Episodes
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. On this episode they talk about the mainstream culture microcosm that was Paul O'Grady's funeral, complete with Julian Clary attending and a guard of honour from Battersea dogs home, which must have been hard to manage. We dissect the week's queer news agenda and then discuss Kevin's impending trip to Berlin. Graeme and Ke...
Topher is the self confessed Tart with a heart, the only fans model and PR manager for Clonezone is up for a grabby award this week at the Gay adult industry awards - The Grabby Awards in Spain this weekend as best adult content creator.He is here again to answer some of your queer sex questions including douching pills advice and some advice for Kinksters on CHASTITY.Also we hear about the recent spate of attacks on Clone Zone's Manchester shop in The Village and talk self defence for LGBTQ+ people.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please lea...
Zara Larsson needs no introduction. She's brought us some of the biggest LGBTQ+ bangers of the last decade and at a young age cemented herself as one of the biggest popstars on the planet. The Swedish born star is back with new music and her current hit single can't tame her is one of the most streamed songs in the UK this year and is a hit across UK radio. She's worked with all the world's biggest producers and smashed the glass ceiling with hits such as the huge collab with LGBTQ+ icon MNEK - Never forget you.. and the pop dance bangers "Symphony" and "Lush life".At the age of 25, the Swe...
After news of Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black having their second child by surrogacy in the U.S. we're exploring the different ways LGBTQ+ people are starting a family. Adoption seems to be one of the most popular in the UK right now but other options are available and we're keen to hear your stories around this as more LGBTQ+ people step into parenthood.Children's author Jennie Guay and her partner the LGBTQ+ entrepreneur and podcaster Sam White have had their kids using IVF treatment. Graeme spoke to Jennie to find out more about their IVF journey.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and sub...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. We're hearing the latest about the UK and Scottish governments fight over the Gender Recognition Act, how Vauxhall's Chariots Sauna is being turned into an immersive experience in its life after being a s*x venue for decades.After our Queer news roundup Graeme and Kevin compare their vastly different experiences of venues ...
This week Paris is chatting to the US based musician Caroline Rose.Caroline Rose is an artist that has been patiently and effectively building a name for herself over the last few years, gaining increasing levels of acclaim with a steady stream of alternative pop bangers. Her latest full length offering Superstar is more of the same, and looks set to make Caroline just that. The artists latest full length is packed with substance, style, and infectious hooks that will sit with you indefinitely. A fitting embodiment of a career that has pitted Caroline Rose as an unapologetic, unfiltered ant...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer. After a news roundup of this weeks biggest LGBTQ+ stories ...this week we're talking about the self appointed voices of the LGBTQIA community and how out of touch they are from the reality of life for most of us. Also would Jesus have voted Tory or Republican?THIS IS OUTCAST UK---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe...
Can you believe that Rumpelstiltskin is still being read in school? It’s a very old story – well past its time if ever there was one. It’s a story filled with misogyny, greed, and abuse; selling a daughter for financial gain, holding that daughter captive until she performs an impossible task, and all for the benefit of men. If that’s not a terrifying message to send to our kids, I don’t know what is.Gone are the days of the normalised nuclear family – a mother, father, brother and sister. According to research, stepfamilies are currently the fastest growing family dynamic in the UK and it ...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.After a news roundup of this weeks biggest LGBTQ+ stories ...This week we talk about the sad loss of the scouse/LGBTQ+ and nan TV icon Paul O'Grady. We also hear about the changes to the law in Florida outlawing discussing LGBTQ issues in schools and how Prince William attended a queer restaurant in Poland... so do we like ...
HoneyLuv is an Los Angeles based House DJ & producer.From a basketball player, turned U.S Navy sailor, turned DJ/Producer, Honey Luv is a force to be reckoned with. Hailing from a city filled with house culture, Cleveland’s own Honey Luv is currently taking the dance music scene by storm. She made her first debut with spinning Hip Hop and R&B music on Dash Radio as a Guest DJ for celebrity trainer Corey Calliet’s “Issa Lifestyle'' radio show and playing for all the hottest urban parties in Los Angeles. She then later on switched over to dance music, her first love. With only two years of DJ...
Baltimore singer/songwriter/DJ/producer and music legend Ultra Naté has long been adored by electronic, dance and pop fans since the early 90's.Three decades on with massive crowd stompers such as Twisted, Automatic, Party Girl, New Kind Of Medicine, Found A Cure, How Long (Ultra Flava) and the Top 10 pop nugget, If You Could Read My Mind, 2022 finds Ultra Naté joyously celebrating the enduring anthem Free’s 25th anniversary . Last Summer saw Ultra collaborating with the likes of Icona Pop, David Morales, NYC’s esteemed Lincoln Center, numerous festivals, Prides and ushering in her 10th alb...
