose Garden – to launch its Government Equalities Programme: ‘Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality’. The programme seeks to tackle outdated prejudice and seek equality for everyone. It specifically makes reference to schools, the workplace, the family, civil society, sport (which LGBT History Month will be focusing on in 2011-12) public services, crime and justice and international concerns.

A number of celebrities, MPs, business people and voluntary activists were at the reception. Schools OUT, LGBT History Month and a Day in Hand co-chairs Sue Sanders and Tony Fenwick were there.

Listen to David Cameron speech at the event here, thanks to PinkNews.

Bulletin No 73

The latest edition of the LGBT History Month bulletin is now available, as usual packed-full of news, information, notices of upcoming events and quotations.

To access the latest bulletin please click on one of the links below:
word document
pdf file
(you can also right click on the links and "save target as")

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

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 19th - 25th June

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!

LGBT TV and radio

Wimbledon! Glastonbury! World Cup! Get me out of here!

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 19th

Terrestrial

BBC1 - 7.30: National Lottery. Dale Winton
BBC1 - 11.40: Friday night with Jonathan Ross. Guests from ‘Glee’
C4 - 4.05: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Big Bro. Now we know there’s a lesbian, a bi-man and a bi-woman in it

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.55: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.40: American Dad
Dave - 10.10: QI

Satellite and cable
Sky 1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios
Sky Arts1 - 12.45am: What the Dickens?
Comedy Central - 9am: Frasier
Comedy Central - 10am: Everybody Loves Raymond
FX - 10.15: family Guy

Film
Classics - 7: The Wizard of Oz

Sunday 20th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10am: The Big Questions
ITV1 - 9.25: Corrie Omnibus. Including Jonathan Harvey (last half hour)
C4 - 1.35: Glee. Repeat from Friday
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 10: Alan Carr: Chatty Man. New series

Freeview
BBC3 - 10: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Desperate Housewives
More4 - 5.10: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios

Monday 21st
BBC1 - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
C4 - 10.35am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 12.30: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10: Big Bro
C4 - 11.45: Alan Carr: Chatty Man rpt.

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
BBCHD - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
BBC4 - Storyville: Valentino; The Last Emperor. Profile of fashion designer Valentino Garavani
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 11: Shameless
More4 - 12.05am: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Pineapple Dance Studios
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me
Film - 9.30: Giant. Rock and Dean

Tuesday 22nd

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 11.25: The Graham Norton Show. Rpt.
ITV1 - 7: Emmerdale. Aaron and Jackson the morning after
C4 - 10.35am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.35: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
More4 - 11.20: Tears, Tiaras and Transsexuals. Rpt.

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 8: Pineapple dance Studios
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Drama/Romance - 10: Mamma Mia!

Wednesday 23rd

Terrestrial
BBC2 - 10: QI. Rpt
C4 - 8.15am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 10: Desperate Housewives

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Thursday 24th
C4 - 8.15am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 11.05: Skins

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 10.30: Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Rpt.
More4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Pineapple Dance Studios
Sky1 - 9.30: Modern family
Living - 9: Grey’s Anatomy
FX - 10: American Dad
FX - 9 & 11.05: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 2 & 8: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 2: George Michael

Friday 25th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10.35: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Kylie!!!
C4 - 8.15: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 10.35: Big Bro
Five - 10.55: Grey’s Anatomy

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.05: Family Guy
BBCHD - 10.35: As BBC1
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Gok’s Fashion Fix
E4 - 10: Supersize vs. Superskinny
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Pineapple dance Studios
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Indie - 7.50: Milk. Bio-pic of hero Harvey. Sean Penn stars

Radio

Saturday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding is still on the South Downs Way. Someone ought to send out a rescue party
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 7 - 7: Daphne du Maurier: Frenchman’s Creek

Sunday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 3 - 5: Paul O’Grady. With music by Lea DeLaria
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 4.30: The News Quiz
BBC World Service - 11am: Assignment - Gay Pride and Prejudice in Kenya (rpt)

