Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1087 Wednesday 25 August 2011
Western
Sydney’s
gay voice
silenced
ThefutureofSydney’slongest-runningLGBTI
community radio show is under threat after
Liverpool Council...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1087 Wednesday 25 August 2011
Western
Sydney’s
gay voice
silenced
ThefutureofSydney’slongest-runningLGBTI
community radio show is under threat after
Liverpool Council reneged on promises to
provide the area’s community station 2GLF
with a new home.
QueerOutWestwillhavebeenbroadcasting
on 2GLF for a decade in December, but its
future after that is unclear after the station
was issued an eviction notice from the
council-owned Liverpool School of the Arts.
The station had known the move was
coming, but council had previously assured
the station that a new home would be found
for it, with the Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool
Museum and Liverpool Skate Rink named as
possible sites.
But council officers have now told 2GLF
the “council cannot offer any alternative
premises to the radio station”.
2GLF chair Eddie Diwakar said he was at a
loss to explain the reversal.
“Council had always said it would off
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