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Graeme Smith is in Manchester this week talking to transmasculine-non binary legend Paris Munro from the Gaydio breakfast show about if things are OK with former cock destroyers star and OUTCAST UK guest Sophie Anderson. The LGBTQ meme star's partner (who appeared on this show with her just a few months ago) announced she was dead on social media and then backtracked days later causing deep concern amongst queer fans.
This episode begins with a roundup of the world's queer news this week.. including:
The UK home secretary Suella Braverman has doubled down on her anti LGBTQ+ asylum comments ...
Graeme is joined by transmasculine non binary icon, Paris Munro from Gaydio breakfast to discuss the weeks queer news happenings and a lot more.
Includes a round up of the latest LGBTQ+ stories.
Live from London Podcast Festival 2023 at Kings Place. Graeme Smith is joined by show regulars including the Loud Brown Gay’s podcast host, Gaydio and Fire London DJ Nick Charles. Alongside Topher Taylor – the sex educator, Only Fans model and columnist for Gay London Life magazine.
Joining the team for the evening is the controversial queer artist Liam Stonier McDonald, famous for his art on chemsex, addictions, his mothers alcoholism and his outspoken views.
This Friday we are doing our first ever live episode recording of OUTCAST UK at The London Podcast Festival in front of a small ticketed studio audience.
On stage will be Graeme Smith hosting as usual, joined by his mate and OG OUTCAST regular NICK CHARLES, The Gaydio host and Loud Brown Gays podcaster. Also joining are sex educator and London Gay Life columnist Topher Taylor and Liam Stonier McDonald the controversial LGBTQ+ artist.
Here we get a taster of what is to come on Friday and talk about the fetish model from the UK who posted nazi themed content and what the fallout has been from...
Ahead of appearing at our live episode recording at The London podcast festival at Kings Place, Kings Cross, this Friday the 8th September. Show regular Topher Taylor dragged his ass north of the river and dropped into our sketchy London studio in Tottenham.
Normally Graeme and Topher catchup remotely but today they've blocked out some time to get in depth ahead of Topher joining G in front of a live studio audience on Friday.
Toper is talking about being beaten up growing up in queer in Eltham, how the "groomers" smear being used against LGBTQ+people online makes us feel. Also what does ...
2 years after their first episode went viral . Graeme Smith is catching up with Liam Stonier McDonald in London a week out from a live show at the London Podcast Festival in Kings Cross.
Liam will join Graeme, Nick Charles and Topher Taylor for a live recording of an episode of OUTCAST UK in front of a studio audience at the event. This week we're catching up with everyone pre show and on this episode its the return of the most cancelled Queer artist in the UK - Liam Stonier McDonald, who is as usual annoyingly likeable despite his sometimes unpopular thoughts on issues.
We hear about his...
On our last edition of this Summer's Queer news updates on OUTCAST UK, we turn to Manchester Pride.
Manchester Pride this year was without a doubt one of the most inclusive yet and saw entry prices seem to come down in price and some special access for lower income groups. This alongside a proudly diverse lineup headed by Danny Beard and Jodie Harsh. But it seems the scars of the bad PR of the last few years has left the organisation a little unsure of engaging with the media. Interview opportunities were notable scaled back for LGBTQ+ media. With the only notable broadcast interview of th...
NATHANIEL HALL is a queer icon. He's an actor, theatre-maker, writer, performer, director, producer and HIV activist from Manchester. He is artistic director of DIBBY THEATRE in Manchester - an LGBTQ+ working class theatre company.
Recent credits include once in a generation TV drama It's A Sin in which he played love interest of Richie Tozer (played by Olly Alexander), the 20 something actor Donald Bassett. He had a hit Edinburgh festival solo show called First Time that received critical acclaim and he is Co-Creative Director of the Manchester Pride Candlelit Vigil.
He talks to Graeme Smi...
One of the two men, stabbed outside a club in London, in a homophobic attack - says he couldn’t be prouder, to be gay.
This comes as LGBTQ+ hate crimes are up massively in the UK in recent years.
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Graeme Smith caught up with LA based queer rapper Bobo Sango ahead of leaving for UK Black Pride this weekend. The "Thirst Trap" and "Stinky face" rapper talks about his majorly homoerotic videos for his music.
This weekend is UK Black Pride and this episode is celebrating the voices and perspectives of Queer people of colour from the OUTCAST UK archives.
