with Alan and Stephanie

In the news, 73% of out LGBT+ athletes at Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games won medals, while LGBT+ activists from countries with anti-gay laws defend Commonwealth Games flags display. Unions boycott Labour Women’s Conference over trans ban, playing sports doesn’t qualify you to talk about trans people and ‘Queer Milk’ support group faces criticism – here’s what the research says about trans women’s lactation.

In other news, resurfaced Alan Turing short story sheds light on how he felt about being gay, the 334-million-dollar reason to legalise same-sex marriage in Cambodia, when San Francisco “went absolutely bonkers” over a gay vigilante group, christian food bank’s shelves are empty after pastor rejects supplies from LGBT+ allies and same-sex couple sues anti-LGBT+ clerk Kim Davis for allegedly hiding big money she owes them.

In the good news, Aviation Pride UK launches scholarships for LGBT+ community.If you have any comments or questions, email lgbt@shmu.org.uk and we’ll get back to you next week, and please follow this show on Spotify. It really helps!

This podcast is lifted from the Aberdabbadoo radio show, the UK’s longest running LGBT+ radio show, on shmuFM. Sundays, 11am to 1pm, on 99.8FM and DAB in and around Aberdeen and around the world on radio streaming platforms and shmu.org.uk or ask your smart speaker to play ‘Station House Media Unit’.

Music - Professor Umlaut Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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