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QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesTrans+ life in the UK is more than concerning - what next?Recorded in February 2026 at National Student Pride, a live recording of the QueerAF podcast, hosted by Juno Dawson, with guests Munroe Bergdorf, Zelah Glasson, Lars Fellows and Fizz Sinclair - the panel explores Trans 2030, what life is like now and how Trans+ lives have changed. Without National Student Pride, QueerAF wouldn’t exist. We began as a podcast with them, mentoring early talent and student audio professionals to help them kick-start their careers. The event, which ran for 21 years, helped thousands start their working life, with their careers fair and pride of conversation - s...
2026-08-1755 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesTrans+ life in the UK is more than concerning - what next?Recorded in February 2026 at National Student Pride, a live recording of the QueerAF podcast, hosted by Juno Dawson, with guests Munroe Bergdorf, Zelah Glasson, Lars Fellows and Fizz Sinclair - the panel explores Trans 2030, what life is like now and how Trans+ lives have changed. Without National Student Pride, QueerAF wouldn’t exist. We began as a podcast with them, mentoring early talent and student audio professionals to help them kick-start their careers. The event, which ran for 21 years, helped thousands start their working life, with their careers fair and pride of conversation - s...
2026-08-1755 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesIan McKellen on Shakespeare, Magneto and LGBTQIA+ activismOur show began as a collaboration with National Student Pride, where we worked with budding students, building audio production careers and giving them their first published work. The organisation, which ran for 21 years, had it’s final event this year in February. We were back, as the event’s media partner, to help them ring the bell on it’s format as a pride of conversation with panels, a careers fair, and the largest gathering of LGBTQIA+ students in the UK. Like all the years we’ve worked together, we were on stage recording our podcast, including...
2026-07-2040 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesIan McKellen on Shakespeare, Magneto and LGBTQIA+ activismOur show began as a collaboration with National Student Pride, where we worked with budding students, building audio production careers and giving them their first published work. The organisation, which ran for 21 years, had it’s final event this year in February. We were back, as the event’s media partner, to help them ring the bell on it’s format as a pride of conversation with panels, a careers fair, and the largest gathering of LGBTQIA+ students in the UK. Like all the years we’ve worked together, we were on stage recording our podcast, including...
2026-07-2040 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow to build a better relationship with the news as a LGBTQIA+ personNews overwhelm is an increasing issue, making more and more of us switch it off - four in ten of us now say we selectively avoid the news. But this is at a time when we need to be even more keyed into what's happening - so we know how to fight back against it. QueerAF founder Jamie Wareham sits down for a fireside conversation with Ludovic Parsons (QueerAF's lead investigative journalist) and Ruby Rare (Author, broadcaster) to talk about how we can use the news in the Pride season ahead to advocate for better for...
2026-07-1353 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow to build a better relationship with the news as a LGBTQIA+ personNews overwhelm is an increasing issue, making more and more of us switch it off - four in ten of us now say we selectively avoid the news. But this is at a time when we need to be even more keyed into what's happening - so we know how to fight back against it. QueerAF founder Jamie Wareham sits down for a fireside conversation with Ludovic Parsons (QueerAF's lead investigative journalist) and Ruby Rare (Author, broadcaster) to talk about how we can use the news in the Pride season ahead to advocate for better for...
2026-07-1353 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesCute twinks and gym bros: Why do we police trans masculine identities?This week, on QueerAF in an episode from our mentoring programme for Trans+ History Week, we’re going to trace back in recent history where body standards for both gay and trans men come from, how they show up, and challenge labels from drag acts to gym bros. It’s a nuanced discussion, especially when we think about how the labels we use in the queer community - often mean different things, depending on where we live, what scene we’re engaging in, and that's before we think about any other personal baggage we’re bringing to the equation.
2026-07-0629 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesCute twinks and gym bros: Why do we police trans masculine identities?This week, on QueerAF in an episode from our mentoring programme for Trans+ History Week, we’re going to trace back in recent history where body standards for both gay and trans men come from, how they show up, and challenge labels from drag acts to gym bros. It’s a nuanced discussion, especially when we think about how the labels we use in the queer community - often mean different things, depending on where we live, what scene we’re engaging in, and that's before we think about any other personal baggage we’re bringing to the equation.
2026-07-0629 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow to save Trans+ stories in an age they can be deleted with just a click?We live in an era where algorithms are filtering queer and Trans+ stories, and worse - where whole archives of LGBTQIA+ content are being deleted. Ahead of us may be worse, active rhetoric and regimes that seek to erase us in public life too. How do we fight back, in small ways, by saving Trans+ stories now, for future generations? Historian Dr Rebecca Jane Morgan, director of Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and QueerAF alumni Alex Parmar-Yee and historian drag artist HRH Aphrodite I join guest host, and QueerAF podcast alumni Ki Griffin in this live episode at the Trans+ History...
2026-06-2240 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow to save Trans+ stories in an age they can be deleted with just a click?We live in an era where algorithms are filtering queer and Trans+ stories, and worse - where whole archives of LGBTQIA+ content are being deleted. Ahead of us may be worse, active rhetoric and regimes that seek to erase us in public life too. How do we fight back, in small ways, by saving Trans+ stories now, for future generations? Historian Dr Rebecca Jane Morgan, director of Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and QueerAF alumni Alex Parmar-Yee and historian drag artist HRH Aphrodite I join guest host, and QueerAF podcast alumni Ki Griffin in this live episode at the Trans+ History...
2026-06-2240 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe legacy of HIV activists is under threat. How do we turn the tide?Lou Sullivan is known to many as a first. One of the first openly gay trans men in public life, widely considered the first known case of a trans man developing AIDS, and later the first trans man known to die of an AIDS-related illness. His story, his legacy, is a complex one, though. A pioneer of history and archiving, as well as on the front lines of HIV advocacy, we look back at his life at a time when we should be only years away from ending the HIV pandemic. Instead, because of cuts made by the Trump...
2026-06-0134 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe legacy of HIV activists is under threat. How do we turn the tide?Lou Sullivan is known to many as a first. One of the first openly gay trans men in public life, widely considered the first known case of a trans man developing AIDS, and later the first trans man known to die of an AIDS-related illness. His story, his legacy, is a complex one, though. A pioneer of history and archiving, as well as on the front lines of HIV advocacy, we look back at his life at a time when we should be only years away from ending the HIV pandemic. Instead, because of cuts made by the Trump...
