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JOY Radiothon is set to FLOURISH in 2024!
It’s back! JOY Media, Australia’s out-and-proud LGBTQIA+ community radio station and multimedia organisation, have announced that JOY Radiothon is back from June 1st to 7th, 2024. Taking place over seven
JOY’s Public D&I Training returns for IDAHOBIT – book now!
Ahead of IDAHOBIT this year, JOY is opening a special public session of our Workplace Diversity & Inclusion Training at the Victorian Pride Centre on Thursday, May 16! International Day
Celebrate International Women’s Day with JOY 94.9
Friday March 8 is International Women’s Day, and JOY is celebrating! On JOY Breakfast from 7:00am, Rach Morrison will be joined by some of your favourite JOY women, including regular
Midsumma Pride March 2024: Watch On-Demand
Watch JOY’s full coverage of Midsumma Pride March 2024, as streamed live from Fitzroy Street in hot, sunny St Kilda on 4th February, 2024.
Welcome to JOY’s Season One 2024
Season One 2024 is here, with three new shows joining JOY’s on-air lineup, and a suite of your favourites returning for 2024. Starting from Monday, 5th February and running through
Celebrate with JOY this Pride Season
Celebrate with JOY this Pride Season Pride Season is officially here, with Midsumma Festival kicking off this weekend! Of course, we’ll be right there with you the entire time as
Welcome to JOY Summer Season 2023-24
Summer is here, and so is JOY’s Summer Season for 2023-24! Running from Monday, 11th December 2023 to Sunday, 4th February 2024, JOY’s Summer Season sees many of your favourite
JOY30: Celebrating 30 years Out. Loud. Proud.
Today, December 1st 2023, marks 30 years since the commencement of JOY Media, Australia’s only LGBTQIA+ community media organisation. Over the coming twelve months, JOY will feature a series of
RECENT PODCASTS
The I In Us: Stephanie Lum
Stephanie Lum is an intersex advocate and poet living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Steph believes strongly in youth intersex voices and founded YOUth&I in 2019, an intersex youth anthology…
IDAHOBIT Day – Beyond the Rainbow Cupcake
For IDAHOBIT this year, Robbie, Anastasia, and Brett address a crucial question: Do workplaces really understand why they are offering rainbow cupcakes on this significant day in the queer calendar?…
Lisa Robbins – Out, Loud & Proud Self Proclaimed OWL (Older Wiser Lesbian)
In this episode of For One Night Only (FONO), Sue Wilkinson talks to out, loud and proud self proclaimed OWL (Older Wiser Lesbian), Lisa Robbins (Pronouns: She/Her). Lisa was born…
MINI: A year on from protests, Dean reflects on the importance of IDAHOBIT
A year ago on IDAHOBIT, Dean was in a full drag face doing JOY Breakfast with Rach ready to do do a drag story time like none he had done…
Tom Nethersole debuts TWINK
Newsreader Craig is going to be jealous that Rach and Dean had a Twink in the studio, well on the JOY airwaves anyway, as they chatted to queer pop sensation…
How’d Dean go training with the Melbourne Chargers?
With the JOY Radiothon weeks away, Dean has to cross off some of the Tower of Torment challenges from last year, so he headed to training with Melbourne’s inclusive rugby…
Yarra Mayor Edward Crossland celebrates IDAHOBIT with
Every year on the 17th May, millions of people around the world get together to mark and highlight LGBTIQA+ discrimination for IDAHOBIT – the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia…
Groundbreaking report ‘Free to Exist’ & Aussie LGBTIQ+ youth in sport
For the first time, a comprehensive study on Australian LGBTIQ+ youth in sport has been conducted, and what its showing us is that the time for change is long overdue….
Pride Families – QUILTBAG Story Time
For IDAHOBIT, Rach and Dean grabbed a book of a different kind for QUILTBAG Story Time, as the talked about PRIDE Families by Amie Taylor & Kaspa Clarke. This educational…
Quit with Pride
Did you know smoking rates in our LGBTQIA+ communities are about double the national average? So what’s that about, and how can we change it? Maybe Quit with Pride can…
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