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS VERY EXPLICIT ADVICE TO LISTENERS SEXUAL HEALTH ISSUES, JUST SO YOU KNOW!Whether its anxieties around cleanliness or questions around kink... Topher's DM's are always open.Graeme Smith talks with self confessed Tart with a heart, OnlyFans model, columnist for Gay London Life and Clonezone PR brand manager Topher about sex, sex tech and relationships questions from OUTCAST UK's and his DM's.This episode we have people wanting to know how much sex they should be having and a complete run down of advice around fisting in response to the deluge of DM's we get about it. If...
The morning after Joesef SMASHED a gig at Manchester Academy, mid way through a huge UK tour and as his debut album "Permanent Damage" is available to stream and buy we have an exclusive chat.Graeme is catching up with Paris Munro again about their new podcast Queer & The Beat. This week Paris catches up with LGBTQ+ musician Joesef, with details on THAT KISS people are going wild about from Joesef's new music video.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a review. This helps us become easier to discover. Please take time to rate the sho...
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT ADVICE TO LISTENERS SEXUAL HEALTH ISSUES, JUST SO YOU KNOW!Whether its the best way to douche, anxieties around cleanliness or questions around kink... Topher's DM's are always open.Graeme Smith talks with self confessed Tart with a heart, OnlyFans model, columnist for Gay London Life and Clonezone PR brand manager Topher about sex, sex tech and relationships questions from OUTCAST UK's and his DM's.On this episode we hear about the newly single, self confessed "pig bottom" D in Manchester and his anal anxieties whilst hooking up with lots of people ... we un...
Graeme Smith and Paris Munro catch up about the new podcast QUEER & THE BEAT... featuring an exclusive chat with MARTIN IKIN.DJ / Producer since 1991, Martin Ikin AKA: Soul Purpose, Indigo, MIGrant, DJ Mayhem, etc etc… Too many Aliases to mention them all…As well as producing, DJing, spending years employed as an in-house engineer at several recording studios, he’s also studied jazz piano, has been bandleader of several jazz funk outfits, is still gigging, session playing and teaching piano today.After over 10 years of releasing music on other labels, Martin launched his own label – Soul Pu...
Featuring exclusive interview highlights with JP from Cash Cash talking about mental heath and music. Graeme Smith chats to Gaydio radio presenter Paris Munro about the launch of their brand new podcast ‘Queer & The Beat’.Based in Manchester, the queer nonbinary presenter currently hosts the Gaydio Breakfast show weekdays from 7am. They have a passion for music, and love being goofy with their guests on the show. As well as being on the radio, they also host events and stages during pride season, as well as interviewing artists on red carpets - most recently for Gaydio at The Brits. Also a ...
Graeme is talking to Shivani Dave on the morning after the Manchester and London vigils following the horrific killing of Brianna Ghey in Warrington. The media and political landscape has become more transphobic than ever, we discuss the implications for the LGBTQ+ community. We also talk about the importance of keeping your cool when dealing with transphobia after Shivani’s recent appearances on Good Morning Britain and Talk Radio / Talk TV. Shivani is a Gen Z journalist, broadcaster, and physicist. They provide a youth audience with impartial news for a world that isn't via @OpenlyNews on...
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DRUGS REFERENCES SOME PEOPLE IN RECOVERY MAY FIND TRIGGERING. Greg Owen has been called "one of the U.K.’s most vocal proponents of PrEP", describing himself as the "poster boy for PrEP in the UK". He is the PREP lead for Terrence Higgins Trust and talks frankly about the issues surrounding PREP, being HIV positive and issues surrounding chemsex. But did you know that Greg found out about PREP initially during his party days from a meth dealer at a sex party? Leading HIV researchers credit Greg and his campaign being a major force in the massive reduction in n...
On this episode Graeme Smith catches up with the founder of iwantprepnow.co.uk and PREP lead for national UK HIV charity, Terrence Higgins Trust, Greg Owen.Greg is unique .... born in Belfast in the 80's he moved to London to study dance and drama... he like many of us has talked frankly about doing sex work and his experiences of chemsex.In fact... HIV researcher Sheena McCormack credits him with helping decrease the number of HIV diagnoses in the UK. From 2015–2016, the number of new diagnoses in London had decreased by 40%, while around the UK it was decreased by around a third. Owen rec...
Former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has settled a legal dispute with an ex-partner who accused him of "deceptively" transmitting HIV to him.Ian Baum alleged Mr Thomas hid his HIV status and "failed to take reasonable care" to ensure he did not pass it on.The former British and Irish Lion said he had settled the case for £75,000 plus costs, but it was not an admission of liability or guilt.The reaction in the media and the comments on social media have been devastating for the mental health of people living with HIV, already too often marginalised and treated with suspicion. In this epi...
