QueerAF | inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives
QueerAF is the award-winning (more than a) podcast with beyond-the-binary stories about queerness, sexuality, gender and identity. All our shows are created by a different budding LGBTQIA+ audio producer who we mentor and support to create an inspiring (QueerAF) story. Our social enterprise podcast, with its roots in collaboration and with funding from National Student Pride, gives young queer creatives a crucial leg up on the career ladder. For many, it is their first paid audio commission. Our alumni have gone on to work at some of the UK's biggest media outlets including the BBC, PinkNews and Gaydio. British Podcast Awards 'Moment Of The Year' winner (Bronze) Four British Podcast Awards nominations ARIAS 2021 'Impact Award' shortlisted Download and take the UK's best LGBTQIA+ inspiring stories podcast with you. Get the show in all the places podcasts exist. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcast/ If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that sums up the LGBTQIA+ world and supports queer creatives to kickstart their career. Sign up now: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ QueerAF helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media. We're an independent, award-winning and non-profit publisher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
This is just episode one, of QueerAF's new podcast about Monkeypox. it has stories and resources without shame or stigma - "It's what I wish I'd had." Listen to the whole series by searching 'What The Pox?'...
Monkeypox. That’s what What The Pox? is all about - a ‘poxcast’ if you will. Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. And it was not fun.
When I was home alone with Monkeypox in all k...
Can we tell you how to change the way the media writes about queer lives? It’s a change we need urgently.
From transphobia led by the press, media getting it wrong and regulator Ofcom and the BBC signalling, queer lives are up for debate. It’s a growing pattern that is spilling out onto the streets in the form of rising hate crimes. It’s time for an organisation to fight back. To advocate for us in the media. To show change...
Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex?
Yes, it’s here. Another fantastic episode ahead by #QueerAF regular producer Jacob Edward. And this week, we’re talking about a spectrum of feelings when it comes to sex, the differences between asexuality and sex shame plus Jacob, who used their portfolio to get a job Radio One’s first non-binary presenter shares boldly and bravely.
Listen to the latest episode and subscribe (rate and review...
How can you be single, queer and happy?
Growing up in the 90’s things seemed pretty simple.
You get to your mid-twenties, find someone you are attracted to who lives in close proximity, get married and live a happy life. But Martin could never relate to any of this because he is gay.
Cut to now, aged 32 and a little jaded by love – he has no desire for marriage or a partner. But can he still be happy?
On tod...
Recorded live as part of National Student Pride, at the University of Westminster in collaboration with the university's Creative Enterprise Centre: We present Access All Rainbows.
Join our conversation about being LGBT+ and disabled, considering; Hidden disabilities, access, perceptions on ability and, support in relationships.
The Speakers:
Jamie Wareham – University of Westminster Alumni Jamie Wareham is the Head o...
A live episode of #QueerAF, guest hosted by Evan Davis with Dustin Lance Black and UK Black Pride's Lady Phyll.
An Oscar-winning screenwriter and the co-founder of UK Black Pride chat to BBC broadcaster Evan Davis to headline our daytime festival (Sat 22 Feb).
Dustin Lance Black first appeared at National Student Pride in 2015 and has gone on to start a family with Olympic diver Tom Daley.
Lady Phyll is a trailblazer withi...
Does Rosa need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community?
That’s what she explores in her university town of Bristol this week on #QueerAF.
Meeting the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world.
And despite Rosa’s love for her femme, long hair. She wonders after seeing so many people g...
Young, vulnerable and new to a big city: I became the target of an online predator
Five years ago, Rory was drugged and sexually assaulted by two men, who I met while using Grindr.
Young, vulnerable and new to a big city – growing up without any LGBTQ inclusive sex education in school – I became the target for an online predator.
It’s been difficult coming to terms with this attack, but five years on l...
Pansexual reporter Kenya Jay Scarlett speaks to queer couples to find out everything you need to know about being in a relationship.
From getting together to breaking up and how her pansexuality has left her feeling some people are way too focused on gender.
