Episodes
Diversity and DEI in most organisations is seen as a nice to have, but more and more research shows that it creates more successful and profitable organisations. Steven John continues to talk about DEI and it's practical applications.
Also how is the Conservative party one of the most diverse parties in UK politics, whilst not appearing to actively support progressive policies around the rights of women and monitories?
featuring Graeme Smith and Steven John.
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME PEOPLE WILL FIND DISTURBING.
After the last episode of OUTCAST UK we had to turn off comments on our George Floyd chat after the video got the attention of people on Tik Tok denying that it was a murder and making baseless claims to discredit the victim and the family. We made this bonus episode to comment on this initially.
Then it became important to also bare witness to the latest act of police violence against people of colour. In the United States, LA Police repeatedly tasered Keenan Anderson, an unarmed black man who later died in hospital,...
In 2020, during peak COVID lockdown, 18 months after Steven had moved from London to Liverpool to live with fiancé Graeme, an event happened thousands of miles away that shook the world and their relationship. It didn't just shake the social foundations of our society, it called on couples in mixed ethnicity relationships to confront the elephant in the room head on - STRUCTURAL RACISM.
Within a week of the brutal public murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in the United States. Rates of depression and anxiety among African- Americans shot to higher rates than any other ethnic gro...
A late night random podcast chat on The Loud Brown Gays podcast between Graeme Smith and Nick Charles brought to light a little known corner of the culinary world... Cum Cuisine. After listener Aaron said he was pretty into it. Nick was grossed out, Graeme was intrigued.
Off the back of this, Graeme got in touch with the author of the book "Human harvest"... the book of semen based recipes. The book 15 years ago was followed with a bartender edition of drinks to be made with semen as the ingredient and now Paul Photenhauer has brought out a book of recipes for beauty products with Semen as ...
Nobody knows more about being on the receiving end of people's fears and assumptions than LGBTQ+ people. But we are all pre programmed with these from the environment we grew up in. The less aware you are of your internal (mental) state, the more you become a prisoner of it,
Why are some Queer people still internally homophobic and how does this impact their later lives? How does all this trauma impact us and prevent us from being our authentic selves free from anxiety ?
LGBTQ+ mental health is the focus in this episode as Graeme Smith talks to the US based psychotherapist and author Chris ...
This World AIDS Day we're getting together with people from leading UK regional HIV organisations looking at charity and community and the role they have played in the response to the HIV pandemic.
With the absence of support from society generally, a hostile media and the initial medical outlook so bleak, it became the job of the community to provide hope and emotional support at first. But some of the initial groups are still with us and going strong pushing back on stigma and providing upto date education to a world that seems to have its view of HIV firmly set in a different age.
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Graeme chats to Carl Loughlin who plays the character Gareth from new movie "In from the side"... the story based on an illicit love affair in a gay rugby team. The film stars Alexander Lincoln (formerly Jamie Tate in Emmerdale) and Alexander King.
Wirral born Carl plays the team bully Gareth but draws on some of his own earlier life experience to bring to the role. He gets together one early October morning in Liverpool with Graeme to talk gay trauma, bullying and how the LGBTQ+ community needs a positive feel good love story like this on the big screen.
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Paris Munro is one part of the breakfast show on the worlds biggest LGBTQ+ station - Gaydio. The UK national LGBTQ radio network. On the Paris and Dave breakfast show he came out as TRANSMASCULINE NON BINARY in early 2022 and since then listeners have shared in the experience with Paris.
Graeme Smith headed into the studios of Gaydio in Manchester in mid June 2022 to see how it had all gone so far and hear Paris' story.
QUEER HISTORY IS ALL OF OUR HISTORY
DR JUSTIN BENGRY, DIRECTOR OF QUEER HISTORY AT GOLDSMITH'S, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Just as the news landed that the worlds first and only Masters course in Queer History was being axed, alongside the UK's only Black History Masters in a round of cuts. Graeme catches up with The Director of Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr Justin Bengry. We learn about ‘The Unexpected History of the Pink Pound’. and his work with Historic England on the history of Queer spaces outside of London.