2026-06-0134 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 7 | Ten years of the QueerAF podcastWe need to shut down the lies the anti-trans movement tell. The best way to do that? With queer journalism, and our history.This season on the QueerAF podcast, as we mark ten years of bringing you award-winning documentaries and live podcast events, we’re back with our trademark approach.https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcast/Investing in LGBTQIA+ talent to build their media careers, buying them equipment to keep forever, supporting them to change the media, and yes - telling you beautiful stories. Season 7 of...
2026-05-0801 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 7 | Ten years of the QueerAF podcastWe need to shut down the lies the anti-trans movement tell. The best way to do that? With queer journalism, and our history.This season on the QueerAF podcast, as we mark ten years of bringing you award-winning documentaries and live podcast events, we’re back with our trademark approach.https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcast/Investing in LGBTQIA+ talent to build their media careers, buying them equipment to keep forever, supporting them to change the media, and yes - telling you beautiful stories. Season 7 of...
2026-05-0801 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow homos can reckon with the history we were never toldBack on our feeds, the collaboration you've missed since 2020. We've loved collaborating with Historical Homos again, who have launched a podcast since we last worked with them to mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. In this episode, we bring you an introductory package, before handing the reigns over to Sebastian Hendra, for the usual Historical Homos format in this collab episode of the QueerAF podcast!Episode Credits: Hosted by Sebastian Hendra, with intro package produced by Jamie Wareham and interview section edited by Alex Toskas. Thanks to guests Kit Heyam and Marty Davies (P...
2025-07-141h 15QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow homos can reckon with the history we were never toldBack on our feeds, the collaboration you've missed since 2020. We've loved collaborating with Historical Homos again, who have launched a podcast since we last worked with them to mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. In this episode, we bring you an introductory package, before handing the reigns over to Sebastian Hendra, for the usual Historical Homos format in this collab episode of the QueerAF podcast!Episode Credits: Hosted by Sebastian Hendra, with intro package produced by Jamie Wareham and interview section edited by Alex Toskas. Thanks to guests Kit Heyam and Marty Davies (P...
2025-07-141h 15
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow do we tell Trans+ history, so we can all learn from it?This week we’re sharing the conversation we recorded at the Trans+ History Week community event 2025, with the theme: How do we tell our history,so we can all learn from it?It might have taken place back in May but, well lets face it even before this year’s Trans+ History Week, which is held in the first full week in May each year - the UK’s Supreme Court decision on the definition of a woman in the Equality Act has changed the context, urgency and climate for Trans+ and queer rights.
2025-07-0737 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe Ballrooms from India to Wales getting tens across the board “Ballroom is liberation, it's queer history, it's trans history, it's power, it's fashion, it's sex, it's dance, it's music, it's love, it's hate, it's everything that you need in order to survive as a queer person in this world, especially as a queer person of colour.”You may know ballroom from the legendary show “Pose” or “Paris is Burning” but this beautiful home curated for and by queer icons is becoming a worldwide community, with queer communities of colour, finding safety and unity in these spaces.There’s nothing more queer than doing something becau...
2025-06-3022 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe Ballrooms from India to Wales getting tens across the board “Ballroom is liberation, it's queer history, it's trans history, it's power, it's fashion, it's sex, it's dance, it's music, it's love, it's hate, it's everything that you need in order to survive as a queer person in this world, especially as a queer person of colour.”You may know ballroom from the legendary show “Pose” or “Paris is Burning” but this beautiful home curated for and by queer icons is becoming a worldwide community, with queer communities of colour, finding safety and unity in these spaces.There’s nothing more queer than doing something becau...
2025-06-3022 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe tension of the handkerchief - do you feel it too?CW: This episode contains themes of a sexual nature, including references to kinkWho do you think you are? A universal tension exists in an acute way for trans people, our dependency on other people for recognition, part of how identity works is laid bare in the struggle for trans liberation.Perhaps not better explained by examinig not just any simple piece of cloth, but the very queer and Trans+ history of the handkerchief.There’s the hanky code (or flagging). There are historical examples (some fictional, others not): phallic ha...
2025-06-2342 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe tension of the handkerchief - do you feel it too?CW: This episode contains themes of a sexual nature, including references to kinkWho do you think you are? A universal tension exists in an acute way for trans people, our dependency on other people for recognition, part of how identity works is laid bare in the struggle for trans liberation.Perhaps not better explained by examinig not just any simple piece of cloth, but the very queer and Trans+ history of the handkerchief.There’s the hanky code (or flagging). There are historical examples (some fictional, others not): phallic ha...
2025-06-2342 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow to tell better LGBTQIA+ storiesHow can we use stories as part of the fight back against anti-LGBTQIA+ narratives?At an acute time for our community, stories are a powerful tool to unpack prejudice and set a better narrative for queer communities.But what can the media industry do differently, and how can we do this in the audio and podcast space? Join us for an insider goss look at what it's like to tackle this question as a media professional. By sharing this to our audience, we hope you can better understand the way the media works...
2025-06-1649 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow to tell better LGBTQIA+ storiesHow can we use stories as part of the fight back against anti-LGBTQIA+ narratives?At an acute time for our community, stories are a powerful tool to unpack prejudice and set a better narrative for queer communities.But what can the media industry do differently, and how can we do this in the audio and podcast space? Join us for an insider goss look at what it's like to tackle this question as a media professional. By sharing this to our audience, we hope you can better understand the way the media works...
2025-06-1649 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesBack when boys, played girls, pretending to be boysThere perhaps isn’t a more British way, to say - gender is a construct - than with Shakespeare is there?So put aside your stack of sonnets, go stick on the kettle, brew a cuppa, and let Shevek Imogen Fodor tell you about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England and ignited and already ember burning flame of gender diversity on stage in the UK's most hallowed theatre institutions.If we acknowledge that gender was performed, messed with and expanded on stage then we can find a glimpse of positive no...
2025-06-0929 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWithout Lynn Conway, you wouldn't have a mobile phoneLynn Conway pioneered the technology that makes it possible to use the device you're about to listen to this podcast on now.She even coined a term for why her story has been forgotten, ignored and erased. With a contribution to computer science in almost parallel importance to Alan Turing, producer Chuck Copenspire explains the Connway Effect of why her story is only just beginning to be celebrated as well as the legacy that should be.In this episode of the QueerAF podcast, producer Chuck Copenspire digs through precious archive...
