Edwin Morgan 1920-2010

LGBT History Month UK has learned from its Scottish sister that Scottish poet Edwin Morgan passed away in his beloved hometown of Glasgow on August 17th. He was ninety-years-old. An obituary can be seen here
http://www.list.co.uk/article/28651-scottish-poet-laureate-edwin-morgan-dies-aged-90/

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 30th - 3rd September

• Monday

Terrestrial

BBC2

9 Dragon’e Den. Evan Davis

10 Grandma’s House.

ITV1

7.30 Corrie. Sophie and Sian are outed

8.30 Corrie. Will Hayley make it to the wedding?

C4

5 Come Dine with Me. Wait for it...New Series!

10 Ultimate Big Bro

11.10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man rpt.

Freeview

BBC3

11.30 Family Guy

BBC HD
9 Dragons Den. Evan Davis presents

10 Grandma’s House

BBC4

9 In Their Own Words: British Novelists. 3/3 1970-90. Includes Angela Carter

Dave

6.20-9 QI Back-to back

ITV2

2.10am Corrie rpt.

ITV4

9 Benidorm

E4

10pm the Sex Education Show. Am I Normal? (rpt)

11.05 Shameless (rpt)

More4

6.10 Come Dine with Me

Sky3

9 Sex Change

Satellite and Cable

Gold

8.40am-9pm Carry On films

10.35 French and Saunders. A parody of Lord of the Rings with Dale Winton

Comedy Central Extra 9am-9pm Frasier Back-to-back

FX

9.15 Family Guy

Discovery Real Time

12.30 Come Dine with Me

Film

Sky Box Office

I Love You Phillip Morris. Jim Carrey as gay conman Stephen Russell and Ewan McGregor as Phillip Morris are lovers in this flawed but intriguing comedy drama

Classics

10.05am&5.50 The Wizard of Oz

2.35am Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. I’m writing a letter to Daddy...

• Tuesday

Terrestrial

BBC2

8 The Great British Bake Off. Mel and Sue look at what’s in the oven. It’s all about bread this week

C4

8.40am Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

5 Come Dine with Me

7.55 4Thought. Should faith schools be banned?

8 Ultimate Big Bro

Freeview

BBC3

11 Family Guy

BBC HD

11 Grandma’s House (rpt)

BBC4

12.50am Scissor Sisters at Glastonbury

1.50am Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury

Dave

9 QI

10 QI

Film4

11am Film: I Was a Male War Bride. Cary Grant

Satellite and Cable

Sky Arts1

6&8 Hay Sessions. Stephen Fry

FX

10 Family Guy

11True Blood

Discovery Real Time

2 Come Dine with Me

Film

Classics

12.20 Spartacus. Tony Curtis camps it up with Laurence Olivier in a scene that was banned until 1991

• Wednesday

Terrestrial

C4

8.40 Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

5 Come Dine with Me

8 How to Look Good Naked

10 Ultimate Big Brother

11.40 School of Comedy. Lesbian War. No, I don’t know either

Freeview

BBC3

11 Family Guy

11.45 American Dad

E4

9 Ugly Betty

More4

9 The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins pseudo religious quackery with Derren Brown

Film4

11am Spanish Gardener. Dirk Bogarde

Fiver

11.25 Californication

Satellite and Cable

Gold

8 Heroes of Comedy. Frankie Howerd

Comedy Central

9am and 8pm Frasier

FX

9 American Dad

Discovery Real Time

2 Come Dine with Me

Film

Crime/Thriller

Modern Greats

10.10 Thelma and Louise

Classics

1am Pillow Talk. Day/Hudson comedy

• Thursday

BBC2

11.20 Nurse Jackie (rpt)

ITV1

8.30 Coronation Street. Sophie and Sian run away

C4

8.40am Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

5 Come Dine with Me

10 Ultimate Big Brother

Freeview

BBC3

9 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live. Includes Stephen K. Amos

11 Family Guy

ITV2

12.45am Corrie rpt.

