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Graeme catches up with the chair of SWITCHBOARD and host of The Log Books podcast, Natasha Walker for the start of LGBT history month. The Log Books are an award-winning history of LGBTQ+ life in Britain as noted by volunteers at Switchboard. As a helpline for anyone who wants to talk about gender identity and sexuality, Switchboard has been hearing about, and helping, queer life since 1974.Now he...

PART 2 OF 2Stephanie Hirst is an LGBT+ icon and also a broadcasting legend. She has spent her entire adult life hosting radio shows, winning awards for her breakfast shows, hosting segments with Lorraine Kelly on Good Morning Britain and she was the host of the UK national commercial chart show for many years. In 2014 she dramatically quit her breakfast show, Hirsty's Daily Dose and later appeared...

PART 1 OF 2Stephanie Hirst is an LGBTQ+ icon and also a broadcasting legend. She has spent her entire adult life hosting radio shows, winning awards for her breakfast shows, hosting segments with Lorraine Kelly on Good Morning Britain and she was the host of the UK national commercial chart show for many years. In 2014 she dramatically quit her breakfast show, Hirsty's Daily Dose and later appeare...

Chris Warren-Dickins LLB MA LPC is a New York based author, psychotherapist and LGBTQ+ mental health expert. His new book Beyond the Blue aims to help people develop mental health survival tools so we caught up with him the week before Christmas. LGBTQ+ people are 1.5 times more likely to develop depression. Gay men are 4 times as likely to commit suicide than the rest of the population and 46 per...

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS HEAVY DRUGS AND SEXUAL REFERENCES, ALONGSIDE OPINIONS SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND UPSETTING.Liam Stonier McDonald is the bad boy of the LGBTQ art world, he is an internationally famous artist who's work sells for tens of thousands of dollars. His niche is his parents addictions and his own experiences in the underground chemsex scene in London and Chicago. He talks about his work an...

JAY HAWKRIDGE opened a Tik Tok account in November 2020, aimed at reducing HIV stigma following his own positive HIV diagnosis months earlier. Since then he's gone out of his way to educate and inform on what it means to HIV positive in the 2020's. Often this means facing down extreme prejudice in the comments to his social media videos. Now a year on from beginning his campaign he is a Tik Tok UK...

NICK CHARLES is a podcaster, panellist and presenter born in Trinidad and Tobago. A decade ago he was forcibly outed by his then boyfriend and made to undergo a form of conversion therapy forcing to flee to the UK to claim asylumHere he talks in depth about how his experience of extreme homophobia at home has meant he is determined to be his authentic self. There is also a very unfiltered chat abo...