Sparkle Manchester this weekend

Sparkle! The biggest trans event in the world is held this weekend in Sackville Gardens, Manchester.
For full details go to www.sparkle.org.uk.

Chief sponsors of this year's Sparkle are Pink Punters of Milton Keynes, owners of the Rainbow Bus. Pink Punters' Joe McMahon said: " – The main event – Sparkle in the Park will be held in Sackville Gdns near Canal Street where there is a fantastic statue of Alan Turing. I am hoping to address the attendees at some point to highlight the Enigma Ball in November and to make reference to the Statue (just 50m from the stage) and the fantastic work carried out at Bletchley Park during WWII.

The Enigma Ball is another huge trans event; this one to be held in Pink Punters at Milton Keynes.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 10th - 16th 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

A grim week for us LGBT folk I fear. There’s a particular dearth of films

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 10th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 7.30: National Lottery. Dale Winton
C4 - 3.55: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.45: American Dad
Dave - 10.10: QI
Film4 - 11am: Doctor at Large. Dirk Bogarde

Satellite and cable
Sky 1 - 6.30: Modern Family
Comedy Central - 9am: Frasier
FX - 11.30: Family Guy

Sunday 11th

Terrestrial
C4 - 9.30: Big Bro
C4 - 10.30: Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Grace Jones, Gok Wan and Lilly Allen guest

Freeview
BBC3 - 10: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Desperate Housewives
More4 - 4.40: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios

Monday 12th

BBC2 - 9: Mary Queen of Shops. Mary Portas presents
C4 - 11am: Friends
C4 - 12.35: Will and Grace
C4 - 1: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10.30: Big Bro
C4 - 12.10am: Alan Carr: Chatty Man rpt.

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
E4 - 11: Shameless

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

Tuesday 13th

Terrestrial
ITV1 - 3: Celebrity Pressure Cooker. Guests Christopher Biggins
C4 - 8.20am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 1: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview

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

Satellite and cable
Gold - 7.20: Thin Blue Line
Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 9.30: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Wednesday 14th

Terrestrial
ITV1 - 7: Emmerdale
ITV1 - 7.30: Corrie
C4 - 8.20am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 8: How to Look Good Naked
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.45: American Dad

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

Film
Classics - 3.10: Giant

Thursday 15th
BBC1 - 7.30: Eastenders
C4 - 8.20am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 1: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10: Big Bro
C4 - 11.10: Skins

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
E4 - 10.35: Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Rpt.
More4 - 10: Southland

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 10.30: 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

Friday

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 8: Eastenders
BBC1 - 8.30: QI
ITV1 - 8.30: Corrie
C4 - 9 & 10.35: Big Bro
Five - 10.55: Grey’s Anatomy

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
E4 - 10: Supersize vs. Superskinny
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me
More4 - 8.30: The Boy Who Was Born a Girl. Trans doc

Satellite and Cable
Gold - 7.20: The Thin Blue Line
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Radio

Saturday 10th
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 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: Moral Maze

Sunday 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04: I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. Sandi Toksvig guests
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please. Includes Auden
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word

Monday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. Sandi Toksvig guests

Tuesday 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: A little More Love in the Afternoon

Wednesday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
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 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Friday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
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

Pansy Project Wins Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal

The Pansy Project has won a Gold Medal at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and has been named Best Conceptual Garden 2010.

An initiative by artist Paul Harfleet, the project marks the site of homophobic abuse by planting pansies. Each location is photographed and named after the abuse received; image above left "You Queer Cunt!" planted for Scally Dandan, Manchester.

The winning garden is a first time collaboration with garden designer and brother of the artist Tom Harfleet. Together they have designed a confrontational 'shattered' structure made of slabs of concrete placed at various gradients and under-planted with a total of four thousand pansies. This is intended to metaphorically reflect the disruptive nature of homophobic hate crime on contemporary society.

Paul Harfleet said if his award: "We're all thrilled and slightly overwhelmed. The response by the public visiting the show has been amazing."

The Hampton Court Palace Flower show runs until Sunday.

The Pansy Project
Flower power fights homophobia, the Guardian -7 July 2010

(picture courtesy of the Project)

Justin Fashanu In Extra Time

Born in 1961, Justin Fashanu was brought up by foster parents and by the children’s charity Barnardos.

