Joy FM
Australia's first Gay & Lesbian radio station, with a low-power broadcasting liscence in inner-city Melbourne.
Programs are a mix of talkback, music and lifestyle programs and a wide variety of music, typically tending towards Dance and electronic music on weekdays, with some specialty programs on late nights and weekends.
Available to listen to all over the world through the internet.
Joy FM provides examples of the following tropes:
- All Gays Are Promiscuous - Camp Gay presenters tend to embrace this stereotype, injecting innuendo into everything. Invisible to Gaydar presenters frequently resent the oversexualised image homosexuals have.
- All Lesbians Want Kids - Inverted. It's the gay men making the most noise about same-sex parenting rights.
- Base Breaker - Artists with large gay fanbases like Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga and ABBA are played fairly sparingly. Quite a few listeners either feel these artists are overplayed in the gay scene or just plain think they're shit and tend to complain.
- Camp Gay - Comedy hosts tend towards campness. Two Fat Lattes are an example.
- Cast Full of Gay - There's no specific rule that you have to be gay to be a presenter, but it obviously helps.
- Celebrity Endorsement - Heaps of these in station promos. Typically making fun of themselves.
- Deadpan Snarker - Pretty much everyone.
- Gayborhood - You will hear the words "Prahran" and "Commercial Road" a lot in advertisements for this reason.
- Gentleman Snarker - A common archetype for Invisible to Gaydar presenters.
- Fan Yay - A frequent topic of conversation as more obvious gay shows are typically considered "talked out".
- Gay Conservative - Hosts of news and current affairs show The Spin tend to cover policy debates from a conservative perspective.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff - Gay men in America like to listen because they find Australian accents sexy.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar - Many conversations during the day can degenerate into a Hurricane of Euphemisms.
- Gym Bunny - Advertisers compete aggressively for this market.
- Hard Gay - Rumors about AFL footballers being armored closet gays are extremely popular.
- Has Two Mommies - Parenting rights for same sex couples are one of the big issues being fought for right now.
- Ho Yay - Goes without saying, really.
- I Listen For The Music - Quite a few men who are straight or otherwise indifferent to gay interests listen because it plays a better mix of Dance Pop and electronic music than the commercial stations.
- Love Hurts - Listening to any of the discussions about relationships make it abundantly clear things aren't any easier on the other side of the fence. Bittersweet love songs are very popular.
- Nobody Over 50 Is Gay Averted, particularly with the shows Grumpy Old Poofs and Been There Done That. Many of the station's board members are gay men of a distinguished age.
- One of Us - L33t Rainbow Roflcopter plays the music that gaymers know and love.
- Periphery Demographic - Quite a few. Particularly people who like the music and gay communities in other cities and countries who either lack a local gay radio station or like Joy better.
- Political Correctness Gone Mad - Averted, to the point where political correctness is a favourite topic of satire.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism - Quite cynical. It's not easy being queer and nobody's expecting that to change in a hurry or by itself.
- Refuge in Audacity - Presenters and listeners alike enjoy trolling the Moral Guardians at every opportunity.
- Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness - To offset the grim realities of gay life, much of the content is fun, frivilous and Camp.
- Stereotype Reaction Gag - Employed frequently.
- Invisible to Gaydar - The majority of the hosts aren't going to beat you over the head with their FABULOUSNESS.
- Token Lesbian - There was a time when there was only one lesbian on the management board. She made a snarky PSA encouraging lesbians to get more involved in the station if they wanted better representation.