Tracks of Our Queers

Long before  Tracks of Our Queers  was birthed, Andy co-hosted the show  Aural Fixation  with his bestie Drew Tweds. Much like the Spice Girls in 2000, the show never officially called it quits, but has been on hiatus since 2022... until now.  Only Motha's return could muster the show back from the Internet's dusty podcast archives, and Drew and Andy were determined to Get Together on the...

Laura Wilkinson is the managing director of the LGBT Foundation, the UK's largest health and wellbeing charity for LGBTQIA+ people.  She's also one of my best friends. I met Laura in our first month at Manchester University, and we've stayed close as queer siblings ever since. Not only am I enormously proud of her professional achievements and contributions to queer life in the UK,...

Pete Crighton is an author from Toronto.  Last year, he published The Vinyl Diaries: Sex Deep Cuts and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy , a memoir of his life through vinyl, and 33 1/3: Cosmic Thing , a tribute tour de force to the B-52s' legendary album. Find  Pete online here. Support the show Follow the pod on Insta at @tracksofourqueers , or email me at tracksofourqueers@gmail.com Help keep the...

Willis Chimano is a singer-songwriter, author, and performer from Kenya.  A member of one of Kenya's most successful musical acts ever, Sauti Sol, Chimano has branched out in recent years to create his own solo musical ventures informed by his experience as Kenya's first, and only, openly gay popstar. Outed in 2018 by the press, Chimano was supported by his bandmates who went to release...

Over 600,000 queers and non-queers alike follow content creator and activist Mardi P for her gripping testimonials on a long, and fabulous, life lived trans. Born to a Polish-Canadian Catholic family, Mardi escaped across the Rockies in the 1970s to the bright lights of Calgary and Vancouver, where she began shaping her life as a trans woman. Decades later and outraged by the tsunami of misinforma...

Mitch Brown is an advocate, father, and a former AFL player.  Last August, Mitch came out publicly as bisexual in an interview with The Daily Aus , sparking a tsunami of conversations in Australia around queerness and masculinity in sport. Mitch is the only player in the AFL's 130 year history to come out.  Mitch is also my first sportsperson on the pod, and we have so much fun! Follow Mitch...

Peter Tatchell is an activist and human rights campaigner. Not long after leaving Australia for the UK, Peter joined the Gay Liberation Front and became one of the co-organisers of the UK's first Pride march. He hasn't missed a London Pride since. After a brief but violently homophobic parliamentary career in the 80s, Peter co-founded OutRage! in 1990 and helped spearhead the campaign fo...

Welcome back to Tracks of Our Queers. Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, playwright, and theatre maker from Bristol. They've sold out the Southbank Centre, toured their writing globally, and their Edinburgh Fringe-award-winning play BURGERZ is currently on it's return visit to Australia. You can catch Travis performing BURGERZ in: Sydney at the Carriageworks from January 7-18 Me...

Trailblazers, queeroes, and fascinating folk feature in Season 6, launching in early January. Support the show Follow the pod on Insta at @tracksofourqueers , or email me at tracksofourqueers@gmail.com Help keep the show ad-free by shouting me a coffee right here Enjoy the  Selections from Tracks of Our Queers Spotify playlist Thanks besties.

Tony Award-winning actor and director John Benjamin Hickey joins me on Tracks of Our Queers. From his breakout role in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! to his devastating turn in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart , John has been at the heart of some of theatre's most important queer work. Far from being typecast, John has appeared in hundreds of roles across TV, film, and...

William Yang is one of Australia’s most vital storytellers. For over five decades, he's documented queer life in Sydney -- its parades, parties, politics, and people -- through photography, performance, and prose.  Born in 1943 in Far North Queensland, William came out as gay in the early 1970s during the wave of gay liberation, and later came out again -- this time as Chinese -- after reconn...

Kate Pierson is a founding member of the B-52s : The World's Greatest Party Band, and a beacon for weirdos and queer-does since the late 70s.  After decades of collaborating with the likes of Iggy Pop, R.E.M., and her Japanese side-band NiNa (more on that in the episode), Kate began writing and recording her entirely solo output in 2015. Last year, her second album Radios and Rainbows was rel...

I'm trying something new, and treating you, like I treat my long-suffering friends and family, to a quick voice note.  If you can't be bothered to listen, the summary is... please email or DM me your thoughts on: As a listener, how much do you care about interviews with 'known' figures, or for want of a better word, celebrities? Would you rather listen to people you weren'...