At 14 he signed schoolboy forms with Norwich City FC, where he progressed through the ranks and played for the first team when he was in his late teens. His 1980 volley against Liverpool was the goal of the season and still claims its place in football’s all time great moments.

The following year, he was signed by Brian Clough and joined Nottingham Forest for one million pounds. He would go on to find fame and notoriety as the first black million pound footballer. And the first (and still only) openly gay Premiership player.

Sadly, he would end his own life at the age of 37.

The play begins when Justin arrives back in the UK (pursued by allegations of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in America) and takes us to his death in a lock-up garage a few hundred metres from where the play is taking place.

What kind of man was he? How had events in his life shaped his thinking? Why are the last known accounts of him said to be happy and positive?

The Saturday matinee at 2.30pm will be followed by a Q&A

Justin Fashanu In Extra Time
Thurs 8th-Saturday 10th July, 8pm
Richmix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Price £12 and £10 concessions
boxoffice: 020 7613 7498 or online

European Prides Diary: Czech PRIDE and shame 3

Clare Dimyon, who was recently given an honour for her work, sends us her impressions from her tour of the east-european prides (read part 1 here and part 2 here):

Sunday 27 June 2010 - 10:00

Wow! Even writing the date makes me tingle, 40 years since our first PRIDE parades, 41 years since the first resistance by LGBT people – all in my lifetime...just!

Up bright and early after a wonderfully deep sleep, the sun is shining and we are already bathed in heat. As “dobrovolnice” that’s volunteers...we have to be in the square for as soon after 10am as possible to help with the set up and the security. There’s one religious homophobe praying and trying to “protect” the statue of the Virgin Mary but since we are setting up the stage right next to it, I figure the dear lady has all the protection she needs but make a point of digging out the placards with the words of Jesus just to ward any foul homophobic spirits off us! Goodness me! Ordinary uniformed police are out in force even at this early hour. The outcome of Brno Queer Parade 2008 didn’t reflect too well on the Brno police so I anticipate they will be making every effort to demonstrate effective policing. Sadly that seems to involve closing down Freedom Square and the parade route but plenty of the members of the public are there already and they won’t be removed unless they commit a crime.

Late last night we heard that the lovely lesbian singer from Switzerland couldn’t come because her partner needed urgent and life critical surgery. She even sent an email filled with apology but where-else would we want her to be except at her partner’s bedside? This morning we heard of another couple who cancelled at the last minute due to serious health reasons, all a bit dispiriting for the organisers who are anyway in that awful moment of wondering if anyone will turn up! So we chat and help with preparing the stage and greet old friends as they arrive and McDonalds does a brisk trade with parade participants and robo-cops alike! They must be extraordinarily hot under all that gear. I am already baking in a tshirt.

The Queer.cz shop arrives and sets up and does a brisk trade in rainbow accoutrements and at 1pm prompt the speeches start with a welcome in the Brno dialect, which although my Czech is awful sounded just hilarious! Jiŕi Hromada, the veteran gay rights campaigner in the Czech Republic made a speech that was warmly received and so did Dzamila Stehlikova, the former Czech Minister for Human Rights and Minorities. Depressingly, this is a post the new right wing coalition has just abolished and it doesn’t seem like Czech L GBT people have much to hope for from the incoming government. The bizarre anomaly is that while there is legal provision for registered partnerships between two people of the same gender once you are registered partners you cannot adopt. Married heterosexuals can adopt and single lesbian and gay people can adopt but lesbian and gay people who are registered partners cannot. We had plenty of lovely music and some more speeches including from one of the organisers of the magnificent Dúhový PRIDE Bratislava, which took place only a month ago. Happily Brno and Bratislava are only a couple of hours apart.

Then for my speech which is much harder when you have to stop every couple of sentences to allow for translation, it’s quit hard to develop a “flow”. I tried to say a few words in Czech and some nice things about Brno and the Czech Republic and since some barmy (and very wonderful) Czech lesbian was holding up the Lesba Britskeho Imperia (Lesbian of the British Empire) in a mortifying way, I thought I’d better explain how unimaginable this idea was when I went on my first parade in London in 1985, 25 years ago. Anyhow, it seemed to go down well but it’s quite strange afterwards when everyone recognises you and you don’t recognise them and how they get to feel important because they think you are someone important. Well, whatever works!

