Other News

Right Wing Internet Trolls Attack Vegan Cafes

The Guardian newspaper reveals that there is a new perceived threat for right wing internet trolls to get their proverbial knickers in a twist over.  It's Vegan Restaurants.  The paper reports that Jim Anderson and his wife Samantha are the proprietors of The Oak Tree, a vegan cafe and restaurant.  However, trolls targetted them with such abuse that they have had to tone down the strapline that they offer a plant based menu.

Read more

Activist Gentili Honoured by Organisations

Tributes have been paid to Cecilia Gentili, an activist within the LGBTQIA+ communities, a creative, a health activist and advocate for sex workers, and an reformer of laws that unfairly discriminated against transgender women of colour.  She was fifty two years of age and passes on to the realm

Read more

Radical Faeries Preparing Spring Gathering

Registration is now open for the Radical Faerie gathering at Featherstone Castle in Northumberland towards the end of this March, to mark the Spring Equinox and the ancient Celtic festival of Ostara.  The Radical Faeries were first inaugurated as

Read more

Tech Giants Used by Unsavoury Regimes - HRW

Human Rights Watch, an international NGO based in Washington DC, has issued a campaign alert on the annual date designated as "Digital Privacy Day".  They say "raise your voice to tell Meta platforms, Facebook and Instagram, to take immediate action to safeguard their users.

Read more

"Never Forget Where Hatred Leads" - Khan

 The Jewish Chronicle newspaper reports that Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has referred to the importance of Holocaust Memorial Day, at a service ahead of the official 2024 commemorations.  Khan said: “The Holocaust is one of the most harrowing events in histo

Read more
22
Feb

It is often interesting to think about the intersectionality of LGBTQIA+ identities and other groups in society.  The Guardian reports that a new art book of photographs by 

18
Feb

We have often reported how the LGBTQIA+ communities overlap with other countercultures such as the punk and goth scenes.  Well, this week that was writ large in the Liverpool Echo 

12
Feb

The Guardian newspaper has reported that the design and art specialist Sarah Weir has passed on to the realm of our LGBTQIA ancestors at the age of sixty five.  Th

04
Feb

In our broadcast over the weekend of 1st to 5th February, we were thrilled to be able to review the top ten LGBTQIA+ Reads for these long winter nights.  Thanks to Cate at the Live

23
Jan

"ShoutOut" and other community media send their solidarity this week to Iran International, a dissident television station broadcasting impartial news and information into the high

Our Supporting Stations

BCfm - Our home station. Broadcasting across Bristol on 93.2fm
Gastonbury FM - Broadcasting across Glastonbury on 107.1fm
Bradley Stoke Radio - covering the Bradley Stoke area of Bristol on 103.4fm
Bath Radio - Making a noise about music, events and culture in Bath
Frome FM - covering Frome on 96.6fm
Thornbury FM - Streaming online from Thornbury near Bristol
Wave Radio - Streaming online from Weston Super Mare
Radio Tircoed - covering the Swansea area on 106.5fm
Trans Radio UK - Online trans focused radio
The Global Voice - Radio For All!
Medway Pride Radio - for the Rainbow Community & Beyond
KTCR - Connecting Communities