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Midsumma Festival 2026: Time & Place
Midsumma Festival is a proud JOY Sponsor. Midsumma Festival 2026: Time & Place As the world faces growing division and a retreat from progress, the need to connect through shared…
Welcome to JOY’s Summer Season 2025-26
JOY 94.9 is thrilled to announce the launch of this year’s Summer Season schedule, running from Monday 8 December 2025 to Sunday 1 February 2026. It’s summer, and with that…
Sunday Arts Magazine Art Exhibition Brings Queer Creativity to St Kilda
This November, JOY celebrates the colourful intersection of community and creativity with the first-ever Sunday Arts Magazine Art Exhibition, featuring 12 outstanding artists at Dawn & Mable’s Wine Bar on…
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MQFF is a proud JOY Sponsor. The Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) returns for its 35th Anniversary from 13–23 November, inviting audiences to join the search for Queer Utopias. Queer…
JOY Rainbow Sessions welcomes BEKS as first ever headliner
JOY Rainbow Sessions is JOY’s brand new initiative to celebrate and elevate LGBTQIA+ artists, bringing you front and centre with the most exciting out-and-proud acts in the country. A series…
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The Victorian Pride Centre came alive on opening night of the Sport with Pride and Joy exhibition, a landmark celebration of the powerful role sport plays in achieving inclusion and visibility for…
JOY celebrates Wear it Purple Day 2025
Australia’s LGBTQIA+ radio station and community media organisation, JOY Media, are proudly celebrating Wear It Purple Day. Celebrated each year on the last Friday in August, Wear It Purple…
Community Forum on Hookup App Safety
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diHARD Episode 3 – Shame and Stigma
Shame and Stigma is something that most people can relate to in one way or another… so why aren’t we talking about it? Well guess what? We ARE! Join us…
QNN – News and Sport Bulletin No 52, 2025
QNN provides communities across the country with the latest in local, national and international LGBTQIA+ news: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children, UN vote erasing LGBTQI+…
LGBTIQ+ Holiday Wellbeing Strategies
Molly Boorman from Thorne Harbour Health unpacks holiday wellbeing for LGBTIQ+ folk, from family driven stress to managing alcohol and other drug use. Molly shares practical tools like self compassion, safety…
The bleak midwinter – Show #377 (part 2), 30 November 2025
All of the songs in the second hour of today’s show are Australian, except for the seasonal ‘The Bleak Midwinter’ from Irish singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill’s excellent new EP. The Australian…
As long as you’ll stay – Show #377 (part 1), 30 November 2025
Katie presents an hour of beautiful new tracks by artists based in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Ireland and the USA. There are songs about the weird side of life,…
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Take Me to Your Reader – Episode 1 Robert King 13 December 2025
Loretta interviews special guest Robert King. LGBTIQA+ writer and JOY presenter Robert King discusses his battle with homosexuality and his unpublished memoir of owning a bar in Bali Loretta and…
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
Horror Review with Miranda – After revisiting the painfully rough first 30 minutes of the 1984 original, expectations were… low. But Silent Night, Deadly Night has genuinely surprised horror audiences….
Bev and Myrt – Queer Elders, Aliens, and AI Panic
A rare treat for Geeks Out — a live sci-fi stage show! We chat with the creative team behind Bev and Myrt and the Scrolling of Doom, a joyful, sharp,…
Lizzo, Guns ‘N Roses, Scarlett Johansson and More!
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