LOUD FM Host Stations:

 TEABBA (indigenous broadcasters from Darwin) Midnight to 2 am 6RPH (radio for the print handicapped in WA) 2 am to 4 am 7HUON (TAS) 4 am to 6 am Hitz FM (VIC) 6 am to 8 am 2MCE (NSW) 8 am to 10 am RRR (VIC) 10 am to noon 6AR (indigenous broadcasters from Perth) noon to 2 pm 5UV (broadcasting live from the Rundle Mall in Adelaide) 2 pm to 4 pm 2SER (NSW) 4 pm to 6 pm 4ZZZ (QLD) 6 pm to 8 pm 3PBS (VIC) 8 pm to 10 pm FBI (NSW) 10 pm to midnight

 (All listed times here and throughout the radio program are Australian Eastern Standard Summer Time)

 Check the frequency listing at the back of this programme for details on where to find your local community radio station.
 

 Slam. Yipeeee!!!! You're out of the closet, but then what? The radio documentary Coming In asks the question: "where do you go when you come out?"

 Nassim "walking into that bar was like coming home and going yeah, these are my people ­ this is my family.' But it was also like I was a stranger because it was my first time there"

 Sam "I know that the first lesbian club I went to I went "Yay" This is really groovy,' but then it became very apparent to me ­ as a bisexual woman in a lesbian space ­ "hang on" if I had a male partner I couldn't bring him here."  As a feminist I probably wouldn't want to, but again it limits my options!

 Coming In means Labels Shmables! It's hard enough working out who you are let alone having everyone else demand that you identify, either one way or the other.

 Sam "I don't like being defined by my partner's gender. If I'm single I'm in a no man's land" no woman's land. I'm bisexual the whole time."

Emma 'I've been told on a number of occasions that I can't be a real dyke because of the way I look, or because of the people I hang out with, or just the things I say. Apparently I don't have a real lesbian outlook on life" Coming In also means negotiating other aspects of your identity as you step out of the closet.

 Nassim "I couldn't see myself as being an active member of the Lebanese community's in the Lebanese way of life in Australia and be openly gay. I just didn't think it was possible. When I was younger I used to entertain these fantasies of getting married and having a wife, but also having a male lover on the side. In this way I could fulfill my familial obligations as well as doing what my community expcected of me, but sort of getting what I wanted at the same time"

 Coming In means that the transition from 'in' to 'out' can be a rough one and that the world outside the closet can be a world with its own alternative set of social rules and expectations. To be broadcast on the CBAA network.

  Community radio is a thriving sector boasting around 140 stations broadcasting full time, and nearly two hundred other "part-time" stations waiting for a licence. Staffed by over 25,000 volunteers around the country, community radio exists to provide an alternative to mainstream media. It provides access to the airwaves to those who are normally overlooked by commercial media, such as young people! Tune in to your local station, and you'll hear diverse programming, opinions and approaches to news, music and popular culture that you won't hear anywhere else - as well as new music from young performers months before anyone else picks them up. It's these principles of diversity, access and innovation that make the marriage between and LOUD bleeding obvious.

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia , the peak representative body for community media in the country, brings together a satellite network of nearly one hundred community radio stations, and sees the festival out with the 24 hour LOUD FM extravaganza. Tune in for the best of the sector's young presenters, producers, Djs and engineers. The LOUD FM signal will jump from state to state - mapping out the artistic talents of the nation. Live music, guests and docos feature throughout the day, including 15 year old Jenni Clapshaw's snapshot of the sound of her local music scene in the Clarence Valley, North Coast NSW.

 When Jenny Kapp's parents went to pick her up from the adoption agency, the nurse said "There's only one thing wrong with this one. It's got red hair. Over the years, Jenny's had to endure the stares of strangers, the curious fingerpointing of toddlers and the hushed explanations of embarrassed parents, every time she's ventured forth from the safety of her own home. And then one day it struck her. Maybe it wasn't the red hair after all. Maybe it was the cerebral palsy.

 Life is full of misunderstandings when you have a disability. On a recent Saturday night out with his mates, Paul Riddle was refused service from the bar and asked to leave the pub. While the too drunk to serve rule is rarely doled out against the average punter, Paul is often thought to be drunk because of his walk and slurred speech.

 According to Jenny, things like that just happen when you have a disability. "We're not only misunderstood, we're excluded from public places, and from conversations about things like work and even sex. It's not just the people you know, it's people on the street, in the media, everywhere. You're constantly being reminded that you're different".

 Jenny says that typically people see her as helpless and deserving of pity or as brave and inspirational. But she says young people with disabilities have the same range of interests, ideas and aspirations as anyone else, with a few interesting side issues as well. How do you play the drums when your balance isn't the best, and what does a young guy with cerebral palsy tell his mum when he's woken up with a hangover in a strange girls bed? To find out, Jenny Kapp has hit the streets with a few of her "special" school friends, Paul Riddle and Ben Simpson, for the Triple J morning show. The story she's produced is an intimate and often humourous "insiders' view of what it means to have a disability. "I wanted to show that the stereotypes of us are ridiculous and are totally different to the way our lives actually are."

 And is the story inspirational? "No, it just about us getting on with our lives".