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Charles Trenet - The Extraordinary Garden
Legendary French singer Charles Trenet’s song uses poetic imagery to depict the Jardin des Tuileries, a gay cruising area in Paris.
3 min
Series
Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix
In 2014 Conchita Wurst became the first bearded drag queen to win the Eurovision Song Contest with an affirming anthem of queer identity.
Eddy de Pretto - Kid
French singer Eddy de Pretto talks about homophobia and unrealistic expectations of masculinity in a very personal song.
Girl in Red - I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
The classic breakup song by Gloria Gayner is a feminist song that was adopted by the gay community as a anthem against adversity.
Indochine - Le 3eme Sexe
1985. In an atmosphere of rising homophobia and moral panic around AIDS, French rock group sing about non-binary identities.
Jean-Claude Pascal - Nous Les Amoureux
The first queer song to win Eurovision was a crooner’s calling out of discrimination against homosexuals.
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Straight to the point, Girl In Red sings of her same-sex desire and her love for another woman. I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend went viral and became an anthem for a generation of lesbians.
Director
Amandine Fredon
Rebecca Manzoni
Country
France
Year
2026
Shadi
Shadi and Ferial are hanging out at the playground in their wealthy neighbourhood in northern Tehran.
6 min
Britain's First Openly Gay Woman
Anne Lister was an openly lesbian nineteenth century noblewoman, with up to five lovers at the same time.
Documentary
Sex Work and Art
The story of a wealthy man saving a ‘fallen’ woman has become a cliché (Pretty Woman, Anora), far from the reality of prostitution. But what if sex workers told their own stories through art?
16 min
Magazine
Heroes Never Die
Anna Calvi, Jeanne Added, Peter Doherty and Carl Barât pay tribute to David Bowie.
53 min
Concert
Teenagers Against Hitler
Cologne, Autumn 1944: In the bombed-out city, a small group of young people put up armed resistance against the Nazi regime
52 min
Montreux Jazz Festival 2026
Marking the opening of the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, RAYE invites a host of international pop stars to join her on stage for an evening of music.
115 min
Become Rich!
Does wealth make you happy? Or maybe true wealth is having nothing at all?
27 min
Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed?
Why do massive inequalities exist despite a global economy that has produced the most wealth in human history?
28 min
...The Gap Between Rich and Poor Has Never Been Bigger?
Major disasters throughout history have helped to lower inequality. Is this still the case today?
24 min
The Sensual World of Podcast Porn
Audio pornography leaves room for the imagination while arousing the listener with erotic stories
United Kingdom: Political Instability
With Keir Starmer ‘s resignation, British politics is still unstable after six prime ministers in the ten years since the Brexit vote.
4 min
The Painting that Divides Humanity
With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?
5 min
An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.
The Mona Lisa's Eyes Don't Follow You Around the Room
It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?