Monday 21st
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects

Tuesday 22nd
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 11: The Odd Half-Hour. Stand-up show includes Stephen K. Amos

Wednesday 23rd
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Bear pit debate that often touches on LGBT issues; often very negatively
BBC Radio 4 - 11: The Odd Half-Hour. Stand-up show includes Stephen K. Amos

Thursday 24th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Ramblings. See Saturday
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Friday 25th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 12noon & 7: Round the Horne

Local and web

If you want us to tell everyone about your radio broadcasts, email fenwicktony[at]hotmail.com

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

Radio North Manchester 106.6 FM
Sundays - 11am: Passport. Also look out for their women's programmes

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

Radio: Hour-long Pride London special

On Monday, Out In South London present an hour-long Pride special.

Rosie Wilby and Suzi Ruffell are joined in the studio by one of the original members of the Gay Liberation Front, Philip Rescorla, who has attended every single Pride March held in London since the very first ones in 1971 and 72 (except for 1996 when he was at Tampa Pride, Florida, with The Pink Singers) and discuss how the event has evolved over the years, and whether any of the original demands of the GLF have been achieved.

This is followed by a look ahead to the Pride Arts Festival 2010 with Hilda Eusebio who brings her drag king character Jack to Battersea Barge on June 28. Finally a selection of songs from the last 4 decades that brought a queer perspective into the mainstream

21st June - 8-9pm
Resonance 104.4FM
www.resonancefm.com

'Come Together' - Celebrating 40th Anniversary of the Creation of the Gay Liberation Front

‘Come Together’ is an afternoon of celebration, challenge, cinema and chin-wagging looking back over the last 40 years since the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) made its demands; looking at where we are today and looking ahead to where we could be.

The afternoon will start with some amazing archive footage including ‘Come Together’, a 1971 Panorama documentary, excerpts from A Lesbian and Gay History and an exclusive screening of films Mair Davies made in the GLF communes. This will be followed by a panel debate with lots of audience participation.

In 1970 the GLF made 8 demands:
1) That all discrimination against gay people, male and female, by the law, by employers, and by society at large, should end.
2) That all people who feel attracted to a member of their own sex be taught that such feelings are perfectly normal.
3) That sex education in schools stop being exclusively heterosexual
4) That psychiatrists stop treating homosexuality as though it were a problem or sickness, thereby giving gay people senseless guilt complexes.
5) That gay people be as legally free to contact other gay people through newspaper ads, on the streets, and by any other means they may want, as are heterosexuals, and that police harassment should cease right now.
6) That employers should no longer be allowed to discriminate against anyone on account of their sexual preferences.
7) That the age of consent for gay males be reduced to the same as for straights.
8) That gay people be free to hold hands and kiss in public as are heterosexuals.

40 years since the demands were first state we are still waiting for all of them to be met. Why? Join our panel for a frank discussion about LGBT rights, what can we learn from our queer history and what can we as a community do to achieve what GLF demanded 40 years ago? Given we now have some of the rights we have fought for, what could we be doing as a community to support LGBT people around the world?

The event is hosted by STEWART WHO? with some special guests involved in LGBT activism including:
Roz Kaveney - Trans poet and activist
Shami Chakrabarti - Director of Liberty
Peter Tatchell - Human rights campaigner
Stuart Feather - Artist
Andrew Lumsden - Artist and journalist

Come Together
Electric Cinema
191 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London W11 2ED
26 June 2010
1pm - 3.00pm
Entry £7.5 (£4 NUS & unwaged)
Tickets from www.ticketweb.co.uk
All door proceeds to go to Pride London.

Gay pride and prejudice in Kenya

Ishmael, an openly gay Kenyan man living in the small coastal town of Mtwapa, just north of Mombasa, says that many gay men have come to live here, attracted by its open-minded and liberal atmosphere.

But this image of the town has been overshadowed by an increasingly vocal and mobilised anti-gay campaign which has been garnering local support.

This comes after similar moves in neighbouring Uganda and Malawi.

Read the full article on BBC News here.

