Episodes
Graeme chats to Carl Loughlin who plays the character Gareth from new movie "In from the side"... the story based on an illicit love affair in a gay rugby team. The film stars Alexander Lincoln (formerly Jamie Tate in Emmerdale) and Alexander King.Wirral born Carl plays the team bully Gareth but draws on some of his own earlier life experience to bring to the role. He gets together one early October morning in Liverpool with Graeme to talk gay trauma, bullying and how the LGBTQ+ community needs a positive feel good love story like this on the big screen.THIS IS OUTCAST UK---THIS IS OUTCAST ...
Paris Munro is one part of the breakfast show on the worlds biggest LGBTQ+ station - Gaydio. The UK national LGBTQ radio network. On the Paris and Dave breakfast show he came out as TRANSMASCULINE NON BINARY in early 2022 and since then listeners have shared in the experience with Paris.Graeme Smith headed into the studios of Gaydio in Manchester in mid June 2022 to see how it had all gone so far and hear Paris' story.---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 ...
QUEER HISTORY IS ALL OF OUR HISTORYDR JUSTIN BENGRY, DIRECTOR OF QUEER HISTORY AT GOLDSMITH'S, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONJust as the news landed that the worlds first and only Masters course in Queer History was being axed, alongside the UK's only Black History Masters in a round of cuts. Graeme catches up with The Director of Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr Justin Bengry. We learn about ‘The Unexpected History of the Pink Pound’. and his work with Historic England on the history of Queer spaces outside of London.In the 1970s and 1980s an increasing variety of openly gay-or...
Nick Charles is back in the studio chatting to Graeme Smith over ONE can of Elvis Juice IPA (6%) It's a whole, six months after they first caught up to chat in episode 1.Lots has changed and Nick's last episode with Graeme got hundreds of thousands of views on Tik Tok when Nick opened up about claiming asylum in the UK and his experience of extreme homophobic attacks in Trinidad and Tobago before he left in 2010.Graeme confesses to doing bits of escorting work to survive when he was out of work... but it turns out this was in Nick's current bedroom of his flat share in Manchester. You could...
Graeme catches up with the chair of SWITCHBOARD and host of The Log Books podcast, Natasha Walker for the start of LGBT history month.The Log Books are an award-winning history of LGBTQ+ life in Britain as noted by volunteers at Switchboard.As a helpline for anyone who wants to talk about gender identity and sexuality, Switchboard has been hearing about, and helping, queer life since 1974.Now held in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute, the volunteers’ log books offer a unique insight into the range of issues facing LGBTQ+ people in Britain in the 70s, 80s and 90s.Stories range from po...
PART 2 OF 2Stephanie Hirst is an LGBT+ icon and also a broadcasting legend. She has spent her entire adult life hosting radio shows, winning awards for her breakfast shows, hosting segments with Lorraine Kelly on Good Morning Britain and she was the host of the UK national commercial chart show for many years.In 2014 she dramatically quit her breakfast show, Hirsty's Daily Dose and later appeared on the Steven Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 Live to go public on her gender transition. Since then she has appeared in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow list of the 101 most influential LGBTQ+ p...
PART 1 OF 2Stephanie Hirst is an LGBTQ+ icon and also a broadcasting legend. She has spent her entire adult life hosting radio shows, winning awards for her breakfast shows, hosting segments with Lorraine Kelly on Good Morning Britain and she was the host of the UK national commercial chart show for many years.In 2014 she dramatically quit her breakfast show, Hirsty's Daily Dose and later appeared on the Steven Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 Live to go public on her gender transition. Since then she has appeared in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow list of the 101 most influential LGBTQ+ ...
Chris Warren-Dickins LLB MA LPC is a New York based author, psychotherapist and LGBTQ+ mental health expert.His new book Beyond the Blue aims to help people develop mental health survival tools so we caught up with him the week before Christmas. LGBTQ+ people are 1.5 times more likely to develop depression. Gay men are 4 times as likely to commit suicide than the rest of the population and 46 percent of trans people have thought about ending their life.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a review. This helps us become easier to disc...
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS HEAVY DRUGS AND SEXUAL REFERENCES, ALONGSIDE OPINIONS SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND UPSETTING.Liam Stonier McDonald is the bad boy of the LGBTQ art world, he is an internationally famous artist who's work sells for tens of thousands of dollars. His niche is his parents addictions and his own experiences in the underground chemsex scene in London and Chicago. He talks about his work and his thoughts on the chemsex problem facing the gay community and also about his own controversial thoughts on PREP which he himself is on. Liam is holding up a mirror to the underbelly of our com...
JAY HAWKRIDGE opened a Tik Tok account in November 2020, aimed at reducing HIV stigma following his own positive HIV diagnosis months earlier. Since then he's gone out of his way to educate and inform on what it means to HIV positive in the 2020's. Often this means facing down extreme prejudice in the comments to his social media videos. Now a year on from beginning his campaign he is a Tik Tok UK LGBTQ+ ambassador, he's featured in a new major TV documentary for Sky and is ready to tell his story at length for the first time in a catchup with Graeme Smith in Liverpool ahead of World Aids D...
NICK CHARLES is a podcaster, panellist and presenter born in Trinidad and Tobago. A decade ago he was forcibly outed by his then boyfriend and made to undergo a form of conversion therapy forcing to flee to the UK to claim asylumHere he talks in depth about how his experience of extreme homophobia at home has meant he is determined to be his authentic self. There is also a very unfiltered chat about male sexual behaviour in immigration detention centres. THIS IS OUTCAST UKhead to playoutcastuk.com for the latest news, all our social links and info or search playoutcastUK on Instagram and Ti...