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This week Graeme is talking through some of the world's biggest queer news with the New York born actor and podcaster Cameron Bernard Jones. Including the significance of Colman Domingo's Oscar nomination for the black queer community. Why Google have used the mid 20th century author civil rights activist and author James Baldwin. Also the worsening situation for trans people in Florida after chan...

Graeme is joined by cancelled queer artist Liam McDonald to chat through all the goings on across the LGBTQ+ diaspora of late. Including the obsession with Gypsy Rose and why the senate twink is all of us. Also we also ask if chemsex has in fact peaked or is it still going strong after surveys show crystal meth use in the Manchester gay scene is higher than ever. Kev McGrath is on hand as well wit...

Sex educator, and Gay London Life columnist, Topher Taylor, joins Graeme Smith in the studio to chat about his Only Fans page featuring him performing with downlow straight guys interested in making anon p0rn. Includes a check on the latest LGBTQ+ news stories making the headlines right now with Kev McGrath from Pride Daily. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get up to 75%...

Here's Kev McGrath from Pride weekly with a roundup of the LGBTQ+ happenings from around the world this week. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get up to 75% off NordVPN on outcastworld.net-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This helps us become easier to discover. P...

Paris Munro from Gaydio breakfast joins Graeme Smith to chat through some of the worlds biggest LGBTQ+ news stories. Including an extended chat about the latest on the sad news this week about the death of Sophie Anderson just weeks after her partner. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get up to 75% off NordVPN on outcastworld.net-------------------------------------------...

A mid week catch-up on the week's biggest queer news and chat with special guest Jaxon Feeley. Part two of Graeme Smith's interview with Jaxon Feeley from Channel 4 show Banged up - Stars behind bars. We talk about his reaction to increases in anti trans violence after the murder of Brianna Ghey in Warrington. As a trans man from nearby Wigan and someone who has worked with vulnerable adults in pr...

Jaxon Feeley is a transgender male former prison officer who now appears on the new Channel 4 show Banged up- stars behind bars. Before this he worked in a prison in Wigan where he decided to transition with full knowledge of inmates. Jaxon gained their respect with his bravery and honesty and now a week ahead of organising the huge "live your truth" concert at Heaven in London visits Graeme in th...

For World AIDS Day 2023 we got the experts in for a chat about all the latest news in the world of HIV. The amazing people behind The HIV podcast - Jessica Harding and Sarah Macadam join Graeme this week. Jess and Sarah are also the bosses of the HIV charity Thames Valley Positive Support and provide much needed support to people with HIV in Berkshire and across the South East. Kev McGrath from Pr...

Chatting through the week's queer news stories is LGBTQIA activist David Allwood, the winner of Gold at Mr Gay GB 2022, Silver at Mr Gay World 2023 and founder of Homoparody. Minutes before the episode recording, Graeme learned of the sudden death of Oliver Spedding, the partner of Sophie Anderson and that Sophie herself is in hospital following the news. Sophie and Oliver (aka Damien Oliver) were...

We are back and after a check on the week's queer news stories with Kev from Pride Daily. GRAEME SMITH talks to Houston based author TATE BARKLEY. His new book outlines his battles with alcohol and partying and how he hit rock bottom and lost his law firm. After a friend paid for him to go into rehab, he built his life back up again. Tate’s 24 year recovery journey has compelled him to write and s...

With Graeme still indisposed (he says moving his life from Manchester to London but Kev does not believe this)... Kev McGrath is on hand with a roundup of this world's queer news thanks to our new partnership with Pride Daily. Graeme returns next week with guest US based author, LGBTQ+ advocate and recovering alcoholic Tate Barkley. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get u...

A roundup of the weeks biggest LGBTQ+ news stories from around the world. Queer news man Kev McGrath sits in for Graeme Smith this week and he is back with a preview of his own podcast called Pride Daily. It's a roundup of the days LGBTQ+ news and it will be partnering with OUTCAST UK on our regular episodes to keep us upto date with the queer news agenda. Everything you do online is tracked, fix...

Graeme Smith is live in conversation with Ghislain Pascal live from Manchester on the Boys Boys Boys world tour 2023 in front of a live audience at UNITOM in the Northern Quarter. Ghislain was a celebrity agent and publicist for many years – including as agent to the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. Following the death of Carlos Clarke in 2006 he co-founded The Little Black Gallery - one...