You can listen to Nina Robinson's report on the BBC World Service's Assignment programme from Thursday 17 June.

Dakar: from Africa's gay capital to centre of homophobia

In colonial times, Senegal's metropolis Dakar was famous for its open and tolerated homosexual prostitution market, and as late as in the 1970s, as many as 17 percent of Senegalese men admitted having had homosexual experiences. Now, Dakar is West Africa's centre of gay oppression.

Read the full article in Afrol News, here.

LGBT HM invited to Downing Street

LGBT History Month and Schools OUT co-chairs, Sue Sanders and Tony Fenwick, will be having tea with the Prime Minister later today, Wednesday, June 16th.

As precursor to Pride, David Cameron is holding a reception for the LGBT Community. This is the third Downing Street reception for LGBT people and the first ever under a Tory administration.

Tony Fenwick said: "We accept this as a sign of the new Government's commitment to equal opportunities and human rights".

Click on the links to see pictures of the March 2009 and February 2010 receptions.

Trans Support Group Gets a Gong

The work of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) has been acknowledged in The Queen's Birthday Honours list, published on 12 June 2010. Two of the charity's trustees, Bernard and Terry Reed, have been awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in recognition of their services to the charity.

Tony Fenwick said, "We are delighted that this long-running support and campaign group for the trans community has won the recognition it deserves".

Book: Gypsy Boy

The third edition of Gypsy, Roma and Taveller History Month is taking place this month. There is precious little material on the LGBT experience in the Gypsy, Roma and Taveller community.

Gypsy Boy: One Boy's Struggle to Escape from a Secret World by Mikey Walsh is one such rare documents. While Mikey's sexuality is not the main theme, it runs throughout the book and tints his experience.

Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows only too well. Growing up, he rarely went to school, and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies. The caravan and camp were his world. But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture his family's legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of grief and abuse. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision -- to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere he could truly belong.

Stephen Fry said of the book that "It was a revelation. Moving, terrifying, funny and brilliant. I shall never forget it - an amazing achievement"; adding on Twitter: "All in pieces after reading this book. The bravery, charm and wit of the author are astonishing." Attitude Magazine called it the "best memoir since Running with Scissors".

You can read a review from a gay perspective on Gary's blog and an interview with Mikey Walsh in the Times here.

Download an interview on the World Service (Outlook, 02/07/10) with the Gypsy Boy challenging the macho Romany traditions here (mp3 - 11Mb).

The winning team at the Oxford Debate on the 3rd June

History was made in Oxford as Stonewall, Outrage and Schools OUT teamed up to debate at the Oxford Union against the motion that: "This House believes that gay rights have undermined family values".

Speaking against the motion were (picture):
* Peter Tatchell - High profile human rights activist Outrage member
* Sue Sanders - Co-chair of Schools Out
* Luke Tryl - Stonewall worker and Former Union President

Supporting the motion were:
* Stephen Green - National Director of the evangelical pressure group Christian Voice
* Michael Lucas - Gay pornographic actor and director
* Alex Lau - Union Secretary CTTE

The team produced some deft arguments opposing the motion, which was defeated by over 200 votes to 34. Sue challenged the limited definition of 'family' and wondered why it was so vulnerable that it needed to be protected from people like her.

The House team was a mixed bunch. Only Stephen Green was clear that gay rights were problematic and his arguments were poorly thought out.

Pride Campaigner Wins Gong

A dedicated campaigner for LGBT Pride in Europe has been awarded a well-deserved MBE. Pride Solidarity founder and annual visitor to Pride celebrations in Europe Clare Dimyon received the honour “in recognition of her services to promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Central and Eastern Europe”.

Clare responds: I am only a visitor and witness to the PRIDE parades in C&E Europe and the determination of LGBT people (and their friends and families) to achieve their full human rights and dignity. I am delighted at this recognition for the LGBT people of C&E Europe, it is recognition and honour they richly deserve. I look forward to the day when their own countries recognise and honour them for their contribution, not only to the development of the human rights and dignity of LGBT people (and all minorities) but the embedding of democratic principles in the post-Soviet era.

