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  • Figures like Wendy Carlos not only defined the genre but were also instrumental in developing the modern synthesizer. Meanwhile, SOPHIE redefined the boundaries of pop and experimental music. And then there are the musicians and sound artists working today. All Trans+.


    Learning about how they came to their craft, exploring where they have blurred the lines between music and other mediums as well as asking why transgender musicians and artists are drawn to these genres in particular, this episode (the final of season five) explores Trans+ History Week's theme: We are more than Trans+, with guests:

    Cai Gwilym Pritchard (they/them) – Sound Designer, Noise Artist and WriterChi B Williams (she/her) – Sound Artist, WriterZoe Blade (she/her) – Musician, Writer and ProgrammerRoshanak Kheshti (she/her) – Writer and Academic – University of Berkeley 

    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Here is the article we recommended:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/raves-reflect-my-transness-back-at-me-theyre-joy-as-a-form-of-rebellion/

    Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • Rehangs at art museums are rare. The last one at Tate Britain was in 2012. Whilst galleries will make small changes to their on-display collections, these are small, only happen every few months and usually happen for specific reasons (such as an item going on loan to another gallery).


    But each rehang gives an art gallery to make a statement on what its mission as an institution is. A statement that visitors will likely see for ten or more years. So it's a big deal that Tate Britain and the National Gallery both increased the amount of LGBTQIA+ representation in their recent rehangs. This week's producer, Mills Dyer explores some key Trans+ history they reveal, with guests:

    Abi Penton – A Tate tour guide and expert on GluckCas Bradbeer - A queer historian and V&A Tour guideProf Matt Cook – Professor of Queer History at Oxford University

    View the art discussed in today's show:

    Flora’s Cloak c.1923, GluckChevalier d'Eon by Thomas Stewart, after Jean-Laurent MosnierPrints of Chevalier d’Eon at the National Portrait Gallery

    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Here is the article we recommended:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-jewish-transgender-couple-who-fell-in-love-and-escaped-the-nazis/

    Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

    This episode is made possible with the support of Publicis Groupe UK.


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  • A live panel recording on "How do we win our rights?" with three Trans+ change and history makers, Roz Kaveney, Jude Guaitamacchi, Sabah Choudrey interviewed by Nancy Kelley.


    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.


    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • After 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 Rosa’s love for long, femme hair, they wonder after seeing so many people get empowered by having the chop – whether to have a 'queer haircut' too. Something, by the end of this episode Rosa resolves – for better or worse. 


    Looking for more QueerAF content? Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Watch the Transcending Words poetry night on our YouTube:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • It's a story many of us know, but in a new telling of the classic tale, Harry Woodgate has reimaging Oscar Wilde's Happy Prince.


    This week, Jamie Wareham meets the author and explores, along with groups who donate books to schools, why diverse and LGBTQIA+ inclusive books are so valuable for children.


    Harry Woodgate shares how and why they reimagined the classic tale, The Happy Prince, first written by historical queer icon Oscar Wilde. We also explore the many themes in the book that remain strikingly relevant today and reflects on the groups who are getting their books into schools.


    With guests:

    Harry Woodgate - author of The Happy Prince, Grandad's Pride and many more children's booksSammy James-Dodds - co-founder of Bude Pride and Bude Pride EducationAlison Wareham - Teaching assistant in a local Cornish school

    Get a copy of Woodgate's reimagining of The Happy Prince in all good bookstores, and pick up all their books now:

    The Happy PrinceGrandad's PrideGrandad's Camper

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

    Produced and hosted by Jamie Wareham. This episode was made possible thanks to Andersen Press.


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  • We all know the trope: the supportive bestie who helps the main character finally achieve their dreams, gives the advice that helps them land the heartthrob or drops hard truths that lead to epiphanies. We all know that’s producers and casting directors' favourite place to tick their diversity boxes. I should know, I’m the actor playing them.


    But what this week's producer Ki Griffin wants to know, especially as an actor and a black trans-masculine person who uses he/they pronouns is: "When do I get to be the main character?"


