This month, in our penultimate episode our host Hannah Phillips will be covering Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance with co-founder Christina Dearlove and research and development officer Charlotte Logan. Big thank you The Roseate Reading for allowing us to use their space to record this episode.

This month, we're covering Hate Crime Awareness Week, Asexual Awareness Week and Black History Month. Our host, Hannah Phillips is joined with MyUmbrellla LGBT+ co-founder Kerry Kleis and Reading Pride Trustee, Sophia James. Closing song is Daniel Molyneaux's new song Automatic.

This month, our host Hannah Phillips is joined with Darlaine Honey a Sexual Health Specialist from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Philip Baldwin a Human Rights Campaigner and Gay Times Columnist. Covering Bisexual Visibility Week, Sexual Health Week and the 5 year anniversary of Undetectable Equals Untransmissable (U=U). Closing Song by PJ Taylor - Broken Melodies

This month, our host Hannah Phillips is joined with Chair of Reading Renegades RFC Tommy Snipe and writer, speaker, broadcaster and photographer best known for being the first transgender woman to work in football's Premier League as club photographer for AFC Bournemouth following her transition in the summer of 2015, Sophie Cook.

This our host Hannah Phillps is joined with Joshua Bastow from Animagi representing Non-Binary Awareness Week followed by Summer Clarke a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Hepatology at Royal Berkshire NHS Trust covering World Hepatitis Day and finally Sab Samuel founder of Drag Queen Story Hour UK best known for his drag act Ada H Dee. We thank Reading International Solidarity Centre for allowing us to use their room to record this episode. Closing Song: BooHoo by Feryl

It's June which can mean only one thing, Pride Month! Our host Hannah Phillips talks about what it is and the events that lead up to it such as the Stonewall Riots, Lesbian's and Gay's Support the Miners (LGSM) best depicted in Pride Movie 2014 with three special guests: Reading Pride's CEO, Martin Cooper; Chair of Oxford Pride, Zayna Ratty; and Founder/Director of Weston-super-Mare Pride and Inclusions Officer at the UK Pride Organisers Network, Nigel Briers. Whilst June is a month of celebration, it is also a time to reflect on all the lives lost through to intolerance and hate such as bombing of the Admiral Duncan in 1999, the mass-shooting at Orlando Pulse Nightclub in 2016 and much more close to home remembering Joe, James and David who we lost last year in Forbury Gardens, this section between 39m and 53m comes with a trigger warning. Finally Nigel has some news about some big changes at the UK Pride Organisers Network. We thank Reading International Solidarity Centre for allowing us to use their room to record this episode.

Slightly later than billed, our host Hannah Phillips takes us through Pan Awareness Day; Agender Pride Day; International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia; LGBT+ Domestic & Family Violence Day with Jamie Dewson a Support Officer at Support U; and finally World Mental Health Week with Lucy Hart a PWP Clinical Lead at Talking Therapies Berkshire. We are also joined by Nicolette Street a singer-songwriter who has performed at Reading Pride for many years and also wrote charity single "Sticks & Stones" in 2011. Closing Song: You're So Cruel - Nicolette Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6yKTpK38DY https://open.spotify.com/track/3AvzOCbSnPRvQ3ihMBoa5v?si=5eb8601f63be4610 https://music.apple.com/us/album/youre-so-cruel/546424128?i=546424447

On this months episode our host Hannah Phillips talks to Debbie Brixey, VP of Membership at Inter Pride covering Lesbian Visibility Week and the current lesbian flags in circulation followed by Rachel & Ian Cotton from Reading Autistic Pride to talk about World Autism Day. We thank Georgey Payne for granting us permission to use anti-bullying charity single "It Does Get Better" by "The L Project" to close the show.

Under The Brolly is back for a second series with new host Hannah Phillips. This month we are covering Trans Day of Visibility with founders of T&Coffee - Trans Network, Jason Potts and Samantha Howard followed by Chair of Progress Theatre Steph Dewar discussing their upcoming play.