As I am prone to saying on my travels in C&E Europe: “Love is the answer, so what was the question?”

Schools OUT and LGBT History Month co-chair said, “Clare is a great friend to us and I am thrilled that she has received this well-deserved honour. While the lazy-minded media follow Peter Tatchell on his brave and selfless annual trips to Moscow, they ignore this fantastic ambassador who travels through the former Eastern Europe to show solidarity for LGBT people everywhere.”

For those who wish to meet more of the fabulous LGBT people of C&E Europe, the EU Commission is currently hosting an exhibition: Fall of the Wall meet Stonewall – a visual parade of the parades of C&E Europe in honour of the 40th birthday of PRIDE.

Fall of the Wall meets Stonewall
8-18th June 2010
12 Star Gallery,
EU Commission,
8 Storey’s Gate,
Westminster
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LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 12th - 18th June

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!

LGBT TV and radio

World Cup, Big Bro and Come Dine with Me. That’s about it!

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 12th

Terrestrial

BBC1 - 7.30: National Lottery. Dale Winton
C4 - 4.05: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9.45: Big Bro. Now we know there’s a lesbian, a bi-man and a bi-woman in it

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.45: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.30: American Dad
Dave - 10.10: QI
Sky3 - 1: Hairspray: The Musical

Satellite and cable
Sky 1 - 8: Pineapple Dance Studios
Comedy Central - 9am: Frasier
Comedy Central - 10am: Everybody Loves Raymond
FX - 8: American Dad
FX - 9: Family Guy

Film
Drama/Romance - 8: Mamma Mia!
Premiere - 10: Bruno. Opinion dividing mock-u-mentary

Sunday 13th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10am: The Big Questions
C4 - 1.25: Glee. Repeat from Friday
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 10: Family Guy
BBC HD - 2.55am: Beautiful People
BBC4 - 10: Mrs Henderson Presents. Touching and camp portrait of Laura Henderson, the widow who ran the Windmill and kept it open during the war, with nude women to keep up the brave soldiers’ morale. Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Will Young star. Directed by Stephen Frears
E4 - 9: Desperate Housewives
More4 - 5.10: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios
Living - 8am: Will and Grace
Living - 6: Grey’s Anatomy
Comedy Central Extra - 6: Frasier
Comedy Central Extra - 9: Sex and the City
Bio - 8.30: Lindsay Lohan

Monday 14th
BBC1 - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Big Bro
C4 - 11.15: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBCHD - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
BBC4 - Storyville: Valentino; The Last Emperor. Profile of fashion designer Valentino Garavani
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Glee
More4 - 12midnight: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Comedy Central - 5.10: Frasier
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 3: Lindsay Lohan

Tuesday 15th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 11.35: The Graham Norton Show. Rpt.
C4 - 8.35am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 9: QI
More4 - 9 and 11.55: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Classics - 10.50: the Wizard of Oz. The film that led to the phrase ‘Friends of Dorothy’.

Wednesday 16th

Terrestrial
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 10: Desperate Housewives

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.45: American Dad
Dave - 10.10: QI
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Sky Arts1 - 12.30am: What the Dickens?
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Premiere - 10: Bruno
Modern Greats - 1.40am: Lenny

Thursday 17th
ITV1 - 8.30: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey scripted this one
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 9: Big Bro
C4 - 11.10: Skins

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.05: Family Guy
BBCHD - 11.50: Torchwood
Dave - 10.10: QI
ITV2 - 11: Coronation Street. Rpt
Yesterday - 10: Who Do You think you Are? Julian Clary
E4 - 11: Glee
More4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Pineapple Dance Studios
Sky1 - 9.30: Modern family
Sky Arts1 - 12.30am: What the Dickens?
Living - 9: Grey’s Anatomy
FX - 10: American Dad
FX - 11.05: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 2 & 8: Come Dine with Me