Sabah Choudrey is an award-winning, reluctant activist. He's also an author, youth worker, Pride organiser, Saturday morning Fun Run participant – the list is exhausting, but they somehow found time for me and Tracks of Our Queers . Sabah has also featured on the Diversity Power List 24/25, serves as the Vice Chair of Trustees for the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, a Gay Times Future Fighters H...

Rhys Nicholson is a comedian, actor, and judge on Drag Race Down Under . They began their stand-up journey in their teens, with regular train rides to Sydney’s open mic evenings, before launching onto the global comedy scene with a slot on Conan O’Brien. This, in turn, lead to a Netflix special, which found it’s way to one RuPaul.  They’ve won countless awards, have toured globally multiple times,...

Peppermint joins me for our 50th episode.  A mainstay of New York nightlife, Peppermint burst onto the global queer scene as a finalist in RuPaul's Drag Race' s ninth season. Soon after, she became the first trans actress to originate a principle role on Broadway, and has starred in dozens of television roles, most recently in Michelle Buteau's Survival of the Thickest on Netflix. S...

Eric Schnall is a Broadway producer and author from New York. Eric grew up attending Broadway productions with his parents, leading to a professional career which saw him driving critically-lauded shows like the Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival, and Fleabag. In 2024, Eric published his first book, I Make Envy on Your Disco – a love letter to Berlin, through the eyes of a late 30s gay man explorin...

Chloe Petts is a *very* funny comedian from the UK.  Her work is littered with brilliant examples of what I think of as 'soft' activism – she skilfully endears audiences with her warmth, before a one-two punch reminder of the foolishness of homo- and transphobia.  Chloe is touring the UK and Australia throughout 2025, and you can find her tour dates here. We discuss music by Tina Turner,...

Margaret Cho. Period. A groundbreaking comedian, actor, musician, and advocate, Margaret Cho has been smashing barriers and ceilings in entertainment since the early 1990s. She's a massive queero of mine, and I was quite honestly shook to be on a Zoom with the Notorious C.H.O. herself. Margaret just released her third studio album, Lucky Gift , including punk pop girl group bangers, musings o...

Faustina Agolley is a writer, producer, DJ, presenter, actor, and all-round legend. She hosted Video Hits, Channel Ten’s flagship music program in Australia, from 2006-2011; she’s toured with Oprah Winfrey as her resident DJ, and she made her stage debut in the 2017 Sydney Theatre Company award-winning production, The Father. We discuss music by Kylie Minogue, Janelle Monaé, and Tyler, The Creator...

David Polson AM is an advocate and educator for HIV awareness. Just 29 in 1984 when he was diagnosed in HIV himself, David is currently celebrating his 70th birthday. In 2023, he founded Qtopia, a museum in Sydney dedicated to the commemoration and celebration of LGBTQIA+ resilience. To mark his milestone birthday and contributions to HIV advocacy, the museum will open a memorial garden, dedicated...

Ash Gordon is a New York-bred, LA-based songwriter, producer, and now playwright, best known for her collaborations with a galaxy of stars from RuPaul’s Drag Race , including but not limited to Trixie Mattel, Sharon Needles, Trinity the Tuck, and most prolifically, Alaska, with ten #1 albums on the iTunes charts to her name.  Together with Alaska and their collaborator Tomas Costanza, Ash wrote th...

Bishi is an artist, composer and producer born in London of Bengali heritage. Trained in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles, she has released and composed three albums, several EPs, movie and documentary soundtracks, and tirelessly advocates for the elevation of women, trans, and non-binary creative practitioners in music and technology. From coming up in London's queer underground...

Simon Graser is a DJ and nightlife curator based in Naarm/Melbourne, and performs as Simonetti .  He co-founded the Melbourne party CONFIDE, a love letter to the roots of house, and a means for relief, release, and respect. Five points if you know the iconic Australian song it was named for. We discuss music by DASCO, Scissor Sisters, and of course, Kylie Minogue. Follow Simonetti , Club CONFIDE ,...

Christy DeGallerie is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from New York. Her contribution to the Modern Love column in the New York Times took my breath away a year ago, in which she wrote about her decision to come out to her mother on the day of her deportation. It's a moving, funny, sharp dissertation on migration, queerness, and gardening, and I insist you give it a read. Christy is als...