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Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to April 30, 2024.

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

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

With Eurovison, one thing is for certain, every year there will be controversy to some degree. This year the argument is over Israel. Elias Jahshan has been working for many years to give queer Arabs a voice. He has collected eighteen stories from queer Arabs in his new book, This Arab is Queer. The current war between Israel and Palestine has collided with Eurovision, leaving some to call for a boycott of Israel. Jahshan gives his perspective on this.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to April 23, 2024.

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

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

The west African country of Ghana has passed some of the harshest anti-LGBT laws. The country imposes gaol terms for anyone identifying as LGBTQ, anyone who founds LGBTQ groups and members of the public who fail to report anyone who they think is LGBTQ. The only thing stopping these laws is the country’s president. This has triggered an internation push to pressure the president to veto the laws, but so far there’s no sign either way of the president’s next move. Ohotuowo Ogbeche, from global advocacy group Outright International, has conducted research on the impact of Ghana’s anti-LGBT bill.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to March 19, 2024.

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

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

We speak to Stefan and Sebastien, creators of The Nomadic Boys gay travel blog. What started out as blogging their travel adventures for friends has now turned into a full time job. They have now released their first book, ‘Out in the World: Your Gay Guide to Travelling With Pride’, detailing their stories and tips for queer travelers.