Queer Tasmania

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania! After an extended break, Queer Tasmania is back with a special series recorded by the incredible Phoebe Adams and Shan Hooper – You might know them as Barry & Gary! They are recording a series of interviews with Tasmanian drag artists, from the first wave to the current and new performers. These interviews explore the individual artist as well as capturing the h...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania! After an extended break, Queer Tasmania is back with a special series recorded by the incredible Phoebe Adams and Shan Hooper – You might know them as Barry & Gary! They are recording a series of interviews with Tasmanian drag artists, from the first wave to the current and new performers. These interviews explore the individual artist as well as capturing the h...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania! After an extended break, Queer Tasmania is back with a special series recorded by the incredible Phoebe Adams and Shan Hooper – You might know them as Barry & Gary! They are recording a series of interviews with Tasmanian drag artists, from the first wave to the current and new performers. These interviews explore the individual artist as well as capturing the h...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania! After an extended break, Queer Tasmania is back with a special series recorded by the incredible Phoebe Adams and Shan Hooper – You might know them as Barry & Gary! They are recording a series of interviews with Tasmanian drag artists, from the first wave to the current and new performers. These interviews explore the individual artist as well as capturing the h...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). Today is Coming Out Day – a day to support anyone who is coming out of the closet. Our original podcast, Queer Life Stories (returning again in 2025) was created to help break down ignorance and misunderstandings of our community, so show that our lives are different and difficult only b...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). This week we had an amazing opportunity to sit down with a Belinda King and Jarrod Pitman – the director and lead actor of Encore Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Kinky Boots opening in Launceston in October! We also do a round up of LGBTIQA+ events around the state for the month...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). This week is Bisexual Awareness Week, ending on Bisexual Visibility Day on 23rd September. To mark these important awareness campaigns, we’re talking all about the Bi+ Umbrella…What does it mean? What else is in the umbrella? This is the first in a series of episodes we’re producing call...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). This week we’re chatting with Tash from QAC – Queer Artists Collective about an upcoming exhibition for local LGBTIQA+ (and ally) artists on the North West Coast + a series of youth workshops to support young people to work on entries into the exhibition. We also launch a new segment, As...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). This week we’re chatting with Phoebe Adams & Shan Hooper about upcoming events, King Karaoke and New Norfunk. We also chat with Phoebe & Luke Cruddas about Artfully Queer and the workshops launching soon – and have some updates on events happening around the state through Septemb...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). Rodney Croome is a name many of you will know; he has been a part of legislative changes for LGBTIQA+ protections in Tasmania, and the country for decades. From fighting for decriminalisation of homosexual acts in Tasmania, to the national campaign for Marriage Equality – just as example...

Welcome back to Queer Tasmania, a new LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). Coming to Launceston later this month is a production by Three River Theatre titled "The Laramie Project" - an impactful true story of a town struggling to understand the impacts of the horrific hate motivated murder of 21 year old Matthew Shepard. This is a verbatim play, meaning the di...

Welcome to the first episode of Queer Tasmania, an LGBTIQA+ podcast from North West Pride (producers of Queer Life Stories). In this episode, I attend the TUSA Sexual Health & Guidance Market Day at UTAS Cradle Coast campus and chat with stallholders and attendees about queer things! We have some great stuff in the planning stages, but our releases may be a bit sporadic - so please, keep an ey...