Queer Longing

Hunnies we're home! It's 2020 and the year of our reckoning! It's so fab to be back after a short bbi podcast hiatus and OH how we've missed you! Some might even say that we've lived and longed for this moment?!  This week we take a look back at the decade that was, the decade that is, re-capped Olivia's 30th birthday bonanza (it finally happened everyone) and marvelled at the advent of Lucy's sig...

Join us this week for a stunning holiday feast of an ep as we make the yuletide gay! Starting off we take you through a very festive round up of feel good news bits including dogs in Christmas jumpers- obv!  Then we move on to give our rave reviews of Netflix's new Christmas films from cute, high-school romance 'Let It Snow' to wonderfully twee and questionable 'The Knight Before Christmas'. We al...

Hello you lil’ bbi angels on top of the Christmas tree! We’re here, refreshed and revived off the back of a YouTube guided meditation video, ready to bring you all your favourite Queer Longing BITS! And much like Xena and Gabrielle in that bath scene, we too are cleansing you of your worries and taking you on a journey of rejuvenation and discovery through Dolly Parton’s America, Pose Season 2, th...

We are joined this week by gorgeous guest and lovely, great human Sophie Galpin! Sophie is a super talented multi-instrumentalist who currently performs with two of our favourite acts SOAK and Self Esteem all over the world! Aside from that she is also involved in all manner of exciting projects from theatre productions to creating solo tracks. Sophie joined us for a great chat about all the bits...

What's that you hear bbis? That's right it's the sweet sound of jingle bells! We're swinging right into the festive season, albeit a lil early, on the poddy this week as we bring you our review of the astounding new film 'Last Christmas'. Buckle in for some right feelings about it.  We also talk our round up of 'Atypical' season 3 with all the great queer bits and friendship bits, have a chat abou...

We're back bebes! Lucy has just about enough voice to get back in the podcast saddle and get an ep out but as you'll hear she's extra croaky. So soz, not soz about that.  In this glorious ep we talk the new BBC adaptation of 'His Dark Materials', in which Lucy has a nerdy freak out about it not being wholly bad. We also talk the exciting news of the upcoming 'Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show', Russe...

Ah sweet huns- unfortunately this weekend Lucy lost her voice just before our planned recording sesh in some unknown bout of illness via a raucous wedding dance floor.  However, before she was completely silenced (a tragedy, we know) we recorded this short note whilst hanging out in a haunted cloakroom. You can tell from this recording that Lucy's voice was not long for this world (RIP). We though...

THIS IS HALLOWEEN. THIS IS HALLOWEEN. HALLOWEEN. HALLOWEEN. THIS IS HALLOWEEN. BOO! Welcome to a very special SPOOKY EP of Queer Longing!  Halloween is basically queer Christmas so it would be remiss of us not to indulge, right? This week we serve you all our spookiest recs from films to podcasts, plus we have A REAL LIFE spooky STORY TIME! Hold on to your berets.  We also give you our reviews of...

On this week's stunning episode Olivia and Lucy give you a full review of the outstanding time they had at HearHer Festival 2019. To learn more about the festival check out their website https://www.hearherfestival.com and get down to next years fest! They are ever expanding and if you want a weekend full of likeminded, gorge huns this is not one to sleep on.  In other news, RuPaul's Drag Race UK...

Why hello sweet angels! Another week, another chance to SPEAK. This week is all about the Transparent Musical Finale, Spooky Season and whether or not there is one unifying dream?!  We also discover our VERY FIRST TROLL (we honestly feel famuz now, thank u su much) and discuss our respective histories in the theatre, darling! Aimee Stephens article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/30/th...

Ever wanted to know what houseplant Olivia and Lucy are according to their lesbian characteristics? Well look no further. We discuss that incredibly important topic and many more in today’s episode.   We talk YA books that shaped us from ‘Sophie’s World’ to ‘His Dark Materials’ and Lucy gives you her review of ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ and we therefore fancy ourselves as literary critics....

Word up hunni bbis, how goes it?   This week, we discuss three of the most popular documentaries of the moment, find/watch them here:   Jessy Nelson: 'Odd One Out' https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07lsr4d/jesy-nelson-odd-one-out  Gareth Thomas: HIV and Me: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008yrh/gareth-thomas-hiv-and-me Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea.: https://www.netflix.com/gb/t...

