This time it's news on one of his all time faves, fresh from a decade in prison taking Topher on a cute date in Soho.

And we're talking about The Baftas Incident. Did we need to pitch people with disabilities and people of colour against each other? After a week to digest it we're talking it through.

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Valentines day has been and gone....What did you do?

Topher had a date pop round and he had a very specific request ... (googles F3LCHING....)

It's one of those episodes. Enjoy.

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But what happens when the internet crush turns out to be smart, likeable, politically ambitious — and fully aware that the gays love him?

Recorded live in front of an audience at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery in Fitzrovia, London, Graeme sits down with the 34-year-old leader of Liverpool City Council’s Liberal Democrats to talk trust after the coalition years, immigration rhetoric, trans rights, a possible hung parliament, and what the UK does in a world shaped by Farage, Le Pen and Trump.

In a political era dominated by culture-war strongmen, is a pro-EU, openly progressive politician who actually enjoys queer support… such a bad thing?

This is the political half of a longer live conversation. To hear the full interview, head to the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast.

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In this episode of Outcast World, Graeme Smith speaks to Crystal about what it’s really like to be a drag artist in 2026. They talk about the idea of “quiet quitting drag”, the rising pressure on LGBTQ performers, and why staying visible now comes with real personal and professional risks.

Crystal joins the show while still involved in an ongoing legal dispute with Laurence Fox that is due back in court this summer. She tells us whether or not she would say it all again... after 6 years of legal battles.

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It’s about data. Not as numbers, but as power.

Kevin asks the question most of us never think to ask until it’s too late: what actually happens when queer people are counted? Because being counted doesn’t automatically mean being protected. Sometimes it means being exposed.

We unpack the seductive promise of visibility — the idea that if the state knows we exist, we’ll be safer. Kevin explains why data is never neutral. Every statistic hides decisions about who felt safe enough to answer, who stayed silent, who was answered for, and who disappeared entirely. Once those numbers exist, they travel — into headlines, policy, algorithms and systems far beyond our control.

Using the UK census as a starting point, Kevin shows how queer communities globally are trapped in a brutal bind: counted badly, our numbers are weaponised; not counted at all, our existence can be denied. Either way, data doesn’t just describe us — it acts on us.

The conversation darkens as we look at history and the future. Data collected in one political moment doesn’t vanish when politics change. It waits.

We also explore the algorithmic systems already deciding who you are without asking — sexuality inferred from clicks, gender guessed from behaviour, profiles built silently while you scroll.

What happens when the system knows who you are — and you can’t take it back?

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Into institutions that had ignored us, sidelined us, or treated us as a liability for decades. Suddenly we were wanted. Asked to advise. Asked to represent. Asked to sit on panels, lead staff networks, front Pride content, help “shape culture”. It felt like progress. It felt overdue.

And then something shifted.

The tone cooled. The questions stopped being curious and started being cautious. Budgets disappeared. Projects were quietly killed. People who had been welcomed for their visibility were suddenly treated as awkward, political, or risky. The same doors that had opened so loudly were slammed shut — and we were left standing on the outside, marked as “other” again.

In Part 1 of a two-part interview, we’re joined by Kevin Guyan — one of the UK’s most respected thinkers on LGBTQ+ inclusion, power and systems. Kevin is the author of Queer Data and The Rainbow Trap, books that don’t flatter institutions or offer easy fixes. They ask harder questions about what inclusion actually costs the people being “included”.

We talk about what it really feels like to work inside organisations that love queer visibility but fear queer demands. The exhaustion of unpaid emotional labour. The pressure to be grateful just for having a seat at the table. The quiet expectation that you’ll soften yourself, simplify yourself, make yourself legible to straight managers who decide — consciously or not — which versions of queerness they’re comfortable digesting.

We ask the questions that don’t usually make it into DEI strategy documents.

Do queer people have to perform a role to survive at work?

What happens if you don’t “read” gay?

If you’re trans but don’t fit the image people expect?

If you’re a lesbian who doesn’t behave the way they think lesbians should?

If your identity is complicated, political, messy — or just inconvenient?

Kevin talks about the trap of being invited in on someone else’s terms. About “gratitude politics” — the idea that we should be thankful just to be tolerated. About how quickly inclusion turns into extraction, and how easily queer people become window dressing for institutions unwilling to change anything structural.

