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Same Sex Parenting Film Released in the UK

Posted on: October 30th, 2010 by History Month
>The Kids Are All Right, a film about lesbian parenting , was released in the UK this week. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, the affirmative film deals with parenting from the IVF stage and beyond. Cholodenko and Moore are both in the country...
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LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 7th – 13th August

Posted on: August 5th, 2010 by History Month
> 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...
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Radio: Hour-long Pride London Special

Posted on: June 18th, 2010 by History Month
>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...
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Gay Pride and Prejudice in Kenya

Posted on: June 17th, 2010 by History Month
>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...
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New Jewish Gay and Lesbian Radio Show Seeks Contributors

Posted on: May 28th, 2010 by History Month
>`The Joel Kafetz Show’ will go on air in just three weeks time… It will feature comedy, showbiz, celebrities, news, discussion and debate from a Jewish lesbian and gay point of view. The show will be broadcast online on JNet Radio every Sunday from 9-11pm GMT from June 13th...
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Prevalence of Homophobia’ – News Round Up

Posted on: May 25th, 2010 by History Month
>Following the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia launch of the ‘Prevalence of Homophobia’ surveys in the North West, the following news reports have appeared showing the true extent of homophobia in our schools. - Homophobic abuse rife in Liverpool schools by Marc Waddington, Liverpool Echo- Liverpool marks International...
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Middle C: A Year-Long Transition from Woman to Man

Posted on: May 11th, 2010 by History Month
>The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents the first person documentary Middle C, in which Tristan R. Whiston chronicles his year-long gender transition from woman to man – through the change in his singing voice. Tristan first performed as solo soprano at the age of six. Years of hard work led...
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BBC Radio 4 Seeks LGBT People in Residential Care

Posted on: May 3rd, 2010 by History Month
>Have you just moved into residential care or are you about to do so? Are you concerned about coming out to your fellow residents? The producer of a BBC Radio 4 documentary would love to speak to you! I am making a sensitive programme about the difficulties older gay...
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Writing the Century – “Once Upon a Time”

Posted on: April 20th, 2010 by History Month
>The BBC Radio 4 series that explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with “Once Upon A Time” by Amanda Whittington – a “touching, coming of age drama set in 1979 based on the diary of a gay teenager living in a Nottinghamshire...
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Radio Drama: Turing’s Test

Posted on: October 16th, 2009 by History Month
>History Boys and Desperate Romantics star Samuel Barnett plays Second World War Enigma code breaker Alan Turing in a new radio drama part of a pioneering experiment between The Independent and award-winning production company Made in Manchester (MIM). Turing’s Test is a fictional take on what might have been...
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Talking About Lionel

Posted on: December 6th, 2008 by History Month
>Eddie Mair tells the story of Lionel Bart, a sensitive, talented and troubled artist through interviews with those who knew him intimately. Lionel Bart was at one time the wunderkind of British musical theatre who reached dazzling heights of fame in the early 1960s with Britain’s most successful post-war...
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The Plotters Were Lovers

Posted on: December 2nd, 2008 by History Month
>Tuesday’s radio 4 drama: The Babington Plot examines the doomed attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and restore a catholic monarchy. The write-up says: At the centre of the story is the relationship between the “reluctant terrorist” Anthony Babington, whose youthful idealism was not matched by the required conviction,...

From the Ban to the Booker

Posted on: August 11th, 2008 by History Month
>Two programmes in which best-selling author Val McDermid examines the development of the lesbian novel. She looks at the furore surrounding Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, banned in 1928 because of its lesbian content. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was published in the same year but escaped the censor. The...
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Transexuals in Iran (updated)

Posted on: February 26th, 2008 by History Month 5 Comments
>BBC Two documentary explores why so many Iranians undergo sex change operations. Although homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in Iran, more sex change operations are carried out there than any other nation in the world apart from Thailand, with the government providing up to half the cost...
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The BBC and the Closet

Posted on: January 28th, 2008 by History Month 1 Comment
>Behind-the-scenes documentary on the BBC’s policy in dealing with gay men. Chris Ledgard recalls the battle within the BBC to make programmes about homosexuality in the 1950s and 60s. Contributors include former homosexual law reform campaigner Antony Grey, pioneering documentary maker Colin Thomas and historian Jean Seaton. The BBC...
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The Interview: Graeme Le Saux

Posted on: December 22nd, 2007 by History Month
>Graeme Le Saux is a footballer who had a successful career playing for top club Chelsea and representing England — but he never felt like he fitted in to the British football culture. He wasn’t keen on getting drunk or hanging out with his team-mates and he ended up...
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Our Pride in Preston

Posted on: December 5th, 2007 by History Month
>On Thursday December 6th between 7 and 9pm, Preston FM will be broadcasting Our Pride in Preston, a programme made by Preston LGBT Centre Group originally intended to be staged during LGBT History Month but instead adapted for radio. The programme is a series of linked monologues featuring people...
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Camden Community Radio Reports on the Month

Posted on: November 19th, 2007 by History Month
>In February 2007, the Camden LGBT Forum organised an event for almost every day of the month. Ben Cooper of the Camden Community Radio went along to the official launch of History Month in Camden, “Out in Camden 3″, on 12 February. There he met up with the organisers...
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Noel Coward Play Rediscovered

Posted on: October 11th, 2007 by History Month
>85 years after it was written, The Better Half, a one act play e by Noel Coward, has been rediscovered in the archive of the British Library. The play, despite its suggestions that women had sexual feelings, had escaped the Lord Chamberlain’s censure and had been performed in 1922,...
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What’s Gay on the Radio: 15th Sep. – 21st Sep.

