World Wide Wave

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to February 21, 2023. 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...

It’s been called an assault on religious minorities, women and LGBT people. A worrying step back for democracy and human rights. And a crackdown on dissent. There are very few, if any, people speaking out in support of the Indonesia’s new criminal code. Yet it passed parliament with the support of almost all political parties. It contains some direct threats to Indonesia’s LGBT community and also...

This podcast is the special extended interview with Tim Lindsey – the Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at The University of Melbourne. It’s been called an assault on religious minorities, women and LGBT people. A worrying step back for democracy and human rights. And a crackdown on dissent. There are very few, if any, people speaking out in support of the Indonesi...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to February 14, 2023. 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...

There has been an exodus from Russia. Many young men fled the country when conscription for the Ukraine war was announced. But even before that, the LGBT community was on the move fearing the outcomes of Russia’s expanded anti-LGBT propaganda laws. It effectively outlaws any public mention of same-sex relations. Under the laws, individuals and organisations can receive significant fines for any pr...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to February 7, 2023. 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 i...

Transgender people in Scotland have campaigned for six years to be able to legally change their identity. But the excitement of the laws passing the Scottish parliament were quickly shattered when the English government signalled it would enact a rarely use law to block the change. Trans people are now at the heart of a constitutional fight in the UK. Before the fight gets caught up in politics, w...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to January 31, 2023. 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 i...

Stonewall is synonymous with queer history. In Australia, the Mardi Gras protest was a seminal point in our history. UK World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing became an LGBT icon after his death. AIDS and its impacts cannot be forgotten. With so many people keeping their sexuality in the past, queer history is only now beginning to be explored, captured and shared. History is written by those who...

This podcast is the special extended interview with Rodney Wilson. Stonewall is synonymous with queer history. In Australia, the Mardi Gras protest was a seminal point in our history. UK World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing became an LGBT icon after his death. AIDS and its impacts cannot be forgotten. With so many people keeping their sexuality in the past, queer history is only now beginning to...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 29, 2022. 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...

The FIFA World Cup is soccer’s greatest tournament. It is the Olympics of the football world. Right now, for the first time, the tournament is being held in the Arab world. But rather than celebration, from the very first announcement of Qatar as the host country, the event has been shrouded in controversy. But the efforts of the Qatari government to paint a rosy picture of their country has been...

This podcast is the special extended interview with Dr. Nasser Mohamed. The FIFA World Cup is soccer’s greatest tournament. It is the Olympics of the football world. Right now, for the first time, the tournament is being held in the Arab world. But rather than celebration, from the very first announcement of Qatar as the host country, the event has been shrouded in controversy. But the efforts of...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 22, 2022. 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...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dominated the news since February. But for those living in the warzone, it has dominated their lives. Lives and livelihoods have been lost, homes destroyed and life’s simple pleasures have been replaced by a daily fight for survival. The LGBT community is not immune. Members of our rainbow family have gone to fight, others have fled for safety and the progress on L...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to November 8, 2022. 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 i...

Sex, aristocracy and the British government. No, it’s got nothing to do with Boris Johnson. A hidden story of English history has been uncovered. But what turns it from an interesting story into a scandal is that the sex is homosexual, the aristocracy is a Lord and it happened right at the time of the coronation of a King. Plus…it’s a 100% true story. It is a story of power and privilege. A battle...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to October 25, 2022. 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 i...

It’s hard to think of a worse place in the world to be queer than Iraq. Aside from the criminalisation of homosexuality and the death penalty under Sharia laws, LGBT people have to deal with violence in the family, armed vigilantes enforcing so-called morality laws and discrimination from a society that doesn’t understand them – and doesn’t want to. Human Rights Watch in partnership with IraQueer...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to October 11, 2022. 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 i...

LGBT rights in Africa is a mixed bag. While a few progressive countries have anti-discrimination protections or even same-sex marriage, there are also countries that still maintain the death penalty or lengthy imprisonment for homosexual acts. And while the international community is keen to influence this, lasting change must come from within. U.H.A.I. is Africa’s first activist-led and managed f...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to October 4, 2022. 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 in...

While Russia’s influence in Ukraine appears to be under pressure, it’s influence on LGBT rights across Eastern Europe does not appear to be slowing. Their anti-gay propaganda bill has already been replicated in Hungary and now Romania has become the latest battleground. Under the guise of protecting children, the bill aims to silence the rainbow community. Aside from impacts on censorship, health...

Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTIQ+ news for the week to September 20, 2022. 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...

Among the 5.1 million migrant workers who are employed in South East Asia, little is still known about the motivations or experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions. Even less information is available on the discrimination, violence and harassment that they may experience in the world of work. It inspired the International Labour Organization...