The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast

QUEER BRITAIN brings together standout moments from our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS recorded live at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London.

Intimate conversations in front of a live audience with creatives shaping queer culture in the UK today.

Composer Iain Bell, described by the BBC as one of the most compelling musical dramatists of his generation, reflects on opera, audiences, and the question of elitism. Actor and hi...

Graeme Smith speaks with two filmmakers whose work has been part of this year’s Academy Awards conversation, each telling a very different story about queer lives and history.

First we cross to New York to meet Matt Nadel, the documentary filmmaker behind Cashing Out, an Oscar shortlisted short documentary produced by The New Yorker. The film uncovers a little known and unsettling chapter of queer history during the AIDS crisis,...

Triple Booker Prize nominated author Tash Aw joins us to discuss his latest novel, The South — named one of Time Magazine's Top 100 Books of the Year.

We talk about what it means to be recognised at the highest level of global literature, and how The South explores identity, immigration, queer lives and globalisation from a perspective rarely centred in Western publishing.

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DJ Fat Tony is one of the most recognisable figures in British nightlife, spending decades at the centre of club culture, fashion and celebrity. His time DJing at Trade, the legendary gay hard dance club, was just one chapter in a much bigger story.

Tony joins us for a revealing conversation at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London to share his stories from DJing at the wedding of Brooklyn Beckham, reflecting on the ups a...

This episode of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! features a genuine political outlier: Carl Cashman, the 34-year-old leader of Liverpool City Council’s Liberal Democrats in the North West of England, a straight politician who has built influence by putting LGBTQ+ people at the centre of his politics.

Carl represents a new generation of progressive politician: culturally fluent, visibly present, and entirely at ease in queer spac...

This week on BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! we speak with Tyler Udall - the first ever BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! photographer and a regular voice on the podcast.

Recorded during one of our MEETS at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café London, this episode traces Tyler’s path through a series of worlds that don’t often get connected. He began as a ballet dancer in New York, before moving through the fashion world, including as ...

We talk to two extraordinary queer filmmakers: Ira Sachs, one of the defining voices of American independent film; and Benoît Duvette, an emerging French director making waves. 

Sachs to promote his latest film, Peter Hujar's Day, that centres on the legendary queer photographer Peter Hujar starring Ben Whishaw; and Duvette to talk about his recent film Eden & Charlie, which caught our atte...

This episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast presents highlights from our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS, each recorded live in front of an audience at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café.

We hear first from German photographer Richard Kranzin, on his journey from model to photographer, about exploring the sensuality of male youth and his new book Interior. Then from Argentinian photographer Sebastian Perinotti about his latest series ...

Graeme Smith sits down with actor, writer, and queer trailblazer Darryl Stephens, the star whose breakout role in hit US network TV show Noah’s Arc became a defining moment for Black queer visibility on screen.

Two decades from that show's first broadcast, and this year with Noah's Arc: The Movie, Darryl reflects on the show’s legacy and what it meant to millions who finally saw their own stories represented. He s...

Two groundbreaking choreographers join us live from The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in Fitzrovia, London. Arthur Pita talks craft, career, and the queer imagination behind his work. Jonathan Watkins discusses launching Ballet Queer, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ ballet company.

We begin with Arthur Pita, the South African-born dancer turned award-winning choreographer whose career spans contemporary dance, opera, theat...

On this episode we bring you live conversations recorded at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London, in front of an audience at our weekly BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS - featuring artists, designers, pop icons and tastemakers who are shaping queer culture right now.

First up, Michael Bonsor, dubbed “the George Clooney of hotel hospitality,” reveals what it takes to create the most talked-about new hotel in London. As Managing Di...

In this episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Breakfast Club, the team dives into the state of queer culture at a time of triumphs, cancellations, and cultural resets.

Photographer Tyler Udall joins from Berlin, bringing his trademark insight on art and identity, alongside Michelle Robecchi, commissioning editor at Phaidon and a sharp observer of how the art world frames and sometimes sidelines queer narratives.

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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 ...

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...

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...

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...