This week on #QueerAF whether you've had one or not, we take you on a crash course on being in a queer relationship.
To prepare for my mum's gay wedding, I talked to her about sexuality for the first time
Journalist Eve Hartley sits down with her mum, ahead of her same-sex wedding, to discuss for the first time what her mum went through when she came out while Eve was only a few years old.
Eve reflects on how her journey to understanding sexuality was so different to her mums. And the reason for that is all thanks to her Mum.
Before ce...
#QueerAF is back for season four. With more LGBT+ reporters than ever.
This year our stories come from Bristol, Manchester, Milton Keynes, with reporters from Northern Ireland, Leeds, London and beyond.
When you listen – you support the students, graduates and LGBT+ reporters we mentor to build their audio portfolio. And they tell you beautifully produced queer stories.
They have stories on asexuality, sex shame...
Don't mess with a boy in a dress, he was born to impress.
Lead singer of the feeling and writer of the musical that’s taken the UK’s west end by storm Dan Gillespie Sells, joinst us for our season three finale, to tell the story behind the soundtrack to your #QueerAF life: Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
In an ever changing world, the way we identify is constantly being challenged. Not just by people around us, but by oursel...
A Gay and Non Gay discuss douching (to help LGBT+ rights)
James Barr and Dan Hudson host the hit UK LGBT+ podcast A Gay and a Non Gay, which began out of terrible conversation about pub etiquette.
But their friendship really grew when their worlds collided, as Talia, Dan’s girlfriend and James’s friend, left for the USA; Leaving James and Dan to fend for themselves with just one task, to make a podcast.
But when we say the...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of Russia’s most iconic cultural figures, but the country still denies he was gay. 125 years after his mysterious death, his magnificent symphonies, operas, and ballets – including all-time classics Swan Lake and The Nutcracker – are still performed, streamed and enjoyed by millions of people around the world.
But behind Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous melodies and explosive orchestral climaxes lies the c...
Did you make all your Sims gay too? This week on #QueerAF, reporter Alice Taplin brings us along on a ride down the Rainbow Road, not on Mario Kart, but on a brief history of queer gaming.
Video games were long considered the territory of straight boys and men, with COD, Fifa, and GTA being the first thing that sprung to people’s imaginations. But with representation across the board having made rapid improvements and the crea...
Do you 'act straight' to stay safe on public transport too? This week on #QueerAF we explore just how safe public transport is for LGBT+ people. Reporter Cassie Galpin hears three intersecting stories from Will, Nikki and Martyn, who have faced prejudice while traveling, but turned those hate crimes into three inspiring actions.
Today’s show was produced by @CassieGalpin, executive production on this episode came from @Jam...
National Student Pride's ambassador Evan Davis guest hosts the show and interviews LGBT+ Icon Ian McKellen on the #StudentPride podcast at National Student Pride 2019.
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Evan Davis interviewed Ian McKellen on the #QueerAF podcast at National Student Pride 2019 at the...
June 1969. New York City. It’s illegal to serve gays alcohol. It’s illegal for gays to dance with one another. Bars and clubs are routinely raided. Including the now infamous, Stonewall Inn. The riots that ensued over a week on Christopher Street ignited and catapulted forward the modern LGBT+ rights movement today.
But how much do you know about what happened that night? What does it mean for your queer people and the...
The sex education you not only want – but deserve. With support from Penguin Books, we speak to Author of 'Jack of Hearts and Other Parts' Lev Rosen.
This episode is NSFW, but it shouldn't be. Because the anal sex advice from Jack of Hearts we've got in the show is something all queers deserve. Indeed what anyone who wants to have good anal sex should be taught. This week we talk about how to have a good time, how often you shou...
Nonbinary people continue to face misconceptions from society, including from other LGBT+ people. For Jacob Edwards, after becoming comfortable with their gender identity they started to wonder about their sexuality, were they no longer ‘gay’ – did that make them Straight? Bi? Pan? And what does that mean for dating?
This week Jacob Edward, presenter of Queer Culture on The University of Salford’s student radio station Shock Rad...
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