So then a couple more speeches and greetings and we were off, flags and placards for a once round the centre of Brno...one man stopped me and asked me about my flags, I assumed he was friendly until I realised he was trying to SET FIRE to them with his cigarette lighter and the flags were only saved by the immediate presence of one of the unique Czech “anty-conflikt tym” – the anti-conflict team who shepherded him away but curiously didn’t arrest him, before my flags could catch fire. Off we went a little subdued at first but then the chanting got going and we waved our flags and had a great time. Then there was the obligatory smoke bomb, designed to make people fear tear gas I think but we soon realised it was a boring old smoke bomb and roared our disapproval and the robo-cops moved in to isolate the incident. Of course what we couldn’t see were the volumes of anti-protesters behind the barricades set up by police. I am caught between finding this depressing on the one hand and not wanting to give the too much attention as this is clearly what they want. It annoys me that after all the work of the PRIDE organisers who behave legally and non-violent, it is these gangs of thugs who get all the attention. I can’t help feeling that is exactly what they want.

We had our wonderful 40th birthday parade and returned to Freedom Square, where there were about three “God botherers” praying at the statue of Our Lady and were interfering in the interviews Czech television were trying to do with Jolana. They wanted us to move away from the statue as though we were in some way desecrating it and this really started getting on my nerves and it seemed a really bad idea to give into this because it was in some way accepting that we were a “desecration”. So I dug out my “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” and walked around the situation making sure the LGBT could see what the placard said. Sure enough smiles started breaking out and out came the cameras. Then I decided on a nice Quaker vigil standing by the statue, after all I am a religious person so of course I should be witnessing against religious inspired homophobia. One very persistent chap tried to move me to one side, I moved a little and explained sufficiently loudly for the police to hear, that I was a religious person and had a perfect right to stand with the Virgin Mary if I wanted to. The so called “religious” chap wasn’t happy about this and expected the cops to intervene which they...didn’t so I continue my Quaker vigil against homophobia. The words of Jesus desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary, I don’t think so matey! Anyhow a few minutes they slunk away and told me I was a “shame” and I replied, “No sir, it is homophobic attitudes that shame the church.” Is this the same Catholic Church whose “morality” has involved the wholesale sexual abuse of children? They can talk to me about morality in about....400 years time!

And we gathered later that evening to party the night away. Sadly all the extra expense of the security to ensure people didnt get hurt has left the organisers out of pocket so efforts are under way to raise some cash to make sure they are not out of pocket.

Meanwhile all attention turns to Budapest whose opening Ceremony is next Sunday 4th July! (and a few people in the region will be going to Vienna for their PRIDE next Saturday but as for me it is time for a break to restore my energy levels ready for Budapest and then Warsaw.

European Prides Diary: Czech PRIDE and shame 2

Clare Dimyon, who was recently given an honour for her work, sends us her impressions from her tour of the east-european prides (read part 1 here):

Thursday 25 June - 20:00

A lovely lazy day in bed waiting for the statement of support for Czech PRIDE – Brno Queer Parade to arrive from the British Embassy. It occurred to me to would be worth dropping an email to the embassies of the other PRIDE supporting countries just in case they could rustle something up for us at the last minute. When we have PRIDE Prague it will be a lot easier and it will be such fun parading over the Charles Bridge and having an Afterparty on one of the gorgeous bits of beach by the Vltava river.

Back to Brno 2010: Late in the afternoon the British Embassy statement of support arrives in both Czech and English, appearing on the home page of the embassy so I make sure it is posted all over the place on Facebook just in case it can help anyone feel more confident to come. Then we head out for the park and meet up with a gang making signs for the parade testing my Czech language to the full: “My wife is a lesbian and I tolerate it!” and a gorgeous rendition of the Brno Eagle a la Queer. The Czech LGBT seem rather pleased with the MBE so we make a sign “Lesba Britského Impéria” – Lesbian of the British Empire. It’s so embarrassing but people are so pleased so the only way to deal with it is to camp it up outrageously.

