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