World Wide Wave

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to December 7, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

The southern African nation of Namibia still has colonial-era sodomy laws in place for sex between men. There are no laws against sex between women. LGBT people do face discrimination in their daily lives but it is not as prevalent or as dangerous as some of their African neighbours. One way that change is happening is through the telling of stories. One of these stories has become a feature film – the first Namibian LGBT feature film.

Philippe Talavera is the Director of the film Kapana. He is a Frenchman who now calls Namibia home. He joined us from London where Kapana was making its European premiere.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 30, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

In every conflict there are stories of heroes. Sometimes the heroes are hidden…their names unknown. Like underground networks who help evacuate people at risk. Even today, this goes on. And there is even an international band of rainbow-caped heroes saving the lives of LGBTI people at risk in places like Chechnya, Kenya and Afghanistan.

Rainbow Railroad is a Canadian based not-for-profit working internationally to help evacuate LGBTIQ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. In the past week, they coordinated an airlift for 29 LGBTIQ Afghans to safety in the UK. Eric Wright, the Communications Officer at Rainbow Railroad joined us to give us an insight into their very challenging work.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 16, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

Having just moved into Australia’s first purpose built Pride Centre, it is almost impossible to image a mob of protesters attacking and ransacking the central hub of Victoria’s LGBT community. Yet that is exactly what has happened in Bulgaria. The twist is that the violent mob was led by one of the Presidential candidates in the Bulgarian elections currently underway.

The Bilitis Foundation, Bulgaria’s oldest LGBT organisation manages the Rainbow Hub Centre. They posted photos of the destruction to social media. Lilly Dragoeva is their Executive Director, who spoke to us about the attack, its aftermath and what it means for LGBTIQ people in Bulgaria.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 9, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

The true story of Amin, a gay refugee escaping Afghanistan, has won film awards and audience hearts around the globe. Flee, a documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, is coming to Australia as the opening night film at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

In this podcast we speak to the director about this amazing story that took 20 years to come to light.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 2, 2021.

World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes.

We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

In many countries, Pride is a celebration of how far we have come in the LGBTIQ+ community. Originally started as a protest, what happened when Pride celebrations are targeted by opponents?

Tonight we go to Georgia, where we chat to Giorgi Tabagari, Tbilisi Pride co-founder to find out what happened in Tbilisi during the 2021 Pride celebrations.