Then I remember the so called “religious” people from the last Brno Queer Parade in 2008 who “did their thing” at the shrine/statue of the Virgin Mary in the centre of the Freedom Square. As a Quaker and therefore a religious person it makes me cross that the argument is polarised between “religious” on the one hand and the LGBT and therefore “irreligious” on the other so suitably inspired I ask for a translation of two of Jesus’ more quotable quotes: “Judge not lest you be judged.” and “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” I paint them merrily onto cardboard carton with suitable guidance for the Czech diacritics (accents and hats). I can see this is a bit counter-intuitive for the LGBT who are having that usual cringe about “religious” things so I explain that even if you forget all arguments about human rights and base your arguments solely on the Bible, homophobia cannot possibly be justified. I talk about the difficulties of LGBT who have a Christian faith and those whose parents do and suggest that this is why it is necessary to engage in these arguments even if we do not share this religious faith.

We have a lovely time in the park, in the open, drinking beer and painting signs and admiring each others signs with slight apprehensions about the threat posed by the neo-fascists. Practical as ever Jolana makes a huge new sign “Gay Nazi Boys: Join us! We know you want” and teacher as ever I squeeze in “to” at the end. Curiously, this is a phrase that just doesn’t work in Czech and someone jokes maybe they won’t even be able to understand the English. I’m kind of hoping they won’t get near enough to be able to read it! The signs finished we all clear up and head home, and I go with a lovely lesbian couple who have offered to put me up for a couple of nights.


Saturday 26 June

Rainbow flag burning, nasty extremist incidents but a successful parade despite the constraints and adversities.
(I'm being upbeat but really it was awful - and it leaves the Czechs needing guidance from the Bulgarians which is just ridiulous!)

Pictures and press coverage (in Czech):

http://brnensky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/queer-parade-ochromi-stred-brna20100626.html

http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-44486960-brnem-sel-pruvod-homosexualu-policie-zabranila-stretu-s-odpurci

http://obrazem.ihned.cz/c1-44487750-bez-stretu-podivejte-se-jak-probihal-brnensky-pochod-homosexualu

http://www.lidovky.cz/brno-se-zmenilo-v-pevnost-proti-gayum-sli-krestane-a-radikalove-psx-/ln_domov.asp?c=A100626_115542_ln_domov_hrn

http://brno.idnes.cz/foto.asp?c=A100626_131934_brno-zpravy_zma&r=brno-zpravy&strana=1

http://www.pluska.sk/zahranicie/gayovia-lesby-pochodovali-brnom.html

European Prides Diary: Czech PRIDE and shame 1

Clare Dimyon, who was recently given an honour for her work, sends us her impressions from her tour of the east-european prides:

Thursday 24 June - 12:35

Sitting in a cafe in Prague before heading onto Brno (the second city of the Czech Republic) for Brno Queer Parade. I was at Tábor Queer Parade last year but in 2008 was in Prague for dear Czech friends wedding. An easy anniversary to remember! 27th June – the anniversary of Stonewall so I have no excuse to forget. And these dear Czech friends are like family, I have known them and they are the reason I first came to Czech Republic and stayed with them in 1996 so I am always delighted to be in Prague.

Hehe... shades of NYPD Blues, the Prague cops have just driven past with “Serve and protect” in Czech emblazoned on their cop car. It always makes me laugh!

Later today I shall take the Student Agency bus to Brno (hot tip: Goes from “Florenc” bus station -cheap, free drinks and WiFi all the way!) to stay with the wonderful Ms Navratilova, not quite “the” Ms Navratilova... but as a moving force behind the celebration of PRIDE in the Czech Republic, J is up there! Hilariously, Navratilova (and they don’t say quite the same as we do) is a very common Czech name, not quite Smith but close! It is fitting that one of the moving forces behind Czech PRIDE should share a name with someone who (for my money) changed the course of every lesbian’s life, certainly of my generation or older with first her courage to defect to the West in 1980-81 and then as soon as her Green Card and permission to stay in the States was confirmed coming out. People could not forget that they had admired her. I know she made my “coming out” a couple of years later much easier than it might have been.

And Martina who has now reclaimed her Czech citizenship to go alongside her American citizenship supported the first ever Czech PRIDE in Brno in 2008 with a letter of support. One of the world’s most renown Czechs is a lesbian, one of the world’s most renown lesbians is Czech, it can be no accident that while not perfect yet, the legal situation for LGBT in the Czech Republic is one of the most advanced in C&E Europe with Civil Partnerships and Czech embassies across C&E Europe regularly joining joint embassy actions in support of PRIDE parades and the human rights and dignity of LGBT people.