2025-06-0235 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWithout Lynn Conway, you wouldn't have a mobile phoneLynn Conway pioneered the technology that makes it possible to use the device you're about to listen to this podcast on now.She even coined a term for why her story has been forgotten, ignored and erased. With a contribution to computer science in almost parallel importance to Alan Turing, producer Chuck Copenspire explains the Connway Effect of why her story is only just beginning to be celebrated as well as the legacy that should be.In this episode of the QueerAF podcast, producer Chuck Copenspire digs through precious archive...
2025-06-0235 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesLive Episode: Star War's Abigail Thorn and Sex Education's Anthony Lexa Abigail Thorn is currently filming a new role as a trans femme action star, she revealed at the Trans+ History Week community event on a live recording of the QueerAF podcast. The actor, who is known for her roles in the Game Of Thrones (House Of The Dragon, Sharako Lohar) and Star Wars (The Acolyte, Ensign Eurus) universes, said: “I can't say what it is, but I am about to start filming a big action thing this summer. I'm having boxing lessons and sword fighting lessons like three times a week and like learning to dive acro...
2025-05-0841 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesLive Episode: Star War's Abigail Thorn and Sex Education's Anthony Lexa Abigail Thorn is currently filming a new role as a trans femme action star, she revealed at the Trans+ History Week community event on a live recording of the QueerAF podcast. The actor, who is known for her roles in the Game Of Thrones (House Of The Dragon, Sharako Lohar) and Star Wars (The Acolyte, Ensign Eurus) universes, said: “I can't say what it is, but I am about to start filming a big action thing this summer. I'm having boxing lessons and sword fighting lessons like three times a week and like learning to dive acro...
2025-05-0841 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 6 | Always Been Here, Always Will BeDo you know who Lynn Conway is? Without her work on the microchip - you wouldn’t be listening to this podcast. Did you know that there are genderqueer ballroom voguing scenes in both India and Wales? How much do you know about the eccentric Reed Erikson, who funded research into dolphin telepathy and pioneering gender-affirming surgeries when no one else would? This season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, we’re back for more of the history lesson we never had - with Trans+ History Week.Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here with...
2025-05-0601 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 6 | Always Been Here, Always Will BeDo you know who Lynn Conway is? Without her work on the microchip - you wouldn’t be listening to this podcast. Did you know that there are genderqueer ballroom voguing scenes in both India and Wales? How much do you know about the eccentric Reed Erikson, who funded research into dolphin telepathy and pioneering gender-affirming surgeries when no one else would? This season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, we’re back for more of the history lesson we never had - with Trans+ History Week.Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here with...
2025-05-0601 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWhat healthcare and disability challenges do the queer community face?To celebrate 20 years of National Student Pride - in 2025, we were back on stage as a media sponsor, for a special live recording for a panel about disability and healthcare in the queer community. It was particularly special because the last time we covered the topic in this way, it was also at Student Pride - check back for the Access All Rainbows episode in season four for that. National Student Pride is an incredible event, and as well as giving QueerAF an incredible launchpad - it's been helping students get graduate jobs, and driving critical con...
2025-03-1743 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakNew, more dangerous MPOX strain - what can we do?In this episode of What The Pox?, host Martin Joseph explores the resurgence of news about MPOX in 2024 after it is once again declared a global health emergency by the WHO in August 2024.The episode unpacks the spread of the more dangerous Clade 1B virus, which is killing hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and its wider impact in Central and West Africa. We ask if a global north spread of the new strain will happen, and what the global response must be to this emergency.This episode's guests are:
2024-09-2343 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesRewind: Getting my first queer haircutAfter a busy Pride month at QueerAF HQ - a rewind episode, while we prepare the final few episodes of an already stunning set of stories from emerging and marginalised LGBTQIA+ audio producers. This Week Rosa Eaton ponders: Do they need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community? In their university town of Bristol they meet the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world. And despite Ros...
2024-07-0125 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesRewind: Getting my first queer haircutAfter a busy Pride month at QueerAF HQ - a rewind episode, while we prepare the final few episodes of an already stunning set of stories from emerging and marginalised LGBTQIA+ audio producers. This Week Rosa Eaton ponders: Do they need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community? In their university town of Bristol they meet the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world. And despite Ros...
2024-07-0125 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakWe almost didn't get the HIV game-changing drug PrEP - why not?"I’ve been taking PrEP for almost 7 years now. During that time, I’ve been crazy enthusiastic about making positive changes to reduce health inequalities. But I have seen how queer health has been mishandled time and time again - most recently, MPOX is the perfect example"So today, Phil Samba is here to help us all discover the untold story behind PrEP, the revolutionary pill that's transforming HIV prevention and sexual health.In the first episode of QueerAF's new six-part limited series documentary, we dive into the battle for PrEP access in the...
2024-06-1028 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesI've been on PrEP over over 7 years. This is what I've learned"I’ve been taking PrEP for almost 7 years now. During that time, I’ve been crazy enthusiastic about making positive changes to reduce health inequalities. But I have seen how queer health has been mishandled time and time again."So today Phil Samba is here to help us all discover the untold story behind PrEP, the revolutionary pill that's transforming HIV prevention and sexual health.In the first episode of our new six-part limited series documentary, we dive into the battle for PrEP access in the UK by not only looking at the cour...
2024-06-1028 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesI've been on PrEP over over 7 years. This is what I've learned"I’ve been taking PrEP for almost 7 years now. During that time, I’ve been crazy enthusiastic about making positive changes to reduce health inequalities. But I have seen how queer health has been mishandled time and time again."So today Phil Samba is here to help us all discover the untold story behind PrEP, the revolutionary pill that's transforming HIV prevention and sexual health.In the first episode of our new six-part limited series documentary, we dive into the battle for PrEP access in the UK by not only looking at the cour...
2024-06-1028 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHolding out for my trans masc hero - will I find one?Seeing your own experiences reflected back in history is often challenging when your identity has been erased, as many queer people know.As an Irish lesbian living in Dublin, Oran Keaveney spent a great deal of time documenting and discovering the queer women who shaped modern Ireland. It was a huge turning point and they felt like they fit into their country’s mythology.Now that they’ve transitioned and moved to London, they're here on QueerAF to look for this moment of self-recognition in Irish history again - but this time through the...
