QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives

A live panel recording on "How do we win our rights?" with three Trans+ change and history makers, Roz Kaveney, Jude Guaitamacchi, Sabah Choudrey interviewed by Nancy Kelley. This episode was recorded in front of an audience of 200 people in London's Canary Wharf at our first-ever Trans+ History Week community event. Read more stories from Trans+ History Week: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhis...

After a busy Pride month at QueerAF HQ - a rewind episode, while we prepare the final few episodes of an already stunning set of stories from emerging and marginalised LGBTQIA+ audio producers.  This Week Rosa Eaton ponders: Do they need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community?  In their university town of Bristol they meet the towns local queer hairdresser who has been help...

It's a story many of us know, but in a new telling of the classic tale, Harry Woodgate has reimaging Oscar Wilde's Happy Prince. This week, Jamie Wareham meets the author and explores, along with groups who donate books to schools, why diverse and LGBTQIA+ inclusive books are so valuable for children. Harry Woodgate shares how and why they reimagined the classic tale, The Happy Prince, first writt...

We all know the trope: the supportive bestie who helps the main character finally achieve their dreams, gives the advice that helps them land the heartthrob or drops hard truths that lead to epiphanies. We all know that’s producers and casting directors' favourite place to tick their diversity boxes. I should know, I’m the actor playing them. But what this week's producer Ki Griffin wants to know,...

"I’ve been taking PrEP for almost 7 years now. During that time, I’ve been crazy enthusiastic about making positive changes to reduce health inequalities. But I have seen how queer health has been mishandled time and time again." So today Phil Samba is here to help us all discover the untold story behind PrEP, the revolutionary pill that's transforming HIV prevention and sexual health. In the firs...

Seeing your own experiences reflected back in history is often challenging when your identity has been erased, as many queer people know. As an Irish lesbian living in Dublin, Oran Keaveney spent a great deal of time documenting and discovering the queer women who shaped modern Ireland. It was a huge turning point and they felt like they fit into their country’s mythology. Now that they’ve transit...

Do you love a queer punch up too? The comedic kind of course. Lucie's first gig was in the basement of an Italian restaurant in Edinburgh, during the fringe: Back then I was presenting as a straight guy , and performing routines about how terrible my hometown was. I stopped performing for a while as I went on other adventures, but after an 8-year , hiatus, I’m back as a transgender woman." This we...

Did you know that 50 years ago, Leeds held the UK's first-ever Trans+ conference? This week, Alexander Parnham Cope, a trainee broadcast journalist at City University specialising in data and investigative journalism travels back to a city he called his home. In Leeds he uncover the curious and little-known history of the city, which held the UK’s first ever Transgender conference some fifty years...

A live recording of the QueerAF podcast on the history-making TV representation In Sex Education: Guest host Kenny Ethan Jones, the first trans man in a period product ad campaign Stars of Sex Educations's T4T storyline Anthony Lexa and Felix Mufti A discussion about the power of on-screen representation, creating inclusive stories about Trans+ communities and what it was like to make that visibil...

This season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, it’s time for the history lesson we never had. Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here to take you through the millennia-old history of gender-diverse communities. Knowledge of our past is fundamental for our liberation, and launching during the first-ever Trans+ History Week - we’re back, and like any good comeback, we’re kicking off with a li...

This is just episode one, of QueerAF's new podcast about Monkeypox. it has stories and resources without shame or stigma - "It's what I wish I'd had." Listen to the whole series by searching 'What The Pox?'... Monkeypox. That’s what What The Pox? is all about - a ‘poxcast’ if you will. Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. And it was not fun. When I was home a...

Can we tell you how to change the way the media writes about queer lives? It’s a change we need urgently. From transphobia led by the press, media getting it wrong and regulator Ofcom and the BBC signalling, queer lives are up for debate. It’s a growing pattern that is spilling out onto the streets in the form of rising hate crimes. It’s time for an organisation to fight back. To advocate for...

Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex?   Yes, it’s here. Another fantastic episode ahead by #QueerAF regular producer Jacob Edward. And this week, we’re talking about a spectrum of feelings when it comes to sex, the differences between asexuality and sex shame plus Jacob, who used their portfolio to get a job Radio One’s first non-binary presenter shares boldly and bravely. Listen to the latest epis...

How can you be single, queer and happy? Growing up in the 90’s things seemed pretty simple.    You get to your mid-twenties, find someone you are attracted to who lives in close proximity, get married and live a happy life. But Martin could never relate to any of this because he is gay.   Cut to now, aged 32 and a little jaded by love – he has no desire for marriage or a partner. Bu...

Recorded live as part of National Student Pride, at the University of Westminster in collaboration with the university's Creative Enterprise Centre: We present Access All Rainbows. Join our conversation about being LGBT+ and disabled, considering; Hidden disabilities, access, perceptions on ability and, support in relationships. The Speakers: Jamie Wareham –  University of Westminster Alumni...

A live episode of #QueerAF , guest hosted by Evan Davis with Dustin Lance Black and UK Black Pride's Lady Phyll. An Oscar-winning screenwriter and the co-founder of UK Black Pride chat to BBC broadcaster Evan Davis to headline our daytime festival (Sat 22 Feb). Dustin Lance Black first appeared at National Student Pride in 2015 and has gone on to start a family with Olympic diver Tom Daley. Lady P...

Does Rosa need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community?  That’s what she explores in her university town of Bristol this week on #QueerAF.  Meeting the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world.  And despite Rosa’s love for her femme, long hair. She wonders aft...

Young, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predator Five years ago, Rory was drugged and sexually assaulted by two men, who I met while using Grindr.  Young, vulnerable and new to a big city – growing up without any LGBTQ inclusive sex education in school – I became the target for an online predator. It’s been difficult coming to terms with this a...

Pansexual reporter Kenya Jay Scarlett speaks to queer couples to find out everything you need to know about being in a relationship.    From getting together to breaking up and how her pansexuality has left her feeling some people are way too focused on gender.   This week on #QueerAF whether you've had one or not, we take you on a crash course on being in a queer relationship. &nbs...

To prepare for my mum's gay wedding, I talked to her about sexuality for the first time Journalist Eve Hartley sits down with her mum, ahead of her same-sex wedding, to discuss for the first time what her mum went through when she came out while Eve was only a few years old. Eve reflects on how her journey to understanding sexuality was so different to her mums. And the reason for that is all than...

#QueerAF is back for season four. With more LGBT+ reporters than ever. This year our stories come from Bristol, Manchester, Milton Keynes, with reporters from Northern Ireland, Leeds, London and beyond. When you listen – you support the students, graduates and LGBT+ reporters we mentor to build their audio portfolio. And they tell you beautifully produced queer stories.  They have storie...

Don't mess with a boy in a dress, he was born to impress. Lead singer of the feeling and writer of the musical that’s taken the UK’s west end by storm Dan Gillespie Sells, joinst us for our season three finale, to tell the story behind the soundtrack to your #QueerAF life: Everybody's Talking About Jamie. In an ever changing world, the way we identify is constantly being challenged. Not just by pe...

A Gay and Non Gay discuss douching (to help LGBT+ rights) James Barr and Dan Hudson host the hit UK LGBT+ podcast A Gay and a Non Gay, which began out of terrible conversation about pub etiquette. But their friendship really grew when their worlds collided, as Talia, Dan’s girlfriend and James’s friend, left for the USA; Leaving James and Dan to fend for themselves with just one task, to make a po...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of Russia’s most iconic cultural figures, but the country still denies he was gay. 125 years after his mysterious death, his magnificent symphonies, operas, and ballets – including all-time classics Swan Lake and The Nutcracker – are still performed, streamed and enjoyed by millions of people around the world. But behind Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous melodies and explosiv...

Did you make all your Sims gay too? This week on #QueerAF, reporter Alice Taplin brings us along on a ride down the Rainbow Road, not on Mario Kart, but on a brief history of queer gaming.   Video games were long considered the territory of straight boys and men, with COD, Fifa, and GTA being the first thing that sprung to people’s imaginations. But with representation across the board having...