Queer Longing

Ooh it's hot out hunnis, hope you're keeping cool sipping on margs and slapping on the SPF!  This week we talk all our hot girl summer activities, from the complete and utter adulting move of chartering your own boat to swimming in any puddle we can find. We talk good book recs 'Ordinary People' by Diana Evans and 'Swimming Home' by Deborah Levy, the newest season of fun time crime caper 'Good Gir...

Hello and welcome to Rydell High - I mean, QL Towers! It's another week and Grease is the word! This week, we talk drive-in cinemas, the return on Unhhhh, new music by Lil' Nas X and the absolute flex of handing in your notice in lockdown!  We discuss the ever-developing story around The Ellen Deneneres Show, Jack Monroe's excellent essay on food poverty and Bernadine Evaristo's appearance on the...

Oh hiya! This week we are living and longing for lots of juicy bits.    We talk the history of gender binaries, the legacy of Naya Rivera and the overlooked huns of 'Pose' re the Emmy noms. We've watched a banging season of 'All Stars 5', a touching tribute to the last season of 'Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown' and our basic love of true crime re 'Dirty John' and 'Unsolved Mysteries'.    Plus, ne...

Why hello sweet little poppets- how are you coping? Life's really a trip right now, isn't it? This week, we talk about I May Destroy You (again), the joy of eating peas from your own garden and how you can absolutely learn the universe.    We also chatted Hustlers, the joy of Who Wants to be a Millionnaire (the Tarrant years, obvs), The Talented Mr. Ripley and queer loneliness.  Plus a review of M...

It's a big old round up this week after our little QL annual leave. Buckle up bbis! Join us as we recommend everything ever, from new books 'Exciting Times', 'Where the Crawdads Sing' and 'Milkman' to great podcasts 'Innermost' and a particularly good ep of 'Busy Being Black', which details the history of the eight striped pride flag- we love to see it! There's also another rendition of queer cine...

Hello bbi angels, it's us... again! This week, we talk all the small things, from that feeling you get when you finally clean your make-up brushes, to the satisfaction of freshly washed bedsheets. In true lockdown fashion, we're also discussing the weather ad-nauseum and our utter beguilement with the recent storms- thunder and lightning, very very frightening! We discuss the latest in trans right...

Join us this week for conversations ranging from becoming green fingered to catching up on what Olivia’s Sims are up to and everything in between.   We talk the further toxicity of JK Rowling as a TERF and if her hatred can be reconciled with a love of Harry Potter. For the Twitter thread Lucy mentions which debunks the myths and lies of her blog post, please see here: https://twitter.com/Carter_A...

Hello all you little monsters!  Wowee. As we all know, Queen Lady Gaga released her brand new album 'Chromatica' a few weeks ago and it is EVERYTHING. We wanted to give the album the love it deserves, as well as giving ourselves the opportunity to really GO IN on the album with all of you!  We first talk generally about Gaga and then the album itself before diving in. For maximum fun, we suggest y...

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Greetings from lockdown sweet huns! Welcome back to another glimpse at what we’ve been living and longing.   This week we talk new podcast recs, from Fanti discussing the in’s and out’s of being a fan of RuPaul to Marc Maron’s heartbreaking dedication to his girlfriend Lynn Shelton.   We also talk Netflix’s new season of ‘Dead To Me’, now with added Gay Rights! and discuss ‘Hollywood’, the newest...

Hello precious angels!  Well here we are again, and this time we're seniors, and we're gonna ruleeeee the schooool. (Name that movie).  This week, we talk about the legacy of queer legend Little Richard, Lucy's cat-lover documentary rec, 'Kedi', Olivia's review of Booker Prize 2019 winner 'Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and an emotional review of the final series of Schitt's Creek. Come...

It's week 17,436 of lockdown angels and we're back to bring you a big gulp of what we've been up to.    This week we talk managing the Corona rage- whether it be by watching pots get smashed or growing marigolds on a windowsill. Plus, the cult of Joe Exotic and whether we're maybe, basically, over it.    We deep dive the stunningly realised TV series of 'Normal People' and talk all our #thoughtsan...

Well hello to all of our favourite lockdown bbis! We are SO excited to bring you this week's episode as we are joined by very a very special guest, the wonderful, Carrie Lyell! Carrie is the Editor-in-Chief at DIVA, Europe's leading magazine for queer women and we are very lucky to have her join us on the podcast. Not only is she a very accomplished writer and editor but she has lots of insightful...

