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- THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY HAS A RACISM PROBLEMWARNING: 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, the latest in a wave of deaths at the hands of the LAPD in the first few weeks of 2023. The high school english teacher and father flagged officers down for help after a car accident. The same thing happened here, people began to blame the victim for their own death. There is a pattern.In the UK the case of Ngozi Fulani being victim blamed after flagging up what many believed to be evidence of structural racism in the royal household, later having the charity commission investigate her organisation. According to The Voice "SISTAH SPACE boss Ngozi Fulani was cleared of wrongdoing by the Charity Commission, but some are questioning why the charities regulator launched an investigation in the first place. The announcement of the investigation by government-appointed quango last month came after a torrent of race-hate on social media aimed at Fulani, and criticism of her in mainstream newspapers." News of her being cleared by the commisssion was not picked up by most of the UK press. What ties all these together? Victim blaming. Then moments before we made this bonus episode, a man in Manchester tweeted about his experience of racism from cis gender white gay men in the city. We're commenting on all of this in this hot take on all the issues our last episode brought up and what's happened in the world this first half of January 2023.
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43 min - THE IMPACT OF GEORGE FLOYD'S MURDER ON OUR RELATIONSHIPS
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 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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33 min - C*M CUISINE: A SELECTION OF SEMEN BASED RECIPES ... ( in paperback)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 an ingredient. Yes even including the all important FACIAL!!!This episode is as interesting as it is hilarious. Bon Appetit x
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48 min - QUEER MENTAL HEALTH: BEYOND YOUR CONFINES - PSYCHOTHERAPIST CHRIS WARREN DICKINS
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 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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57 min - HIV - CHARITY AND COMMUNITY: WORLD AIDS DAY 2022 SPECIAL
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.
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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33 min - IN FROM THE SIDE: THE GAY RUGBY MOVIE
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.
THIS IS OUTCAST UK
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32 min - COMING OUT AS TRANSMASCULINE NON BINARY - LIVE ON NATIONAL RADIO: PARIS MUNRO
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.
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42 min - THE UNEXPECTED HISTORY OF THE PINK POUND- DR JUSTIN BENGRYQUEER HISTORY IS ALL OF OUR HISTORYDR JUSTIN BENGRY, DIRECTOR OF QUEER HISTORY AT GOLDSMITH'S, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONJust 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 gay-oriented newspapers, magazines, clubs, and bars appeared, but it was not until the 1990s that terms like the ‘pink pound’, ‘pink dollar’, or ‘pink economy’ gained a foothold in marketing texts and everyday language. And yet, a longer history remains untold.In this talk based on a decade of research into the history of the Pink Pound, Dr Justin Bengry uncovers more than a century of evidence that shows how business has been fascinated with LGBTQ people. History shows us that long before Pride sponsorships and glossy magazines capitalism and homosexuality have been intertwined.We also hear about how a cruising spot at a public toilets in Liverpool made history and inspired a unique piece of art!LGBTQIA+ History is the social history of our society. We're here for learning more about our queer and in the closet ancestors!
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41 min - SEX WORK CONFESSIONS & RACISM IN THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITYNick 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 couldn't make this up.Nick also gives his lowdown on the recent racism controversy around a well known LGBTQ+ venue and a staff member sharing a racist meme. Is there ever any excuse for this kind of behaviour?
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52 min - SWITCHBOARD & THE LOG BOOKSGraeme 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 from police entrapping gay men meeting for sex in toilets, to women losing custody of their children for being lesbians, to people kicked out of pubs for wearing pro-gay badges and to those struggling with their gender identity before anyone had the right language to help them.The log books laugh and cry with the real lives of runaways and disco-dancers, with isolated fishermen phoning to chat and people unsure about how to have sex.The logbooks podcast is an award winning project showcasing the UK's untold LGBTQ+ history and Natasha is cohost and Producer. Here she chat's about the Logbooks, giving us an insight into the UK's social history that isn't often seen.
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About OUTCAST WORLD
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Queer politics • sex • culture
Outcast World is a queer politics, sex and culture podcast hosted by multi award-winning broadcaster and podcaster Graeme Smith, alongside rotating guests and co-hosts.
Each week features an eclectic mix of guests. Journalists, comedians, academics, authors, activists and artists appear alongside queer stars from the BBC’s groundbreaking I Kissed a Boy, and familiar faces from global reality franchises including Married at First Sight and TOWIE. The show also features authors of he biggest-selling LGBTQ+ books in the world and Oscar nominated film makers.
Reactive, candid and often funny, the show unpacks politics, sexuality and culture through discussion and debate. While rooted in a queer perspective, its cultural analysis and political commentary resonate well beyond LGBTQ+ audiences.A gold winner at the British Podcast Awards and nominated for Best Interview Podcast in 2025 — alongside Louis Theroux and The News Agents — Outcast World has been recommended by The Guardian and The Independent, and was named a must-listen queer podcast by The Independent.
Get involved, watch our latest episodes and read the latest queer and gay news, politics, sex and relationships and culture on www.outcastworld.net