In the 1970s and 1980s an increasing variety of openly ga...
Nick Charles is back in the studio chatting to Graeme Smith over ONE can of Elvis Juice IPA (6%)
It's a whole, six months after they first caught up to chat in episode 1.
Lots has changed and Nick's last episode with Graeme got hundreds of thousands of views on Tik Tok when Nick opened up about claiming asylum in the UK and his experience of extreme homophobic attacks in Trinidad and Tobago before he left in 2010.
Graeme confesses to doing bits of escorting work to survive when he was out of work... but it turns out this was in Nick's current bedroom of his flat share in Manchester. You co...
Graeme catches up with the chair of SWITCHBOARD and host of The Log Books podcast, Natasha Walker for the start of LGBT history month.
The Log Books are an award-winning history of LGBTQ+ life in Britain as noted by volunteers at Switchboard.
As a helpline for anyone who wants to talk about gender identity and sexuality, Switchboard has been hearing about, and helping, queer life since 1974.
Now held in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute, the volunteers’ log books offer a unique insight into the range of issues facing LGBTQ+ people in Britain in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Stories range fro...
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Stephanie Hirst is an LGBT+ icon and also a broadcasting legend. She has spent her entire adult life hosting radio shows, winning awards for her breakfast shows, hosting segments with Lorraine Kelly on Good Morning Britain and she was the host of the UK national commercial chart show for many years.
In 2014 she dramatically quit her breakfast show, Hirsty's Daily Dose and later appeared on the Steven Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 Live to go public on her gender transition. Since then she has appeared in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow list of the 101 most influential LGBT...
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Stephanie Hirst is an LGBTQ+ icon and also a broadcasting legend. She has spent her entire adult life hosting radio shows, winning awards for her breakfast shows, hosting segments with Lorraine Kelly on Good Morning Britain and she was the host of the UK national commercial chart show for many years.
In 2014 she dramatically quit her breakfast show, Hirsty's Daily Dose and later appeared on the Steven Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 Live to go public on her gender transition. Since then she has appeared in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow list of the 101 most influential LGB...
Chris Warren-Dickins LLB MA LPC is a New York based author, psychotherapist and LGBTQ+ mental health expert.
His new book Beyond the Blue aims to help people develop mental health survival tools so we caught up with him the week before Christmas.
LGBTQ+ people are 1.5 times more likely to develop depression. Gay men are 4 times as likely to commit suicide than the rest of the population and 46 percent of trans people have thought about ending their life.
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS HEAVY DRUGS AND SEXUAL REFERENCES, ALONGSIDE OPINIONS SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND UPSETTING.
Liam Stonier McDonald is the bad boy of the LGBTQ art world, he is an internationally famous artist who's work sells for tens of thousands of dollars. His niche is his parents addictions and his own experiences in the underground chemsex scene in London and Chicago.
He talks about his work and his thoughts on the chemsex problem facing the gay community and also about his own controversial thoughts on PREP which he himself is on.
Liam is holding up a mirror to the underbelly of o...
JAY HAWKRIDGE opened a Tik Tok account in November 2020, aimed at reducing HIV stigma following his own positive HIV diagnosis months earlier.
Since then he's gone out of his way to educate and inform on what it means to HIV positive in the 2020's. Often this means facing down extreme prejudice in the comments to his social media videos.
Now a year on from beginning his campaign he is a Tik Tok UK LGBTQ+ ambassador, he's featured in a new major TV documentary for Sky and is ready to tell his story at length for the first time in a catchup with Graeme Smith in Liverpool ahead of World Ai...
NICK CHARLES is a podcaster, panellist and presenter born in Trinidad and Tobago. A decade ago he was forcibly outed by his then boyfriend and made to undergo a form of conversion therapy forcing to flee to the UK to claim asylum
Here he talks in depth about how his experience of extreme homophobia at home has meant he is determined to be his authentic self. There is also a very unfiltered chat about male sexual behaviour in immigration detention centres.
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