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Mardi Gras 2025

Jack — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:00:19 +0000

Jack speaks with community groups at the 2025 Mardi Gras Parade about their floats and the issues affecting their communities including:

Gay Diabetes
Building Pride
Cosplays Out Of The Closet
Harbour City Bears
Sydney Stingers

Jake Neville from the Melbourne Wranglers also joins us to discuss his experience at the event.

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Community festivals not to be missed…

Renee — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:00:48 +0000

Renee and Tex speak with Tilde Trans and gender diverse film festival, Frolic festival in Ballarat as well as chat about all of the other thrilling LGBTIQ community festivals about to kick off here in Victoria for spring and summer!

For More info head to:

www.tildemelbourne.com.au

www.frolicfestival.com

www.northsidebizarre.com

www.midsumma.org.au

www.worldaidsday.org.au

This show, Episode #639 originally aired Thursday 4th October 2018.

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Carrying on in the Worst of It (VAC Legacy Series)

Cal — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:30:13 +0000

Admin Block of Fairfield Hospital – closed in 1996.

In this fourth episode of the VAC legacy series, we look at the community response to HIV and AIDS at a time when accessing effective treatment was near impossible and AIDS-related deaths were at an all-time high. How did our community cope at this time in the HIV and AIDS epidemic?

Cal Hawk talks to Bill O’Loughlin, Maureen O’Brien, Bruce Parnell, Sue Stone, David Menadue, Tony Keenan, and Dr. David Bradford about this incredibly difficult time – but also a time of incredible displays of compassion, care, and love. All this in the lead up to VAC’s 35th anniversary next month.

Dr. David Bradford recently published a book about this experience in greater detail — Tell Me I’m Okay. The book is available to purchase from Monash University Press: http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/tmio-9781925523331.html

This show, Episode #625 originally aired Thursday 21st June, 2018.

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Couldn’t Have Done That With a Hangover

Renee — Thu, 10 May 2018 11:00:24 +0000

ReThink the Drink is a new project that seeks to inspire alcohol culture change among lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women in Victorian regional and rural areas. Studies* have shown that some LBQ women enjoy a few too many drinks, enough to cause a hangover (from time to time) and we think it’s time we did something about it. Renee Speaks with Rachel Cook to find out about the campaign and the upcoming LGBTIQ Women’s health conference in July.

More info vac.org.au/rethinkthedrink

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This show, Episode #619 originally aired Thursday 10th May, 2018.

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Straight Arrows & Keeping Safe

David — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:08:21 +0000

With Mardi Gras coming up, Jack and Jessie look at some of the ways to keep safe during the festival season. Fair Play is an LGBTIQ community initiative to help party-goers understand their legal rights and how to keep safe during the Mardi Gras Festival.

Sarah from Straight Arrows discusses Phoenix: a new forum available to women who have been recently diagnosed or living with HIV for some time and are ready to connect in a safe and confidential environment.

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