Film
Classics - 9: Georgy Girl. With Alan Bates

Friday 18th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10.35: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. With the cast of Glee
BBC2 - 9.30: QI
C4 - 8.25: Frasier
C4 - 10.40am: Will and Grace. Last one ever made
C4 - 8.35: Glee
C4 - 9.35: Big Bro
Five - 10: Grey’s Anatomy

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
BBCHD - 10.35: As BBC1
Dave - 10.10: QI
Yesterday - 11: A Very British Sex Scandal
E4 - 9: Gok’s Fashion Fix
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me
Film4 - 12.40am: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Roddy McDowell

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Pineapple dance Studios
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Radio

Saturday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding on the South Downs Way
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Saturday Live. Sian Norris about growing up with two mums.
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: The News Quiz Sandi Toksvig. Last one
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Poetry Please. Siegfried Sassoon
BBC Radio 7 - 7: Daphne du Maurier: Frenchman’s Creek

Sunday 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady. With music by Lea DeLaria
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Ditto
BBC Radio 7 - 4.30: The News Quiz

Monday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30: Ken Bruce. With Cathy Dennis on Tracks of My Years
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini

Tuesday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30: Ken Bruce. With Cathy Dennis on Tracks of My Years
BBC Radio 2 - 10: Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City. Music from the time when it wasn’t right to go to South Africa
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Tag Me Amadeus. Sue Perkins on sonic branding

Wednesday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30: Ken Bruce. With Cathy Dennis on Tracks of My Years
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Bear pit debate that often touches on LGBT issues; often very negatively

Thursday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30: Ken Bruce. With Cathy Dennis on Tracks of My Years
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Ramblings. See Saturday
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC World Service - 12, 3pm and 8pm: Assignment - Gay Pride and Prejudice in Kenya

Friday 18th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
6 Music - 7: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 12noon & 7: Round the Horne
BBC World Service - 1am: Assignment - Gay Pride and Prejudice in Kenya (rpt)

Local and web

If you want us to tell everyone about your radio broadcasts, email fenwicktony[at]hotmail.com

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

Radio North Manchester 106.6 FM
Sundays - 11am: Passport. Also look out for their women's programmes

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

Black British Lesbian History Project: Contributions and Volunteers Needed

Like so much of LGBT History the specific experience of black British lesbians is being lost. The books are out of print and the memories are fading for not always being shared. Nazmia Jamal has created a new online chronology to try and preserve this memory.

The basis for the Black British lesbian timeline is the chronology printed in Valerie Mason-John & Ann Khambatta's 1993 book Lesbians Talk Making Black Waves.

This is the first step in a larger archive project. Nazmia is planning to apply for funding over the summer to set up a proper website. But in the meantime she needs your help. If you have any images, documents, publications, banners, memories etc that you would like to share please do get in touch.

If you know of any groups, events, meetings or publications (however short lived) that should be added to this timeline please add them to the blog (as a comment) or email nazmiaijamal@gmail.com

Nazmia is particularly interested in lesbian, queer or feminist history around the UK from 1993 onwards.

Please email above if you

* have information that can be added to the timeline
* would be interested in being interviewed for the history project
* are able to conduct an interview or do some research for the timeline
* could build us a proper website

Note that Nazmia is using the definition of 'black' that the London Black Lesbian and Gay Centre used, i.e. those who are “descended (through one or both parents) from Africa, Asia (i.e. the Middle East to China, including the Pacific nations) and Latin America, and lesbians and gay men descended from the original inhabitants of Australasia, North America, and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.”

Amaechi on Sports People Coming Out

In a remarkably clear and astute article, former US basketball player and LGBT History Month patron John Amaechi explains why coming out is still such a problem for any professional sportsperson.

In the hard-hitting article, Amaechi acknowledges the role of homophobic chants from the football crowds as being a barrier towards players asserting their sexual orientation, but he firmly puts the blame for the homophobia that is endemic in the sporting world at the door of the owners, directors and managers of sports teams and event organisers, as well as the media.

You can read the full article on John's blog here.

South African Lesbian Football Team Offers Sanctuary

Many people see South Africa, with its famously liberal constitution, as a bastion of sexual freedom on the continent.