2024-06-0329 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesGoing back to my old home, to uncover the UK's first ever Trans+ conferenceDid you know that 50 years ago, Leeds held the UK's first-ever Trans+ conference?This week, Alexander Parnham Cope, a trainee broadcast journalist at City University specialising in data and investigative journalism travels back to a city he called his home. In Leeds he uncover the curious and little-known history of the city, which held the UK’s first ever Transgender conference some fifty years ago. Leeds welcomed transgender people to its hotels and halls then. It is proud of its history of supporting trans people now. Meet one of the org...
2024-05-2030 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesLive Episode: Sex Education's Felix Mufti and Anthony LexaA live recording of the QueerAF podcast on the history-making TV representation In Sex Education:Guest host Kenny Ethan Jones, the first trans man in a period product ad campaignStars of Sex Educations's T4T storyline Anthony Lexa and Felix MuftiA discussion about the power of on-screen representation, creating inclusive stories about Trans+ communities and what it was like to make that visibility for Sex Education.This episode was recorded in front of an audience of 200 people in London's Canary Wharf at our first ever Trans+ History Week community event. Make sure to subscribe...
2024-05-1334 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 5 | Trans+ History Lesson You Never HadThis season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, it’s time for the history lesson we never had.Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here to take you through the millennia-old history of gender-diverse communities. Knowledge of our past is fundamental for our liberation, and launching during the first-ever Trans+ History Week - we’re back, and like any good comeback, we’re kicking off with a live event with Netflix’s Sex Education T4T couple, Felix Mufti and Anthony Lexa. It’s time to collect, surface, and share our community's...
2024-05-0602 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 5 | Trans+ History Lesson You Never HadThis season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, it’s time for the history lesson we never had.Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here to take you through the millennia-old history of gender-diverse communities. Knowledge of our past is fundamental for our liberation, and launching during the first-ever Trans+ History Week - we’re back, and like any good comeback, we’re kicking off with a live event with Netflix’s Sex Education T4T couple, Felix Mufti and Anthony Lexa. It’s time to collect, surface, and share our community's...
2024-05-0602 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakOne Year On: MPOX can be passed asymptomaticallyIt’s been quite a year since we last spoke to you.But since we have, as many of the experts we talked to predicted, pockets of outbreaks that have the potential to spread epidemically have started to pop up again.We’ve also seen Monkeypox get renamed to MPOX to combat stigma and racist stereotypes connected to the virus. As we mark a year since the UK outbreak peaked, we wanted to check in and ask what we know now. Has it gone away? Will it come back? And when it comes to di...
2023-07-0534 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakMpox (Monkeypox) is a devastating global health emergency - can we end the outbreak?Countries are struggling, vaccines are scarce and mpox (monkeypox) is at risk of becoming endemic in many countries.In the final episode of this documentary, we find out what actions need to be taken at a global scale to get the outbreak under control.This virus became endemic in some countries after we first saw it in the 1970s, and we have not done much about it. That bears repeating, for over 50 years - people have been struggling with it, in Central and Eastern Africa - and even now, when it’s spreading ar...
2022-11-0935 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakThis episode does not contain straight sex in the missionary positionSex. Some people aren’t just doing it - they’re really doing it. But, like with anything fun - safety comes first. We’ve got to be aware of sexually transmitted infections.Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection, but this current outbreak is being transmitted sexually. And when it comes to infections that are passed on sexually, there is an added level of stigma.It’s clear that when STIs impact sexually active folk in the LGBTQIA+ community - it’s worse. Why is that? What is it about queer sex that creat...
2022-11-0233 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakCan you even get a Mpox vaccine? We travel around the UK to find outI haven’t had one. Some people have - but with a limited supply left, just who can get a vaccine?Medical professionals are under the assumption that I currently don’t need a vaccine as they think I probably have some immunity.But we don’t know how long that will last. I’m nervous about if and what immunity I have and how long it will last. I can’t imagine having to go through all of this again.And what about the folks that haven’t had Mpox (monkey...
2022-10-2632 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakHow can you be queer, single and happy?In this bonus episode of What The Pox? host Martin Joseph shares his most recent QueerAF episode: How can you be queer, single and happy? Monkeypox stigma and shame, is inherently linked to queer and sex shame - and so the themes in this episode, ring so true. So true, they are practically an episode of the show. ]We'll be back to wrap up the season over the coming weeks with big interviews with the WHO, investigating new scientific research which could create new treatments for Monkeypox - plus we'll delve deeper into...
2022-10-1933 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakIs the USA leading the way on Mpox? From epicenter to actionDr. Demetre Daskalakis is like the Chris Witty of monkeypox in the US - slides and all. But can you imagine anyone 'official' in the UK talking about buttholes, fetish gear or anal while responding to a health crisis? That's what Daskalakis is doing, and he says the language he's persuaded the CDC to use is working better than anything they've used before. In official CDC guides about the virus, expect to see language like anal, oral and buttholes. Which, as NAM Aidsmap director Matthew Hodson notes earlier in the show, works because it reflects how g...
2022-10-1235 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakIs history repeating? - What we can learn from HIV, for mpoxMpox (Monkeypox) has been troubling for many queers here in the UK and US because of the parallels to HIV. The legacy of AIDS stigma born in the 80s still lives with us today.This UK government has not released statements damning LGBTQIA+ people for monkeypox, but their silence is damning. It has had almost the same effect in drumming up homophobic rhetoric as if they had directly targeted us with this speech.But 40 years on, we have come a long way - we’ve fought for policies which could end HIV by th...
2022-09-2828 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakDid I let the community down by catching Mpox (monkeypox)?Mpox (monkeypox) - when I was super sick, in pain and feeling really under the weather - wasn't even the worst part. It was telling people. I couldn't put my finger on why, though.I knew in my rational brain that I had done nothing wrong. But I couldn't shake this feeling. For the longest time - I couldn't figure it out. And then it hit me.I grew up in the 90s, in the shadow of HIV, hearing all the awful things the newspapers and people had to say about the virus and g...
2022-09-2137 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakScandalous and silent: What's the UK response to Mpox been?Mpox (monkeypox) - about four days into isolating with it - I got some pretty intense pain. After spending 24 hours in agony - I called 111 for help.They got me an emergency appointment, and I had to cover up my legions and wear a mask. Reasonable requests. But the response I got was less so. I was greeted with what could only be described as panic.Staff used hushed tones, and a doctor in full PPE made me talk to him on the phone, through the door. After being asked if I was...
