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“We held space for the LGTBIQA+ communities locally and around Australia including with international guests,” they said.<\/p>\n
“It provided a sincere platform. You look at mainstream television and it’s slick and strained to be perfect. We were always imperfect and I embraced that because it made it real.<\/p>\n
“We also held space for a lot of regional artists who weren’t necessarily part of the LGTBIQA+ community but were good allies.<\/p>\n
“On Channel 31, we were also one of the few television programs to run a Welcome to Country at the top of it with my dear friend Dr Deanne Gilson who would do a pre-record for us once a year.”<\/p>\n
Lord said saying goodbye to LaNCE TV will allow them to put their energies into the Festival of Australian Queer Theatre, which debuted this year.<\/p>\n
The show’s final episode will feature an extended runtime and special guests, and will air live tonight from 9pm.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be a retrospective show with a live studio audience and our two wonderful volunteers hoping to do some documenting of whatever happens,” Lord said.<\/p>\n
“It hit me the other week when I was editing last week’s show, of segments we’d done all year, that this was the last time I’d be doing this.<\/p>\n
“I did get a bit teary.”<\/p>\n
Tonight’s episode will be viewable via Channel 31, the LaNCE TV Ballarat Facebook page, or the CTV+ app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AFTER seven years of beaming onto Victorian screens, a television pillar of the region’s queer community will be laid to rest. Later this evening, Deb Lord will don their iconic moustache and glasses as Lance DeBoyle for the final broadcast of local LGBTIQA+ variety show LaNCE TV. Lord said the show’s conclusion is down to […]<\/p>\n