This isn’t a conversation about rejecting opportunity. Most of us can’t afford to. It’s about learning how to move through powerful institutions without losing your spine. How to recognise the red flags early. How to tell the difference between real support and rainbow garnish. And how to protect yourself when the political winds inevitably change.

Part 2 takes this further — into how inclusion becomes classification, and how data and bureaucracy are now being used to formalise who belongs, who’s manageable, and who gets erased.

But this first part is about the emotional reality. The whiplash. The silence. The moment you realise the door that opened so confidently can close just as fast.

And what you do next.

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There is one bright spot: Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski shares the post on TikTok, which helps restore some faith in humanity. But like everyone else, we’re still drawn to the worst comments — so we read them. All of them. Then we start replying.

What follows is a scorched-earth comments policy. Bots get called out. Bad arguments get dismantled. Unhinged profiles get gently (and sometimes not so gently) mocked. We end up trolling the trolls so efficiently it becomes a full-time job — and, weirdly, a great day out.

Along the way we get into why Topher will always hire and promote sex workers, and why on earth a certain Mr Yaxley-Lennon publicly complained about being served gay Grindr ads by the algorithm… then chose to post about it. The highlights are here. The comments are unhinged. And yes — we replied to pretty much all of them.

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The reason is entirely on brand... A last-minute OnlyFans shoot with a man he simply couldn’t turn down took priority. Sometimes work is work. And we respect the Hustle.

Then in today's interview we chat to the gorgeous, charming Kyle Pritchard, who has a soft South Wales accent to die for and after being on reality dating show, The Bi Life back in 2018 has spent the last few years in the gym and studying Psychology in London and Bristol.

Now as part of his masters research he is lifting the lid on sexual assault in LGBTQ+ community and how there is an avalanche of this stuff going unreported with as many as half of queer people impacted in some way. Queer spaces sometimes operate differently and those in charge need to know what sexual assault looks like in a more sexualised environment and how the fear of shame or not being believed puts many off reporting.

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Charles breaks down how Brock holds multiple threads at once, Brock as subject, Brock as filmmaker, the photographer’s role in shaping narrative, and the thin line between lived reality and performance. Since its release, the book has been quickly picked up by queer press in the UK and US.

The conversation then moves into politics, and the tone hardens. Charles is clear about his anger at the current Labour leadership, arguing that its stance on trans rights and immigration has consequences that extend far beyond messaging. He and Graeme talk about how far-right ideas are normalised through misinformation, how fear is monetised online, and why many queer people no longer feel protected by mainstream politics.

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On today’s episode, Graeme and Topher are joined at the start by Nick Charles — Trinidad-born Loud Brown Gays podcaster, music producer, and part of the original Outcast team — for an episode that opens on an awkward realisation: Graeme’s just seen a video on X of someone being bummed, and slowly works out the arse belongs to the man now sitting next to him.

From there, the conversation moves into Heated Rivalry — why it’s landing with gay men right now, and what it gets right about desire, masculinity and intimacy without sanding things down.

Politics follows. Nick talks about growing up in Trinidad, living next door to Venezuela, and having Venezuelan family, and why Trump’s renewed interest in the Caribbean feels unsettling from that position. Watching the scale and cruelty of ICE deportations in the US sharpens the concern.

The episode closes back in the UK, asking whether Reform are serious about their promises — and what a real deportation drive would actually mean.

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The intersection of tinseltown, people seeking fame and the allure of meth and sex has been the ruin of countless promising careers and Graeme tells Topher about how the career highlight of working filming TV shows in LA, led to the discovery of a dark and destructive world just beneath the surface.

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Today Graeme Smth is joined by regular Topher Taylor and fellow queer Irishman in London Charles Moriarty. The theme is our memories of Amy Winehouse, the queer icon and British music icon, taken too young.

Charles was the photographer who took the images of Amy that launched the image we remember today for the album "Frank" with the iconic Bee Hive getting its first outing on a photo shoot in New York with some of the images displayed at The National Portrait Gallery in London.

Topher talks of the time he was saved from homophobic abuse at a bar in Soho back in the late 00's by non other than Amy.

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After almost four years and 130 episodes of Outcast World, the mic finally turns towards its own creator.

