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QueerAF is the award-winning (more than a) podcast with beyond-the-binary stories, mini-documentaries and live podcast events about queerness, history, sexuality, gender and identity from the UK's only press-regulated not-for-profit LGBTQIA+ publisher. QueerAF helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media. All our shows are created by a different budding LGBTQIA+ audio producer who we mentor and support to create an inspiring queer story. As well as a mix of mini-documentaries and limited series, look out for our live podcast specials, with celebrities, activists and inspiring speakers. The podcast, with its roots and first four seasons in collaboration with National Student Pride , and later seasons with Trans+ History Week gives young queer creatives a crucial leg up on the career ladder. For many, it is their first paid audio commission. Our alumni have gone on to work at some of the UK's biggest media organisati,ons including the BBC, Global and Gaydio. Audio Production Awards 2025 'Changemaker' Award - Gold ARIAS 2021 'Impact Award' shortlisted British Podcast Awards 2020 'Moment Of The Year' - Bronze Five British Podcast Awards nominations Download and take the UK's best LGBTQIA+ inspiring stories podcast with you. Get the show in all the places podcasts exist. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcast/ Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ Try our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Get updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Allyship, solidarity. They’re words that are banded around a lot. Allies often ask how to show solidarity, and marginalised queer and Trans+ folks try their hardest to give ever-increasing practical insights. But what do those words, really mean? How do you do justice to the work? Only by truly understanding a community - including by learning its history, most difficult moments, and its joy and impact on society, can we use that to create a foundational shift in the way we show up - with solidarity This week on QueerAF, we look at the solidarity campaigns - that understand this work, because awareness and solidarity play their part in an ecosystem of change - but in what role? This episode is made possible thanks to Trans+ History Week’s Creative Talent Sponsor, Publicis Groupe UK. Episode Credits: Produced and hosted by Jamie Wareham, with thanks to Trans+ Solidarity Alliance , Not A Phase , Not In Our Name and Publicis Groupe UK, with clips from L With The T , Trans People Are Loved , Focus Features and Trans+ History Week . Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rachel Taylor MP told the UK Parliment, "waiting times for gender affirming healthcare are nothing short of a national scandal". Speaking, using almost word for word our reporting in the Gender Clinic Files - an investigation into the length of waiting times for NHS gender identity clinics (GICs) - she set out how 48,000 adults remain on waiting lists, with an average waiting time of 25 years. In one clinic, we found a 224-year wait if you joined the list in March, three times the average UK life expectancy. More than a lifetime of waiting. This week on the QueerAF podcast, Ludovic Parsons looks back at the joint investigation we did with Claire's Trans Talks and What The Trans?! to ask, has anything changed - and more critically, what would a gender healthcare system built for Trans+ people, not cisgender doctors, even look like? Dive deeper, with our investigations and long-reads into UK Trans+ Healthcare: The Gender Clinic Files - the full investigative series What would a healthcare system that works for Trans+ people look like in the UK? A brief history of how the UK’s broken Trans+ healthcare system only serves its cisgender doctors The clinical symposium where cisgender doctors formed the UK's gender identity clinic Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Our 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 an upcoming episode in the season. Over the years, we’ve had Courtney Act, Olly Alexander, Dustin Lance Black, Lady Phyll, and this year the team very kindly allowed us to run this gorgeous interview you’re about to hear. The last time he was at National Student Pride, it was for a recording of the QueerAF podcast - interviewed by Evan Davis in an interview that made headlines all over the world, and won us our first British Podcast Award. So it is touching that for the final event, he was the final speaker - in what was an interview too wonderful to be lost as a moment in time. So please enjoy, author and screenwriter Juno Dawson, in conversation with Sir Ian McKellen, as he returns to the QueerAF podcast feed one more time - for the last ever, National Student Pride. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