Posted on: September 15th, 2007 by History Month
>We are trying a new service on this blog. We have decided to put together and bring you a weekly round up of the upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio. Some of the programmes listed below will remain available for listen again from the BBC’s website. Sat 15th Sept...
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The Sex Life of Us

Posted on: September 6th, 2007 by History Month 2 Comments
>Fifty years after the Wolfenden Report, BBC Radio 4 presents a two weeks series of programmes exploring sexuality in Modern Britain. The season encompasses a wide range of regulare Radio 4 programmes, from Front Row to Case Notes and Book at Bedtime, Woman’s Hour to Thinking Aloud and Am...
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Paul Patrick on BBC Lancashire

Posted on: September 3rd, 2007 by History Month
>Tomorrow morning at 8:00am, BBC Radio Lancashire will host an interview with Paul Patrick, Co-Chair of LGBT History Month, on the Wolfendon Report. You can listen to the Breakfast Show online (here) or through the radio. Breakfast ShowBBC Radio LancashireTuesday 4 September8:00am
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Maupin on Bookclub on Radio 4

Posted on: September 1st, 2007 by History Month
>The September edition of BBC Radio 4′s Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie will be discussing Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, the first in a serie of six books which began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in the mid-70s. Maupin created a utopian community that...
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Gene Robinson on BBC Radio 4

Posted on: August 28th, 2007 by History Month
>On Tuesday 28 August, Michael Buerk, presenter of The Choice, will interview the controversial ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson. The programme focuses on people from all walks of life about a choice they made which irrevocably altered their lives and takes them through the...
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John Waters on BBC Radio 4

Posted on: August 23rd, 2007 by History Month
>On Friday 24 August, veteran film director, John Waters, will be interviewed on BBC Radio 4′s Film Programme. The Programme reviews the latest cinema and DVD releases and films on TV. John Waters is a gay film director, author and visual artist famous for pushing the boundaries of conventional...

Tomboys and Bachelor Girls

Posted on: August 17th, 2007 by History Month
>In the late 1950’s Josie Pickering was leading a double life. By day she was a ‘proper’ 1950’s housewife – married and looking after her young children. But at night she visited the lesbian bars and clubs of Manchester. Eventually she left her husband for another woman. As the...
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Homosexuality and the Bible

Posted on: August 16th, 2007 by History Month
>On 30th July, BBC Radio 4 in their religious programme Beyond Belief explored the relation between homosexuality and the Bible. Often at the heart of all religious views on homosexuality is the interpretation of scripture. Gay people are no different, with many developing their own readings of the Bible...

Mad About the Boy

Posted on: July 18th, 2007 by History Month
>Songs poured out of Noel Coward, over 400 of them. From the 1920’s to the 1960’s they filled his revues and musicals – love songs like Some Day I’ll Find You or the wit of Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Now they’re overshadowed by his plays. For BBC Radio 2,...
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Flared Brightly, Died Young – The AIDS Generation

Posted on: July 17th, 2007 by History Month
>A two-part documentary recalling the gay culture of Thatcher’s Britain and the emergence of HIV and AIDS. In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and AIDS was incubating. At the same time, a whole generation was ‘coming out’ to the world and announcing they were gay. But, for so...
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Forster’s Maurice on Radio 4

Posted on: July 15th, 2007 by History Month
>BBC Radio 4 will today start broadcasting a two part adaptation of Maurice by E.M. Forster. A story tells of homosexual love in early 20th century England, and follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays, through university and beyond. The book was written around 1913. Although Forster showed the manuscript...

Gloria Gaynor Homophobic?

Posted on: July 13th, 2007 by History Month 4 Comments
>Gloria Gaynor is currently in the uk for a series of shows. This morning she was interviewed by Radio4′s Woman’s Hour. The singer talked about her youth, her career, about some of her most famous songs, several of which have become gay anthems. She also talked about her becoming...
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Cleaning Out the Camp

Posted on: June 21st, 2007 by History Month
>On 21 and 28 June at 8pm, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a two part programme where Eddie Mair investigates the attitude and policy of the armed services towards homosexuality over the last 60 years. Part One (21 June)The laissez-faire attitude during the Second World War quickly gave way...
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Siegfried Sassoon – The Poet Who Survived

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month
> In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4) discusses the life of First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon. In 1916 the Military Cross was awarded to a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers for “conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy’s trenches”. The citation noted...
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Greek and Roman Love Poetry – The Pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
> In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4) discusses the work of the poetess Sappho. Greek and Roman love poetry – the source of many of the images and metaphors of love that have survived in literature through the centuries. We begin with the words of...
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