This week, the show takes a personal turn as The Divorce Social host Samantha Baines — known from BBC Radio London, The One Show, The Crown and Call The Midwife — interviews Outcast World’s Graeme Smith, an award-winning broadcaster and podcaster, about a story he’s never shared publicly before.

Recorded in late 2023, the conversation explores the loss of his partner after a decade together to a traumatic drugs death, and his own struggle with mental health and addiction. In 2012, Graeme ended up in rehab on a mental health ward after a total breakdown. And not the nice private rehab you see celebrities go to, but the gritty kind that usually cleans up drug users straight from prison. He had lost his job, his mind, his home and all his self worth.

But within the dark time on the rehab wards of a mental health trust specialist detox unit, The Chapman-Baker Unit, in North Manchester he felt like her was remade. His self worth realised again after putting the pieces together, with nothing, not even the laces in his shoes after a suicide attempt earlier in his rehab stay.

Then not long after, came the death of his ex fiancé, Darren Williams, to drugs at just 35 years old on a night out in London in February 2015 under circumstances that will never truly make sense. A healthy 35 year old man just died at a party with friends. Tearing apart the lives of so many people forever.

It’s a raw and honest look at grief, love, and starting over — from someone who’s spent years helping others tell their stories, now sitting on the other side of the mic.

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Jaxon Feeley is a British TV personality, presenter, speaker and advocate known for his work around trans inclusion, authenticity and mental-health awareness.

Originally working as a prison officer, he began his transition in 2021 while still in post and has since leveraged his experience to inspire others to live their truth.

This isn’t another “feel the fear and do it anyway” chat. It’s a raw, smart, and beautifully vulnerable conversation about what it really takes to become Fear Proof — to live a life that’s honest, messy, and fully awake.

Jax opens up about rebuilding from the ground up, grieving past identities, and finding courage in the quiet moments. Together, they unpack how fear can be a compass, not a cage — and why you don’t need to be fearless… you just need to do it scared.

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Adam Williams went on I Kissed a Boy looking for love — and ended up schooling the nation on HIV and therapy.

On Outcast World this week, Graeme Smith gets the goss straight from the masseria:

• Coming out (again) — this time on reality TV and ultimately the entire internet.
• Therapy, trauma, and trying not to cry on national telly.
• The truth about undetectable = untransmittable.
• Dating apps, reality TV edits, and managing a mental health.

Adam’s not here to be your poster boy — but he is here to talk about what happens when you stop hiding and start making noise about who you really are. It's impressive. Listen.

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As The Only Way is Essex returns to ITV2 and ITVX on Sunday nights at 9pm, Junaid sits down with Graeme Smith to talk identity, faith, fame and the reality behind the reality TV.

In this candid conversation, Junaid reflects on:

• Coming out as a British-Pakistani Muslim
• Navigating fame, faith and family
• The pressures of visibility in both the LGBTQ+ and Muslim communities
• Life behind the scenes of TOWIE
• Mental health, resilience, and staying true to yourself
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Junaid speaks with honesty and clarity about what it means to take up space as a queer person of faith — and why authentic representation on mainstream TV still matters.

Watch TOWIE every Sunday at 9pm on ITV2 or stream anytime on ITVX.

🎙️ Outcast World is the award-nominated LGBTQ+ interview podcast hosted by Graeme Smith. New episodes weekly.

Keywords: Junaid Ahmed, TOWIE, Queer Muslim, LGBTQ+ Podcast, British Pakistani, ITV2, ITVX, Reality TV, Representation, Mental Health, Graeme Smith, Outcast World

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Then, it’s music time with UK Eurovision girlband Remember Monday, back with their summer anthem Happier and a Desperate Housewives-inspired music video.

And stick around for a teaser of next week’s exclusive with one of the breakout stars of I Kissed a Boy, opening up about HIV, mental health, and going public on national TV.

NOMINATED BEST INTERVIEW PODCAST AT THE 2025 BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS - THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD

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As well as speaking to some modern Manchester queer icons and old school pop legends, we're essentially hosting the entire podcast outside on the street whilst getting ready to go "out out". For one of the last Big Pride's of the season we're headed back up North.

Singer and Manchester broadcaster Jsky opens up about being refused entry to Village venues as a queer person of colour — for reasons still unknown — and reflects on the power of finally performing on the Pride stage in his home city.