2022-09-1428 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakMpox (Monkeypox) is changing - what does the Science say?I still have a lot of questions about Mpox (Monkeypox). And I've literally made a whole podcast about it.I remember sitting in the doctor's surgery not long after catching it, wanting to know: What treatment is available? How long will this part last?Then after I recovered, why wasn't I automatically eligible for the vaccine - am I immune? So I put these questions to the experts and doctors who've been tirelessly to track this outbreak, the changing symptoms and help all of us manage it.Join us to...
2022-09-0735 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesMPOX: Just What The Pox is going on?This is just episode one, of QueerAF's new podcast about Monkeypox. it has stories and resources without shame or stigma - "It's what I wish I'd had." Listen to the whole series by searching 'What The Pox?'... Monkeypox. That’s what What The Pox? is all about - a ‘poxcast’ if you will. Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. And it was not fun.When I was home alone with Monkeypox in all kinds of pain, feeling scared and alone I...
2022-09-0726 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesMPOX: Just What The Pox is going on?This is just episode one, of QueerAF's new podcast about Monkeypox. it has stories and resources without shame or stigma - "It's what I wish I'd had." Listen to the whole series by searching 'What The Pox?'... Monkeypox. That’s what What The Pox? is all about - a ‘poxcast’ if you will. Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. And it was not fun.When I was home alone with Monkeypox in all kinds of pain, feeling scared and alone I...
2022-09-0726 min
What The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakSo you've got Mpox (Monkeypox)? Don't Panic (listen to this)Mpox (Monkeypox). That’s what we are here to talk about. And this episode is everything I needed to hear when I first caught the virus.Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. In early July this year, I had monkeypox… and it was not fun. When I was alone at home, with monkeypox - in all kinds of pain. I was desperate for information.I googled "how long will this last" and searched "is it meant to feel like this?" But th...
2022-09-0726 minWhat The Pox? - Investigating the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreakJust What The Pox is going on?Monkeypox. That’s what we’re here to talk about. Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. And it was not fun. When I was home alone with Monkeypox in all kinds of pain, Feeling scared and alone I had very little information. So I went online to find help. And guess what - there wasn’t much official advice. But I did start talking to all kinds of people: experts, people who’ve had the virus, And to those who see this out...
2022-08-2702 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe media is failing queer people: This is how to change itCan we tell you how to change the way the media writes about queer lives? It’s a change we need urgently.From transphobia led by the press, media getting it wrong and regulator Ofcom and the BBC signalling, queer lives are up for debate. It’s a growing pattern that is spilling out onto the streets in the form of rising hate crimes. It’s time for an organisation to fight back. To advocate for us in the media. To show change is possible by commissioning and then supporting the voices who are too often left be...
2022-01-2504 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThe media is failing queer people: This is how to change itCan we tell you how to change the way the media writes about queer lives? It’s a change we need urgently.From transphobia led by the press, media getting it wrong and regulator Ofcom and the BBC signalling, queer lives are up for debate. It’s a growing pattern that is spilling out onto the streets in the form of rising hate crimes. It’s time for an organisation to fight back. To advocate for us in the media. To show change is possible by commissioning and then supporting the voices who are too often left be...
2022-01-2504 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesAm I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex?Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex? Yes, it’s here. Another fantastic episode ahead by #QueerAF regular producer Jacob Edward. And this week, we’re talking about a spectrum of feelings when it comes to sex, the differences between asexuality and sex shame plus Jacob, who used their portfolio to get a job Radio One’s first non-binary presenter shares boldly and bravely.Listen to the latest episode and subscribe (rate and review) #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere. Supporthttps://switchboard.lgbt/
2020-03-1632 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesAm I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex?Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex? Yes, it’s here. Another fantastic episode ahead by #QueerAF regular producer Jacob Edward. And this week, we’re talking about a spectrum of feelings when it comes to sex, the differences between asexuality and sex shame plus Jacob, who used their portfolio to get a job Radio One’s first non-binary presenter shares boldly and bravely.Listen to the latest episode and subscribe (rate and review) #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere. Supporthttps://switchboard.lgbt/
2020-03-1632 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow can you be single, queer and happy?How can you be single, queer and happy?Growing up in the 90’s things seemed pretty simple. You get to your mid-twenties, find someone you are attracted to who lives in close proximity, get married and live a happy life. But Martin could never relate to any of this because he is gay. Cut to now, aged 32 and a little jaded by love – he has no desire for marriage or a partner. But can he still be happy? On today's episode of #QueerAF, he goes on...
2020-03-0937 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesHow can you be single, queer and happy?How can you be single, queer and happy?Growing up in the 90’s things seemed pretty simple. You get to your mid-twenties, find someone you are attracted to who lives in close proximity, get married and live a happy life. But Martin could never relate to any of this because he is gay. Cut to now, aged 32 and a little jaded by love – he has no desire for marriage or a partner. But can he still be happy? On today's episode of #QueerAF, he goes on...
2020-03-0937 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesAccess All Rainbows: Being LGBT+ and Disabled – Live EpisodeRecorded live as part of National Student Pride, at the University of Westminster in collaboration with the university's Creative Enterprise Centre: We present Access All Rainbows.Join our conversation about being LGBT+ and disabled, considering; Hidden disabilities, access, perceptions on ability and, support in relationships.The Speakers:Jamie Wareham – University of Westminster Alumni Jamie Wareham is the Head of Digital Production at Attitude Magazine and host of National Student Pride's podcast #QueerAF. Jamie recently spoke at the inaugural WINC festival about coming to terms with his hidden disability, and how that...
2020-03-0230 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesAccess All Rainbows: Being LGBT+ and Disabled – Live EpisodeRecorded live as part of National Student Pride, at the University of Westminster in collaboration with the university's Creative Enterprise Centre: We present Access All Rainbows.Join our conversation about being LGBT+ and disabled, considering; Hidden disabilities, access, perceptions on ability and, support in relationships.The Speakers:Jamie Wareham – University of Westminster Alumni Jamie Wareham is the Head of Digital Production at Attitude Magazine and host of National Student Pride's podcast #QueerAF. Jamie recently spoke at the inaugural WINC festival about coming to terms with his hidden disability, and how that...