Oh hey all you gorgeous at home stunners. We hope you are the most well and safe!  This week we chat what we've been up to aka playing The Sims. The obsession is real and we discuss the virtues and pitfalls of The Sims 4 vs The Sims 2 plus the many, stunning and iconic graces of true Sim-Stan, Juno Birch.  We've mainly been watching Netflix's newest ridiculous, yet heart-warming, reality show 'Too...

Hello all of you gorgeous socially distant huns, it's only us, here with another hefty dollop of queer goss and quarantainment!  This week we chat about Lucy's independent film festival success (spoiler: you'll be craving maple syrup after listening), Killing Eve, the latest on Ru Paul's Drag Race season 12 and Olivia's new muse... Zac Efron! Tracks of the week:  Tiny Dancer, Elton John: https://w...

We've hit week four of lockdown sweet bebbis! We hope you are all doing okay and ready for some queer recs! First, we talk through what we've been consuming from 'Trigonometry' to 'Ozark', via 'Table Manners' and 'A Little Life'.  Plus this week we do a lot of looking forward and give you some stunning recommendations for where you can watch great queer TV and film online. The BFI Player can be fo...

Hello our sweet lockdown angels! How goes it? We promised we'd be doing something over these next few freaky months and we aren't ones to disappoint! Welcome to our mini-series, 'Queer in the Time of Covid' where we talk about all of our usual stuff, but with a pandemic twist! It's been important for us to have some time to switch off and talk Netflix, books and dumb news, but we don't want to ign...

Hope you're all hanging in there sweet huns? Whilst we figure out a way to bring you the pod in some form of it's full glory we thought we'd send out some lil lols and bring you some bloops from the past few months.  So if you've been missing our voices never fear! Here we are making mistakes and laughing a LOT about it!  We hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Longing 4 u always xoxo

Another day, another pod. This week we're celebrating Olivia's burgeoning career as an unboxing influencer. Thank you to #mygoodfriendsatg*usto. We review stunning new film 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' and Lucy is reminded of brilliant lesbian artist Gluck, who's painting 'YouWe' can be explored further here: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/magazine-gluck-brighton-museum-art-gallery-diana-...

Hello beauties, it's another flipping week isn't it?! This week, we discuss our favourite spices (I know, you've been dying for such hot goss), our ranking of the best ever slogan t-shirts and bumper stickers we've ever seen and the latest news from our Wakefield belle, Jane McDonald Plus, all the latest music bits from our OBSESSION with Lady Gaga's latest single 'Stupid Love', the UK'S Eurovisio...

Another week, another stunning pod. Join us as Lucy gets over excited by the biggest boyband news this side of 2016 and we introduce you to the concept of ‘fifth member’.  We’ve been cultured huns at the cinema this week so we happily bring you our glowing reviews of ‘Parasite’ and ‘Queen and Slim’- two films you MUST see. We give you our rundown of the Brits in a quick ‘Britique’, before we lend...

Hello podcast fans!  This week, we wax lyrical about how BLOWN away we were by Kim Petras when we saw her on her Clarity Tour, OMG! We also talks trips to Blackpool, Olivia'a gambling prowess and chip shop recommendation, plus all the updates on Schofe and Jameela Jamil.  We talk the beauty of the Independant Spirit Awards (and the universal queer love that exists for Laura Dern) as well as the la...

Welcome huns! Join us as we talk about the stunning time we had at Carly Rae Jepsen, the return of the love sausage and our continued beef with bad gig etiquette.  We take a brief look at the boggling Netflix drama ‘The Stranger’, recap ‘Queenie’ by Candice Carty-Williams and recommend Russell Tovey’s podcast ‘Talk Art’. We take a look at what’s going on with Jameela Jamil’s coming out in the wake...

Hello sweet bebs! This week we're talking the delights of Pasta Grannies, our upcoming queer music weekender and the new Taylor Swift Documenary, 'Miss Americana'- slide on in!  Tracks of the week: Georgia, 'About Work the Dancefloor' Edit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Y9V07wry4 Clairo, 'Sophia': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9l8zCOwEII  Queer-Friendly barbers approved by you!  Matu Barbe...

She's here, she's queer, she's a brand new ep.  Join us this week for our lowdown on the Grammys (mainly obsessing over anyone who is a queer cowboy), our reviews of films 'Rafiki' and 'Bombshell' and a little dive into the world of Nigella and Nigel- I'm sure you know who we're talking about.  We also chat the coming out of NikkieTutorials, the rise of the Tradwife and give you a good bumper haul...