Tag: LGBTQ rights
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RC 296: Red And Green Brexmas
Take Backstop Ireland From The Frame…What Backstop? Your Moaning Refrain, I Hope You Understand, Sometimes The Single Market Trade Zones Does Not Make The Plan!) Last podcast of the year, and the second part of the Xmas podcasts with a New Year, A New EU! (without Britain, most likely). We see off 2018 in style,…
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Susie Blue
Heard about Susie Blue from Northern Ireland via the BBC’s Gay Britannia season, where I heard the BBC Radio Belfast’s show about the queer music scene there called after their song, People Like Us. The focus is on Northern Ireland not just because of the (homophobic, transphobic) DUP but also SOAK, but I think Susie…
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Let them show your true colours
It’s OK, I didn’t mind becoming a complete mess, honest. Cyndi Lauper performs True Colors at St Augustine, Florida later on the day of the Orlando shooting which was nearby (well 100 miles, but for the States that’s down the road!). And then she dons the rainbow flag from a fan. It’s nearly a week…
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The obstacle course
A first person look at what it’s like to be queer, a very abridged version from Inter-LGBT France and TBWA Paris. In some sad sense a sanitised version, actually, in others more violent, it depends on the person…but at the basic core, true. This struggle is all too real.
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Queen of Ireland
Yay Panti! The real Queen’s speech. It’s been a grand year for Ireland, I hope it continues.
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Same Love – Angel Haze
As Pride Month comes to a close, here’s Angel Haze with their amazing freestyle version of Macklemore’s Same Love. Fallen in love with this song all again, I’d argue better than the original – and incidentally this song is how they came out as pansexual and later agender.