    Looking at black trans-masc representation in TV, film, and theatre - while connecting the dots with wider social conversations about black masculinity - join Ki as they explore where the black trans-masc representation is in TV and film?


    With guests:

    Rico Jacob Chace - a speaker on Intersectionality and Non-Binary EqualityTatenda Shamiso - a multidisciplinary artist, writer and directorLane Webber - actor and composer

    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Here is the article we recommended:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/we-have-always-been-here-a-poetic-ancestral-history-of-trans-nigerians/

    Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

    This episode is made possible with the support of Publicis Groupe UK.


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  • "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 court case fought here in England for the drug - but the advent of HIV and AIDS in the 80s.


    Did you know we knew PrEP was effective from the early 2000s? Why did it take until 2020 to get it on the NHS you ask?


    Join host Phil Samba as he uncovers the legal struggles, the historic activism, and the groundbreaking moments that made PrEP a reality. From the early days of HIV awareness to the modern fight for equitable healthcare, this is the compelling journey of The Other Blue Pill.


    This week, we understand the past of this HIV game-changer, so in the first episode of a series about the the present, and future of The Other Blue Pill.


    Hosted by Phil Samba, it is a QueerAF production for The Love Tank, supported by National Aids Trust.

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-other-blue-pill/id1744532072Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kOezXQXHp4ZnVXJLzBaZe?si=bf88e76133ee4da2QueerAF: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/theotherbluepill/

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  • 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 lens of transmasculinity, with a search for a trans masc hero from Irish history, with guests:

    Dr Mary MacAuliffe a lesbian historian and expert on Margaret SkinniderEliott Rose, a trans, post-graduate historian at the university who specializes in queer studies speaking on Dr James BarryIarfhlaith O’Connell, Oran's co-host on the In Awe of Mná podcast for Near FM

    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Here is the article we recommended:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/every-time-you-wash-your-hands-you-honour-this-transgender-doctors-legacy/

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • Do you love a queer punch up too? The comedic kind of course.


    Lucie Isle's first gig was in the basement of an Italian restaurant in Edinburgh, during the fringe:


    Back then I was presenting as a straight guy, and performing routines about how terrible my hometown was. I stopped performing for a while as I went on other adventures, but after an 8-year, hiatus, I’m back as a transgender woman."


    This week, comedian Lucie Isle takes us on a trip to the 80s where, set against a backdrop of an HIV/AIDS moral panic, a comedy scene emerged as a direct challenge to the widespread racism, sexism and homophobia in the press and wider society.


    The diverse 80s comedy scene began as underground, grassroots Alternative Cabaret, with stilt walkers, drag acts, prop comics, sketch troupes and stand up on a regular old lineup. But this underground alt-punk comedy scene that challenged the punch-down culture is still alive today. Lucie Isle and co-host Jamal Utting explore it's roots, as well as having a right old giggle along the way:

    Meet Dr Olly Double, reader in Comic and Popular Performance at the University of Kent to hear about the scene's roots Jeremy Topp, comedian, host and co-owner of The Queer Comedy Club in London - the UK's only dedicated queer comedy venuePlus a modern analysis of this, and the queer comedy and cabaret scene now with Lauren Bryant, aka the Punk King of Drag, Will Power.

    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Here is the article we recommended:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-section-28-and-sex-ed-denied-us-knowledge-crucial-to-our-lives/

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • Did 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 organizers of a 50th anniversary celebration of the conference LunaJoin us for a walking tour of the city's queer sites with Kit HeyamInterview with one of the last surviving members of the Trans group of the Gay Liberation Front, Roz KaveneyEnd this episode loving Leeds's little-known but inspiring gender-diverse history. 

    Season five of the award-winning QueerAF podcast is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ people and gender-diverse communities with our first-ever launchpad project, Trans+ History Week. Every Monday, for the coming weeks right up to and through Pride season - we’ll be bringing you a new episode from a budding Trans+ audio professional whom we’ve paid, published and mentored to make you a beautifully crafted story about Trans+ history. 


