The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast

The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast

ART. QUEER. CULTURE. The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS Podcast A finalist in the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 for Best Arts Show. Bringing the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! universe to life through conversations with queer photographers, cultural icons and creative innovators. Explore the intersections of art, queer, culture. Hosted by Virgin Radio UK presenter and multi award winning LGBTQ+ podcaster Graeme Smith. For all things BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! head to boysboysboys.org Executive Producer: Graeme Smith Editorial Director: Ghislain Pascal Producers: Olivia Jones & Paris Munro Contributors: Jorge Garriz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

October 13, 2025 59 mins

In this special live episode of the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! podcast, we’re joined by legendary human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell - one of the most fearless and influential LGBTQ+ activists of the last fifty years.


From the early days of the Gay Liberation Front to the radical protests of OutRage!, and now through the Peter Tatchell Foundation, Peter’s work has helped shape the modern queer ...

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Legendary Hollywood photographer Greg Gorman joins host Graeme Smith for an unfiltered conversation. They discuss art, desire, censorship, and legacy — and what it means to photograph queer men across decades of shifting culture and politics. Gorman reflects on working with everyone from Andy Warhol to Leonardo DiCaprio, and why queer visibility in photography still matters more than ever.


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In this episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, host Graeme Smith dives into the hidden histories and cultural impact of queer photography.


First, filmmaker and creative director Sam Shahid joins Graeme to talk about Hidden Master, his acclaimed documentary on photographer George Platt Lynes. Shahid reveals how he discovered Lynes’ daring images of queer life and beauty, the challenges of telling a story once kept in the shado...

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This week on The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, we’re around the breakfast table asking: where’s the line between art and pornography?


Graeme Smith is joined by award-winning writer Jeremy Atherton Lin, Venezuelan photographer Mauricio A. Rodriguez, and BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! founder Ghislain Pascal, for a conversation on queer photography, censorship, publishing, and the politics of visibility in 2025.


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On this episode Graeme Smith sits down with the multi-talented queer actor Jordan Luke Gage: from breaking hearts as Romeo in & Juliet, to his turn as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde, and now as Salieri in Saving Mozart, Jordan talks stage presence, career pivots, and even his early TV days (yes, including The X Factor).


Then, actor Luke Fetherston takes the mic in front of a live audience at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery...

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In this episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, host Graeme Smith meets two queer storytellers reshaping how LGBTQ+ lives are portrayed across TV, and literature.


First up, Lee Galea — creator of the international streaming hit queer Aussie comedy Single, Out — joins us to talk about chosen family, creative honesty, and why the best advice always comes from your true friends..


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In this episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, host Graeme Smith brings you two powerful conversations from the world of queer art and culture.


First, we hear from Edward Watson, one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of his generation and a former Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet. Speaking live from the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London, Edward reflects on the emotional intensity of life in bal...

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This is The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast: Breakfast Club — where queer culture meets strong coffee and stronger opinions. Joining Graeme Smith around the table this week are Cliff Joannou, Editor-in-Chief of Attitude Magazine, on the future of queer media and why magazines still matter; Sean Patrick Watters, NYC based BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! photographer, on capturing queer beauty through decades of change; and Ghislain Pascal, th...

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In this episode of the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, host Graeme Smith meets two artists amplifying queer expression through powerful musical work — on stage, in the concert hall, and beyond.


First up: acclaimed singer-songwriter John Grant, known for his genre-spanning solo career and collaborations with legends like Elton John and Kylie Minogue. John talks about lending his unmistakable voice to A Single Man, a new...

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This week it's strong black coffees all round at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! gallery in London's Fitzrovia, recording another live gallery episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Breakfast Club going through the latest happenings in the world of art and queer culture.


Host Graeme Smith and editorial director Ghislain Pascal are joined by two standout voices in queer art and publishing: Michele Robecchi, Commissioning Editor at Phaidon, and A...

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On this episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, host Graeme Smith is joined by two visionary artists whose work invites us to look deeper—into the self, into youth, and into the fragility of masculinity.


First, we hear from Anthony Goicolea, the artist behind New York's official LGBTQ monument. A Cuban-American photographer known for his surreal, shape-shifting self-portraits, Goicolea uses haunting imagery and complex in...

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On this plant-loving edition of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, we get floral with two guests redefining what it means to bloom. First up, contemporary florist, and poet Hamish Powell shares how he’s fused poetry, plant life, and avant-garde design into a career that’s earned him hundreds of thousands of social media followers, features in Vogue and a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.


Then, r...

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We’re live from the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in Fitzrovia, London for our first BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Breakfast Club, and things get philosophical — and political.


Filmmaker Joe Stephenson joins us to tackle the ongoing debate: should straight actors still be cast in queer roles? Is the pendulum swinging, or are we stuck in a loop of missed opportunities? And if representation is more than visibility, where does the ...

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We're joined by legendary photographer Sunil Gupta, whose work over the past five decades has shaped the visual landscape of LGBTQ+ history, making him one of the most influential living queer photographers.


From capturing street activism in 1970s New York to documenting queer life in Delhi and London, Sunil’s lens has always been political, personal, and fearless. In conversation with Jorge Garriz, he reflects on how photo...

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On this episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, Graeme Smith is joined by Canadian photographer Tyler Udall for a deeply personal conversation from Berlin.


Known for his emotionally charged portraits and books like I AM and Auguries of Innocence, Tyler reflects on his move from fashion publishing to fine art, and how queerness and vulnerability shape his work.


Later, we join a live audience at The BOYS! ...

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An exclusive and rare interview appearance from Attitude magazine and Rolling Stone UK editor Cliff Joannou live in from of an audience at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London with Jorge Garriz.


The Attitude magazine chief opens up about making a social impact in his role as curator and editor of the worlds biggest LGBTQ magazine, with a conversation about media representation, activism in publishing, and the state of LG...

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Episode 4 is a love letter to New York. Photographer Sean Patrick Watters joins Graeme to talk about shooting vulnerability, building trust with his subjects, and documenting the men of modern Manhattan.


Then BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! founder Ghislain Pascal drops into the home studios of NYC photographers Sebastian Perinotti and Mauricio A Rodriguez to give us a raw and unfiltered look into their work, influences and private lives.

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This week we explore dance and movement through a queer lens. Graeme speaks to internationally acclaimed artist AdeY about the politics of the body, choreographing stillness, and finding freedom in form.


In BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS, we hear from Marcelino Sambé, Principal Dancer at The Royal Ballet, on the power and poetry of queer visibility in classical dance. He talks to Jorge Garriz live in front of an audience in London...

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Film takes the spotlight in Episode 2 as director Joe Stephenson joins Jorge Garriz at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café for an in-depth conversation about queer storytelling on screen, working with icons like Ian McKellen, and navigating the industry as a gay filmmaker.


Then Benji Johnson talks with the creative duo behind The Summer With Carmen, a bold, sun-drenched queer feature that defies genre and expectation.

Brought...

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In this inaugural episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, host Graeme Smith sits down with photographer Charles Moriarty, best known for his intimate early portraits of Amy Winehouse, to discuss queer identity through photography, vulnerability in portraiture, and how his work has evolved.


Then BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS introduces photographer Stuart Linden Rhodes, whose raw, nostalgic imagery captures the essence of q...

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