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All this summer we have been bringing you the latest queer news and on this episode we're rounding up the positive LGBTQ+ stories of the summer so far. Also this week a look at the Gareth Thomas case as Graeme speaks to Jess and Sarah from The HIV podcast and the bosses of Thames Valley Positive support about the effect coverage has had on people who are HIV Positive. Everything you do online is t...

In the Queer news...Alex Scott says, she’s still feeling the IMPACT - of her queer solidarity at the Qatar World Cup. (And not in a GOOD way.)Nearly half of young people in America reckon, misgendering someone on purpose - should be a criminal offence. Topher is manning the DM’s and is onhand with advice to all your queer sex and relationships quandries.. its a question about a three way relations...

Graeme speak to Ghislain Pascal the publisher of the international queer fine art photography series BOYS BOYS BOYS about censorship by tech platforms and the difference between porn and art. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get up to 75% off NordVPN on outcastworld.net-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

In the queer news update this week:Graeme chats to Ghislain Pascal about his Boys Boys Boys queer photography series featuring all the nudes about the difference between porn and art. In the queer news this week:A sixth person may have been Cured of HIV.The Swiss man in his 50s is known as 'The Geneva Patient'.There’s a split between Labour and Scottish Labour - over letting trans people self-ID.A...

Newsman Kev is back with the update this week...- Russiw continues to be an absolute bin fire - when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights…The country’s lower house of parliament’s, passed a new law - BANNING gender reassignment surgery. It’s to “protect… citizens and… children…” And people who have transitioned, won’t be allowed to adopt. - Thousands of people have turned out for Pride in Budapest - with Pro...

We're talking London Fetish Week with Topher and he's helping out answer a DM from someone who's just moved to the capital. Newsman Kev is away so Graeme does what can only be described as news cosplay and jumps in for the queen of the queer news update. Also In this weeks update: - More on the fallout from the ruling by America’s Supreme Court meaning businesses can now legally deny their service...

Greg Owen has been called "one of the U.K.’s most vocal proponents of PrEP", describing himself as the "poster boy for PrEP in the UK". He is the PREP lead for Terrence Higgins Trust and talks frankly about the issues surrounding PREP, being HIV positive and issues surrounding chemsex. He now leads the response at THT into the Mpox outbreak and is able to lean into his learnings from getting the N...

ITS YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF QUEER NEWS FROM OUTCAST UK - KEEPING A KEEN EYE ON THE LATEST LGBTQ+ NEWS STORIES AND REPORTING ON RIGHT WING BATSH*TTERY FROM AROUND THE WORLD.In this weeks update: - Fears, a ruling by America’s Supreme Court means businesses can now legally deny their services to LGBTQ+ people. - The House of Lords has voted to ban the deportation of LGBTQ+ MIGRANTS to 10 mainly African...

Sophie Anderson was one part of the legendary LGBTQ+ extreme porn meme duo the cockdestroyers. Life after the destroyers split has been difficult for Sophie who continues to make extreme porn but has lost a boob twice after cosmetic surgery and her and partner, the porn actor and former Crystal Palace footballer Damien Oliver, have also begun recovering from a drugs and chemsex problem that nearly...

- This week - we hear about attempts to bring about a law forcing out trans pupils at school from a UK far right party, how Kenya looks set to follow Uganda with extreme anti LGBTQ+ laws. - The actor Jack Holden chats to us exclusively about his Olivier nominated show set in the depths of the HIV/AIDS crisis in late 1980's Soho, London. Cruise that was a hit on the West End after lock down and aft...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS VERY ADULT THEMES AND LOTS OF SWEARING.Sophie Anderson is one half of the legendary C*ck Destroyers. She's still not in touch with Rebecca More the other half of the porn duo that went on to host Slag Wars and had legions of LGBTQ+ fans. But in this exclusive chat she makes clear that she would be open to a reconciliation and reforming at some point. Which begs the question,...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. This week - Laurence Fox seems to struggle to set fire to pride flags in his own sordid Pride protest/meltdown in his back...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. Sesame St is the latest US institution to be targeted by trolls for supporting pride month and after seeing Miriam Margoly...

Dan Tiernan is a 26-year-old, gay, Mancunian with dyspraxia. He’s a high energy act with a gag heavy set all about his weird and chaotic life. He is the comedian of the year and also BBC new comedian of the year. Here he speaks to Graeme about being a standup comic, a dinner lady for a while, his new Edinburgh festival show this summer and ... being gay and dyspraxic. By Dan's admission he is gay...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. The Metropolitan police is a mess, we discuss. Also this week we hear about the bed wetting trolls voting this and other L...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. Listen to OUTCAST UK on Virgin Radio Pride UK - Ask your smart speaker to play Virgin Radio Pride. OUTCAST UK brings you the w...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get up to 75% off NordVPN on outcastworld.net---------------------...

IF YOU'RE ENJOYING OUTCAST UK - RATE AND COMMENT ON THIS PODCAST WHEREVER YOU ARE LISTENING.Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. This week we hear some of the wors...

The US based actor Aidan Moreno is in the Netflix series Heartland. After playing the character "Rick" since 2007, they decided to include an LGBTQ+ storyline on the show and was on the receiving end of a massive homophobic backlash from viewers to the show on US and Canadian network TV.Series 16 of the show dropped on Netflix this week and Aidan has been in the UK talking about the response of no...

IF YOU'RE ENJOYING OUTCAST UK - RATE AND COMMENT ON THIS PODCAST WHEREVER YOU ARE LISTENING.Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. This week we hear more details on...

Reality TV and social media star Thomas Hartley is scouse through and through and has smashed it recently on hit reality show Married at first sight. He dropped into our studio at Eurovision 2023 to hang out with Graeme Smith and Paris Munro and talk Eurovision, Liverpool, their new drag alter ego Pam Sandwich and about beef with another older and less woke Liverpool LGBTQ+ social media star who i...

The UK is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in decades and the LGBTQ+ community are big fans. This week, Liverpool looks more queer than ever and is home to an array of musicians, broadcasters and gays, lots of gays. More than we even imagined would be here, its like Pride. We're Live from Liverpool with all the latest with Graeme Smith and Paris Munro who has been to the dres...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. On this episode we're talking about the return of Dannii Minogue in a new LGBTQ+ dating show, Dannii was always the spicier mo...

Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. On this episode we're talking about the proposed amnesty for LGBTQ's in Uganda, Heartstopper is back later this summer so we f...

Nobody knew how to make the great and powerful with big egos get in line during a TV interview than Dame Edna. Her chat shows became the ones all the big ego celebs wanted to be on… only to be ridiculed and cut down to size be the Dame who in end could have passed for an elder member of the aristocracy. The Dame is one of the most ensuring cultural figures of the last few decades and was played by...