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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 June 11th, 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.

It’s Pride Month in the northern hemisphere. For many it’s party time, but for others there are still protests and a fight for visibility. Ahead of Pride Month, ILGA World launches a major new report, ‘Laws on us: a global overview of legal progress and backtracking on sexual orientation, gender identy, gender expresision and sex characteristics’, documenting legal developments affecting LGBTQIA+ people in 193 UN member states since January 2023. The report highlights the positive legal changes as well as the backsteps in LGBTQIA+ rights, including some alarming trends. Dhia Rezki is lead coauthor and joins us to discuss the findings.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to June 4th, 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.

It’s Joys 30th year on air. Still Australia’s only dedicated LGBTQIA+ radio station and one of the longest continuously running queer radio stations in the world.

Tonight for this special radiothon episode, we have a very special guest who hails from the Torres Strait Islands and is now a Melbourne icon. We’re delighted to be joined by drag extraordinaire, Cerulean.

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to May 28th, 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 term ‘transgender’ is a modern concept. Only in the last thirty years or so has it gained wide-ranging acceptance, but this is where the name and the lived reality part ways. Transgender people by different names have been around for all time, including in imperial China.

Matthew Sommer is a professor of history at Stanford University and has scoured court records in China to uncover trans-people who, despite the hardships for many, were able to find a place in Chinese society. He details their stories in his new book, ‘The Fox Spirit, The Stone Maiden and Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China’,