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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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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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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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 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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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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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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A Staffordshire UKIP candidate in this week’s County Council elections captured the headlines with a campaign leaflet full of incoherent and ill-founded claims about homosexuality. […]
Everyone’s favourite bisexual succubus is back for a third series of Lost Girl. […]
American popstar Ke$ha is being proclaimed as bi after a Seventeen magazine interview. […]