We also sit down with trans masculine legend and Kerrang! Radio host Paris Munro, who calls out companies for paying lip service to trans rights and questions the growing commercialisation of Pride, with festival-goers often forced to pay for multiple tickets.

Graeme and Nick share their own emotional stories of queer awakenings in Manchester before revisiting the 90s classic Queer as Folk, the Russell T Davies series that put Canal Street on the map.

And yes — we catch up with B*Witched on the phone from their dressing room (how 90s) Keavy from the band gets into the essential stuff like whether they ever imagined double denim would be their legacy. She also has an important take on Pride and its impertinence in the current climate

It’s Pride, politics, and pop all wrapped up in one very Manchester episode. 🌈

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This week on Outcast World, Graeme speaks with writer and doctor Majid Parsa, author of The Ayatollah’s Gaze — a compelling story about growing up queer in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We explore forbidden desire, the underground queer scene in Tehran — full of joy, glamour, and danger — and what it means to party knowing your social gathering at home with friends could be raided at any moment.

Majid opens up about gender performance, state surveillance, religious expectation, and the power of queer intimacy in places where even the word “gay” is unspeakable.

A conversation about shame, courage, exile — and the quiet ways queer Iranians keep finding each other.

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First, Harry Eric Derbidge (The Only Way Is Essex, ITV2 & ITVX) spills on the brand-new TOWIE season kicking off this Sunday at 9pm – expect sun, sea, and classic Essex drama.

Then, we swap spray tans for sculptural blooms with Hamish Allan Powell, the Instagram-famous florist making waves in high-end floral design. This conversation comes from The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast – for all things ART, QUEER.CULTURE.

From reality TV to floral fantasy – two very different worlds, one episode.

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In this episode of Outcast World, Graeme Smith sits down with Kuan-wen to talk about heartbreak, hookup disasters, Fringe burnout, and the suspicious pattern that every villain in his life seems to be called Andrew.

They dive into Kuan-wen’s experience growing up gay in Taiwan, how his mum reacted when he came out, his time doing mandatory military service — and his fears for Taiwan’s future in its increasingly tense standoff with China.

He also reflects on why he’s sworn off Grindr during the Fringe!

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This week, Graeme speaks to Phillip Baldwin — a gay man, HIV-positive, and one of the few openly queer members of the Church’s General Synod. From inside the Church’s governing body, Phillip takes us behind the scenes of a system still struggling to recognise LGBTQ+ lives with dignity.

It’s a raw conversation about faith, identity, and what it means to stay in the room when the institution you serve refuses to fully welcome you.

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OUTCAST WORLD takes you inside the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Breakfast Club — with legendary Attitude Editor-in-Chief Cliff Joannou front and centre.

Cliff is a defining voice in queer journalism — shaping the stories, covers and controversies that have marked a generation. In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about:

🌈 The power and pressure of queer media

🗞️ How Attitude stays relevant in a digital world

💬 Coming out journeys, culture wars & cancel culture

✨ And what the next wave of queer storytelling might look like

Originally recorded for The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast — the global queer art and culture show hosted by Graeme Smith — this episode is a delicious crossover of queerness, curiosity and croissants.

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Stu is a film publicist who’s worked on Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Jurassic World. Lotte is a genderqueer journalist, novelist, children’s author, and former ELLE editor. Together, they’re also the co-hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families — the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ parenting show.

In Do Ask, Do Tell, they take on everything from sexuality and gender to body image, mental health, HIV stigma, open relationships, queer parenting and faith. And yes — they explain what a darkroom actually is.

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We’ve scoped 24 hours of GB News to bring you every pearl-clutching reaction from the self-declared defenders of free speech.

But here’s the twist: our guest, sex educator and writer Topher Taylor, actually knows someone from Bob Vylan personally — and brings rare, real-life insight into the kind of person behind the noise.

THIS EPISODE CONTAINS AUDIO OF RECENT NEWS EVENTS THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND UPSETTING.

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Graeme and Nick Charles unpack Kneecap's headline-grabbing set and the pearl-clutching reaction from MPs and a media desperate to censor a culture they don’t understand. 

Did The 1975 let us down with the announcement mid set they didn't want to do politics.. to only then go and sing a load of inherently political songs. There's also Bob Vylan and the stage chants that got police attention. 

Are we all compelled to comment on the issues tearing the world apart, or is it ok to sit things out like The 1975 tried do?