But in some townships, gay women in particular experience homophobic abuse, rape and murder.

The BBC's Andrew Harding has been finding out how football has given one group of gay women sanctuary in South Africa; watch his 2min11 report here.

Portugal Legalises Same-Sex Marriage

Same sex marriage officially become legalised in Portugal on Saturday, the 5th of June.

Portugal thus became the sixth country in the European elite to ratify same-sex marriage (as opposed to civil partnerships), joining Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and neighbouring Spain. Outside Europe, only Canada and South Africa celebrate same-sex marriage.

Nepal is expected to be next. This will make Australasia the only continent without a state that allows same-sex marriage.

Portugal's most famous footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is on record as having vocally supported the new law.

You can find out the status of the recognition of same-sex relationships in Europe on wikipedia here and in the world in general here.

Canary by Jonathan Harvey

"We're the litmus test of whether a society respects human rights. We are the canaries in the mine."

Jonathan Harvey, author of Beautiful Thing and Beautiful People, and writer on Coronation Street comes back with an ambitious new play that explores the experience of the LGBT community over the past fifty year; from clandestine love with the risk of prison or aversion therapy to the liberation movement, the AIDS crisis and the current relative acceptance.

In 1960’s Liverpool Tom and Billy hide in the closet, then go their separate ways. As pits close and the dole queues grow, Mickey and Russell escape to find Heaven in 1980’s London. But today the paparazzi turn judge and jury over a love story that could tear this family apart. And then Ellie gets lost up a mountain with a vicar...

The play includes appearances by Mary Whitehouse and Margaret Thatcher.

Reviews:
- Canary at the Hampstead Theatre, review - The Telegraph
- Canary, Liverpool Playhouse - The Observer
- Canary, Liverpool Playhouse - The Guardian
- Canary is camp, brash, brave and bombastic - The Evening Standard
- Canary - WhatsOnStage

Canary
by Jonathan Harvey,
directed by Hettie Macdonald,
Designed by Liz Ascroft
On tour: 24 April - 3 July 2010

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE 19 May - 12 June
CAMBRIDGE ARTS THEATRE 15 - 19 June
MALVERN THEATRES 22 - 26 June
BRIGHTON THEATRE ROYAL 29 June - 3 July

Moscow Pride Goes Ahead

Moscow Pride went ahead this year, despite its ban by the Mayor. After hoodwinking the authorities with a number of red herrings, a few hundred marchers went ahead with a fifteen minute Pride march and demonstration in a Moscow thoroughfare. They were joined by Peter Tatchell as they chanted "No to homophobia!"

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 5th - 11th June

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!

LGBT TV and radio

World Cup Kicks off on Friday. All those testosterone spurting heterosexual players with (or without) there shopaholic, cocktail sipping WAGs. Stereotyping aside, there’s nothing on telly this week. Hope the weather’s good.

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 5th

Terrestrial

BBC1 - 7.30: National Lottery. Dale Winton
ITV1 - 7.30: Britain’s Got Talent – The End
C4 - 3.55: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 7: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Ian McKellen

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.05: Family Guy
BBC3 - 10.50: American Dad
Sky3 - 1: Hairspray: The Musical

Satellite and cable
Comedy Central - 9am: Frasier
Comedy Central - 10am: Everybody Loves Raymond
FX - 8: American Dad
FX - 9: Family Guy

Sunday 6th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 10am: The Big Questions
BBC1 - 8: The British TV Awards. Graham Norton at The London Palladium. Stephen Fry and John Hurt are up for an award
C4 - 1: Glee. Repeat from Friday

Freeview
BBC3 - 10: Family Guy
BBC HD - 11.55: Beautiful People
BBC4 - 7: Joan Sutherland: The Reluctant Prima Donna
E4 - 9: Desperate Housewives
More4 - 5.10: Come Dine with Me
Film4 - 9: Tina; What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios
Living - 8am: Will and Grace
Living - 11am: Will and Grace
Living - 6: Grey’s Anatomy
Comedy Central Extra - 10am: The King of Queens
Comedy Central Extra - 6: Frasier
Comedy Central Extra - 9: Sex and the City

