Been There Done That

22 Nov 2016

Transgender Day, Radio&TV, H.Milk, Flying Doctor, Nobel Prizes

Activism, Gay, History, Homophobia, Icons, Inventions, Lesbian, Politics, Rural, transgender

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Transgender Day, Radio&TV, H.Milk, Flying Doctor, Nobel Prizes

This week we cover the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, noting that at last society is admitting that there are more than 2 genders and we briefly touch upon the support available nowadays from the medical and psychological communities, and even government in the Safe Schools program.

On the anniversaries of the introduction to Australia of public radio services and the advent of TV in Melbourne (for the 1956 Olympic Games), we comment about the quality of TV programs, the amount of Australian and gay content and the representations of our communities over the years.

US public figures Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated at this time in 1978, and we note their role in the advancement of the gay communities of SF, and we identify Australian equivalents.

We celebrate the lives of benefactors Rev John Flynn (of the Inland) – originator of the Flying Doctor Service, and of Alfred Nobel (inventor of Dynamite) who left the bulk of his fortune to fund Nobel Prizes annually in the fields of physics, chemistry or medicine, literature, economic science and the advancement of international peace. We debate whether the 2016 award in Literature should have been given to Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen….

Plus some trivia and mirth and much more ….