We gather the facts and consider the implications of the standoff between the Scottish and the UK Government over trans rights.After 5 years of consultations, the Scottish government set about updating their gender recognition laws and a coalition of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP, The Greens and The Scottish Labour Party recently passed the Gender recognition act. The vote in the Scottish parliament was decisive 88 for, 33 against, 4 abstained, 4 no vote. This was a clear message that these changes had a majority in the Scottish parliament.In London... this Scottish reform bill was viewed as a big...
After the boxer Chris Eubank Jnr was on the receiving end of what sounded a lot like homophobic abuse from the boxer Liam Smith we listen to the exchange in full and talk about what happened. Is mens sport intrinsically homophobic?Are LGBTQ+ people often on the receiving end of this kind of dog whistle/ teenage boy banter?Graeme is joined by LGBTQ+ activist and radio producer Calum McFabulous to talk this through.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a review. This helps us become easier to discover. Please take time to rate the show ...
Right now it's trans people being vilified by the right wing press and government around the world. But beware, it could be you on the menu next in the culture wars. Maybe the real enemy is toxic masculinity?Another talk with Graeme Smith and Steven John.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a review. This helps us become easier to discover. Please take time to rate the show and if you're enjoying the podcast then take time to comment about it wherever you listen. //////// Check us on Insta, Youtube and TikTok @thisisoutcastworld ////...
Topher is the PR Brand Manager at Clonezone and a bit of a star on social media and more recently on TV sex documentaries. He gives sex and relationship advice to his Only Fans followers as well as making adult content and advising on the latest sex tech to consumers. He also gives advice to LGBTQ+ sex toy manufacturers in the development of new products. He's never happier than when he's replying to people's problems or dishing out sex advice or helping with problems.We're getting the lowdown on what the best sex tech there is out there right now for us all, talking about the basics of bot...
Diversity and DEI in most organisations is seen as a nice to have, but more and more research shows that it creates more successful and profitable organisations. Steven John continues to talk about DEI and it's practical applications.Also how is the Conservative party one of the most diverse parties in UK politics, whilst not appearing to actively support progressive policies around the rights of women and monitories?featuring Graeme Smith and Steven John.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a review. This helps us become easier to d...
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME PEOPLE WILL FIND DISTURBING.After the last episode of OUTCAST UK we had to turn off comments on our George Floyd chat after the video got the attention of people on Tik Tok denying that it was a murder and making baseless claims to discredit the victim and the family. We made this bonus episode to comment on this initially.Then it became important to also bare witness to the latest act of police violence against people of colour. In the United States, LA Police repeatedly tasered Keenan Anderson, an unarmed black man who later died in hospital, t...
In 2020, during peak COVID lockdown, 18 months after Steven had moved from London to Liverpool to live with fiancé Graeme, an event happened thousands of miles away that shook the world and their relationship. It didn't just shake the social foundations of our society, it called on couples in mixed ethnicity relationships to confront the elephant in the room head on - STRUCTURAL RACISM. Within a week of the brutal public murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in the United States. Rates of depression and anxiety among African- Americans shot to higher rates than any other ethnic grou...
A late night random podcast chat on The Loud Brown Gays podcast between Graeme Smith and Nick Charles brought to light a little known corner of the culinary world... Cum Cuisine. After listener Aaron said he was pretty into it. Nick was grossed out, Graeme was intrigued.Off the back of this, Graeme got in touch with the author of the book "Human harvest"... the book of semen based recipes. The book 15 years ago was followed with a bartender edition of drinks to be made with semen as the ingredient and now Paul Photenhauer has brought out a book of recipes for beauty products with Semen as a...
Nobody knows more about being on the receiving end of people's fears and assumptions than LGBTQ+ people. But we are all pre programmed with these from the environment we grew up in. The less aware you are of your internal (mental) state, the more you become a prisoner of it,Why are some Queer people still internally homophobic and how does this impact their later lives? How does all this trauma impact us and prevent us from being our authentic selves free from anxiety ?LGBTQ+ mental health is the focus in this episode as Graeme Smith talks to the US based psychotherapist and author Chris Wa...
This World AIDS Day we're getting together with people from leading UK regional HIV organisations looking at charity and community and the role they have played in the response to the HIV pandemic. With the absence of support from society generally, a hostile media and the initial medical outlook so bleak, it became the job of the community to provide hope and emotional support at first. But some of the initial groups are still with us and going strong pushing back on stigma and providing upto date education to a world that seems to have its view of HIV firmly set in a different age.Graeme ...