2020-03-0230 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDustin Lance Black, Lady Phyll, Evan Davis | Building Our Queer Family's FutureA live episode of #QueerAF, guest hosted by Evan Davis with Dustin Lance Black and UK Black Pride's Lady Phyll.An Oscar-winning screenwriter and the co-founder of UK Black Pride chat to BBC broadcaster Evan Davis to headline our daytime festival (Sat 22 Feb).Dustin Lance Black first appeared at National Student Pride in 2015 and has gone on to start a family with Olympic diver Tom Daley.Lady Phyll is a trailblazer within the UK LGBT+ community. As well as co-founding UK Black Pride, she sits on multiple boards including Stonewall...
2020-02-2336 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDustin Lance Black, Lady Phyll, Evan Davis | Building Our Queer Family's FutureA live episode of #QueerAF, guest hosted by Evan Davis with Dustin Lance Black and UK Black Pride's Lady Phyll.An Oscar-winning screenwriter and the co-founder of UK Black Pride chat to BBC broadcaster Evan Davis to headline our daytime festival (Sat 22 Feb).Dustin Lance Black first appeared at National Student Pride in 2015 and has gone on to start a family with Olympic diver Tom Daley.Lady Phyll is a trailblazer within the UK LGBT+ community. As well as co-founding UK Black Pride, she sits on multiple boards including Stonewall...
2020-02-2336 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDid you get a haircut to work out how to be queer too?Does Rosa need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community? That’s what she explores in her university town of Bristol this week on #QueerAF. Meeting the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world. And despite Rosa’s love for her femme, long hair. She wonders after seeing so many people get empowered by having the chop – whether she wants to or should have a queer haircut t...
2020-02-1729 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDid you get a haircut to work out how to be queer too?Does Rosa need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community? That’s what she explores in her university town of Bristol this week on #QueerAF. Meeting the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world. And despite Rosa’s love for her femme, long hair. She wonders after seeing so many people get empowered by having the chop – whether she wants to or should have a queer haircut t...
2020-02-1729 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesYoung, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predatorYoung, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predatorFive years ago, Rory was drugged and sexually assaulted by two men, who I met while using Grindr. Young, vulnerable and new to a big city – growing up without any LGBTQ inclusive sex education in school – I became the target for an online predator.It’s been difficult coming to terms with this attack, but five years on later Rory is telling his story on his own terms on the #QueerAF podcast, in the hope it mi...
2020-02-1041 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesYoung, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predatorYoung, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predatorFive years ago, Rory was drugged and sexually assaulted by two men, who I met while using Grindr. Young, vulnerable and new to a big city – growing up without any LGBTQ inclusive sex education in school – I became the target for an online predator.It’s been difficult coming to terms with this attack, but five years on later Rory is telling his story on his own terms on the #QueerAF podcast, in the hope it mi...
2020-02-1041 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesEverything you need to know about being in a queer relationshipPansexual reporter Kenya Jay Scarlett speaks to queer couples to find out everything you need to know about being in a relationship. From getting together to breaking up and how her pansexuality has left her feeling some people are way too focused on gender. This week on #QueerAF whether you've had one or not, we take you on a crash course on being in a queer relationship. Subscribe now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere. This season is inspired by National Student Pride...
2020-02-0338 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesEverything you need to know about being in a queer relationshipPansexual reporter Kenya Jay Scarlett speaks to queer couples to find out everything you need to know about being in a relationship. From getting together to breaking up and how her pansexuality has left her feeling some people are way too focused on gender. This week on #QueerAF whether you've had one or not, we take you on a crash course on being in a queer relationship. Subscribe now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere. This season is inspired by National Student Pride...
2020-02-0338 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWe're back... Season 4 – Trailer#QueerAF is back for season four. With more LGBT+ reporters than ever.This year our stories come from Bristol, Manchester, Milton Keynes, with reporters from Northern Ireland, Leeds, London and beyond.When you listen – you support the students, graduates and LGBT+ reporters we mentor to build their audio portfolio. And they tell you beautifully produced queer stories. They have stories on asexuality, sex shame, how to be happy and single, pansexuality, everything you need to know about being in a queer relationship, why LBQT women's spaces need a revolution and so m...
2020-01-2002 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWe're back... Season 4 – Trailer#QueerAF is back for season four. With more LGBT+ reporters than ever.This year our stories come from Bristol, Manchester, Milton Keynes, with reporters from Northern Ireland, Leeds, London and beyond.When you listen – you support the students, graduates and LGBT+ reporters we mentor to build their audio portfolio. And they tell you beautifully produced queer stories. They have stories on asexuality, sex shame, how to be happy and single, pansexuality, everything you need to know about being in a queer relationship, why LBQT women's spaces need a revolution and so m...
2020-01-2002 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesEverybody's Talking About Jamie: The story behind musical, with Dan Gillespie Sells and Layton WilliamsDon't mess with a boy in a dress, he was born to impress.Lead singer of the feeling and writer of the musical that’s taken the UK’s west end by storm Dan Gillespie Sells, joinst us for our season three finale, to tell the story behind the soundtrack to your #QueerAF life: Everybody's Talking About Jamie.In an ever changing world, the way we identify is constantly being challenged. Not just by people around us, but by ourselves too. And that’s why Jamie New, the 16 year old from Sheffield in the nor...
2019-04-0834 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesEverybody's Talking About Jamie: The story behind musical, with Dan Gillespie Sells and Layton WilliamsDon't mess with a boy in a dress, he was born to impress.Lead singer of the feeling and writer of the musical that’s taken the UK’s west end by storm Dan Gillespie Sells, joinst us for our season three finale, to tell the story behind the soundtrack to your #QueerAF life: Everybody's Talking About Jamie.In an ever changing world, the way we identify is constantly being challenged. Not just by people around us, but by ourselves too. And that’s why Jamie New, the 16 year old from Sheffield in the nor...
2019-04-0834 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesA Gay and a Non Gay douche to say LGBT+ rightsA Gay and Non Gay discuss douching (to help LGBT+ rights)James Barr and Dan Hudson host the hit UK LGBT+ podcast A Gay and a Non Gay, which began out of terrible conversation about pub etiquette.But their friendship really grew when their worlds collided, as Talia, Dan’s girlfriend and James’s friend, left for the USA; Leaving James and Dan to fend for themselves with just one task, to make a podcast.But when we say their worlds collided, we're not talking about the dynamic duo life maki...
