On the show tonight . . . .

The Rainbow Report, tonight at 7pm on Joy 94.9FM, streaming live at www.joy.org.au - newsw and current affairs with a queer slant.

Join me live tonight as we look at fundraising fatigue in Sydney, where the luncheon club has had to be rescued because of lack of support, with SSO editor Scott Abrahams.

There’s also a lack of support for World Youth Day, with organizers fearing the Pope won’t have a big a crowd as he likes, so to help things along, plans are afoot for an Alternative World Youth Day. And even more sad news for ex-Sydneysiders – Golds Gym is closing.

Bnews editor Daren Pope counters with all the latest in Melbourne.

The British Foreign Office has issued a gay toolkit to all its embassies around the world, outlining how they can help promote gay and lesbian rights. I’ll be asking the British Vice Consul what his plans are to encourage gay rights in Australia.

And as the Liberals dither over whether to support same-sex super equality or not, we’ve a report from Canberra on attempts to change Brendan Nelsons mind.

All that and more on the Rainbow Report, tonight at 7pm on Joy 94.9FM, streaming live at www.joy.org.au.

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Too busy to blog prepping tonights Rainbow Report Apl 24 2008 on Joy Melbourne 94.9FM, streaming live 7-8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time tonight. Join us: sms +61 (0)427 JOY 949, email onair@joy.org.au or even phone +613 9699 2949.

On tonight's show:

An eventful week – ACT Chief Minister John Stanhope has had Tibet on his mind this week, and not just because of the torch relay.

Finally losing patience with the Rudd governments obstruction of Civil Partnerships in the ACT, he wondered publicly at the hypocrisy of a Prime Minster and government championing human rights in Tibet while blocking human rights for gays and lesbians on their own doorstep

Shelly Argent of PLFAG got back from the 2020 summit with steam coming out of her ears after the strong support for Civil Unions she found didn’t make it into the final communiqué – but that’s now been put right, as she will tell us.

Martine Delaney is steaming because trans issues didn’t make it onto the 2020 agenda at all. It seems trans people were invisible when the guest list was being drawn up.

Up in Queensland – they do thing differently there – the doctors union told their members that any underage sex they uncovered in the course of their work had to be reported to the local cops. Rod Goodbun has that story.

New South Wales meanwhile produced a surprise package of reforms to gay and lesbian related law – Rodney Croome has the goods on that.

To help us make sense of it all, veteran activist Ron Thiele and MCV editor Richard Watts are with me in the studio.