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Story Submissions Welcome for Xmas Broadcast

Posted on 23 Oct 2021 in Other

Now, we apologise in advance for mentioning the “C” word. But Christmas, Yuletide, Saturnalia or however you know the festive season is approaching, with some nine weeks to go. One of our partner radio stations Medway Pride Radio is doing something which will bring a little magic into the lives of many LGBTQIA families with young ones. They have a Christmas story competition, open to all children under the age of eighteen. The winning stories will be turned into broadcast drama to be transmitted on the station in the run up to Christmas. What could be more festive.

Classic Trans Documentary Given New Airing

Posted on 29 Aug 2021 in Other

BBC-Four has been broadcasting episodes of the series A Change of Sex, which premiered in 1979 and follows twenty years in the life of Julia Grant, who passed on in 2019.

World Cat Day Brings LGBTQIA Joy

Posted on 12 Aug 2021 in Other

The Gay and Bisexual Male Pagan Blog dedicated to the Cult of Antinous, celebrated World Cat Day at the weekend. LGBTQIA people are more likely than heterosexual and cisgender people to be passionate about animal welfare.

Historical Afternoon On PBS Deals in Change

Posted on 4 Jul 2021 in Other

The years between 1903 and 1923 saw major change, socially and politically, and revolution was in the air.

Litha - Summer Festival as Solstice Arrives

Posted on 24 Jun 2021 in Other

This last Monday saw the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It is known by many pagans as the festival of Litha, or high summer. The Glastonbury based pagan and New Age shop Goddess and the Green Man poetically notes the high point of the year and the

Jun

Progress for Progress Flag

Pink News reports that the “Progress Pride Flag”, one of the recent iterations of the longstanding LGBTQ symbol, designed in the seventies, has been updated with the purple circle

May

Scandal of Moralist Forced Adoption Exposed

The BBC News Channel and BBC-1's News at Ten reported on the scandal of forced adoption of children born to women living out of wedlock during the fifties, sixties

May

De Jagger is First Eurovision Trans Presenter

Dutch icon Nikki de Jagger, a You Tube star with around fourteen million followers on the internet, became the first trans person to present at the Eurovision Song Contest

May

Corrie Plotline Charts "Normal" Violence

It's been fourteen years since the murder of Sophie Lancaster.

May

Could Famous Corpse Have Been Ancient Gay Man

For centuries, strange bodies have been dug out of boglands that can be found across the ancient lands of Celtic Europe, from Denmark to Ireland.