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December 12, 2012
ESPN Radio hosts suspended for comments about trans college basketball player

DJs Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin 'crossed a line'

ESPN Radio announced Tuesday (11 December) that Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin, hosts of the Sports Reporters show, have been suspended for making transphobic comments on the air last week.

The radio hosts made fun of trans Mission College basketball player Gabrielle Ludwig.

October 12, 2012
Taiwan TV channel fined $300,000 for broadcasting lesbian kiss

Movie channel LS Time fined over US $10,000 for showing 1992 film The Silent Thrush at primetime

The national communications regulator has fined Taiwanese TV channel LS Time for broadcasting a lesbian kiss last February.

The $300,000 (Taiwanese dollars, $10,300, €7,900) fine was for a primetime showing of The Silent Thrush a 1992 film about a lesbian love triangle in a Chinese opera troupe.

In an open letter to the regulator National Communications Commission (NCC) Ta-wei Chi, assistant professor of Taiwanese Literature at the National Chengchi University in Taipei, questioned why they had a problem with homosexual kisses but not heterosexual ones.

October 4, 2012
Scott Mills reveals he was offered coveted Radio 1 breakfast show

In an exclusive interview with Gay Star News, the gay DJ has spoken out about the offer BBC executives made to him while Chris Moyles was still at the station

Gay DJ Scott Mills has revealed he was offered the coveted BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in an exclusive interview with Gay Star News.

The British radio host, 38, said, at the time when Chris Moyles had been rumored to leave, the BBC told Mills he would have the coveted spot if Moyles had left.

He said: ‘Do you know what, around 2007/08 there was big word on the street that Chris Moyles was going to go and I was told by them at the BBC that I was going to be doing it, if he left.

September 24, 2012
Gay DJ Nick Grimshaw launches revamped breakfast show

Gay radio host Nick Grimshaw says he was nervous and excited for his first day hosting the Radio 1 breakfast show

Gay radio DJ Nick Grimshaw, known as 'Grimmy', has made his debut as host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show.

Grimshaw opened the show by telling listeners it's 'quite a surreal day for me', and said: 'I've been dreaming about this since I was a little child.

‘Day one of the big job and I’m nervous, I’m excited, happy- but more than anything just desperate to get on with it. So shall we do it? Let’s do the Radio 1 breakfast show.’

September 21, 2012
US soap characters will share first real kiss on Friday

See video of Will and Sonny finally locking lips on Days of Our Lives

Fans of the NBC soap Days of Our Lives have been patiently waiting for the show's two gay characters, Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis to finally get together.

In true soap fashion, it's been a roller coaster of a journey - this week alone.

The two close friends, who are finally admitting their romantic feelings for each other, seemed to finally be on the same page and ready for a date when things got temporarily derailed by Sonny's mother who was badmouthing Will.

September 6, 2012
DJ Scott Mills says Chris Moyles is not anti-gay

Gay Radio 1 DJ admits being 'scared' of breakfast show presenter who shocked listeners with homophobic jokes

Gay British DJ Scott Mills says his BBC Radio 1 colleague Chris Moyles is not homophobic, despite being blasted in the past for making anti-gay jokes live on-air.

Mills, who traded his prime time commuter spot on the station with Greg James in February, says he was initially aprehensive about working with Moyles.

'I was quite scared and overwhelmed by him,' he said in an interview with Now magazine.

August 18, 2012
Maddow to co-anchor MSNBC's primetime coverage of Democratic and Republican conventions

Rachel Maddow will be part of MSNBC's primetime convetion coverage

Rachel Maddow will be the co-anchor for MSNBC's primetime Democratic and Republican convention coverage.

August 9, 2012
Gay marriage will cost us the next election, says NZ MP

New Zealand Labour MP Su’a William Sio calls for gay marriage bill to be withdrawn

A Labour MP in New Zealand warned during a radio interview yesterday that the party’s support of gay marriage could cost them the next election in 2014.

Su’a William Sio called for the gay marriage bill sponsored by fellow Labour MP Louisa Wall to be withdrawn.

Sio, who is Labour’s Pacific Island affairs spokesperson and represents the electorate with the largest Pacific Islander population in the country, said churchgoing Pacific Islanders are against the bill and it would stop them from voting Labour in the future.

August 1, 2012
Radio New Zealand says gay marriage bill has enough MPs to pass first reading

National radio station’s straw poll shows 58 MPs will support the bill and more are leaning towards support it

Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reported this morning that the gay marriage bill currently in parliament will pass its first reading.

According to RNZ’s straw poll, 58 MPs have decided to definitely vote yes on the bill and of those who are undecided ‘enough said they were leaning towards yes to get numbers over the 61 votes required’ the news report said.

June 26, 2012
Harry and Niall's One Direction ‘gay kiss’ that was really a whisper

Band mates Harry Styles and Niall Horan share an 'intimate moment' together on stage which has got tongues wagging

On the long touring road for one of the biggest new boy bands, the members must find it hard to not be ‘intimate’ with one another.

As fans found out on Sunday (24 June), One Direction’s Harry Styles and Niall Horan shared a moment together while performing debut hit ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ in Texas.

Styles and Horan are seen apparently nearly locking lips, and have had many fans wondering whether the film cuts away just before a kiss or just an innocent whisper?

March 5, 2012
Jazz FM investigated over gay porn clip

Ofcom launch investigation into UK radio station Jazz FM after it aired gay porn soundtrack

UK radio station Jazz FM is being investigated after it aired several minutes of a gay porn movie soundtrack.

Listeners tuning into the popular station hoping to hear music from Jamie Cullum and Nina Simone were shocked to be played the mostly wordless but explicit clip during Mike Vitti's Funky Sensation show on February 18.

Media watchdog Ofcom launched an investigation into whether the station breached its broadcasting code today (5 March) after it received three complaints about the incident.

February 28, 2012
Scott Mills, BBC’s top gay DJ, leaves prime slot

Scott Mills, Radio 1’s top DJ shifts from prime commuter evening slot to lunchtime show, replaced by Greg James

Britain’s most famous openly gay DJ is moving from his prime-time slot on BBC Radio 1.

Scott Mills will be trading his weekday 4pm to 7pm commuter ‘drivetime’ timeslot with Greg James from 2 April.

He will instead take over Greg James’ current show from 1pm to 4pm.

Industry experts say the move is to pave the way for James to take over from Chris Moyles as the breakfast show host when Moyles leaves in due course.

January 30, 2012
Jonathan Ross apologizes for 'lady boy' airline gag

UK chat show host Jonathan Ross has tweeted an apology after upsetting viewers with a transphobic joke

Jonathan Ross has apologized after a gag about ‘lady boy’ trolley dollies backfired with transgender viewers on his Friday night chat show.

The UK comedian may have swapped channels but he’s still courting controversy, with scores of people tweeting their anger about his transphobic joke on The Jonathan Ross Show.

January 20, 2012
Australian radio host Jackie O slammed for calling Ellen a 'lez'

Radio breakfast show host Jackie O blasted for homophobic slur.

An Australian radio host has been slammed for making homophobic slurs live on-air.

During her Sydney breakfast show on 2DayFM, Jackie O said she no longer likes her middle name Ellen because it 'sounds a bit lez'.

The comment, made this morning at 6am, is a clear reference to gay US chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and has drawn angry criticism from both listeners and gay rights groups.

Twitter was ablaze today with furious followers, with @now_voyager tweeting: 'Thought about changing my middle name to Jackie O as it would lend me class.