    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Here is the article we recommended:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-gallae-transgender-priestesses-of-ancient-rome/

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • A 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 for the whole season ahead, with a new mini-documentary episode out on your feeds every Monday from now, all the way through Pride month.


    Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

    Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

    Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

    https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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  • This 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 rich history, all the while, with our trademark stamp, investing in Trans+ creative talent, buying them equipment to keep forever, supporting them to change the media, and, yes - telling you beautiful stories. 


    Season 5 of QueerAF, with our first ever launchpad project, Trans+ History Week, is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ communities all over the world. Launching into your podcast app on May 13th, 2024, and out every Monday right the way through Pride month.


    We are QueerAF, and so are you. 


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  • 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 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 outbreak as part of a much bigger picture. 

    We’ve spoken to those on the frontline of the response, and trying to understand this virus, including at 56 Dean Street, NAM Aidsmap, Prepster, Love Tank, London School of Hygine and Tropical Medicine and many more. It features contributors from the UK and US. 


    What The Pox is the information and support I wish I had at my disposal when I was going through Monkeypox.


    Monkeypox is spreading worldwide - and for many of us queer people, the response feels a bit too familiar. You see history rarely repeats - but it often rhymes.


    Tune in to steal our insight on this virus, what it means for our community and how we should handle it. Together, let's work out just What The Pox? is going on?


    Listen to understand:


    What we know about the virus, and how it spreads

    Why we feel shame and stigma about catching it

    What the parallels are with the HIV outbreak in the 80s

    Why this sits in a bigger picture with conversations about queer sex and health inequalities

    And crucially: What can we do next?


    Because before you start listening: I’ll let you in on a secret - we have the tools to manage this outbreak; we’ve just got to use them.


    It comes out every Wednesday, or you can sign up to support our show - and unlock all the episodes as soon as they are ready in the archive coming soon below.

    The first episode is out 7 Sep, 2022.


    Let's keep the conversation frank, honest, open and alive. Because, to borrow a phrase, silence = pox.


    Hosted by me, Martin Joseph, an award-winning podcaster and comedian. What The Pox? is a QueerAF production.


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  • Can 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 behind.


    Meet QueerAF, our new community interest company that builds on the previous work we've done here as an award-winning podcast. 


    Find out how we're going to launch the careers of LGBTQIA+ emerging creatives - with a platform funding content, creatives and mentoring for people from marginalised queer identities - bring back the podcast. And show change in the media is possible.


    Or, make it possible. Join us here: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcastoffer/


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  • 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.

     

    Support

    https://switchboard.lgbt/

     

    Producer Jacob Edward

    First nonbinary presenter on @BBCR1 (Xmas 19) | Either on a train or on the radio | Gaydio Presenter, Queer Culture Podcast and Twitch Streamer.

    https://twitter.com/ItsJacobEdward

     

    LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

    Eve Westwood @evewestwoodmusic

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Ts3DNDq3puCRk0r3duPD8?si=lch3fVa2TZ21k1sxO6DZug

     

    National Student Pride 2020 

    This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

    Carving out space for womxn in the communityQueer SexDisabilityResearching the Rainbow (STEM)

     

    Visit www.studentpride.co.uk 

     

    We are #QueerAF. And so are you.



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  • 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 a journey to find happiness and comfort in being single...


    Listen to the latest episode and subscribe to #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere.

     

    Support

    https://switchboard.lgbt/

     

    Producer Martin Joeseph

    Podcast Producer - ‘Voices With Sally Morgan’ / ‘The Clueless Mum’ – Host - 1/3 Of @realbrunchpod

    https://twitter.com/mynamesmartin

     

    LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

    Girl In Red: Kate’s Not Here

    Girl In Red on Instagram @girlinred

     

    National Student Pride 2020 

    This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

    Carving out space for womxn in the communityQueer SexDisabilityResearching the Rainbow (STEM)

     

    Visit www.studentpride.co.uk

     

    We are #QueerAF. And so are you.





