Doug PollardWorld Youth Day on The Rainbow Report (LINK)
July 3rd 2008 01:00
Tonight on the Rainbow Report of Australia's 24/7/365 gay and lesbian radio station, Joy Melbourne, streaming live at http://www.joy.org.au from 7-8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, I'll be talking about the Pope's takeover of Sydney for World Youth Day.
You can listen online and join in by email onair@joy.org.au
Ably assisting me in the studio, we have Pete Dillon, and Richard Watts, editor of local gay newspaper MCV.
There have been some truly extraordinary goings-on in Sydney because of the World Youth Day. First we had the Catholic Church refusing to be responsible for any damage their pilgrims caused to Sydney’s parks – even though the federal government has already tipped $22m into this event, and the NSW and Sydney authorities an astonishing $86m.
The NSW government has also made some equally astonishing regulations, making it an offence to cause annoyance or in convenience o people attending World Youth Day events, and what’s more, those powers will be in force for the whole of July.
So I thought we should look at this situation from both sides. We’ll talk to Paul Harris, convenor of the gay catholic youth group Acceptance – they’ve been banned from holding an event as part of World Youth Day.
And we’ll also hear from Amelie, of Community Action Against Homophobia, who’s organized a protest called NoToPope, which will hand out condoms to the young pilgrims as they make their way to mass with the pope.
The whole WYD event will probably become part of gay history, with accounts ending up in the Australian Gay & Lesbian Archives. Their keeper, Dr Graham Willet who lectures at the University of Melbourne, is organizing the 8th annual national gay history conference, which starts in nine days time. We’ll talk to him about the importance of gay history and the archives.
And we'll talk to Rodney Croome of the Tasmanian Gay & Lesbian Rights Group. In the wake of the results of a new survey showing half the population now support gay marriage, he says there are now members of both main parties who are getting angry at their leaderships refusal to address the issue, and some of them may be getting close to rebellion.
That's all tonight on the Rainbow Report. Listen online at http://www.joy.org.au 7-8pm Thursday July 3rd and email your comments to onair@joy.org.au.
You can listen online and join in by email onair@joy.org.au
Ably assisting me in the studio, we have Pete Dillon, and Richard Watts, editor of local gay newspaper MCV.
There have been some truly extraordinary goings-on in Sydney because of the World Youth Day. First we had the Catholic Church refusing to be responsible for any damage their pilgrims caused to Sydney’s parks – even though the federal government has already tipped $22m into this event, and the NSW and Sydney authorities an astonishing $86m.
The NSW government has also made some equally astonishing regulations, making it an offence to cause annoyance or in convenience o people attending World Youth Day events, and what’s more, those powers will be in force for the whole of July.
So I thought we should look at this situation from both sides. We’ll talk to Paul Harris, convenor of the gay catholic youth group Acceptance – they’ve been banned from holding an event as part of World Youth Day.
And we’ll also hear from Amelie, of Community Action Against Homophobia, who’s organized a protest called NoToPope, which will hand out condoms to the young pilgrims as they make their way to mass with the pope.
The whole WYD event will probably become part of gay history, with accounts ending up in the Australian Gay & Lesbian Archives. Their keeper, Dr Graham Willet who lectures at the University of Melbourne, is organizing the 8th annual national gay history conference, which starts in nine days time. We’ll talk to him about the importance of gay history and the archives.
And we'll talk to Rodney Croome of the Tasmanian Gay & Lesbian Rights Group. In the wake of the results of a new survey showing half the population now support gay marriage, he says there are now members of both main parties who are getting angry at their leaderships refusal to address the issue, and some of them may be getting close to rebellion.
That's all tonight on the Rainbow Report. Listen online at http://www.joy.org.au 7-8pm Thursday July 3rd and email your comments to onair@joy.org.au.
| 54 |
| Vote |
Shared on
Add To: 
Subscribe to this blog
Comment by Louie
Climate Forum
Climate Red
randomthoughts
Phil's Wellness Tips