2019-04-0133 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesA Gay and a Non Gay douche to say LGBT+ rightsA Gay and Non Gay discuss douching (to help LGBT+ rights)James Barr and Dan Hudson host the hit UK LGBT+ podcast A Gay and a Non Gay, which began out of terrible conversation about pub etiquette.But their friendship really grew when their worlds collided, as Talia, Dan’s girlfriend and James’s friend, left for the USA; Leaving James and Dan to fend for themselves with just one task, to make a podcast.But when we say their worlds collided, we're not talking about the dynamic duo life maki...
2019-04-0133 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesRussia doesn't want you to listen to this podcastPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of Russia’s most iconic cultural figures, but the country still denies he was gay. 125 years after his mysterious death, his magnificent symphonies, operas, and ballets – including all-time classics Swan Lake and The Nutcracker – are still performed, streamed and enjoyed by millions of people around the world.But behind Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous melodies and explosive orchestral climaxes lies the complicated story of a gay man. His sexuality brought him both joy and despair, but it was largely tolerated within Tchaikovsky’s social circles. Now his country outright denies that he was gay, bans...
2019-03-2527 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesRussia doesn't want you to listen to this podcastPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of Russia’s most iconic cultural figures, but the country still denies he was gay. 125 years after his mysterious death, his magnificent symphonies, operas, and ballets – including all-time classics Swan Lake and The Nutcracker – are still performed, streamed and enjoyed by millions of people around the world.But behind Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous melodies and explosive orchestral climaxes lies the complicated story of a gay man. His sexuality brought him both joy and despair, but it was largely tolerated within Tchaikovsky’s social circles. Now his country outright denies that he was gay, bans...
2019-03-2527 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDid you make all your Sims gay too? | A brief queer history of gamingDid you make all your Sims gay too? This week on #QueerAF, reporter Alice Taplin brings us along on a ride down the Rainbow Road, not on Mario Kart, but on a brief history of queer gaming. Video games were long considered the territory of straight boys and men, with COD, Fifa, and GTA being the first thing that sprung to people’s imaginations. But with representation across the board having made rapid improvements and the creation of Steam making way for indie games, now everybody and their mum is playing some form of video gam...
2019-03-1818 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDid you make all your Sims gay too? | A brief queer history of gamingDid you make all your Sims gay too? This week on #QueerAF, reporter Alice Taplin brings us along on a ride down the Rainbow Road, not on Mario Kart, but on a brief history of queer gaming. Video games were long considered the territory of straight boys and men, with COD, Fifa, and GTA being the first thing that sprung to people’s imaginations. But with representation across the board having made rapid improvements and the creation of Steam making way for indie games, now everybody and their mum is playing some form of video gam...
2019-03-1818 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDo you 'act straight' to stay safe on public transport too?Do you 'act straight' to stay safe on public transport too? This week on #QueerAF we explore just how safe public transport is for LGBT+ people. Reporter Cassie Galpin hears three intersecting stories from Will, Nikki and Martyn, who have faced prejudice while traveling, but turned those hate crimes into three inspiring actions. Today’s show was produced by @CassieGalpin, executive production on this episode came from @Jamie_Wareham. Thanks to Martyn, Nikki and Will for sharing their inspiring stories today.The hate crime reporting form we mentioned in the show is here: https...
2019-03-1123 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesDo you 'act straight' to stay safe on public transport too?Do you 'act straight' to stay safe on public transport too? This week on #QueerAF we explore just how safe public transport is for LGBT+ people. Reporter Cassie Galpin hears three intersecting stories from Will, Nikki and Martyn, who have faced prejudice while traveling, but turned those hate crimes into three inspiring actions. Today’s show was produced by @CassieGalpin, executive production on this episode came from @Jamie_Wareham. Thanks to Martyn, Nikki and Will for sharing their inspiring stories today.The hate crime reporting form we mentioned in the show is here: https...
2019-03-1123 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesIan McKellen's advice to LGBT+ people everywhere | Live record with guest host Evan DavisNational Student Pride's ambassador Evan Davis guest hosts the show and interviews LGBT+ Icon Ian McKellen on the #StudentPride podcast at National Student Pride 2019.🦄 Subscribe:https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/queeraf-by-national-student-pride/id1126301158?mt=2🎧 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3wiN3JZBJ2uqcg3R0OQDqPEvan Davis interviewed Ian McKellen on the #QueerAF podcast at National Student Pride 2019 at the University of Westminster, discussing his lifetime achievements and relationship with the LGBT community.They spoke about #MeToo, chemsex, drugs, his coming out, the #MeToo moveme...
2019-03-0441 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesIan McKellen's advice to LGBT+ people everywhere | Live record with guest host Evan DavisNational Student Pride's ambassador Evan Davis guest hosts the show and interviews LGBT+ Icon Ian McKellen on the #StudentPride podcast at National Student Pride 2019.🦄 Subscribe:https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/queeraf-by-national-student-pride/id1126301158?mt=2🎧 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3wiN3JZBJ2uqcg3R0OQDqPEvan Davis interviewed Ian McKellen on the #QueerAF podcast at National Student Pride 2019 at the University of Westminster, discussing his lifetime achievements and relationship with the LGBT community.They spoke about #MeToo, chemsex, drugs, his coming out, the #MeToo moveme...
2019-03-0441 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThis episode has the sex education you wish you had at schoolThe sex education you not only want – but deserve. With support from Penguin Books, we speak to Author of 'Jack of Hearts and Other Parts' Lev Rosen.This episode is NSFW, but it shouldn't be. Because the anal sex advice from Jack of Hearts we've got in the show is something all queers deserve. Indeed what anyone who wants to have good anal sex should be taught. This week we talk about how to have a good time, how often you should be having sex and we'll empower you to take control of your sex life, an...
2019-02-1125 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesThis episode has the sex education you wish you had at schoolThe sex education you not only want – but deserve. With support from Penguin Books, we speak to Author of 'Jack of Hearts and Other Parts' Lev Rosen.This episode is NSFW, but it shouldn't be. Because the anal sex advice from Jack of Hearts we've got in the show is something all queers deserve. Indeed what anyone who wants to have good anal sex should be taught. This week we talk about how to have a good time, how often you should be having sex and we'll empower you to take control of your sex life, an...
