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Auntie loses queer radio show

December 16, 2012
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Auntie loses queer radio show

Radio Manchester’s weekly lesbian, gay, bi & trans radio show is to close, the BBC has confirmed. As part of a rearrangement of local radio around the UK, weeknight broadcasts from all regional BBC radio stations are to be replaced by one nationwide programme, based in Leeds. “LGBT Citizen Manchester” has been broadcast for...
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BBC: we’re getting there on bisexuality

December 14, 2012
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BBC: we’re getting there on bisexuality

The second BBC report looking at bisexual, lesbian and gay representation in their TV and radio output notes changes over the last two years including two shows consciously including bisexual people. The BBC interviewed hundreds of bisexual, lesbian and gay people, and assembled an expert panel including journalists and representatives of some large LGBT...
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Jackie Clunes talks bi… and gay and straight… on Radio 4

June 6, 2012
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Jackie Clunes talks bi… and gay and straight… on Radio 4

This morning BBC Radio 4 devoted half an hour to the fluidity of human sexuality as Jackie Clunes presented “A Straight Question”. Principally about people who identify as lesbian or gay and then find themselves in a mixed-sex relationship, it covered a lot of ground in 29 minutes. The show touched on questions of...
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Woman’s Hour Talks Bi

April 30, 2012
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Woman’s Hour Talks Bi

BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour this morning had bisexuality as one of its topical topics, following on from stories claiming popster Jessie J is really a lesbian and not bisexual. The author of a new biography claims people around Jessie believed being bi was a fashion statement which would increase her marketability compared to...
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Tom Talks Bi – tonight at 8

September 19, 2011
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Tom Talks Bi – tonight at 8

“Tom Robinson – Getting Bi” will be on BBC Radio 4 tonight at 8pm. Tom Robinson was the singer songwriter who became the darling of the gay rights movement with his song ‘Glad To Be Gay’ in the late 1970s, but then they fell out with him when he found a girlfriend in the...
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Tom tells Auntie about Getting Bi

September 9, 2011
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BBC Radio will be dipping into the life story of a bisexual icon in just over a week’s time. It’s My Story: “Tom Robinson – Getting Bi” will air on BBC Radio 4 at 8pm on Monday, September 19th.Tom Robinson was the singer songwriter who became the darling of the gay rights movement with...
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BBC helps bi erasure

July 22, 2010
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Stonewall’s new report on bisexual, lesbian and gay representation on TV points out that while there was only a tiny amount of positive representation of gay and lesbian people in the programming monitored, there was no positive portrayal at all of bisexuals. The BBC’s reporting of the Stonewall publication, however, wiped that from the...
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