Then it’s onto porn in crisis: with gay adult performer Austin Wolf facing child porn and sex offence charges, we ask why mainstream porn is getting darker, more extreme, and frankly bizarre.

And as if on cue, a Tory peer wants to appoint a Minister for Porn. We’d just call them what they are: the Minister for Wanks

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In this episode, Jordan opens up about using his platform to start real conversations: from coming out in a remote rural village, his love of football and sports, to his bold message on the biggest billboard in Manchester UK, dedicated to his dad during Men’s Mental Health Week. The powerful image, featured in Attitude, made headlines—because saying “I’m doing okay” shouldn’t feel radical, but it often does.

Also how many queer footballers are there in the top leagues? We try the quick maths. But where are they all?

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As a finalist on worldwide TV show - RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars, Kitty is riding high — but the past year has brought huge personal change.

She speaks movingly about her friend and fellow queen The Vivienne, and the impact her tragic passing had on the drag community. Kitty reflects on Viv’s strength, visibility and vulnerability — and how her loss underscores just how much pressure drag performers are under right now, both on and off stage.

We also dive deep into Kitty’s remarkable transformation — losing over eight stone through swimming, running and cutting out booze — just before the world went wild for Ozempic. She’s honest about why she’s glad she did it the “old-school way,” and how she navigates the often shallow world of queer dating and body politics now that she looks, in her words, “more socially acceptable.”

Expect laughter, brutal honesty, and a little bit of glitter!

🎟️ Kitty Scott-Claus is a celebrated Drag Queen, TV personality and is set to star in the world premiere of The Diana Mixtape from 28th July at HERE at Outernet alongside an equally star-studded cast.

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Once again his services have been in demand on various podcasts to talk about him dating downlow guys, it's worth unpacking what the appeal and issues are.

And a chat about coercion and bribery in the chemsex scene, how criminal gangs are getting people into compromising situations in order to exploit them.

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Andrew’s new book, Do You Believe in Life After Loss?, explores the grief queer people carry: the loss of lovers, of friends taken too soon — and the quieter griefs too.

The ones tied to shame, family estrangement, and the delayed onset of emotional adulthood many LGBTQ+ people experience because the world won't let us.

This is a raw, open-hearted episode about making space for grief, telling the truth about loss, and finding meaning on the other side of it.

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Roxy has a new book called "What a girl wants" in which she charts the path of her teenage, sexually unsure self all the way to heading up one of the world's biggest queer media outlets, even using her teenage diary entries along the way.

Nick Charles also joins the chat for a bit and updates us on his mum who listens all the time from Trinidad. Get well soon Rose!

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We’re joined by journalist and author Daniel Harding, whose new book Letters to My Younger Queer Self is already being called essential reading. Together, we ask: what would you say to your younger queer self if you had the chance?

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Has the rapid rise of Trump and the American evangelical right wing created an existential crisis for the LGBTQ community?

What the success of REFORM UK will mean for queer people in the UK?

And Nick has some highly unconventional theories about the selection process for the latest Pope.

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In this on-the-ground exclusive, OUTCAST WORLD meets Jason Jones, the activist taking the Trinidadian government to the Privy Council in London — the last hope for decriminalisation, not just in Trinidad, but for millions of LGBTQ+ people across the Commonwealth.

Together, we unpack the deep scars of British colonial law, the grip of modern-day US-backed conservative networks, and the global battle to push back against the rising tide of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

This isn’t just a story about one island — it’s a frontline report from a legal fight that could shape queer rights across the world.

Producer- Graeme Smith

Contributors - Jason Jones and Steven John.

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We got Esther and close friend Jaxon Feeley, who presented the award on the night to sit down in a studio in Manchester to chat about that awful period, what she learned and how she is trying to make a difference after losing her daughter so brutally.

Jaxon is a previous Attitude award winner and star of Channel 4 reality shows including "Hunted" and "Banged Up: Stars behind bars". He transitioned whilst working as a prison officer in Wigan and has become famous for his activism.

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Just ahead of the launch, Bradley Riches caught up with Graeme Smith live in the studio in London to talk about how he got on the show, navigating life as a queer autistic person and how it really was in Celeb Big Brother earlier this year.

