Just Gay Stuff

What better way to end 2024 and START 2025 than with another round of your stories in the form of WORST FIRST DATES Vol.5! We love hearing your stories and we are very grateful for such a rewarding first year of podcasting! Thank you to everyone who has supported us! We love you! Here's to 2025!

It's CHRISTMAS! AND It's a milestone 50th episode for us! Thank you to everyone who has listened along and supported us so far we are so incredibly humbled! For our Christmas episode we invited Teigan from Being Jane Lane and 4zzz's Hangover Mondays to share her love for history in an "On this day" style educational episode, Highlighting all the queer historical things that have happened in the mo...

Special Guest Stephanie Saal joins us this week to educate and inform us on her experience growing up intersex. In a very raw and sometimes emotional episode, Steph tells us of all the hurdles she had to leap from an early age and the ridicule she endured. She now hopes that her campaign to protect intersex children can educate the masses and normalize the differences we all have. Help Steph with...

In this week's episode we take a deep dive to find out how some of the derogatory terms that have been used against us came to be just that! Explaining the origins of words such as lesbian, dyke, gay and others that have been considered much harsher. If you feel like some of the language in this episode might be triggering to you, know that these words are only being said for their original intent...

*DISCLAIMER* In this week's episode we talk about the bullying and sexual harassment that women and queer women in particular receive in day to day life and online. This is in no way, shape or form a man hating episode. We are simply trying to educate others on what certain groups of society endure at times and unfortunately it can get out of hand. Majelen and Courtney join us for another week to...

Hi Everyone! This week we were joined by the fabulous Majelen Music and her wife Courtney to talk all about Majelen's musical talents, where she's headed, her beautiful love story with Courtney and of course coming out stories! Outro song this week is also by Majelen and it is called "Sand Dancing" If you haven't heard of Majelen or would like to follow her musical journey you can at the following...

Here we go again! Another compilation of some of the worst first dates that have been sent into us! Wow there are some DOOZY'S! We hope you enjoy this episode! If you have your own worst first date to send us please do at justgaystuffpodcast@gmail.com

Skating is SOOO GAY and WE LOVE IT! We sat down this week with Storm and Jas to talk all about bringing Gay Skate back from the 80's and all the amazing things that happen at an all inclusive event! We then dive into their coming out stories and absolute cuteness of how this beautiful couple met and their romance blossomed! Buckle in for a lot of laughs and remember to follow Gay Skate if you want...

Join us this week for a very special episode LIVE from our time at Loud Proud Logan. We speak to two fabulous artists who are also brilliant allies to our community. They bring the stories of fabulous women from the community alive through their artwork for this very special event. Guests in this episode in order of appearance are Jade Ferguson, Stacey Bennet and participant Topher. Jade Ferguson...

This week we are talking about some of the laws that we had to have passed for us queers to live a bit more safely out and proud. It does get a bit heavy so we apologize for that! Unfortunately it is never all rainbows and butterflies. If you have some crazy information on some laws that kept us from being ourselves for so long please share in the comments section of this episode!

With MELT Festival FINALLY upon us we bring you another feature! Debuting at Melt this Saturday Oct 26th is David Cook's debut film Heart of the Man. The story of a young boxing protégé who has to choose between becoming someone he is not, or embracing the person he is inside. Joining us today is actor Matt Young who plays the role of Joey. Matt takes us through the ins and outs of the film and ex...

With the exciting up and coming MELT festival here in Brisbane we are tracking down some of the names who are going to be showcasing their work! This week on the pod we had the absolute pleasure of talking to Lydia Kuelsen, the writer and producer of the heavy yet comedic production called "Burn it." Lydia takes us through their vision of burn it as well as for their career and also gives us some...

You're Invited! To Loud & Proud Logan! When: Sat Oct 12th Where: Kingston Butter Factory, Logan, QLD Time: 1pm Cost: FREE Register Here: https://www.loganarts.com.au/event/loud-and-proud/ This week's episode is all about Logan City's first PRIDE! Event planner's Ali and Jimmy give us a full run down of why they wanted to bring Logan it's first pride celebration and why it's important to them t...