The episode begins with a roundup of the latest LGBTQ+ news stories. This week we are in Manchester at the same time as the Tory party but for very different reasons! With a live studio audience in UNTOM in the Northern Quarter, Graeme catches up with Ghislain Pascal, the founder of queer fine art photography series BOYS BOYS BOYS, about freedom of expression and censorship. We hear some highlight...

Graeme Smith is in Manchester this week talking to transmasculine-non binary legend Paris Munro from the Gaydio breakfast show about if things are OK with former cock destroyers star and OUTCAST UK guest Sophie Anderson. The LGBTQ meme star's partner (who appeared on this show with her just a few months ago) announced she was dead on social media and then backtracked days later causing deep concer...

Graeme is joined by transmasculine non binary icon, Paris Munro from Gaydio breakfast to discuss the weeks queer news happenings and a lot more. Includes a round up of the latest LGBTQ+ stories. Everything you do online is tracked, fix it in two minutes, get up to 75% off NordVPN on outcastworld.net----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Live from London Podcast Festival 2023 at Kings Place. Graeme Smith is joined by show regulars including the Loud Brown Gay’s podcast host, Gaydio and Fire London DJ Nick Charles. Alongside Topher Taylor – the sex educator, Only Fans model and columnist for Gay London Life magazine. Joining the team for the evening is the controversial queer artist Liam Stonier McDonald, famous for his art on chem...

This Friday we are doing our first ever live episode recording of OUTCAST UK at The London Podcast Festival in front of a small ticketed studio audience. On stage will be Graeme Smith hosting as usual, joined by his mate and OG OUTCAST regular NICK CHARLES, The Gaydio host and Loud Brown Gays podcaster. Also joining are sex educator and London Gay Life columnist Topher Taylor and Liam Stonier McDo...

Ahead of appearing at our live episode recording at The London podcast festival at Kings Place, Kings Cross, this Friday the 8th September. Show regular Topher Taylor dragged his ass north of the river and dropped into our sketchy London studio in Tottenham. Normally Graeme and Topher catchup remotely but today they've blocked out some time to get in depth ahead of Topher joining G in front of a l...

2 years after their first episode went viral . Graeme Smith is catching up with Liam Stonier McDonald in London a week out from a live show at the London Podcast Festival in Kings Cross. Liam will join Graeme, Nick Charles and Topher Taylor for a live recording of an episode of OUTCAST UK in front of a studio audience at the event. This week we're catching up with everyone pre show and on this epi...

On our last edition of this Summer's Queer news updates on OUTCAST UK, we turn to Manchester Pride. Manchester Pride this year was without a doubt one of the most inclusive yet and saw entry prices seem to come down in price and some special access for lower income groups. This alongside a proudly diverse lineup headed by Danny Beard and Jodie Harsh. But it seems the scars of the bad PR of the las...

NATHANIEL HALL is a queer icon. He's an actor, theatre-maker, writer, performer, director, producer and HIV activist from Manchester. He is artistic director of DIBBY THEATRE in Manchester - an LGBTQ+ working class theatre company. Recent credits include once in a generation TV drama It's A Sin in which he played love interest of Richie Tozer (played by Olly Alexander), the 20 something actor Dona...

One of the two men, stabbed outside a club in London, in a homophobic attack - says he couldn’t be prouder, to be gay. This comes as LGBTQ+ hate crimes are up massively in the UK in recent years. AND Graeme Smith caught up with LA based queer rapper Bobo Sango ahead of leaving for UK Black Pride this weekend. The "Thirst Trap" and "Stinky face" rapper talks about his majorly homoerotic videos for...

This weekend is UK Black Pride and this episode is celebrating the voices and perspectives of Queer people of colour from the OUTCAST UK archives. Graeme chats to DJ, music producer and radio presenter NICK CHARLES, LA based Queer rapper BOBO SANGO and DEI speaker in the tech startup world, STEVEN JOHN (who also happens to be Graeme's long term partner).There is no singular voice to represent quee...

Bobo Sango is a queer rapper from Los Angeles and has been nicknamed the first male Niki Minaj. Bobo is an openly gay rapper with a genuine love for Hip-Hop. Capable of crossing into pop, Afro-beats and techno. He is a breath of fresh air to the genre. His first big performance was at LA Black Gay Pride in 2019 following the success of his first mixtape Assimilation Vol 1. With some highly sexual...