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In this special programme, The LGBTQ+ journalist and author of "Gay Man Talking" Daniel Harding looks into how the community are using the app we all take for granted.

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Also back to the fringe in Edinburgh for a catch-up with the legendary Kate Butch whose standup drag show has had the critics soiling with laughter.

Connor Moseley pops in with news of his new documentary “Queer sexpectations” and Kev from Pride Daily has the latest LQBTQ news from around the world.

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The UK's black and brown population have barely begun to process what has gone on. UK Black Pride this year was taking place in the middle of a global war on woke by the far right around the world.

We begin to start the conversations about how safe we feel after these events and why UK Black Pride was such an important statement. Graeme Smith talk's the morning after the event to Asad Zafar a non binary queer activist, muslim and sexual health testing outreach worker in London.

Graeme also talks to comedian and writer Holly Stars who is live from the Edinburgh fringe with news of their new drag comedy show "JUSTICE FOR HOLLY".

and Kev McGrath is on hand with a check on the week's biggest LGBTQ news stories from around the world.

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Daniel is also the author of best selling LGBTQ book "Gay man talking" and has a new book coming next year called "Letters to my younger queer self".

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The Birmingham born queer rapper with a staunchly catholic mum mixes his Jamaican / British background with his queer perspective on pop culture. The result is a unique sound from unique guy.

His new single "But you said we had a connection" brings us a different and more emotional side to the guy we thought we knew.

We stuck James Indigo in a studio for an hour with Graeme Smith to talk about his music, sex, Madonna and Nicki Minaj.

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Traditionally seen the party of LGBTQ+ progress, there has been little in the way of support through the general election campaign as they sought to avoid any difficult issues.

So will the new occupant of number 10 be our friend?

In this special episode that was broadcast on Virgin Radio Pride within 72 hours of the election result, we talk to Jamie Wareham from Queer AF.

Also features Kevin McGrath with a roundup of other LGBTQ+ news stories from around the world that week.

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Graeme Smith and Topher Taylor host.

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Roxy is in talking about making a new radio show and podcast about the recent Lesbian nightlife explosion and has a book due out next year.

We talk about the journey from a 13 year old who passed off her interest in women as just feminism to begin with, through to coming out and ending up editor in chief of worlds biggest magazine for queer and bisexual women and non binary people.

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Kenny's mum was hugely supportive of his transition and despite the loss of her a few years ago, he still owes her acceptance, love and support everything.

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We hear exclusively from Esther Ghey, mother of Brianna Ghey, ahead of her documentary with Jason Feley for Virgin Radio Pride 2024.

Kevin McGrath has the latest from Pride Daily and we talk through the week's LGBTQ+ happenings.

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Includes a news update from Kev McGrath at Pride daily.

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Dr John White has 25+ yrs of clinical experience in sexual health. He was an NHS consultant in Genitourinary Medicine for 13 yrs at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London. He currently works in Western and Northern Health & Social Care Trusts, Northern Ireland, while also working for Preventx. John was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of STD & AIDS from 2009 to 2020. He is an expert in bacterial STIs and novel diagnostic approaches and is passionate about educating and speaking on clinical sexual health and HIV medicine.

Including Pride Daily update with Kev McGrath.

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Also we also ask if chemsex has in fact peaked or is it still going strong after surveys show crystal meth use in the Manchester gay scene is higher than ever.

Kev McGrath is on hand as well with the latest LGBTQ+ headlines around the world.

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The amazing people behind The HIV podcast - Jessica Harding and Sarah Macadam join Graeme this week. Jess and Sarah are also the bosses of the HIV charity Thames Valley Positive Support and provide much needed support to people with HIV in Berkshire and across the South East.

Kev McGrath from Pride Daily is on hand as well with an explainer on the background of the famous HIV red ribbon.

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Ghislain was a celebrity agent and publicist for many years – including as agent to the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. Following the death of Carlos Clarke in 2006 he co-founded The Little Black Gallery - one of London's leading photography galleries - with Tamara Beckwith Veroni in 2008. He is an avid collector of photography which are housed in a permanent exhibition space at his home in France. He is the Editor of the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! books and magazines.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! is a programme by The Little Black Gallery started in 2018, curated by co-founder Ghislain Pascal, to promote queer and gay fine art photography.

It now represents more than 65 photographers from 30 countries - including China, India, Iran, Poland, and Russia where gay rights are repressed and queer lives under constant threat.