Today we are joined by a very humbled and softly spoken writer and film maker named Phoenix Frost! Phoenix comes to us today talking about the creation of his web series "KIT" which follows the story of a trans man who falls pregnant with his partner. The series aims to highlight the lack of education and health care for trans people especially the misconception that testosterone is a me...

We asked and you delivered, then you asked for more and WE DELIVERED! Happy to be giving you the third instalment of Worst First Dates! A few more doozies and disasters on everyone's journey to finding love! If you have a worst first date story that you'd like to share with us please email it to us at justgaystuffpodcast@gmail.com Also! We are up for a Women In Podcasting Award for LGBT Ca...

On the back of Queer Cinema we give you a run down of some of the key years that big things happened for our culture in television with focus heavily on the Aussie market! Using what we learnt last week as a starting point, we then start to talk about representation and its development over the years on Aussie shores. Voting is also still open for the Women In Podcasting award! Here are the easy s...

This week on the pod is a history lesson! When was the very first depiction of LGBT characters on tv?! When was the first kiss? Why did we have to rely on queer coding as opposed to just having queer characters visible? We answer all of this and more! Some good references used for the information on this episode was from the following article: https://www.freesat.co.uk/news/films/history-of-lgbtq-...

How Exciting! This week we sat down with the cast of the first ever Brisbane production of "Fun Home". Fun home is the true life, coming of age and coming out story of Alison Bechdel whom after the death of her father is forced to unpack the complexities of family, life and death. As well as uncovering some secrets and trying to seek the truth and her truth. Join us today as we speak to...

Join us this week as we get a little bit raw with our own worst break up experiences and then talk about someone else's! We put out the call once again to hear your worst breakup stories! If you have a bad breakup story you'd like to share PLEASE DO! justgaystuffpodcast@gmail.com Until next week - Stay Gay MotherF****rs!

As Lauren and I continue this journey together we are still finding things out about each other. Join us today while we talk about first experiences. We kept this one PG, we might delve into more on another episode! Be sure to follow us on Spotify or our socials for constant content and updates! @justgaystuffpodcast

We are joined today by the wonderfully successful and talented gender illusionist and 40 under 40 entrepreneur Braeden Rhys who also goes by Kara Zmatiq when performing. Braeden takes us through his journey today from being a youth minister, to an escort, to a gender illusionist and now a very successful business man. What a wild ride! Follow Braeden on his creative page for Kara Zmatiq to stay up...

This week we do our first in person interview with TWO GUESTS! And the guests just keep on giving. Coming at you live from Death By Mullet Barbershop in Virginia, Brisbane. Strap in for this comedic episode with Lou and Teigan from Brissy punk rock band "Being Jane Lane" as they take us through being an all girl queer band in Brisbane! Special Mentions for this episode: Outro song "...

On a journey of self discovery I realised that as Lauren and I continue to learn and grow together, we have some bad habits we tend to overlook in each other. This episode was born from a realization that not everybody pees in the shower and some people put the toilet roll on backwards BUT some of us have some unruly habits that only real love can overlook! Check them out in this weeks episode! SP...

You're Invited! Like really! This is your formal invitation! When: Saturday Aug 3rd Time: 1pm - 6pm Place: Tulmur Place, Nicholas Street Precinct, Ipswich On this episode of Just Gay Stuff we're formally inviting you to come and take part and have a fabulous day with us and the amazing creators of this event Jules and Rach! We talk about what to expect by coming to Ipswich's biggest Qu...

***Trigger for offensive language and derogatory slurs*** Join us this week as we interview, all the way from Canada, self proclaimed Drag Creature "Pandora's Box Muncher". Pandora tells us their journey through pronouns and also what performing in Australia is like VS performing in Canada! Follow Pandora on all your socials to see them rise in the drag world from afar! Maybe they&#3...