As the Glastonbury Festival heatwave rolls on, the political outrage is just warming up. 

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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Reality star Jordan Burrow won hearts on I Kissed a Boy—the BBC’s flagship queer dating show hosted by Dannii Minogue—but his story goes beyond the groundbreaking global hit show.

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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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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