The first BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! book, with a foreword by David Furnish, was published in 2019; the second by  teNeues | MENDO in 2020. Both are sold out, with all the royalties donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. 

The bi-annual BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Magazine was launched in January 2021. 

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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 this online.

Tickets are available to be in the small studio audience at Kings Place on KINGSPLACE.CO.UK as part of London Podcast Festival 2023 in association with Guardian Podcasts and Acast.

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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 art show being cancelled last year by a gallery under pressure from other performers. He tells us his thoughts about PREP and gets stuck into Just Stop Oil... Graeme is opposed.

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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 Smith about the trauma of being diagnosed positive at the age of 16 and hiding it from everyone for 15 years. How it felt to meet up with Russell T Davies and be cast in It's a Sin and his new show Toxic based on the kind of dysfunctional and co-dependent relationships we can easily find ourselves in.

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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 journalist and broadcaster Kevin McGrath joins Graeme Smith every week across this summer.

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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 on the Terrence Higgins Trust website - tht.org.uk

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Three decades on with massive crowd stompers such as Twisted, Automatic, Party Girl, New Kind Of Medicine, Found A Cure, How Long (Ultra Flava) and the Top 10 pop nugget, If You Could Read My Mind, 2022 finds Ultra Naté joyously celebrating the enduring anthem Free’s 25th anniversary . Last Summer saw Ultra collaborating with the likes of Icona Pop, David Morales, NYC’s esteemed Lincoln Center, numerous festivals, Prides and ushering in her 10th album titled, ULTRA.

Not gonna lie we were excited to meet her. Graeme Smith is catching up with Paris Munro about their latest podcast episode of Queer & The Beat featuring an exclusive chat with the 90's legend.

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Whether its anxieties around cleanliness or questions around kink... Topher's DM's are always open.

Graeme Smith talks with self confessed Tart with a heart,  OnlyFans model, columnist for Gay London Life and Clonezone PR brand manager Topher about sex, sex tech and relationships questions from OUTCAST UK's and his DM's.

This episode we have people wanting to know how much sex they should be having and a complete run down of advice around fisting in response to the deluge of DM's we get about it.

If you have a question then reach out on TikTok or Instagram on PLAYOUTCASTUK

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Graeme is catching up with Paris Munro again about their new podcast Queer & The Beat. This week Paris catches up with LGBTQ+ musician Joesef, with details on THAT KISS people are going wild about from Joesef's new music video.

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Whether its the best way to douche, anxieties around cleanliness or questions around kink... Topher's DM's are always open.

Graeme Smith talks with self confessed Tart with a heart,  OnlyFans model, columnist for Gay London Life and Clonezone PR brand manager Topher about sex, sex tech and relationships questions from OUTCAST UK's and his DM's.

On this episode we hear about the newly single, self confessed "pig bottom" D in Manchester and his anal anxieties whilst hooking up with lots of people ... we unpack these anxieties and talk about how many people go through periods like this.

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DJ / Producer since 1991, Martin Ikin AKA: Soul Purpose, Indigo, MIGrant, DJ Mayhem, etc etc… Too many Aliases to mention them all…

As well as producing, DJing, spending years employed as an in-house engineer at several recording studios, he’s also studied jazz piano, has been bandleader of several jazz funk outfits, is still gigging, session playing and teaching piano today.

After over 10 years of releasing music on other labels, Martin launched his own label – Soul Purpose Records in 2003, as a stable for his own productions. With artists such as Juliet Roberts, Elisabeth Troy, Angie Brown, Mary Pearce & Bryan Chambers joining the camp straight away and letting the music do the talking, Soul Purpose Records has now built a reputation for quality house music with numerous chart Number 1’s under its belt, and is going from strength to strength.

Now DJing and producing under his real name, Ikin has released on the most respected labels in the scene, including Toolroom, Repopulate Mars, Lost and OFF Recordings.

Ikin’s remix credentials include names such Mariah Carey, Jamiroquai, Joey Negro, MAW, Grant Nelson, Hardsoul, Ron Carroll and many, many more.

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The media and political landscape has become more transphobic than ever, we discuss the implications for the LGBTQ+ community. We also talk about the importance of keeping your cool when dealing with transphobia after Shivani’s recent appearances on Good Morning Britain and Talk Radio / Talk TV. 

