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 February 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.

Chris McNaghten is a competitive strong man from Northern Ireland.

Chris joins us in this World Wide Wave podcast and shares his personal mental health struggles as portrayed in the documentary Bear Strong.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to December 22, 2020.

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.

When you are planning to buy something, how much thought do you give about whether that purchase is helping or hindering LGBTI rights? The pink dollar has power and it is starting to make an impact.

Paul Thompson is a man on a mission. He is the founder of a company called LGBT Capital. According to Paul, each year LGBT people spend almost US$4 trillion and have a collective wealth of US $23 trillion. His company focuses on the LGBT consumer segment and also works to influence decision makers in the field of finance and investment. Hear how we can make our money work for improved LGBT rights across the globe.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to December 15, 2020.

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.

If ever you needed proof that the LGBTI community is everywhere, we have it here! We take you to Antarctica to discover pride in even the coldest of places.

Australia’s Antarctic base, Mawson Research Station, is under the care of Station Leader, Matthew Williams. Matt is out and proud, and with the help of his station team, showed his true colours as a part of #PolarPride – a world-wide expression of inclusion from those who work in and with arctic and Antarctic regions. Matt joined us from Antarctica to give us an idea of what it is like being the only gay in the village.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to December 8, 2020.

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.

2020 was a big year in the US elections. Not only was there a record number of voters, but there was also a record number of LGBTIQ people standing for election, with 574 candidates on the ballots identifying as LGBTIQ. But what does it take to win an election as an LGBTIQ candidate? The Victory Fund is an organisation in the US dedicated to helping openly LGBTIQ people get elected, who then can further equality at all levels of government.

The Victory Fund provide campaign, fundraising and communications support to LGBTIQ candidates to increase the number of openly rainbow elected officials – because they believe that representation is power. Elliot Imse is the Director of Communications at Victory Fund and Victory Institute. Elliot has a long history of working in organisations supporting human rights.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to December 1, 2020.

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.

Kenya, in East Africa, has retained colonial-era sodomy laws meaning same-sex relations between men can be punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Even aside from that, living as an LGBTI person in Kenya is difficult where homosexuality is a taboo subject. Beatings, persecution, being thrown out of your home are all a reality. Yet this is the country that LGBT people from surrounding countries flee to for safety.

Kenya’s refugee camps are a relative safe-haven for LGBT people escaping persecution in Uganda, South Sudan and Somalia. Run by the UN refugee agency, they so provide some protections, but life is still a daily matter of survival. One Melbourne man is leading the charge for change. David Ayliffe has founded “Humanity in Need – Rainbow Refugees” where individuals doing their own little bit to help LGBTI people in faraway nations like Kenya.