This week we bring you a recap of the most stunning weekend we had in Margate celebrating a friends 30th. We discuss the golden rule of holiday destinations i.e. one gay bar and one gay bar only, and talk about trifle shots and glorious drag queens at Margate's answer to this rule- Sundowners.  Lucy let's you know all about her family's obsession with games and quiz shows as well as opening up her...

We power through a gorgeous episode this week and hit all the sweet queer spots you could wish for.  There's chats re stunning lez character Dr Carr on 'Mindhunter', Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird being 10/10 couple goals for their piece in InStyle magazine and Kristen Stewart holding hands with her gf no matter what.  Olivia watches 'Call Me By Your Name' at the same time Lucy reads it and we hear al...

Oh she's a goodie this week bebs!  We take you through all our thoughts and feelings via a deep dive into our new TV obsession 'Euphoria' and also chat about the sublime nothingness that is 'Big Little Lies'.  It's not all about TV this week as we chat about great podcast listens from Beanie Feldstein on 'Armchair Expert' through to Christian Holden of The Hotelier on The E Word Podcast.  We also...

Good 'morrow podcast huns! It's us, your ever-faithful, but ever so slightly absent podcast hosts! Did you miss us during the fallow week?! We missed you!    This week we're talking Manchester Pride, Fleabag and why it's impossible not to host a queer event NOT in a basement. We finally get 'round to chatting about Queer Longing Live! face to face as well as a bumper consumables section featuring...

Olivia has taken a sojourn back to her birthplace and so we bring you a fun lil blooper episode this week! We've also included some extra bits of the pod which never made it to air- ooh aren't you a lucky bunch of huns! We hope you enjoy and we'll be back after a weeks break with a regular full episode.  Stay safe angels xoxoxo

You came, we talked at you, it was a nice time!  This week's episode is our first ever live show in all it's glory. In this extra special pride episode, in collaboration with B Works, we talk what pride means to us and are also joined by some stunning guests to discuss their projects and their experiences of pride.  Our amazing guests were Felix McNulty representing Books Beyond Bars (@beyondbarsu...

Well hello our sweet, sweet pod-angels! It's us, Olivia and Lucy, here for all things queer and pop culture. Guess what, if you're listening as soon as this lil' bbi comes out, it's ONE DAY before QUEER LONGING LIVE! OMGGGGGGGG! In the past us hope it goes well for in the future us!  This week we're talking Lucy's wildly successful DJ set at Friend Zone, Partisan Collective and we lament the many...

Oh hiya huns! This week we had a bit of an unfortunate recording session where we unknowingly lost a few chunks of the pod to the black hole of 'technical difficulties'. Never fear, we pieced together what remained and created this stunning lil baby Frankenstein ep for you!  We talk about Lucy's upcoming DJ set at Friendzone- held at pod favourite space, Partisan. More details here: https://www.fa...

Hello you gorgeous queers! It is us, your ever-faithful podcast hosts, Olivia and Lucy, and it's July, the summer of LURVE.  Or platonic love anyway, as Olivia tells all about life-altering meet-cute with a stranger on a train as well as all the details from our fab weekend at London Pride.  We give a deep analysis of that dinner party scene in Netflix's Tales of the City and discuss some of our f...

Hiya huns! This week we continue gushing over our favourite Lioness huns as they bow out graciously from the World Cup and bring to your our idea for new hit cocktail the Long Tall Jill- get mixing stat for the hottest summer drink of 2019.  We have a chat about Lil Nas X's coming out and the sad departure of Janet Weiss from Sleater-Kinney. In terms of consumables, we talk How To Fail with Elizab...

Well hi, it's us! Your favourite lesbian podcast mums, and we've got a treat for you! (When don't we).  This week we're talking Salford Pride, Olivia's best friend's wedding and her impassioned feelings on vegan cheese.  We take a psychological deep-dive into the emotional connection between straight men and Joni Mitchell, the upcoming London Pride and the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots. ...

It's a super special guest episode this week as we bring you the gorgeous chat we only went and had the pleasure of having with Heather Peace and KT Tunstall! We got the chance to talk to super huns KT and Heather at the inaugural Diva Music Festival and had chats all about women in the music industry and the joy of creating a female only line up festival. A huge thank you to them for taking time...

It’s a big old pod this week full to the brim of juicy, scintillating queer bits! Pull up a pew and join us for chats about all the great new queer media we’ve been trying to get through! We cover the intense new series of ‘Killing Eve’, the sparkling joy of ‘Booksmart’ and the big warm hug that is ‘Tales of the City’. We also get excited by the kick off (pun intended) of the FIFA Women’s World Cu...