2019-02-1125 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesGirlfriends, Boyfriends and Theyfriends – Dating as a non-binary personNonbinary people continue to face misconceptions from society, including from other LGBT+ people. For Jacob Edwards, after becoming comfortable with their gender identity they started to wonder about their sexuality, were they no longer ‘gay’ – did that make them Straight? Bi? Pan? And what does that mean for dating?This week Jacob Edward, presenter of Queer Culture on The University of Salford’s student radio station Shock Radio takes us into the world of dating, lovemaking, and life-creating – for those who are beyond the binary.Get Queer Culture on Apple Podcasts:https://it...
2019-02-0421 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesGirlfriends, Boyfriends and Theyfriends – Dating as a non-binary personNonbinary people continue to face misconceptions from society, including from other LGBT+ people. For Jacob Edwards, after becoming comfortable with their gender identity they started to wonder about their sexuality, were they no longer ‘gay’ – did that make them Straight? Bi? Pan? And what does that mean for dating?This week Jacob Edward, presenter of Queer Culture on The University of Salford’s student radio station Shock Radio takes us into the world of dating, lovemaking, and life-creating – for those who are beyond the binary.Get Queer Culture on Apple Podcasts:https://it...
2019-02-0421 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesI'm a gay dancer, but I'm not happy with my bodyThis young gay guy is not happy about the way he looks, something that is not easy when you used to be a dancer. And he is not alone, body image issues are a big issue in the LGBT+ community. In today's episode, podcaster and former dancer Martin Joesph finds out if it's possible to overcome negative feelings about his body image, and talks about his eating disorder – and learns how to feel happy about his body. Speaking to non-binary podcaster Jacob, Shannon Power from Gay Star News and activists James Downs and Thomas Brackley.Content wa...
2019-01-2830 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesI'm a gay dancer, but I'm not happy with my bodyThis young gay guy is not happy about the way he looks, something that is not easy when you used to be a dancer. And he is not alone, body image issues are a big issue in the LGBT+ community. In today's episode, podcaster and former dancer Martin Joesph finds out if it's possible to overcome negative feelings about his body image, and talks about his eating disorder – and learns how to feel happy about his body. Speaking to non-binary podcaster Jacob, Shannon Power from Gay Star News and activists James Downs and Thomas Brackley.Content wa...
2019-01-2830 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 3 – TrailerThe #QueerAF podcast by national student pride is back. Subscribe now on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts for season three which returns January 28th 2019.We are the podcast that empowers students, graduates and LGBT+ producers to tell their most hashtag queer af story all in the name of national student pride taking place the 22nd to 24th of Feb 2019 in London.Expect stories about non-binary dating, body image, sex, and spoiler, listen to find out how you can be at our live recording with guest and LGBT+ legend Ian...
2019-01-2101 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesSeason 3 – TrailerThe #QueerAF podcast by national student pride is back. Subscribe now on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts for season three which returns January 28th 2019.We are the podcast that empowers students, graduates and LGBT+ producers to tell their most hashtag queer af story all in the name of national student pride taking place the 22nd to 24th of Feb 2019 in London.Expect stories about non-binary dating, body image, sex, and spoiler, listen to find out how you can be at our live recording with guest and LGBT+ legend Ian...
2019-01-2101 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesMy trans vagina is #QueerAFJuno Roche is a trans activist, writer and now author of Queer Sex a trans and non-binary guide to intimacy, pleasure and relationships. We talk about overcoming any shortcomings a new vagina might have – and why Juno has found empowerment in the inherent queerness of a "QueerAF vagina".The book is a series of interviews, with trans and non-binary people - literally creating a conversation about queer sex.https://uk.jkp.com/products/queer-sexSign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a ne...
2018-04-3030 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesMy trans vagina is #QueerAFJuno Roche is a trans activist, writer and now author of Queer Sex a trans and non-binary guide to intimacy, pleasure and relationships. We talk about overcoming any shortcomings a new vagina might have – and why Juno has found empowerment in the inherent queerness of a "QueerAF vagina".The book is a series of interviews, with trans and non-binary people - literally creating a conversation about queer sex.https://uk.jkp.com/products/queer-sexSign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a ne...
2018-04-3030 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWe need to talk about chemsexMore and more gay and bi men are using drugs to escape, for sex and to find a new high in Chemsex. In this week's #QueerAF we hear exclusive extracts, recorded just for us, from the critically acclaimed Chemsex Monologues. We discuss why the LGBT+ community turns to drugs to escape, and the rising tide - especially among gay and bi men in cities: of chemsex, the use of drugs to enhance or change sexual experiences to new levels.COME TO OUR EVENT:For all the details go here:https://www.facebook...
2018-04-1237 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWe need to talk about chemsexMore and more gay and bi men are using drugs to escape, for sex and to find a new high in Chemsex. In this week's #QueerAF we hear exclusive extracts, recorded just for us, from the critically acclaimed Chemsex Monologues. We discuss why the LGBT+ community turns to drugs to escape, and the rising tide - especially among gay and bi men in cities: of chemsex, the use of drugs to enhance or change sexual experiences to new levels.COME TO OUR EVENT:For all the details go here:https://www.facebook...
2018-04-1237 min
QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWhat is life like as a queer Muslim sex worker?New season, new style of storytelling. This year National Student Pride's podcast returns as #QueerAF.In our first episode of the season, we sit down with documentary maker Amy Ashenden. She made the Queer Muslim Sex Worker documentary. We find out the tragic story of the young person she followed who was ultimately made homeless after she came out to her family.With thanks to this week's production from Radio graduate Cassie Galpin. You can contact her here: https://twitter.com/CassieGalpinListen to Amy's full documentary here:https://audioboom.com...
2018-01-2320 minQueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creativesWhat is life like as a queer Muslim sex worker?New season, new style of storytelling. This year National Student Pride's podcast returns as #QueerAF.In our first episode of the season, we sit down with documentary maker Amy Ashenden. She made the Queer Muslim Sex Worker documentary. We find out the tragic story of the young person she followed who was ultimately made homeless after she came out to her family.With thanks to this week's production from Radio graduate Cassie Galpin. You can contact her here: https://twitter.com/CassieGalpinListen to Amy's full documentary here:https://audioboom.com...
2018-01-2320 min