Film
Classics - 10.30: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Indie - 3.50: Milk

Monday 7th
BBC1 - 10.50: The Graham Norton Show
BBC2 - 7: Tammy Wynette: ‘til I Can Make It on My Own
C4 - 7am: everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 7.50am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.20: Family Guy
BBCHD - 10.35: The Graham Norton Show
BBC4 - Storyville: Valentino; The Last Emperor. Profile of fashion designer Valentino Garavani
Dave - 9: QI
E4 - 9: Glee
E4 - 10: Gleeful. Real life Glee, if you please
More4 - 12midnight: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Comedy Central - 5.10: Frasier
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 3: Lindsay Lohan

Tuesday 8th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 11.05: The Graham Norton Show. Rpt.
BBC1 - 11.50: James Dean. Biopic
C4 - 7am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 7.50am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.20: Family Guy
Dave - 9: QI
Sky3 - 6: Hairspary: The Musical
More4 - 9 and 11.30: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 11am: Pineapple Dance Studios
Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 11: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Wednesday 9th

Terrestrial
BBC2 - 10: QI. Rpt.
C4 - 7am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 7.50am: Frasier
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 9: Big Brother Launch. Oh yes!
C4 - 10.35: Desperate Housewives. John Barrowman as the heterosexual from Hell

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.30: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.15: American Dad
ITV2 - 9: Alexander. Colin Farrell as the Hellenic hero
E4 - 9: Derren Brown: Evening of Wonders
Sky3 - 6: Hairspray: The Musical
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Sky Arts2 - 7am: Brian Sewell’s Grand Tour
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Thursday 10th
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Big Bro
C4 - 11.10: Skins

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Sky3 - 6: Hairspray: The Musical
More4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Modern Family
Living - 9: Grey’s Anatomy
FX - 10: American Dad
FX - 11.05: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 2 & 8: Come Dine with Me

Friday 11th

Terrestrial
C4 - 10.35am: Will and Grace
C4 - 12.25: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 8: Glee
C4 - 9: Big Bro
Five - 9: The Mentalist
Five - 10: Grey’s Anatomy

Freeview
BBC3 - 12.05am: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Gok’s Fashion Fix
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film
Premiere - 10: Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen paradoxically challenges and fuels international homophobia at the same time. There are two versions of this movie on release in the UK. This is the ‘18’ one

Radio

Saturday 5th
BBC radio 2 - 1: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton
BBC radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding on the South Downs Way
BBC radio 4 - 12.30: The News Quiz Sandi Toksvig
BBC radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC radio 4 - 8: Archive on 4: The Mary Whitehouse Effect. Includes her use of the blasphemy law to destroy the Gay Times
BBC radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini

Sunday 6th
BBC radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC radio 2 - 3: Sounds of the 70s. With Boy George
BBC radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Ditto
BBC radio 7 - 4.30: The News Quiz

Monday 7th
BBC radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC radio 4 - 10.45am: Leaving Normal. Gay couple Sammi and Luke suddenly have to become parents
BBC radio 4 - 1.30: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini
BBC radio 4 - 11pm: Off the Page: Shoulda Put A Ring On It - includes Stella Duffy on marriage (rpt)

Tuesday 8th
BBC radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC radio 4 - 10.45am: Leaving Normal. Gay couple Sammi and Luke suddenly have to become parents

Wednesday 9th
BBC radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC radio 4 - 10.45am: Leaving Normal. Gay couple Sammi and Luke suddenly have to become parents
BBC radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Bear pit debate that often touches on LGBT issues; often very negatively

Thursday 10th
BBC radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC radio 4 - 10.45am: Leaving Normal. Gay couple Sammi and Luke suddenly have to become parents
BBC radio 4 - 3: Ramblings. See Saturday
BBC radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC radio 7 - 6: Oscar Wilde’s Canterville Ghost. Charming tale of the New World family that refuses to be haunted