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  • Recorded 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 has become part of his wider queer intersectional identity.


    Callum Dziedzic –Callum is a script editor working in TV drama. He is an alumnus of the University of York’s Film and Television Production degree and Channel 4’s Production Training Scheme. Since graduating he has assistant script edited Ackley Bridge at The Forge, and Giri/Haji, a contemporary bi-lingual thriller produced by Sister Pictures for BBC Two and Netflix. More recently, Callum has developed an international nuclear armament thriller with Pulse Films and Netflix and has returned to Sister Pictures to script edit an upcoming comedy drama for BBC Two.

    Callum was born with Tetraplegic Cerebral Palsy and uses a manual wheelchair for mobility. To him, the act of storytelling in film and television is intrinsically inclusive and universal. Ultimately, a great story can come from or captivate anyone, and it should not just be regarded as a means of self-expression but also as a way of levelling the playing field for all.


    Char Bailey - Char is a celebrity life coach, acclaimed writer and speaker. Black, lesbian and autistic woman, she is the co-host of the Qmmunity podcast and well-being ambassador for UK Black Pride


    See more:

    https://mailchi.mp/westminster.ac.uk/2019wincfestgallery

    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/qmmunity/id1438250877


    National Student Pride 2020 

    This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

    Carving out space for womxn in the communityQueer SexDisabilityResearching the Rainbow (STEM)

     

    Visit www.studentpride.co.uk

     

    We are #QueerAF. And so are you.


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  • A 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 and the Trades Union Congress.


    This exclusive talk will be released as a live episode of our #QueerAF podcast.


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  • 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 too. 


    Something, by the end of this episode she resolves – for better or worse. 

     

    Subscribe to #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere.

     

    Producer Rosa Eaton

    Rosa Eaton is the Charles Parker Award winning Radio Producer, Theatre Maker and Artist. Eager to tell true stories, with a special in sex and death. (She/her)

    https://twitter.com/RosaEaton 

     

    LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

    Dan Bowskill’s Lick It Back is on YouTube. https://youtu.be/YavrQn7rUDM 

    Find Dan on Twitter @morethanmusic1

     

    National Student Pride 2020 

    This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

    Carving out space for womxn in the communityQueer SexDisabilityResearching the Rainbow (STEM)

     

    Find out more about the festival, back on the 21st-23rd February, and visit www.studentpride.co.uk – where we have yet another amazing star-studded live podcast recording on the main stage.

     

    We are #QueerAF. And so are you.



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  • Young, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predator


    Five 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 might inspire others to be empowered by it.


    With thanks to Rory Boyle, Survivors UK, Stay Brave and David Stuart for support for this episode.


    Read Rory's opinion piece in the Metro now:

    https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/12/drugged-sexually-assaulted-online-hook-up-went-wrong-12213912/


    Subscribe to #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere.


    Support

    https://www.survivorsuk.org/

    https://www.staybrave.org.uk/help


    Producer Rory Boyle:

    Rory Boyle is a radio presenter, podcaster and event producer. He currently makes the podcast Queer Ear, for Transmission Roundhouse, and works across a number of organisations focused on creating opportunities for young people in the performing arts.

    http://twitter.com/mrroryboyle


    LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

    Should’ve Loved Me by Kush is on Spotify, find him on @Kushting on Twitter and Instagram. Links in the description. Have a #QueerAF week. 

    twitter.com/kushting

    instagram.com/kushting

    https://open.spotify.com/track/1MnKSqqtSoTTcdACFmBn1M?si=6vXe-1r3Q-eAenrV4OWXfA


    National Student Pride 2020 

    This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

    Carving out space for womxn in the communityQueer SexDisabilityResearching the Rainbow (STEM)

     

    Find out more about the festival, back on the 22nd-24th February, and visit www.studentpride.co.uk – where we have yet another amazing star-studded live podcast recording on the main stage.

     

    We are #QueerAF. And so are you.


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