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July 27, 2023 240: Morgan Rees | Part 1
Icks! Open Relationships! Anal Sex! Today’s guest Morgan Rees has been taking the comedy circuit by storm with his incredible shows about life as a bisexual man and we’re all obsessed! Having written for Mock The Week and supported the likes of Jayde Adams and Nigel Ng, Morgan is now one of the most exciting LGBTQ+ comedians in the UK and across the pond. This was a brilliant chat about growing up as queer in rural Wales and his experiences of dating and bi-erasure as a bisexual man. Plus, should we all be using a thesaurus to help articulate our feelings?!
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27 min
July 24, 2023 Confronting the barriers in your life with Carson Tueller
It’s Disability Pride Month so this week we are throwing it back to an incredible chat with disability activist and life coach Carson Tueller. Carson suffered paralysis after a spinal cord injury the same year he came out as gay to his Mormon family. This is an incredible piece of advice about how to confront barriers that arise in your life and how to reframe your internal narrative.

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8 min
July 20, 2023 239: Jake Shears | Part 2
This week, fresh from two unbelievable performances at Glastonbury and Mighty Hoopla, we are joined by the icon that is Jake Shears. Jake tells us his key ingredients for throwing the best and most notorious house parties, what life-changing piece of advice he was given by Sharon Stone, and what goes on at a dinner party thrown by Elton John himself. Pop on your dancing shoes and go listen to Jake’s brilliant new album Last Man Standing!
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22 min
July 20, 2023 239: Jake Shears | Part 1
This week, fresh from two unbelievable performances at Glastonbury and Mighty Hoopla, we are joined by the icon that is Jake Shears. Jake tells us his key ingredients for throwing the best and most notorious house parties, what life-changing piece of advice he was given by Sharon Stone, and what goes on at a dinner party thrown by Elton John himself. Pop on your dancing shoes and go listen to Jake’s brilliant new album Last Man Standing!
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27 min
July 13, 2023 238: A Diary of London Trans+ Pride with Travis Alabanza
We’ve got an exciting and inspiring episode for you this week - we’re reporting to you from London Trans+ Pride! To quote Munroe Bergdorf, it was a day of “LOVE” and “RAGE”, with 25,000 trans people and allies present to demand equal rights for Trans people! The fabulous Travis Albanza is this week's host - they’re a writer, performer and trailblazer, and one of the most exciting and inspiring voices in the trans community. Travis speaks to NHS doctors, teachers, the trans community and their supporters about their hopes for a harmonious trans future. It’s poignant and joyful in equal measure and you don’t want to miss!

Thank you to our episode host Travis Alabanza and brilliant audio editor Steve Folland.
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32 min
July 06, 2023 237: Logan Brown | Part 2
Beautiful, iconic and trailblazing…three words we’d use to describe Logan Brown on the front cover of Glamour magazine. Today Logan joins us to discuss what it’s like to become an overnight celebrity, what went on behind the scenes of this iconic magazine shoot and his experience of navigating the NHS as a pregnant trans man -shoutout to his brilliant midwife Cath! Plus, tune in for cameos from baby Nova and THE Bailey Mills!
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20 min
July 06, 2023 237: Logan Brown | Part 1
Beautiful, iconic and trailblazing…three words we’d use to describe Logan Brown on the front cover of Glamour magazine. Today Logan joins us to discuss what it’s like to become an overnight celebrity, what went on behind the scenes of this iconic magazine shoot and his experience of navigating the NHS as a pregnant trans man -shoutout to his brilliant midwife Cath! Plus, tune in for cameos from baby Nova and THE Bailey Mills!
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22 min
June 29, 2023 236: Wes Streeting MP | Part 2
Want to know what an MP eats on a hangover? This week we chat with Labour MP Wes Streeting, who was kind enough to be interviewed on a Sunday morning, even after a night out on the tiles for a friend’s wedding. Wes is the current shadow health secretary and alongside Keir Starmer, has been instrumental in transforming the Labour Party into election-winning hopefuls for 2024. What is the best gay wedding entrance of all time, and would Jesus go on a Pride March? Tune in to find out!
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31 min
June 29, 2023 236: Wes Streeting MP | Part 1
Want to know what an MP eats on a hangover? This week we chat with Labour MP and political superstar in the making - Wes Streeting, who was kind enough to be interviewed on a Sunday morning, even after a night out on the tiles for a friend’s wedding. Wes is the current shadow health secretary and alongside Keir Starmer, has been instrumental in transforming the Labour Party into election-winning hopefuls for 2024. It's a refreshingly frank and honest chat from a politician and Wes leaves no questions unanswered. Plus, what is the best gay wedding entrance of all time, and would Jesus go on a Pride March? Tune in to find out!
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40 min
June 26, 2023 Gay to Ze: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Parenting | Part 2
Has it seriously taken this long for an A to Z on queer parenting?! Today we are joined by Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley, the fabulous team behind the Some Families and From Gay to Ze podcasts, and the new book The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze. We discuss the underrepresentation of parenting for queer women, distasteful analogies of infertile eggs, and how to use WhatsApp to dismantle the patriarchy! Plus, will Stu’s son marry Prince George?

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32 min

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