Friday 11th
BBC radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC radio 4 - 10.45am: Leaving Normal. Gay couple Sammi and Luke suddenly have to become parents
BBC radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz
6 Music - 7: Tom Robinson
BBC radio 7 - 12noon & 7: Round the Horne

Local and web

If you want us to tell everyone about your radio broadcasts, email fenwicktony[at]hotmail.com

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

Radio North Manchester 106.6 FM
Sundays - 11am: Passport. Also look out for their women's programmes

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

Exhibition: The Holocaust Against the Roma and Sinti and Present Day Racism

The third edition of Gypsy, Roma and Taveller History Month is taking place this month. To mark the event, a mobile exhibition entitled ''The Holocaust against the Roma and Sinti and present day racism in Europe,'' will take place in east London.

This is the first mobile English-language exhibition on the Nazi genocide against the Sinti and Roma. The prime goal of the exhibition is to examine the holocaust against the Roma and Sinti, and, above all, the extent to which Europe as a whole was involved. The comprehensive final part of the exhibition focuses on present-day racist discrimination against the Sinti and Roma.

In most European countries today the vast majority of people remain totally unaware of the National Socialist genocide of the Roma and Sinti minority which claimed some 500,000 victims during the Second World War. As a consequence of the failure to overcome this ignorance the racist clichés and stereotypes about the Roma and Sinti, which were heavily influenced by Nazi propaganda, persist until the present day. These prejudices, passed down the generations, are among the main reasons for the perpetual wave of racially motivated crimes of violence which are still being committed against the Roma and Sinti in Europe today. Roma and Sinti suffer discrimination and prejudice in all social strata: a disadvantaged minority numbering some 10 million.

Against this backdrop, the exhibition seeks to impart a greater appreciation of the past in an attempt to help dissolve current situations of conflict. In focussing on the Holocaust against the Roma and Sinti and its European dimension, the main aim is to expose a crime against humanity which to this day eludes all historical comparison and remains unimaginable in its enormity. Like the Jews, the Roma and Sinti were rounded up, disenfranchised, ghettoised and finally deported to the extermination camps, all in the name of National Socialist racial ideology. With no respect for persons and individuals, National Socialism subjected infants and the elderly alike to the same de-humanising treatment. The National Socialists denied these people the right to exist, collectively and definitively, merely because they had been born Sinti, Roma or Jews.

As regards content, the exhibition is subdivided into four areas. The first part documents the beginning disenfranchisement of the German Roma and Sinti following the National Socialist accession to power up to the outbreak of the Second World War and the first deportations to occupied Poland. The second part of the exhibition covers the genocide of the Roma and Sinti in Nazi-occupied Europe. The exhibition seeks to highlight the distinctive features of the persecution in the different occupied and allied states, against the backdrop of the overarching themes common to the National Socialist extermination policy. The third major area documents the systematic homicide of Sinti and Roma from virtually every European country in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

Finally, the fourth part of the exhibition picks out the main developments since 1945 in Europe, turning the spotlight on the public avoidance to confront and acknowledge the Nazi genocide against the Roma and Sinti and on the emergence of the civil rights movement in the Federal Republic. One particular emphasis is on current forms of discrimination against the national Roma and Sinti minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Using selected examples, the exhibition demonstrates that Roma and Sinti are increasingly subject to open and violent racism and continued social prejudice.

Holocaust against the Roma Sinti exhibition
2 - 20 June.
The Art Pavilion
Mile End Arts Park off grove Road
Tower Hamlets
London E35BH
12:00 - 6:00pm Tuesday - Saturday
12:00 - 4:00pm sundays.
There will be a late night showing on June 3rd untill 10pm.

Official Launch Event
8 June, 1:30 – 4pm
Reception hosted by the German Embassy
Confirmed speakers include Mr Romani Rose, the respected academic and writer about the Roma Sinti Holocaust, Donald Kenrick, the deputy German Ambassador Dr.Eckhard Lübkemeier, and Romany Academic Damian Le Bas Jr.
RSVP: evasajovic@yahoo.com