E4

10.35 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Rpt.

More4

10 Southland

Satellite and Cable

Sky Arts1

7 Andy Warhol’s Factory People

FX

9Family Guy

10 American Dad

Discovery Real Time

2 & 8 Come Dine with Me

Film

Indie

12.10 Milk

• Friday

Terrestrial

C4

8.45am Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

5 Come Dine with Me

9 & 10.35 Ultimate Big Brother

Freeview

BBC3

11.05 Family Guy

BBC HD
9.30 Grandma’s House (rpt)

BBC4

11.50 Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury

Dave

9 & 11.40 QI

Satellite and Cable

Sky Arts1

11.20 Never Apologise. Malcolm McDowell on Lindsay Anderson

Radio

• Monday

1

4 Scott Mills

2

11 Jools Holland. With guest Julian Clary

4

10.45am&7.45 Book of the Week: Dusty Answer by Rosamung Lehmann

12.02 Humph Celebration Concert. Humphrey Lyttleton Tribute with contributions from Sandi Toksvig

4.30 Beyond Belief. A Christian, a Hindu and a Druid explain disability from their perspective

6.30 Just a Minute. Stephen K. Amos

• Tuesday

1

4 Scott Mills

4

10.45am&7.45 Book of the Week: Dusty Answer by Rosamung Lehmann

11.30 Ford Madox Ford and France 2/2

4.30 Great Lives. Matthew Parris presents. Eleanor Bron on Simone Weil, French philosopher and mystic

• Wednesday

1

4 Scott Mills

4

9am and 9.30 Fry’s English Delight. 3/4. Stephen Fry on the future of the English language

10.45am&7.45 Book of the Week: Dusty Answer by Rosamung Lehmann

• Thursday

1

4 Scott Mills

4

10.45am&7.45 Book of the Week: Dusty Answer by Rosamung Lehmann

• Friday

1

4 Scott Mills

4

10.45am&7.45 Book of the Week: Dusty Answer by Rosamung Lehmann

4 Last Word

9 The History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor

6

7 Tom Robinson

7

12noon & 7 Round the Horne

Local: BBC Radio Manchester: LGBT Citizen every Monday at 9pm

Galaxy North East James Barr Monday – Friday 7pm http://www.galaxynortheast.co.uk/james-barr-6660

No Same-Sex marriage Yet in California

Hopes that Californian same-sex couples could tie the knot from this week were dashed on Tuesday when the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld proposition 8, which states that marriage must be between a man and a woman.

Activists were disappointed but not surprised by the three-judge ruling, aware that it’s going to be a battle every step of the way.

The good news for Californians is that an appeal against Prop 8 is set for December 6th.

Charity Commission Denies Charity the Right to Discriminate

A Roman Catholic adoption charity's appeal to be allowed to discriminate against gay people wanting it to place children with them has been rejected.

Catholic Care wanted exemption from new anti-discrimination laws so it could limit services provided to homosexual couples on religious grounds.

The Charity Commission said gay people were suitable parents and religious views did not justify discrimination.

The Leeds-based charity said it was "very disappointed". But Celia Gardiner, of the Roman Catholic Caucus of the Lesbian and gay Christian movement was "delighted" at the news, adding that the proposed amendment offended many catholics.

Catholic Care - which had been placing children with adoptive parents for more than 100 years - was among a dozen Catholic agencies in England and Wales forced to change their policy towards homosexual people by the equality laws passed in 2007.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 21st - 27th August

