Homo Sapiens

Hello. It’s Transgender Awareness week, I’m on the phone to Owen Jones talking about the wild statistics around LGBTQ+ voters in the US election, and you, dear listeners, are telling us about the hidden cost of Covid on the queer community. Plus is Homo Sapiens the queer Joe Wicks? Enjoy!

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Is joy the greatest form of protest? This week we take you to the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement and speak to an incredible man who fills you with hope. 

Yves Mathieu is a Burberry Model, Singer & Activist who has put his career on hold and raided his savings to travel the USA joining as many Black Lives Matter protests as he can. We hear about what it’s like on the front line (arrested about 10 times and counting...),  why not enough is being done to protect black trans lives, plus he even finds time to tell us the heartwarming story of his work caring for senior citizens and we find out why he couldn’t sit down on a flight after his most recent tattoo…!!

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📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T is Hosted By: Alan Cumming and Chris Sweeney 

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Ring Ring! In the week that America decides a new President and the UK goes into a brand new Lockdown let us bring you some cheer! Chris is on the phone to non-binary trailblazer Jamie Windust to hear about their new book ‘In Their Shoes’, Culture Club takes a spooky turn, and we are dishing out sage(-ish) advice to your Agony Uncle questions.

Buy "In Their Shoes" HERE

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This is such a great chat with a genius, a trailblazer, and an icon : Debbie Harry. She charmed us all with her beautiful take on the world: why people putting labels on your sexuality just doesn’t work, when being entitled can be a good thing, plus she reveals the biggest misconception about her time in Blondie. Click play and enjoy.

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📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T is Hosted By: Alan Cumming and Chris Sweeney 

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Extra Extra! We’ve got a live one! The debate rages on about straight actors playing queer roles, we’re shuffling through a mountain of your sustainable soap recommendations and Chris gets a call from none other than Skunk Anansie’s Skin to give us the skinny (geddit) on her incredible autobiography ‘It Takes Blood and Guts’ and ends up dishing out some beautiful answers to your agony uncle questions. Plus is Chris the only person who isn’t watching Schitt’s Creek? 

Links below. x

It Takes Blood And Guts

Music

Joesef

Jesse Ware

Melody Gardot

Róisín Marie Murphy

Perfume Genius

Watching

Trump

Schitt’s Creek

Hollywood

Selling Sunset

Reading

The Midnight Library By Matt Haig

Home Stretch by Graham Norton

Theft by Finding By David Sedaris

Growing Up Queer In Australia

Fabulosa the Story of Polari By Paul Baker

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Hello everyone. Well this is very exciting. We are starting a NEW season of Homo Sapiens, and our theme is: Trailblazers! Over the coming weeks, we’ll be talking to the people who are leading the way for the future of being LGBTQ+ around the globe. First up is Queer Eye star Tan France who had us in stitches! We hear about his WILD coming out story, the realities of being an out gay muslim, and what’s next for him after Queer Eye

️ - Chris and Alan xx

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📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T is Hosted By: Alan Cumming and Chris Sweeney 

📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

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We wrap up what has been a de-lightful Season 4 of Homo Sapiens with our final episode where we discuss LGBTQ+ people going back in the closet in older age, Queer solidarity on the football pitch, and straight people playing gay roles in cinema. Plus why did Cilla Black give Alan a ticking off?

We’d also like to say a huge thank you to all of you listeners for brightening our days with all your letters, messages and more throughout this entire season. We’ve loved it so much that.... We’re back straight away next week with new episodes! This time we’ll be talking to people who we think are the biggest Trailblazers on planet earth right now. It’s an amazing line up and we can’t wait for you to hear them all.

Read: Men in Love: 1850 - 1950

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Alan has a confession, Chris tells us about working with Harry Styles and Sue Perkins shares what led to her cradling a hedgehog at 5AM. Plus navigating identity politics with family and drunkenly sliding into Nicola Sturgeon’s DM’s. 

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Mother Earth is queer and we all know it. So how are LGBTQ+ issues linked with Climate Change? What did Gwyneth Paltrow teach Alan? What is Chris giving up? Here at

HS we are mega fans of environmental trailblazer @QueerBrownVegan aka Isaias Hernandez, who makes learning about living sustainably simple and do-able. He swung

by to chat to us for a bonus episode sponsored by Mercedes and their new Plug-In Hybrid A-Class. Follow him on instagram too you will learn a ton! x

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📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T is Hosted By: Alan Cumming and Chris Sweeney 

📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

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Chris and Alan are BOTH quarantining this week, and you know what that means..more room for wormholes, stories and agony uncles. Why does the UK love a gay gangster? Why are social media giants not doing more to protect the LGBTQ+ community? And as always we read your messages and feedback - it’s always wonderful to hear from you all 

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📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T is Hosted By: Alan Cumming and Chris Sweeney 

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