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Billy & Dale from Melbourne five-piece band Billy Cart join James for a chat before the release of their album Greatest Hits.  Drops March 5. Billy Cart (@billycart_) • Instagram photos and videos

Comedian Cassie Workman chats about her show You Are Here and shares her accounts of living in the US with the authoritarianism of ICE and MAGA.  Cassie performs You Are Here at the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Comedy Festivals. Cassandra Workman (@thecassieworkman) • Instagram photos and videos Cassie Workman | You Are Here | Melbourne International Comedy Festival CASSIE WORKMAN – YOU ARE HERE...

Bridge to Safety is a new legal service that prepares and lodges applications for queer refugees and asylum seekers to come to Australia.  It's based at the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) in Sydney in partnership with the Forcibly Displaced People Network (FDPN).  Lawyer Gretel Emerson from RACS' LGBTIQ+ Safety Team joins us for an interview. RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service Fo...

Director Suzanne Chaundy interview.  Thirty years after Port Arthur, Tom Holloway's Beyond The Neck plays at Theatre Works, 19 March to 4 April.  Stories of community survival, grief and recovery. Beyond The Neck | Theatre Works

Damien Nguyen interview ahead of Pride In Protest's Mardi Gras Street Rally.  Includes discussion about the Rally's demands: trans youth healthcare; a stop to over-policing of the LGBTIQA+ community, including strip searches and police use as mental health first responders; protections for queer students and workers, including ceasing sackings on religious grounds. Damien Nguyen will co-chair the...

Interview with performer Ruby Slippers ahead of Victoria's Pride Street Party in the Smith-Gertrude-Peel precinct in Fitzroy and Collingwood, Sunday, 8 February.  

Shitzulover07 interview celebrating Black Dahlia.  Sydney's trans femme, dance-pop resurgence queen will release a 24-track album soon. shitzu / verona (@shitzulover07) • Instagram photos and videos

Possible Prince X and Istanbul DJ Mustafa Basal released the I Won't Break Remix today and Possible Prince X joined us for an interview.  Includes a sample of I Won't Break from our world premiere radio broadcast today. Possible Prince X – possibleprincex

Thorne Harbour Health's Rachel Cook chats about Wise Words, a night of intergenerational storytelling for Midsumma.  5 February, 6.30 to 8.30 pm, 75 Reid St, North Fitzroy.  Speakers: Candy Bowers, Cherry Zeng, Kate Rowe, Mira Robertson, Krystal De Napoli, Simone O'Brien, Jax Bulstrode, Gabrielle Griffin. Midsumma Festival - Wise Words – A Night of Intergenerational Storytelling 

Jessi Ryan dives into SKIN, their incendiary performance and exhibition at Collingwood's @14 for Midsumma. Midsumma Festival - SKIN: THE PERFORMANCE Midsumma Festival - SKIN: THE EXHIBITION

Madam Nightingale aka Phaedra Gunn chats about their shows Dynamic Darkness and New Beginnings (a collaboration with Cloutie Will and Pauli Field aka Flip That Groove). Midsumma Festival - Dynamic Darkness Midsumma Festival - New Beginnings  

Activist lawyer Danish Sheikh performs Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love for Midsumma.  Pop culture intersects with Taylor Swift and the fight to overturn India's colonial-era criminalisation of homosexuality.  Gasworks, February 4 to 7. Midsumma Festival - Much to do with Law, but more to do with Love

Ben MacEllen interview about his play The Placeholder.  A trans man comes out to friends in an Australian town.  Plays at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 27 January to 8 February for Midsumma.  Directed by Kitan Petkovski. Midsumma Festival - The Placeholder

Performer and writer Josh Moyes interview.  "In the vulnerability, there's a lot of laughs sometimes." Finding Glitter in the Storm stages at Club Voltaire, North Melbourne, January 22 to 25.  Directed by Lachlan Plain. Midsumma Festival - Finding Glitter in the Storm

Interview with Australian Open actor Jane Montgomery Griffiths.  A gay man tells his family his open relationship would continue after his wedding after all they wanted to talk about was his partner's match against Roger Federer.  Plays at Theatre Works, January 21 to 31.  Written by Angus Cameron.  Directed by Riley Spadaro.  Performed by Eddie Orton, Sebastian Li, Alec Gilbert, Melissa Kahraman,...

Interview with Midsumma's Karen Bryant.  Includes discussion about pill testing at Victoria's Pride and why Police aren't marching at Pride March.    Midsumma Festival - Midsumma Festival - Home

Nate Hudson aka Faker discusses new single Comet and reflects on his career, including coming out in 2008 during a pinnacle for the band. Nathan Hudson in a band called Faker (@natefaker) • Instagram photos and videos

COMEDY made their 70s' inspired music video for L.A. Perfume at the John Curtin.  Francis Glass from the band joins us. C O M E D Y (@comedy__band) • Instagram photos and videos 

Myllo released new EP Cause + Effect this week and joined us for a chat ahead of its launch at Shotkickers.  Music | Myllo

Interview with Charly Oakley celebrating Against The Odds.  The Melbourne artist has recorded ten songs with acclaimed LA producer Xandy Barry. charly ★ (@charly.oakley) • Instagram photos and videos  

Interview with Possible Prince X celebrating the 7th Heaven remix of You Can Feel It.  Includes world radio premiere. Facebook

We discuss funding cuts, multicultural engagement, a slight rise in HIV cases in Victoria and an unusual ministerial absence at a World AIDS Day event with Living Positive Victoria CEO Richard Keane.  World AIDS Day, 1 December, 'No one left behind'. Living Positive Victoria

Television is the latest single and music video from This Empty City.  Hope, Rachel & Mat join us in the studio. This Empty City - Television (Official Music Video)

Adam Noviello interview celebrating their latest single Ballet Boy and their performances in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Adam Noviello (@adamnoviello) • Instagram photos and videos

Sally Goldner reflects on trans activism and support in the 90s and 2000s and what's needed today in an interview to celebrate her receiving the Legacy Award at the Trans Visibility Awards.  Celebrating the Finalists of the 2025 Trans Visibility Awards!