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

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

• Saturday

Terrestrial

BBC1

7.10 Tonight’s the Night. John Barrowman turns the Jim’ll Fix It formula into a whole variety show

BBC2

4.40 The Great British Bake Off (rpt)

10.45 Grandma’s House. Simon Amstell writes and acts (rpt)

ITV1

7.30 The X Factor

10 The Bourne Identity. Film starring Matt Damon

C4

4 Come Dine with Me Extra Portions

7 Elizabeth. The “Virgin Queen” gets the Starkey treatment. Last one of 4

9 Big Bro

Five

12.35 Going the Distance Movie Special. Drew Barrymore on her latest movie

11.55 Don’t Stop Believers

Freeview

BBC3

10.35 Family Guy

Dave

8.20 QI

ITV2

6am Corrie Omnibus. Last half-hour scripted by Jonathan Harvey

E4

6 Ugly Betty

Satellite and cable

Sky 1

2pm Pineapple Dance Studios

Comedy Central

9am Frasier

FX

8.30 and 11.30 American Dad

10.15 Family Guy

Discovery Real Time

4.30 Come Dine with Me

Film

Classics

12.25am Giant

TCM

7 Little Man Tate. Jodie Foster

• Sunday

Terrestrial

BBC2

10.50 Madmen

ITV1

9.25 Corrie Omnibus

C4

4.30 Ugly Betty

7 Sister Act. Film with Whoopi Goldberg

9 Big Bro

10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Drew Barrymore

11.25 V Festival. Includes Pet Shop Boys gig

Five

11.10am Don’t Stop Believing

5.30 Don’t Stop Believing. Duncan James judges

Freeview

Dave

9 &11.40 QI

E4

6 Glee

More4

5.05 Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable

FX

11.25 True Blood

Discovery Real time

12noon Come Dine with Me

Film

Showcase

6 West Side Story

Classics

1.35am Whatever happened to Baby Jane?

• Monday

Terrestrial

BBC2

9 Dragon’e Den. Evan Davis

10 Grandma’s House. Gay comic Simon falls in love with Ben, who is brought under the family microscope

C4

8.45am Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

1.25 Come Dine with Me

10 Big Bro. It’s nearly over

11.10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man rpt.

Freeview

BBC3

11 Family Guy

BBC HD

9 Dragons Den. Evan Davis presents

BBC4

9 In Their Own Words: British Novelists. 1/3 Among the Ruins. Twentieth century history of the British novel. This episode focuses on 1919-39 and features Virginia Woolf

10 The Hours. Award winning film about three women in three different eras, with a great performance of Virginia Woolf by Nicole Kidman

ITV2

11.45 Inside Man. Thriller starring Jodie Foster

ITV3

7.50 Jeeves and Wooster. Fry and Laurie

ITV4

9 Benidorm

E4

10pm the Sex Education Show. Am I Normal? (rpt)

