The Out Crowd

The Out Crowd

“The LGBTQ community is not just for Pride – it’s for life.” From protests to parades, parties to politics, Pride is all about visibility. The LGBTQ community is loud and proud, here and queer, after many years forced inside the closet. The Out Crowd is the LGBTQ podcast from Reach, speaking to members of the queer community about their experiences in the past and present, and their hopes for the future. The battle for equality still remains, and our podcast will look at the history of the struggle from those who continue to fight for it. You will hear from activists, artists, drag queens, writers, educators, journalists, family, friends, and colleagues about what it means to be LGBTQ today.. This is a celebration of queer voices who fight to be heard against the insidious waves of homophobia and transphobia still experienced today. This is an education about the history and culture of the LGBTQ community. And this is a podcast that is loud and proud, here and queer, and most definitely out of the closet. The Out Crowd is a Laudable production for Reach, in partnership with ReachOut. It is presented and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin. The title music is Sunny Travel by Nico Staf.

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September 13, 2023 21 mins
Proud Rovers, as it says in the name, are proud to represent LGBTQ fans of Blackburn Rovers Football Club. Formed in 2019, the supporters group is both an advocacy and social group for the community and its allies. Their chair, Chris Lofthouse, joins fellow Rovers fan Daniel J. McLaughlin to chat about the experience of queer fans on match days, what needs to improve in football, and whether campaigns like Rainbow Laces are effecti...
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Max Macmillan is a man of many talents. On screen, he has played Timothy Turner on Call the Midwife for the past decade; and off the screen, you can see Max play brilliant, epic songs in music venues. He’s an actor, musician, photographer, and filmmaker. Whether he’s in front or behind the camera, on or off stage, Max is insightful, fascinating, and an amazing storyteller. In recent months, he came out publicly as gay - and this is...
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Five years ago, the government, under the premiership of Theresa May, pledged to ban conversion therapy - the insidious and psychologically damaging practice of trying to suppress a person’s sexuality or gender identity. Half a decade later, the LGBTQ community is still waiting. Back in 2021, the then-minister for women and equalities Liz Truss reiterated that the government would ban conversion therapy in England and Wales. She wr...
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'Coming out of the closet' - or telling someone about your sexuality and gender identity for the first time - can be a scary experience for those in the LGBTQ community. Opening up about your identity to family and friends is a massive step in your journey as a queer person, and sometimes you can feel very alone. But this is a path well trodden by many before you, and some of those stories have been shared on the Coming Out Stories...
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Hello there. You’re looking very well - I love what you’ve done with your hair. Oh yes, thanks for noticing - yes, indeed, we have had a makeover too. Welcome back to The Out Crowd - the podcast from Reach that speaks to members from the queer community about their experiences in the past and the present, and their hopes for the future. We are FINALLY back for a second series - just in time for Pride Month in June. But as we always...
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Alexander Pemberton, aka Elta Avelon, is a 24-year-old drag artist and resident queen at the Creative Arts Gallery in Burnley, Lancashire.Since playing the part of young drag queen Angel Dumott Schunard in Rent the Musical as a teenager, and discovering RuPaul's Drag Race, Alex developed the character of Eltariel Avelorn, part-elf, part-kink, part-femme fatale.Now in the third generation of the character, Elta Avelon joins The Out ...
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Daniel J. McLaughlin is an award-winning podcast producer for Laudable, working behind the scenes on The Out Crowd, Alone Together, The Menopod, and many more. He also performs about his bisexuality as a stand-up poet on the music scene in Manchester and Salford.In the latest episode of our LGBTQ+ podcast, Dan describes his experiences as an out bisexual man, discussing the biphobia and bi-erasure he has faced in both the hetero-no...
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Andrew Moffat is a teacher and author of the No Outsiders curriculum, a teaching resource that educates students about the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. It teaches children about all types of equality covered by the Act - such as protecting people from discrimination about age, race, disability, gender, sexuality. It includes inclusive education about LGBT+ families through the use of picture books.No Outsider...
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Baroness Debbie Wilcox of Newport was a teacher throughout Section 28, and continuously challenged the anti-LGBT+ legislation during her time in the classroom.From hiding her girlfriend upstairs from colleagues when they came to visit to being openly lesbian in her school, Debbie discusses her experiences of being an LGBT+ person during her 30 years in education. In a two-parter dedicated to LGBT+ education, Debbie speaks candidly ...
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In the first episode of The Out Crowd, Joe Ali looks back at LGBTQ history with activist and campaigner Lisa Power. Lisa, who co-founded LGBTQ charity Stonewall, discusses her activism over the years, the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, and how she consulted on Channel 4's hit drama 'It's A Sin'. She also tells Joe that the fight for equality is far from over for the LGBTQ community.The Out Crowd - An LGBTQ podcast is a Laudable producti...
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“The LGBTQ community is not just for Pride – it’s for life.”The Out Crowd is the new LGBTQ podcast from Reach. Launched during Pride Month in June, our podcast will hear from activists, artists, drag queens, writers, educators, journalists, family, friends, and colleagues about what it means to be LGBTQ in 2021. The Out Crowd speaks to members of the LGBTQ community about their experiences in the past and present, and their hopes f...
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