News 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 our LGBTQIA+ community for Indie News Week, with thanks to a micro-grant from the Public Interest News Foundation. Episode Credits: This episode was produced and hosted by Jamie Wareham . With thanks to our shout out tickets Queer Kent Life and Trans Club Margate - the Public Interest News Foundation 's Indie News Week micro-grant that funded our venue, CAMP , photographer David Tovar , guests Ludovic Parsons , Ruby Rare and to Margate Pride for collaborating on the event with us. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Episode Credits: This episode was produced by Otis Grieve and Batstone . With thanks to guests Zelah Glasson , Castor Von Curse , and Marc Thompson . Executive production by Amber Devereux and Jamie Wareham . This episode was produced as part of QueerAF's Trans+ History Week mentoring programme with thanks to Trans+ History Week's Creative Talent Sponsor, Publicis Groupe UK. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In 1870, Fanny ‘Fredrich’ Park and Stella ‘Ernest’ Boulton were arrested at the Strand Theatre by three undercover policemen and prosecuted for violating the Offences Against Persons Act of 1861 – aka, Solicitation for Sodomy. They also left behind rare visual sources of their cross-dressing, which are managed by the national archives. Alongside their letters and the trial where they were found not guilty under a defence that argued that they were so 'outrageous' they couldn't be sodomites trying to hide their lives - their story is an important history lesson. Their case predated a story we all know better, Oscar Wilde's, with their case setting a precedent that went on to be used against the author. Episode Credits: This episode was produced by HRH Aphrodite I . Executive production by Amber Devereux and Jamie Wareham . This episode was produced as part of QueerAF's Trans+ History Week mentoring programme with thanks to Trans+ History Week's Creative Talent Sponsor, Publicis Groupe UK. Additional thanks to the National Archives of Great Britain. Music: “Estimations”, “Lambent (Arr. Gabel)”, “Fortis”, “Buried in the Dirt”, “Progression”, “Desert Hideout”, “Missing Memory”, “Partners in Crime”, and “Crescere” all by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen. Licensed under Epidemic Sounds. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Week community event 2026. Learn more about how easily LGBTQIA+ history can be deleted in the cautionary tale of Geocities - a gay founded early internet business. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The use of anti-trans rhetoric perpetuated by United States government officials is designed to distract from the wider, growing authoritarianism. That's long been understood by liberation leaders from Sylvia Rivereria to Miss Major, who knew no one is free until everyone is free. And that means starting with some of the most marginalised people: Black, Trans+, incarcerated women. Episode Credits: This episode was produced by eli vasquez . Opening monologue clip provided by LoveTapesCollective. Angela Davis audio provided by Glide Memorial Church livestream. Mastering and executive production by Amber Devereux , with additional executive production by Jamie Wareham . This episode was produced as part of QueerAF's Trans+ History Week mentoring programme with thanks to Trans+ History Week's Creative Talent Sponsor, Publicis Groupe UK. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In Three Days Grace, Nick begins the story frozen in the gathering dusk of his cramped Parisian room, perched on the edge of his chair in nothing but glacier-white briefs. What unfolds, over just three days is a story that begs big questions of queer life. How do we live a life without acceptance? Are there people beyond grace? What do actions we make under great pressure say about us? We sit down with author Jeremy Bradley Silverio Donato and therapist-writer Aimee Cliff to explore. Episode Credits: This episode was produced by Jamie Wareham with editing by Rory Boyle . This episode was made with thanks to Jeremy Bradley Silverio Donato, in support of his new book Three Days Grace – out now Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 administration, HIV is on the rise in some places for the first time in years. This week on the QueerAF podcast, as we mark ten years of making podcasts, we kick off season 7 with an episode from reporter Alex-Parnham Cope. Episode Credits: Reporter and producer, Alexander Parnham Cope . Executive production by Amber Devereux and Jamie Wareham . This episode was produced as part of QueerAF's Trans+ History Week mentoring programme with thanks to Trans+ History Week's Creative Talent Sponsor, Publicis Groupe UK. We've made the illustration for this episode available on Creative Commons so more people can celebrate Lou Sullivan's legacy. Find out more here. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In their first appearance together, 2004 Big Brother UK winner Nadia Almada (she/her) and 2025 Big Brother UK housemate Zelah Glasson (he/him) revealed new details about their experiences, how they were treated by production teams – and how little has changed behind the camera in 20 years. As a rare interview with Nadia Almada, she shared iconic stories behind the scenes of her time in the house, alongside Zelah Glasson who refelected on the differences when he entered the house in 2025. Both were interviewed by I Kissed A Boy contestant, Lars Fellows. Kicking off a new season of the QueerAF podcast, recorded live in front of the Trans+ History Week community event with a gorgeous audience, the episode marks the ten-year anniversary of the show that has, for a decade now, been investing in marginalised LGBTQIA+ talent to build media careers. The full season launches in June, with more live episodes to come. Episode Credits: Hosted by Lars Fellows with guests Nadia Almada and Zelah Glasson . Editing and pre-production by Jamie Wareham , capture and live production by Tyronne Lewis This episode was recorded at a Trans+ History Week event and produced in collaboration with Trans+ History Week's Creative Talent Sponsor, Publicis Groupe UK. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We 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 the QueerAF podcast is another community affair with episodes from National Student Pride with Ian McKellen and Munroe Bergdorf, From Margate Pride’s Heritage Hotline and we get started with a rare interview with Big Brother winner Nadia Almada in conversation with Zelah Glasson and Lars Fellows at Trans+ History Week’s community event, with a whole new series of mini-documentaties out in June, and all the way through Pride season. We are QueerAF, and yeah - so are you. https://www.podfollow.com/queeraf Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In a hostile enviroment for Trans+ rights and a year of rollbacks of rights since the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act will be a sharp focus, for 12,500 Trans+ people, allies, and some of the UK’s most loved household names as they gather in Wembley Arena on March 11th 2026, for Transmission Live - a significant intervention from the music industry, and changemakers to bring allies together, in step, to advocate for the needs, and rights, of the Trans+ Community. Together with Not A Phase's Maxine Heron, QueerAF speaks to organiser Olly Alexander, and broadcaster, author and model Munroe Bergdorf to explore the cultural signifigance of the concert - but also to examine: When you’re a defacto minority, you just don’t have the numbers to deliver all the change you need - and that’s where getting allies to pick up the charge, really counts. Could this event be a significant and historical intervention from some of the UK's biggest household names? Get your tickets: https://www.transmissionlive.uk/ Follow Not A Phase: https://www.instagram.com/notaphaseorg/ Episode Credits: Hosted by Maxine Heron . Editing and production by Jamie Wareham . This episode was produced in collaboration with Not A Phase. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Roberta Cowell, or Betty might have been born into a strict, religious family - but her history, is one with many lessons. She shows us that Trans+ people are more than just their identity. That Trans+ people deserve to tell their own stories. That, as Sabah Choudrey wrote in this year’s Trans+ History Week workbook lesson about her - “while positive trans representation matters, you don’t need to see yourself represented to know that you can live authentically, and be trans, happy and celebrated.” It’s time for the final episode of Season 6 of the QueerAF podcast, once again with Trans+ History Week. Episode Credits: Hosted and produced by Amber Deveraux and Tin Can Audio . Voiceover from Ashleigh Talbot. With thanks to guests Charlie Martin and Victoria Scott . Executive production by Jamie Wareham . This episode was supported by Publicis Groupe UK. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Reed Erickson was an eccentric trans multimillionaire who transitioned in the US in the 1950s. Erickson’s access to wealth and relationship to trans healthcare went on to greatly shape how Western gender clinics developed from the 1960s onwards. In this episode, Vic Parsons explores that link, and unpacks what we can learn from the story of a vastly influencial figure in gender affirming care models. Read our history stories about Magnus Hirschfield: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/i-just-learned-the-nazis-first-book-burning-happened-at-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ https://www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for-the-trans-history-lesson-we-never-had/ Check out Vic's first exclusive investigation for the QueerAF newsletter: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/conversion-therapy-groups-spend-2m-on-lobbying-and-promoting-practice-in-soaring-costs-since-promise-to-ban-the-abusive-practice/ Episode Credits: Hosted and produced by Vic Parsons , with thanks to guests Morgan M Page host of One From The Vaults and Cal Horton . Executive production by Jamie Wareham. This episode was supported by Publicis Groupe UK. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This year, for the first time since tracking of it began - Trans+ rights in Europe retracted, instead of grew. In the UK, hate crimes towards trans people are up nearly 1400% in the last decade. Meanwhile, as hate plays out on the streets - the addiction in some parts of the media to hateful, clickbait headlines that drive attention to news providers, but division in communities all over the world has continued. This week on QueerAF, in an episode supported by Publicis Media Groupe UK - we’re going to ask: What is the media's role in rising transphobia? How can the advertising industry change the media? What can we, as individuals, do about this - can we play a role at work to advocate for better responsibility from businesses? Episode Credits: Hosted and produced by Jamie Wareham. This episode was supported by Publicis Groupe UK. With thanks to Transgender Europe , JP, Julia Franks and Kate Williams. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
First produced and published in 2018, in the British Podcast Awards nominated Season Two of QueerAF - Support our work After Sean Allsop produced this episode, one of his first paid documentary audio commissions, he’s gone on to have an illustrious career making documentaries for the BBC, The World Service, Virgin Radio, Absolute Radio: And a vast number of them about the LGBTQIA+ community. Sean’s brought the history of Section 28, The Legacy of Terrance Higgins and investigations into Poland’s LGBT free zones onto National radio. All, in part, because we were able to give him one of his first portfolio pieces, as well as the training and mentoring on how to do queer stories justice. That’s what we’re up to here, supporting queer creatives to build media careers so they can change the media - all to change the country. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ Sean suffered from internalised homophobia. He is perfectly OK with his sexuality, but kept asking himself why the LGBTQIA+ community has to be 'so queer.' At the time of recording, Sean Allsop was a recent radio graduate and set out to find if it's possible to overcome your shame of being gay – and learns why he has, until now, projected his own homophobia onto others. With thanks to Matthew Todd, author of Straight Jacket. To therapist Stephen Hanscomb, and also Switchboard. If you ever want to call them, you can call 10am-10pm every day on 0300 330 0630 or 0800 0119100 Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Back 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 (Photo: Ciaran Christopher). A QueerAF and Historical Homos Production. Historical Homos is on Instagram , and you can listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. The recording followed on directly from the first episode of the season, our live podcast recording with guest host Anthony Lexa from Sex Education and special guest Abigail Thorn, of Philosophy Tube and Game of Thrones fame. To celebrate the second year of creatives we’ve mentored for Trans+ History Week, we brought together one of last years, podcasters Alex Parnham Cope , one of this year’s history writers Nisreen Fox , and the legal researcher who was the only Trans+ journalist commissioned in the UK media to write about the Supreme Court ruling itself during the week, Jess O'Thomson : And yes, that was by us - here on QueerAF. The discussion is hosted by Jamie Wareham. So let's tuck in, and uncover how we can use history, and the lessons from our past, to march forward, and win the fight ahead. Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“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 because no-one else will. That is the story off Ballroom - from it’s New York blossoming, to as Anthony Pius will take us through in this episode of the QueerAF podcast with Trans+ History Week - it’s flourishing international growth from India to Wales. Episode Credits: Produced by Anthony Pius . Executive production and mastering by Jamie Wareham . A QueerAF Production. Made with support from Publicis Groupe UK. Thanks to guests Muz Ramzan , Alia Ramna , KRISH , Voguing In India Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
