Who doesn’t love a Pride Celebration event?

Bay Pride is the first event of its kind that will be happening on the 26th of November at the Wynnum Fringe Festival. To talk more about it, Creative Director, Tony Tranter spoke to JOY Breakfast about what’s in store.

If you want to learn more, you can visit the event’s Instagram page and Website.

World AIDS Day will be on next week and Cal from Well, Well, Well joined JOY Breakfast to discuss about this health issue.

Well, Well, Well is a long-running health podcast with nearly 900 episodes, dedicated to raising awareness of AIDS and HIV. You can listen to the show over at 9 PM every Thursday, or on the JOY Website.

You can all learn more on the HIV Still Matters website.

As things become more expensive, now is the time to look at your budget and see where you could cut some things.

But does your health insurance need to be affected?

JOY Breakfast’s Financial Guru and Divergent Wealth’s Angelo Baronessa spoke in the studio and gave some advice when it comes to health insurance premiums and when to cut costs.

You can learn more about Angelo Baronessa and Divergent Wealth on their website.

A year after Grandhour won “Best Rock Artist” at the 2016 Australian Independent Music Awards, Nicole Nighthawk made the hardest decision to leave her band and walk awak from everything she had been working so hard towards.

Now, after a 7 year hiatus, the Australian singer-songwriter spoke to JOY Breakfast about her latest single, No Tomorrow, as well as her self-discovery as part of the LGBT+ community.

You can learn more about Nicole Nighthawk’s music on her website.

Charlie Goldberg spoke to JOY Breakfast about this year’s SlutWalk Naraam Melbourne, which returns for its 13th year.

It is a rally against slut-shaming, victim-blaming and rape culture. Get on board and support this international movement HERE.

The 13th annual Slut Walk Melbourne will be on this Saturday, November 25th at the State Library Melbourne at 12PM, followed by a march down to Parliament House.

Music can bring people together. The same can be said for Key Change as it opened doors for those going through a gender journey to find their voice.

One of the reasons the Key Change choir was created was to offer support and a safe space for trans, gender diverse, and gender-questioning people to use their voices and sing.

Key Change’s Creative Director, Jack Riley joined JOY Breakfast to talk about what makes this choir so unique and successful.

Trans Day of Remembrance is an annual day of observance that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

Ember from the from Trans Liberation GC spoke to JOY Breakfast about organising a special Trans Day of Remembrance event in the Gold Coast with the Gold Coast Rainbow Communities, which took place near Macintosh Island Park.

If you need support of any kind, please head to joy.org.au/support for a host of services catered to our communities.

Just when is the appropriate time to put up your festive decorations?

That was the festive question that the JOY Breakfast team attempted to solve. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t as simple as many people have their thoughts on when the festive lights turn on.

On November 19, International Men’s Day celebrates worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities. We highlight positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being.

The theme for 2023 is “ZERO MALE SUICIDE”. Together we can stop male suicide.

It’s also November, which means Movember is happening and there’s plenty of fancy moustaches coming into their own to raise awareness of mens health.

That’s why Rach & Dean put the call out to members of the community who are participating in Movember to share why it’s a cause that matters to them.

Men’s health is in crisis.

Men are dying on average 4.5 years earlier than women, and for largely preventable reasons.

A growing number of men – around 10.8M globally – are facing life with a prostate cancer diagnosis. Globally, testicular cancer is the most common cancer among young men. And across the world, one man dies by suicide every minute of every day, with males accounting for 69% of all suicides.

Thank you all for sharing your time with us on the JOY airwaves.

Here’s how you can donate to their Movember Pages:

Gerry : https://www.facebook.com/donate/1040679710583689/1040679713917022/

Daniel : https://au.movember.com/mospace/2909789

Carl : https://au.movember.com/mospace/14986588

Hayden : https://movember.com/m/haydentn

Rach & Dean love to share diverse stories and voices on the JOY airwaves, and during Trans Awareness Week, they wanted to get as many voices on JOY Breakfast as they could. Except they realised very quickly they only had so much room on the show every morning, so they put a call out to the community and asked them to send in audio sharing what the week meant to them and what they want others to know.

Thank you KL, Teague, Cloè, Jen, Sally & Jace for sharing.