I’m hoping to take such a message of support to Brno this afternoon where the atmosphere is positive but a little apprehensive with neo-fascists venting their spleen on various websites and threatening counter-demonstrations. With the difficulties experienced at Brno QP in 2008, the apprehensions are realistic but optimism prevails following good organisation with the police and that unique Czech conception, the “anti-conflict team” an English concept unknown in the UK rendered into Czech spelling!

I’m looking forward to seeing my dear friends both Czech and Slovak since Brno is only an hour and half from Bratislava the capital of Slovakia, where Slovak LGBT are glowing from the magnificence of their first ever parade, the Dúhový PRIDE – Bratislava on Sat 22 May where they made not only Slovak and LGBT history but also marked the milestone that in this 40th birthday year, PRIDE has been to every country of the EU! Last but certainly not least!

PS: The name of the Czech town “Tábor” means “camp” – Czech LGBT seemed to enjoy that one! A bit like the Moldovan lesbian telling me that the Moldovan national anthem is in fact rather “lesbian”!

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 3rd - 9th 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

Go to Pride on Saturday and then tune in to Radio 4 on Thursday. Give the telly a miss.

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 3rd

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 8: National Lottery. Dale Winton
BBC2 - 8.40: Stephen Fry on Wagner. Rpt from BBC4
C4 - 3.55: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.40: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI

Satellite and cable
Sky 1 - 6.30: Modern Family
Comedy Central - 9am: Frasier
FX - 11.30: Family Guy

Film
Classics - 8: A Star is Born. Judy Garland classic
Classics - 6.10: The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Sunday 4th

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
E4 - 9: Desperate Housewives
More4 - 4.35: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and cable
Sky1 - 7: Pineapple Dance Studios

Film
Classics - 7.25: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Monday 5th
BBC2 - 9: Mary Queen of Shops. Mary Portas presents
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 10.55: Friends
C4 - 12.35: Will and Grace
C4 - 8: Big Bro
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal? Despite the spectacularly ghastly title, this show’ll probably have some really good content.
C4 - 11.40: Alan Carr: Chatty Man rpt.
Five - 10: Philadelphia. 1993 classic with Tom Hanks, Denzil Washington and Antonio Banderas

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.05: Family Guy
E4 - 11: Shameless

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

Film
Drama/Romance - 8: Mamma Mia!

Tuesday 6th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 7.30: Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers
ITV1 - 3: Celebrity Pressure Cooker. Guests Christopher Biggins
C4 - 8.15am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal?
C4 - 10: Big Bro

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 10.10: QI
More4 - 9: 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 - 4.50: West Side Story

Wednesday 7th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 7.30: Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers
BBC2 - 7: Mary Queen of Shops
C4 - 8.15am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 8: Big Bro
C4 - 9: Sex Education Show: Am I Normal?
C4 - 10: Desperate Housewives

Freeview
BBC3 - 9: Casanova. Film with Heath Ledger
BBC3 - 10.45: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.30: American Dad
Dave - 10.10: QI
E4 - 9: Gok’s Fashion Fix
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
Bio - 8.30: Sinead O’Connor

Film
Modern Greats - 8: A Beautiful Mind

Thursday 8th
C4 - 8.25am: Frasier
C4 - 10.30am: Everybody Loves Raymond
C4 - 1: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 8: Big Bro
C4 - 9: The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal?
C4 - 11.05: Skins

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
Dave - 9: 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

Friday 9th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 8.30: QI
ITV1 - 3: Celebrity Pressure Cooker. James Dreyfuss guests
C4 - 9 & 10.35: Big Bro
Five - 10.55: Grey’s Anatomy

Freeview
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 - 11: The Wizard of Oz

Radio

Saturday 3rd
BBC Radio 2 - 10: Jonathon Ross. With Kylie!
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 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Sunday 4th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word

Monday 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries. What was Errol Flynn doing down there?
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. Sandi Toksvig guests

Tuesday 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Grayson Perry on Creativity and the Imagination. The nation’s favourite transvestite on what it means to be creative. Rose Tremain and Terry Pratchett among the guests

Wednesday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
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 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: The History of the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15: Afternoon Play: Gerontius. Stephen Wyatt’s play examines the relationship between Cardinal Thomas Newman and Friar Ambrose. Derek Jacobi as Newman
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Front Row. Simon Callow guests
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Friday 9th
BBC Radio 2 - 7am: Graham Norton
BBC Radio 2 - 2: Dale Winton
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