11.05 Shameless (rpt)

Sky3

9 Sex Change

Fiver

8 Don’t Stop Believing

Satellite and Cable

FX

9.15 Family Guy

Discovery Real Time

2 Come Dine with Me

Film

Modern Greats

8 A Beautiful Mind

• Tuesday

Terrestrial

BBC2

5.15 Escape to the Country. Alistair Appleton

8 The Great British Bake Off. Mel and Sue look at what’s in the oven

10 Grumpy Old Holidays. Matthew Parris is there to show that gay men can be old and grumpy too

C4

8.45am Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

1.25 Come Dine with Me

7.55 Stephen K. Amos on freedom of speech in comedy

8 Big Bro Final. Is it me, or has it come to an abrupt end this year? Or is it really the end?

Freeview

BBC3

11 Family Guy

BBC HD

11 Grandma’s House (rpt)

BBC4

8.30 Britain by Bike. Clare Balding in Lancashire and West Yorkshire

Dave

9 QI

Satellite and Cable

FX

10 Family Guy

11True Blood

Discovery Real Time

2 Come Dine with Me

Film

Modern Greats

8 Thelma and Louise

Comedy

10 Bruno. Repeated at 2.45am

Classics

5 Rebel without a Cause

2am Giant

• Wednesday

Terrestrial

BBC2

5.15 Escape to the Country. Alistair Appleton presents

C4

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

1.25 Come Dine with Me

8 How to Look Good Naked

10 Ultimate Big Brother. Ah

Five

6.25 Don’t Stop Believers

Freeview

BBC3

10.35 Family Guy

11.20 American Dad

E4

9 Ugly Betty

More4

9 The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins on religion

Fiver

11.25 Californication

Satellite and Cable

Sky Arts1

9 Morrissey Live

Sky Arts2

3 Edith Piaf

Comedy Central

9am and 8pm Frasier

FX

9.15 American Dad

Discovery Real Time

2 Come Dine with Me

Film

Crime/Thriller

9 Silence of the Lambs

TCM

11 Carrington. Drama about the love between Dora Carrington and gay writer Lytton Strachey

• Thursday

Terrestrial

BBC2

11.20 Nurse Jackie (rpt)

ITV1

8.30 Coronation Street. The Sophie and Sian story develops

C4

8.45am Frasier

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

1.25 Come Dine with Me

10 Ultimate Big Brother

Freeview

BBC3

11 Family Guy

E4

10.35 Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Rpt.

More4

10 Southland

Satellite and Cable

FX

10 American Dad

9.15 & 11.05 Family Guy

Discovery Real Time

2 & 8 Come Dine with Me

Film

Classics

12.25 West Side Story

Family

8 the Wizard of Oz

• Friday

Terrestrial

BBC1

8.30 QI

9 My Family

BBC2

11am Holiday. Cary Grant film

12.35 His Girl Friday. Another Cary Grant film

ITV1

8.30 Corrie. Jonathan Harvey scripted this one

C4

8.40am Frasier

9.05 Scissor Sisters Special

12.05 Brothers and Sisters

12.55 Come Dine with Me

9 & 10.35 Ultimate Big Brother

Freeview

BBC3

12midnight Family Guy

BBC HD

9.30 Grandma’s House (rpt)

Dave

9 & 11.40 QI

More4

10.50 Heroes of Comedy. Kenneth Williams

Film4

2.40 I Was a Male War Bride. Cary Grant again

Alibi

10 The Krays

Satellite and Cable

Sky Arts2

9.25 Bernstein: Serenade

Discovery Real Time

2 Come Dine with Me

Film

Classics

12.15 Giant

Radio

• Saturday

2

1 Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton

6 Going Out with Alan Carr

8 Paul Gambaccini

10.30 And the Winner Is...Matt Lucas presents (rpt)

4

10 Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig

4 Weekend Woman’s Hour

• Sunday

2

1 Elaine Page. Stage musicals

5 Paul O’Grady

3

9.45 Sunday Feature: John Henry Newman: A Very English saint

4

7.10 Sunday

6.15 Pick of the Week. Tom Robinson

8.30 Last Word

• Monday

1

4 Scott Mills

2

11 Jools Holland. With guest Julian Clary

4

4.30 Beyond Belief. A Christian, a Hindu and a Druid explain disability from their perspective

6.30 Just a Minute

• Tuesday

1

4 Scott Mills

4

11.30 Ford Madox Ford and France

1.30 Star Spangled Hendrix. The eponymous rock legend is examined on the 40th anniversary of his death by Tom Robinson

4.30 Great Lives. Matthew Parris presents. Camila Batmanghelidjh on Mary Carpenter, saviour of Victorian children

• Wednesday

1

4 Scott Mills

2

10 Blonde on Blonde. Mariella Frostrup on Peggy Lee, including her formidable gay following

4

9am and 9.30 Fry’s English Delight. 2/4. Stephen Fry on the use of the negative in our linguistic heritage

• Thursday

1

4 Scott Mills

• Friday

1

4 Scott Mills

4

4 Last Word

6.30 Chain reaction. Ruby Wax

9 The History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor

6

7 Tom Robinson

7

12noon & 7 Round the Horne

Local: BBC Radio Manchester: LGBT Citizen every Monday at 9pm

Galaxy North East James Barr Monday – Friday 7pm http://www.galaxynortheast.co.uk/james-barr-6660