OUTCAST WORLD

Graeme Smith sits down with UK drag royalty Kitty Scott-Claus, who opens up like never before.

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.

🎫 Tickets: thedianamixtape.com

📲 Follow Kitty on Instagram: @KittyScottClaus

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Cute lil catchup with Topher and Graeme. Topher is the sexual freedom awards writer of the year 2025 and a longstanding OUTCAST alumni.

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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Graeme Smith is joined by writer and Queer I Am podcast host Andrew Flewitt for a deeply personal conversation about queer grief — the kind that isn’t always spoken about, but lives quietly inside so many of us.

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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This week we chat to Roxy Bourdillon, the editor in chief of DIVA magazine, the world's biggest media outlet for queer, trans and non binary women.

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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This week on OUTCAST WORLD, Graeme and newly crowned Sexual Freedom Awards Writer of the Year Topher Taylor are talking about how Trump's budget cuts in the US have impacts for queer people everywhere.

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?

Plus:

💬 Topher on winning big whilst being queer — and why it matters.

💬 Daniel Harding on shame, survival, and queer healing.

💬 Graeme admits the one thing teen him would never believe.

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OUTCAST WORLD residents the queer writer, journalist and Only Fans model Topher Taylor and Loud Brown Gays podcast host Nick Charles join Graeme Smith for a groupchat to talk through the latest happenings for LGBTQ+ people around the world:

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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Graeme Smith and his husband Steven John travel to Trinidad and Tobago to launch series 6 of OUTCAST just days after the country’s shock court ruling recriminalised homosexuality, reinstating a colonial-era law that now carries a 5-year prison sentence for same-sex intimacy.

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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The week after Esther Ghey accepted the Attitude award for her daughter Brianna posthumously at a ceremony in London attended by the great and good of the LGBTQ+ community.

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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The worldwide hit LGBTQ+ show Heartstopper is back on Netflix for its highly anticipated third series.

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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The app that changed the way we love, make friends and hook up at it's 15th birthday.

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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