World Wide Wave

Jul 04 2024 100 ep. 20 mins 38

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Aiming to promote awareness of international LGBTIQA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTIQ+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTIQA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

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World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – July 2nd, 2024

Jul 04 2024 6 mins

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to July 2nd, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in inter

Middle East: queer life in the gulf states

Jul 04 2024 35 mins

In the Gulf States, penalties for queer acts can include imprisonment, deportation, torture and even death. Yet the region is dominated by migrants, including queer migrants, who make a deliberate decision to move there. One such migrant is telling their stories, including where queer people are not just surviving, but thriving. Gaar Adams is the author of a recently released book

World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – June 11th, 2024

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to June 11th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in inte

Global: ILGA World’s new report on LGBTQIA+ rights

It’s Pride Month in the northern hemisphere. For many it’s party time, but for others there are still protests and a fight for visibility. Ahead of Pride Month, ILGA World launches a major new report, ‘Laws on us: a global overview of legal progress and backtracking on sexual orientation, gender identy, gender expresision and sex characteristics’, documenting legal developm

World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – June 4th, 2024

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to June 4th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in inter

Torres Strait Islands: special radiothon guest, Cerulean

It’s Joys 30th year on air. Still Australia’s only dedicated LGBTQIA+ radio station and one of the longest continuously running queer radio stations in the world. Tonight for this special radiothon episode, we have a very special guest who hails from the Torres Strait Islands and is now a Melbourne icon. We’re delighted to be joined by drag extraordinaire, Cerulean.

World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – May 28th, 2024

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to May 28th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in inter

China: transgender histories from late imperial China

The term ‘transgender’ is a modern concept. Only in the last thirty years or so has it gained wide-ranging acceptance, but this is where the name and the lived reality part ways. Transgender people by different names have been around for all time, including in imperial China. Matthew Sommer is a professor of history at Stanford University and has scoured court records in China

World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – May 14th, 2024

May 20 2024 6 mins

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to May 14th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in inter

Global: the decline of gay bars

May 20 2024 35 mins

Do you ever lament the queer scene? Feel it’s not quite what it used to be? Do you feel there are fewer gay bars? The trend of gay bars closing is a worldwide phenomenon. Is it the death knell of queer nightlife, or merely a sign of reinvention? One person who is fascinated by the changes and what it means for the queer community is Amin Ghaziani, professor of sociology at the Un