Graeme chats to DJ, music producer and radio presenter NICK CHARLES, LA based Queer rapper BOBO SANGO and DEI speaker in the tech startup world, STEVEN JOHN (who also happens to be Graeme's long term partner).
There is no singular voice to represent queer people of colour, its obviously an incredible broad community of people. But we wanted to bring some of the voices of some of queer black friends and family to takeover OUTCAST UK for this spe...
Bobo Sango is a queer rapper from Los Angeles and has been nicknamed the first male Niki Minaj. Bobo is an openly gay rapper with a genuine love for Hip-Hop. Capable of crossing into pop, Afro-beats and techno. He is a breath of fresh air to the genre.
His first big performance was at LA Black Gay Pride in 2019 following the success of his first mixtape Assimilation Vol 1. With some highly sexual and homoerotic themes in his music videos they have reached hundreds of thousands of streams.
Graeme Smith speaks to him about his music, being a queer rapper and the difference between US and US r...
THIS SUMMER'S MORE UPBEAT LGBTQ+ STORIES AND A LOOK AT THE GARETH THOMAS CASE FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR
All this summer we have been bringing you the latest queer news and on this episode we're rounding up the positive LGBTQ+ stories of the summer so far.
Also this week a look at the Gareth Thomas case as Graeme speaks to Jess and Sarah from The HIV podcast and the bosses of Thames Valley Positive support about the effect coverage has had on people who are HIV Positive.
In the Queer news...
Alex Scott says, she’s still feeling the IMPACT - of her queer solidarity at the Qatar World Cup. (And not in a GOOD way.)
Nearly half of young people in America reckon, misgendering someone on purpose - should be a criminal offence.
Topher is manning the DM’s and is onhand with advice to all your queer sex and relationships quandries.. its a question about a three way relationship.
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio...
Graeme speak to Ghislain Pascal the publisher of the international queer fine art photography series BOYS BOYS BOYS about censorship by tech platforms and the difference between porn and art.
In the queer news update this week:
Graeme chats to Ghislain Pascal about his Boys Boys Boys queer photography series featuring all the nudes about the difference between porn and art.
In the queer news this week:
A sixth person may have been Cured of HIV.
The Swiss man in his 50s is known as 'The Geneva Patient'.
There’s a split between Labour and Scottish Labour - over letting trans people self-ID.
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio jou...
Newsman Kev is back with the update this week...
- Russiw continues to be an absolute bin fire - when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights…
The country’s lower house of parliament’s, passed a new law - BANNING gender reassignment surgery. It’s to “protect… citizens and… children…” And people who have transitioned, won’t be allowed to adopt.
- Thousands of people have turned out for Pride in Budapest - with Protests against, Hungary’s anti-queer right wing government.
A law there, supposedly protecting kids - from content portraying homosexuality or gender reassignment - is now being applied, more an...
We're talking London Fetish Week with Topher and he's helping out answer a DM from someone who's just moved to the capital.
Newsman Kev is away so Graeme does what can only be described as news cosplay and jumps in for the queen of the queer news update.
Also In this weeks update:
- More on the fallout from the ruling by America’s Supreme Court meaning businesses can now legally deny their services to LGBTQ+ people. We find some surveys that show a glimmer of hope.
- UK Black Pride announces its theme for 2023.
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ new...
Greg Owen has been called "one of the U.K.’s most vocal proponents of PrEP", describing himself as the "poster boy for PrEP in the UK". He is the PREP lead for Terrence Higgins Trust and talks frankly about the issues surrounding PREP, being HIV positive and issues surrounding chemsex.
He now leads the response at THT into the Mpox outbreak and is able to lean into his learnings from getting the NHS to prescribe PREP making huge reductions in HIV transmission in the UK.
Mpox is back this summer so what can you do to get protected? Greg has advice.
You can check for Mpox vaccination near you...
ITS YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF QUEER NEWS FROM OUTCAST UK - KEEPING A KEEN EYE ON THE LATEST LGBTQ+ NEWS STORIES AND REPORTING ON RIGHT WING BATSH*TTERY FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
In this weeks update:
- Fears, a ruling by America’s Supreme Court means businesses can now legally deny their services to LGBTQ+ people.
- The House of Lords has voted to ban the deportation of LGBTQ+ MIGRANTS to 10 mainly African countries.
