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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...

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...