Shivani is a Gen Z journalist, broadcaster, and physicist. They provide a youth audience with impartial news for a world that isn't via @OpenlyNews on TikTok for the Thompson Reuters Foundation. The channel focuses on LGBTQ+ issues around the world. 

On the weekends, Shivani hosts on Virgin Radio Chilled. They are also a producer for the award-winning, independent LGBTQ+ history podcast, The Log Books and they have since gone on to set up an audio production company focused on sharing untold stories. 

Shivani is in the Radio Academy's 30 under 30, the Attitude 101 Honours list, a British LGBT+ Award 'Top 10 Broadcaster' of 2022, and shortlisted as a British Podcast Award 'Rising Star'.

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Greg is unique .... born in Belfast in the 80's he moved to London to study dance and drama... he like many of us has talked frankly about doing sex work and his experiences of chemsex.

In fact... HIV researcher Sheena McCormack credits him with helping decrease the number of HIV diagnoses in the UK. From 2015–2016, the number of new diagnoses in London had decreased by 40%, while around the UK it was decreased by around a third. Owen recalls McCormack saying to him, "There are thousands of people who didn’t become HIV-positive this year because of you."

In the first of a few epidodes , me and greg talked about prep in the context of LGBTQ+ history month, in the run up to him doing a talk at The University of Birmingham on this very subject a few days later.

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Ian Baum alleged Mr Thomas hid his HIV status and "failed to take reasonable care" to ensure he did not pass it on.

The former British and Irish Lion said he had settled the case for £75,000 plus costs, but it was not an admission of liability or guilt.

The reaction in the media and the comments on social media have been devastating for the mental health of people living with HIV, already too often marginalised and treated with suspicion. 

In this episode Graeme chats to Sarah Macadam the CEO of Thames Valley Positive support and Jessica Harding, the deputy CEO of the HIV charity. The two also host the award nominated podcast "The HIV podcast" and specialise in guiding both their service users and podcast listeners around the world through the legalities, facts and history of HIV. Here we hear their expert take on the issues this case has brought up.

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Another talk with Graeme Smith and Steven John.

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We're getting the lowdown on what the best sex tech there is out there right now for us all, talking about the basics of bottoming and getting some advice not only on douching, but the best douche to get and how often to change your douche!

We also find out how he's found being on Only Fans and how he went from being kicked out of a rough school in East London for his own good, to ending up in Soho working in sex shops and about the time his mum had to ask him why a sex shop had called for him on the house phone.

This episode was also filmed for a TV sex technology documentary on Channel 5.

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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.

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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 group, with 41 percent screening positive for at least one of those symptoms, data from the US Census Bureau showed. Whilst rates of anxiety and depression remained relatively flat among white people, black people everywhere have been effected mentally by what this period brought up for them, did their white friends get it? Accounts differ, but LGBTQ+ mixed ethnicity relationships are a good place to gauge the social change and learning that's been happening in our community.

Steven John is DEI lead for a Manchester based tech business, he has hosted a series of talks and seminars for tech industry conferences in the UK around how DEI can be used to improve organisations.

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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 Warren Dickins from his practice in New Jersey about his new book "Beyond your confines". The book aimed at people who are interested in seeking therapy but often are not able to. In this chat we learn some of the core messages and thinking behind "Beyond your confines" and learn methods to apply the these to our own lives.

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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.

Graeme Smith chats to the people in charge at Thames Valley Positive Support in Berkshire and George House Trust in Manchester. Both vital lifelines for people living with HIV since 1985. 

We're talking about how U+U and prep have changed the game and how a huge number of HIV positive people have lived in fear of being criminalised even until recently. We're also talking about the rights of people living with HIV when it comes to getting tattoos.

In an episode packed with queer history, old news reports, first hand accounts and some exceptionally raw and personal reflection. We're also hearing how Manchester Pride this year took a moment to reflect at the annual HIV vigil with the reading of poem This Quilted History, written and read at the event by Jay Mitra leading the candlelit reflection. It sounds even more poignant this world aids day. 

With thanks to Sarah Macadam the Chief Executive of Thames Valley Positive Support, Jessica Harding, deputy CEO at TVPS, The HIV Podcast, Darren Knight, the CEO of George House trust and to Jay Mitra.

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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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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.

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