QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives

We live in an era where algorithms are filtering queer and Trans+ stories, and worse - where whole archives of LGBTQIA+ content are being deleted. Ahead of us may be worse, active rhetoric and regimes that seek to erase us in public life too. How do we fight back, in small ways, by saving Trans+ stories now, for future generations? Historian Dr Rebecca Jane Morgan, director of Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and QueerAF alumni Alex Parm...

The use of anti-trans rhetoric perpetuated by United States government officials is designed to distract from the wider, growing authoritarianism. That's long been understood by liberation leaders from Sylvia Rivereria to Miss Major, who knew no one is free until everyone is free. And that means starting with some of the most marginalised people: Black, Trans+, incarcerated women.

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In Three Days Grace, Nick begins the story frozen in the gathering dusk of his cramped Parisian room, perched on the edge of his chair in nothing but glacier-white briefs. What unfolds, over just three days is a story that begs big questions of queer life. How do we live a life without acceptance? Are there people beyond grace? What do actions we make under great pressure say about us? We sit down with author Jeremy Bradley Silveri...

Lou Sullivan is known to many as a first. One of the first openly gay trans men in public life, widely considered the first known case of a trans man developing AIDS, and later the first trans man known to die of an AIDS-related illness. His story, his legacy, is a complex one, though. A pioneer of history and archiving, as well as on the front lines of HIV advocacy, we look back at his life at a time when we should be only years a...

In their first appearance together, 2004 Big Brother UK winner Nadia Almada (she/her) and 2025 Big Brother UK housemate Zelah Glasson (he/him) revealed new details about their experiences, how they were treated by production teams – and how little has changed behind the camera in 20 years.

As a rare interview with Nadia Almada, she shared iconic stories behind the scenes of her time in the house, alongside Zelah Glasson wh...

We need to shut down the lies the anti-trans movement tell.

The best way to do that? With queer journalism, and our history.

This season on the QueerAF podcast, as we mark ten years of bringing you award-winning documentaries and live podcast events, we’re back with our trademark approach.

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Investing in LGBTQIA+ talent to build their media careers, buying them equipment to kee...

In a hostile enviroment for Trans+ rights and a year of rollbacks of rights since the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act will be a sharp focus, for 12,500 Trans+ people, allies, and some of the UK’s most loved household names as they gather in Wembley Arena on March 11th 2026, for Transmission Live - a significant intervention from the music industry, and changemakers to bring allies together, in step, to advocate for t...

Roberta Cowell, or Betty might have been born into a strict, religious family - but her history, is one with many lessons.

She shows us that Trans+ people are more than just their identity. That Trans+ people deserve to tell their own stories. That, as Sabah Choudrey wrote in this year’s Trans+ History Week workbook lesson about her - “while positive trans representation matters, you don’t need to see yourself ...

Reed Erickson was an eccentric trans multimillionaire who transitioned in the US in the 1950s. Erickson’s access to wealth and relationship to trans healthcare went on to greatly shape how Western gender clinics developed from the 1960s onwards. In this episode, Vic Parsons explores that link, and unpacks what we can learn from the story of a vastly influencial figure in gender affirming care models.

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This year, for the first time since tracking of it began - Trans+ rights in Europe retracted, instead of grew. In the UK, hate crimes towards trans people are up nearly 1400% in the last decade. Meanwhile, as hate plays out on the streets - the addiction in some parts of the media to hateful, clickbait headlines that drive attention to news providers, but division in communities all over the world has continued.

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After Sean Allsop produced this episode, one of his first paid documentary audio commissions, he’s gone on to have an illustrious career making documentaries for the BBC, The World Service, Virgin Radio, Absolute Radio: And a vast number of them about the LGBTQIA+ community. 

Sean’s brought t...

Back on our feeds, the collaboration you've missed since 2020. We've loved collaborating with Historical Homos again, who have launched a podcast since we last worked with them to mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.

In this episode, we bring you an introductory package, before handing the reigns over to Sebastian Hendra, for the usual Historical Homos format in this collab episode of the QueerAF podcast!

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This week we’re sharing the conversation we recorded at the Trans+ History Week community event 2025, with the theme: How do we tell our history,

so we can all learn from it?

It might have taken place back in May but, well lets face it even before this year’s Trans+ History Week, which is held in the first full week in May each year - the UK’s Supreme Court decision on the definition of a woman in the Equality A...

 “Ballroom is liberation, it's queer history, it's trans history, it's power, it's fashion, it's sex, it's dance, it's music, it's love, it's hate, it's everything that you need in order to survive as a queer person in this world, especially as a queer person of colour.”

You may know ballroom from the legendary show “Pose” or “Paris is Burning” but this beautiful home curated for and by q...

CW: This episode contains themes of a sexual nature, including references to kink

Who do you think you are? A universal tension exists in an acute way for trans people, our dependency on other people for recognition, part of how identity works is laid bare in the struggle for trans liberation.

Perhaps not better explained by examinig not just any simple piece of cloth, but the very queer and Trans+ history of the handkerchief...

How can we use stories as part of the fight back against anti-LGBTQIA+ narratives?

At an acute time for our community, stories are a powerful tool to unpack prejudice and set a better narrative for queer communities.

But what can the media industry do differently, and how can we do this in the audio and podcast space? Join us for an insider goss look at what it's like to tackle this question as a media professional. By sharin...

There perhaps isn’t a more British way, to say - gender is a construct - than with Shakespeare is there?

So put aside your stack of sonnets, go stick on the kettle, brew a cuppa, and let Shevek Imogen Fodor tell you about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England and ignited and already ember burning flame of gender diversity on stage in the UK's most hallowed theatre institutions.

If we acknowledge th...

Lynn Conway pioneered the technology that makes it possible to use the device you're about to listen to this podcast on now.

She even coined a term for why her story has been forgotten, ignored and erased.

With a contribution to computer science in almost parallel importance to Alan Turing, producer Chuck Copenspire explains the Connway Effect of why her story is only just beginning to be celebrated as well as the legacy tha...

Abigail Thorn is currently filming a new role as a trans femme action star, she revealed at the Trans+ History Week community event on a live recording of the QueerAF podcast. The actor, who is known for her roles in the Game Of Thrones (House Of The Dragon, Sharako Lohar) and Star Wars (The Acolyte, Ensign Eurus) universes, said: 

“I can't say what it is, but I am about to start filming a big action thing this s...