World Wide Wave

In some countries, sexuality is used as a weapon. Countries where sexual orientation and gender identity are either outlawed or unaccepted, LGBTI people can experience black mail or town gossip. Nigeria is one such place. But one gay man is making it his mission to tell the stories of Nigeria’s LGBTI people.

Oulimede Femi Mankanjoula has produced five films – the latest is called Walking With Shadows. It was due to show this week at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival which has been postponed due to the COVID-19 virus. But the story and his motivations still need to be told.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week ending March 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.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is being “Each for Equal”. It’s a chance to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias and take action for equality. And the way we’ve chosen to do that tonight is through the lens of lesbian women’s history.

Joan Nestle is the co-founder of the Lesbian ‘Herstory’ Archives in the USA – the world’s largest collection of materials by, and about, lesbians and their communities. From humble beginnings in Joan’s Manhattan apartment, the collection has captured the stories and the characters that have shared their lives in the interests of retaining a history that would otherwise go unnoticed. And now that story has become a feature documentary at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival, called The Archivettes.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week ending March 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.

From the day we are born, we strive to forge our own identity. The parts of our life that make us both fit in and stand out. But the process is a whole lot more complicated if you are from mixed cultures. And it’s even more confusing and confronting when sexuality plays a part.

Elias Jahshan is Lebanese, Palestinian and gay. In a culture where ‘coming out’ is a foreign concept, he has shared his journey in a new book titled Arab, Australian, Other: Stories On Race And Identity.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week ending March 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.

France has traditionally been the land of liberty. The colonial-era sodomy laws were repealed in 1791 after the French Revolution. For LGBTI people, there are extensive discrimination protections, Trans people can freely change their names on legal documentation and since 2013, marriage equality has been law. But just how far from the homeland do these extend to French territories?

French Guiana is a region of the French Republic on the northern coast of South America.It has the same laws yet an almost invisible LGBTI community, in hiding from homophobic acts. Enter an internationally renowned Vogue dancer named Lasseindra Ninja. How can the power of Vogue dancing break down homophobia? Filmmaker Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Director of the documentary Fabulous, was there to find out.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week ending March 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.

We Aussies think we punch above our weight in the world – just look at the per-capita medal tally at the Olympics which we always shout about! But we can be especially proud when we lead the world in a health crisis. No, we’re not talking about coronavirus. We’re talking about the fight against HIV and AIDS.

What began as book to chronicle the history of queer community organisation ACON has turned into a powerful, gritty story of survival – the fights, the heroes and the personal stories that became Australia’s world-leading response to HIV and AIDS in the 1980s and 90s. The book is titled Fighting For Our Lives and we spoke with the author Nick Cook.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week ending February 23, 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.