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This week's episode is with the co-founder of Queer Britain, the UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum, Joseph Galliano.Joseph and I spoke over the phone in the first half of 2020. It's the first time I've spoken to him but I've been to a couple
Lisa Power's achieved so much during her life: she helped set up Stonewall, worked at Switchboard, was the policy director at the Terrence Higgins Trust and is now on the board at Queer Britain and was a consultant on Russell T Davies' new seri
HAPPY LGBT HISTORY MONTHMaking Gay History has been a top listen of mine for years, so when I started doing this series I knew that I wanted to ask Eric Marcus to join me for an episode.I've listened to the Making Gay History podcast and Er
This episode I talk with the owner of Attitude Magazine Darren Styles.Attitude is the biggest gay magazine in the UK and has been around for 26 years. Darren bought Attitude back in 2016 when it was failing. Since then it's gone from strength
Welcome back to a brand new series: Queer Margins in Quarantine.This series I'm focusing on talking to some of the most interesting people working within the LGBTQ+ community. I wanted to talk to these people during lockdown to find out how t
This is the last episode of the series Old Queens. And in this episode I'm talking to Dr Rupert Whitaker.Colin from episode one introduced me to Rupert when we were at an event for the National HIV story trust. And a week or so later I went r
This episode is the penultimate one of the first series and I wanted to post it as part of Lesbian Visibility Day.Diana messaged me on Twitter to tell me that I didn’t have enough trans people on the podcast, so I asked if I could talk to her
I met Chris last year at an event at the City of London Guildhall linked with the project AIDS Since the 80s. We started talking at the cloakroom and it transpired that he had a lot of stories so I met up with him a few weeks later in his ho
Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner whose work has meant the LGBTQ+ community have taken HUGE steps forwards over the decades.You probably know he’s been massively influential in the queer movement and has been involved in so many gro
I met Marc at an event at the Guildhall thrown by the organisation Aids Since the 80s. Jonathan Blake introduced us both and suggested I talk to Marc for this series. A few weeks later I went to Marc’s house in Brixton to chat to him. He live
Ruth was suggested to me by Gaby and Liz from episode 9. Liz put me in touch with Ruth and I’m really glad she did. At 81 Ruth was the oldest person to go through gender reassignment surgery in Britain and possibly the world. She’s 85 now a
This year marks the 45th birthday of Switchboard- the LGBT+ helpline. To mark the anniversary their Co-Chair Natasha Walker spoke to me about the kind of things Switchboard are faced with today. I also spoke to some people from previous and
George has been been living with HIV and Aids for 40 years, he’s had three different types of cancer and he hasn’t been able to work for decades.We spoke about his diagnosis, his love life and his time as a sex worker while he was a teenager,
Singer of 'Crying These Cock Sucking Tears' the album 'Lavender Country'.Patrick was suggested to me by the podcast producer Dan Taberski, who made the shows 'Missing Richard Simmons' and Surviving Y2K' (www.headlongpodcast.com). Dan made
Gaby and Liz have been in a relationship since the 80s but the last few years have been difficult for them both. Gaby told me her cancer is incurable and will kill her eventually, although no one knows when and shortly after her cancer diagnosi
This is the second part of the conversation from episode three with Jonathan Blake. Jonathan's partner Nigel spent more time with us during this part of the interview and contributed when he could. He suffered a stroke a couple of years ago s
Janet suggested I speak to Tony. He's been busy all his life, whether that was with traveling around the world or working on important queer issues.He worked on Switchboard, he was the first chairperson on the Terrence Higgins Trust and he wa
George Montague is 95-years-old, he’s the self proclaimed ‘Oldest Gay in the Village’ and he has a book by the same name. If you've been to Brighton Pride you might have seen him because every year he leads the parade in his mobility scooter.
Andy Piccos from episode 4 recommending I meet up with Femi to hear her stories and it was really good advice. I headed over to Femi's offices for our chat. Unfortunately she's a very busy woman... like really busy, so we didn't have a lot of
Maggie has lived in the closet for the majority of her life. When she was in her early 20s she married a man and lived in Swansea in South Wales. She says that everyday was torture for her. She knew she was with the wrong person and living i
Andy was outed when his mother found his diary. After that there was no going back in the closet as his daily entries told the story of a young gay man visiting London regularly to meet up with other queer people, his relationship with his lo
You might know Jonathan Blake from the film Pride and the famous scene where his character (played by Dominic West) dances with most of the women in the little mining village in Wales to Shirley & Co's 'Shame Shame Shame'.Jonathan was one of
Janet’s mother always told her to find a ‘good jewish man’ to pull herself out of (what her mother called) her ‘Elizabethan’ phase.She started her ‘lesbian career’ by exploring her sexuality at swinging parties. Janet’s full of great stories
Colin has given so much of his time away. During his life he’s committed himself to helping people dying of AIDs in Australia, supporting a Welsh mining community and now publishing his blog Gay in the 80s and his book by the same name. His s
Queer Margins is a series of conversations with members of the LGBTQ+ community who are rarely heard from. This season we'll be sitting down with older queer people to talk about their life experiences.
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