Queer View Mirror

Sam and Hamish have a set of literary guests join them on the show. They have a chat with Brisbane writer James Tolcher about his debut memoir Poof exploring the young gay experience in Australia. The team also talk with Danielle Scrimshaw about her new book, She and Her Pretty Friend which looks at the hidden history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia.

Gemma and Sam have a chat with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. They also are joined by trans-masc performer, Oliver Ayres, to talk about his intimate one-on-one piece showing as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival: I'm Ready To Talk Now exploring chronic illness and extended hospital stays.

The team have a large line up of guests on the show; Sam has a chat with Michael Earp and Alison Evans about the newly released queer fairytale anthology Everything Under the Moon. They then talk all things Melbourne Fringe; welcoming Han Arbuthnott to have a talk about their trans comedy show, How to Shave; Sam also chats with trans-advocate Sally Goldner about the surreal performance installation, Wake, created with an ensemble of older women about the body, death, loneliness, and ageing; Sam also talks with composer Jenny Game and leading cast member Giovanni De Simone about The Blood Vote, an opera-circus experience celebrating the skills of the human body and voice following Australian suffragist Vida Goldstein as she faces the inevitability of Invention.

The Queer View Mirror crew have a chat with Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Dr Geraldine Fela, about the upcoming public talk: Talking About Listening: Oral Histories exploring HIV nursing during the AIDS crisis.

Sam and Hamish are joined by author Noah Riseman and trans activist Julie Peters to talk about Transgender Australia: A History since 1910, a book exploring the lives, impacts history of the trans and gender-diverse community in Australia. The crew also have a chat with trans, queer, and neurodiverse sexologist, relationship mediator, Daz Alexandra Tender, who is also the founder and director of Sex Space which offers queer-centred, LGBTQIA+ inclusive, safe, consensual, educational and fun sexological workshops, events and discovery sessions.

Hamish and Sam have a chat with Craig Seligman about his newly released book Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag capturing the life and legacy of Doris Fish; The team also talk with Craig Cormick about his creative biography A Darker Shade of Moonlite following Australian gay bushranger Captain Moonlite.

Sam and Hamish have a chat with AP Pobjoy the director of Unerased, an online series following nine transgender students on the verge of graduating who document their lives with their phones and cameras. The team also talk with Austin Fabry-Jenkins, the Co-Convenor of the Victorian Pride Lobby about the recently released report revealing the violence, abuse and harrassment against the trans and gender diverse community.

Hamish and Sam have a chat with queer poet Jarad Bruinstroop about his debut poetry collection Reliefs; the crew also talk with Professor Ben Campkin who will be launching his book Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s in Melbourne next week; they then chat with classical concert pianist and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music lecturer, Coady Green, who runs 'Tempo Queer' in Brunswick, the annual series of concerts that celebrates LGBTQIA+ composers.

Hosts Hamish McLachlan and Sam Elkin are joined by 3 guests on this self proclaimed 'Posh Edition' of Queer View Mirror.

Jarad Bruinstroop join the team to speak about his debut poetry collection "Reliefs" that speaks to his experience as a gay man growing up in and immediately after Bjelke-Peterson's Queensland, and reads some of his works from this collection.

Professor Ben Campkin, who teaches Urbanism & Urban History at the University College of London, speaks about his book "Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s" and its launch event at the Vic Pride Centre.

Coady Green also joins the team to speak about queerness in classical music and specifically classical music composition, and "Tempo Queer', an ongoing event run by Coady, that shines a light on queer composers and performers of classical music.

Hamish and Sam hold down the fort in this Radiothon special; Convince Janet and Mark Cafarella to subscribe Benny the cat and the crew talk with trans, non-binary and disabled writer and broadcaster: Jasper Peach about the importance of community radio.