Homolab

Ep50! Our Golden Jubilee Episode! This week we talk to Warhol Superstar Penny Arcade about her show in London and we find out about CLASP, a new LGBT initiative in Camden. We start our campaign to have gay WWII codebreaker Alan turning honoured on a 9 bob note. Plus when Baylen met Carrie Underwood, Lucio goes sailing, and Amy entertains in Colchester. All that, plus news from GayStarNews.

This week we interview Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry about class and being the wrong sort of Tranny. Plus how the UK police think you get AIDS, a Trans marriage proposal at the White House, and the problems with Lesbian TV shows.

This week the team gather to discuss a Pastor getting real over gay rights, a bit of Cheryl Cole Jubilee gossip, Co-Op supporting the gays, and Carrie Underwood coming out for marriage equality. Plus Amy goes to Stockholm, Lucio hangs out with Kevin Rowland, and Baylen gets older.

Summer in the City!! This week the team discuss aubergines on pizza, who's more italian, Amy or Lucio, Why Amy doesn't have a tan, Summer Fetes, Goth festivals in the park, Eurovision, Lib Dems on Gay Marriage, gay and human rights in Ukraine, Russia, and Qatar. Plus Baylen is freckly and Amy's relationship with gum.

This week the team discuss what it's like for older LGBT employees, gay marriage tourists, how gay are the Olympics, the death of Disco, Cate Blanchett going gay for play, and the rest of the homoNEWS. Plus an interview with gay blogger @lebigjay who has given up his job and is travelling the world for 2 years solid.

What a busy week for gay news, what with Obama supporting marriage equality (although the Golden Girls beat him to it by about 15 years!), a new HIV prevention drug, gay Olympic torch bearers, and the new gay Italian diet, the team sit down for a news special round up. Plus, Baylen and his Olympic ceremonies dream, Lucio is hungover, and Amy paints her nails.

This week bone up on your wine knowledge with That Crazy French Woman aka Isabelle Legeron, Wine Master and founder of the The Raw Wine Fair. Plus the team discuss London's new/old Mayor, the French elections, John Travolta getting grabby (allegedly) with a masseuse, a trans Miss England, and Gaga on The Simpsons.

This week we hear from Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor. Baylen thinks he's a bit touchy and defensive but Lucio reckons maybe he was just in a bad mood? Listen and tell us what you think. Meanwhile Amy is knee deep in Morrissey, preparing for the opening of her new show, so we get a remote update on what she's been up to. Plus Babs is 70!!

It's a soggy day and the team pitch up at a cafe overlooking Piccadilly Circus to discuss Amy's new hair, Hollywood's newest hunky star standing up for gay rights, the Jessie J lesbian debacle, and anti gay ads on London buses. Plus we interview our very own Amy Lamé about her new one woman show Unhappy Birthday.

This week the team settle down in a cocktail cave to discuss a Trans Miss Universe, Melissa Etheridge getting a divorce, and changing room tattoos! Plus Lucio has an interview with Green candidate for London Mayor Jenny Jones at Brixton Market where she talks about the anti gay bus ads, decriminalising drugs, and why if you are gay, you should vote for her.

The big 4-0. This week the team sit down with Artist Paul Harfleet of the Pansy Project, who plants pansies at the sites of homophobic abuse. They also discuss the list of the best places in the world to get gay married, why Tesco is facing the wrath of God for it's support of gays, how Italy is changing it's attitude to homos, and Amy considers running away to become Mistress to a Chelsea housewife.

This week Baylen throws his back out, Amy causes a Twitter storm, and Lucio discovers his true calling as a nurse. Plus the team are back at the BFI for the finale of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, talking to programmer Brian Robinson and film maker Charles Lum about how this year's festival went. Also gay music video marriage proposal, Gay Dolphins, and why this year's Olympics will be the gayest EVAH!

This week Amy steps off the Redeye from NYC straight into homoLAB, Lucio tries a new hair growth shampoo, and Baylen uses a big word correctly. Plus a new gay quarter in Leeds, gay couple get arrested for having sex on a gay cruise, and an interview with Stonewall about the marriage equality consultation and what the next big fight is in gay rights.

The team are al fresco this week in the park. Amy finds a ladybird and Baylen swallows it, meanwhile Lucio is distracted by a peroxide blonde. Along the way they discuss One Man Two Guvnors, Abigail's Party, Glitterbombs, Gay Ice Cream, and what the Pope smells like. Plus Lucio has an interview with London Mayor Candidate Ken Livingstone and he talks about standing up for Gay Rights while Brian Paddock was still in the closet, his Olympic tickets, what he thinks about London Pride and his message for Gay voters.

This week the homoLAB team pitch up in Soho to discuss International Women's Day, Obama's Tranny Nanny, and Gays at the Olympics. Amy has an interview with Bryony Kimmings about her show currently touring the UK; Seven Day Drunk, seeing how alcohol affects the making of art. Plus Pitt and Clooney go gay in LA.

This week we find out how tasty the Welsh are at the Welsh Food Fair on London's Southbank. While there, we spy on Batman and Robin snuggling up on a sofa by the river, discuss rainbow flag waving at Wembley, debate gay marriage in New Jersey, and find out if fat is the new queer as Scottee tells us about his new fat beauty pageant Burger Queen. Oh and we stuff ourselves with Brownies.

Recorded Live from the 26th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Press Launch with Interviews from Nazmia Jamal and Brian Robinson. With interruptions from Rosie Wilby, Sausage rolls and the need for Pink Champagne. Plus news from GayStarNews!

Episode 33 comes from Gelupo in Soho with guest and scentress Odette Toilette who explains what makes a scent gay and wafts a scent that smells of semen our way! Also LAB talk Whitney and where they were when the news broke, plus Baylen's audition for the opening ceremony of the Olympics and the top gay news this week from Gay Star News.