- The new BARBIE film’s had a curse put on it - by an anti-queer, right wing Christian preacher, in America. Kent Christmas (his actual real name) is most displeased with the films p...
Sophie Anderson was one part of the legendary LGBTQ+ extreme porn meme duo the cockdestroyers.
Life after the destroyers split has been difficult for Sophie who continues to make extreme porn but has lost a boob twice after cosmetic surgery and her and partner, the porn actor and former Crystal Palace footballer Damien Oliver, have also begun recovering from a drugs and chemsex problem that nearly killed Sophie and saw the pair arrested.
They have decided to sell video content on a platform called "Sc*t book" and actually show host Graeme a clip of their latest work in a moment the likes o...
- This week - we hear about attempts to bring about a law forcing out trans pupils at school from a UK far right party, how Kenya looks set to follow Uganda with extreme anti LGBTQ+ laws.
- The actor Jack Holden chats to us exclusively about his Olivier nominated show set in the depths of the HIV/AIDS crisis in late 1980's Soho, London. Cruise that was a hit on the West End after lock down and after a critically acclaimed run, the show is heading to Manchester and a feature film of CRUISE is also currently in development. Jack tells us the story of the phone call he took as a volunteer at ...
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS VERY ADULT THEMES AND LOTS OF SWEARING.
Sophie Anderson is one half of the legendary C*ck Destroyers. She's still not in touch with Rebecca More the other half of the porn duo that went on to host Slag Wars and had legions of LGBTQ+ fans. But in this exclusive chat she makes clear that she would be open to a reconciliation and reforming at some point. Which begs the question, is a return on the cards?
The two years since the peak of the adult meme duo's fame have not been easy for Sophie, now with fellow porn actor Damian Oliver. She lost a breast implant to infectio...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.
Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.
This week - Laurence Fox seems to struggle to set fire to pride flags in his own sordid Pride protest/meltdown in his back garden and we discuss how American conversation anti trans and anti drag ideas are making their way into British Conservative political dialogue.
Listen to OUTCAST UK on Virgin Radio Pride UK ...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.
Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.
Sesame St is the latest US institution to be targeted by trolls for supporting pride month and after seeing Miriam Margolyes nude magazine front cover, we get to see what's in her handbag (spoiler alert... its a bit mad).
Listen to OUTCAST UK on Virgin Radio Pride UK - Ask your smart speaker to play Virgin Radio Pr...
Dan Tiernan is a 26-year-old, gay, Mancunian with dyspraxia. He’s a high energy act with a gag heavy set all about his weird and chaotic life. He is the comedian of the year and also BBC new comedian of the year.
Here he speaks to Graeme about being a standup comic, a dinner lady for a while, his new Edinburgh festival show this summer and ... being gay and dyspraxic.
By Dan's admission he is gay but doesn't feel like he totally belongs in the gay community in the traditional sense and most of his mates are his life long friends who are all straight.
Just before he set off to Edinburgh f...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.
Former BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.
The Metropolitan police is a mess, we discuss. Also this week we hear about the bed wetting trolls voting this and other LGBTQ+ podcasts down on podcast platforms - this is where we need your help.
Listen to OUTCAST UK on Virgin Radio Pride UK - Ask your smart speaker to play Virgin Radio Pride.
OUTCAST UK brings ...
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events. Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.
Listen to OUTCAST UK on Virgin Radio Pride UK - Ask your smart speaker to play Virgin Radio Pride.
OUTCAST UK brings you the weekly Queer news dissected in podcast form and now on the radio - Sundays from 9pm.
Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.
Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.
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Across this summer's Pride season OUTCAST UK is dropping a weekly LGBTQIA+ news update followed by our hot take and analysis of the week's events.
Ex BBC 5 Live / LBC and Times Radio journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.
This week we hear some of the worst bits of the National Conservative Conference ( the far right of the Tory party and their allies got together to comment on an array of cultural issues... obviously they had some utterly 19th ...
The US based actor Aidan Moreno is in the Netflix series Heartland. After playing the character "Rick" since 2007, they decided to include an LGBTQ+ storyline on the show and was on the receiving end of a massive homophobic backlash from viewers to the show on US and Canadian network TV.
Series 16 of the show dropped on Netflix this week and Aidan has been in the UK talking about the response of north american viewers to the queer storyline.
He also appeared in UK media this week on Good Morning Britain and across the tabloid press after being reported as saying "straight actors should not...