Description

In the first episode of Season 2, novelist and Emmy award-winning screenwriter Patrick Gale shares his coming out story, and reveals how his own father had been secretly gay, a family secret hidden from him until he had left home.

Topics discussed:

1. Patrick Gale's coming out story
2. What it's like have closetted gay members of the family
3. Family trauma and intergenerational trauma
4. What drives Patrick to write
5. Patrick's novel, 'Mother's Boy'

Links mentioned in this episode:

• http://outcastpod.com
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/21/when-my-childhood-bully-said-sorry-40-years-too-late

This podcast is hosted by Rosie Pentreath.