Thanks to Emma for supplying us with this lovely sweeper - our 50th, which is also our last for the near future, and the final sweeper to be added to Issue 10. Check our website for Issue 10 Side A and Side B, coming in 2026.

TRANSCRIPT

[Fading in, we hear the sound of water - repetitive shushing and splashing, and faint gurgling.]

Emma: Hi! I’m Emma, and I’m at the Wild… Welsh… Wild… [laughter] Ah, I’m getting my lines all wrong!

[Water sounds, almost inaudible voices.]

Emma: Hi. I’m Emma, I’m in the Welsh Wildlife Centre. You’re listening to Queer Out Here.

[Water sounds fade out.]

Before we go on indefinite hiatus we have a two-parter for you! With our call for submissions giving the optional theme of “creativity”, this issue has a great range of stories, music, poetry, interviews and more. Here’s a taste of what’s in store on Side A and Side B.

Transcript and notes on our website: https://www.queerouthere.com/listen/issue-10-preview

We last heard from Nikki way back in Issue 02, with "Snow, Tyres, Breath, Song", so it's been a while! Thanks to Nikki for sending this sweeper in - listeners be warned that there is a very loud sound towards the end!

TRANSCRIPT

[Wind and traffic, birds twittering] Nikki: Hi, my name’s Nikki, and before I get to the rural idyll bit, I’m on top of a van in a housing estate. Um. [Sudden, VERY LOUD mechanical/engine/drill-type noise, which more or less obscures what Nikki yells next, which is something like:] You’re listening to Queer Out Here!

Thanks to Fish for this sweeper. Once again, it's fab to hear from previous contributors in our last-at-least-for-a-while issue. FYI, the sign in the image reads: “Do not throw household garbage into park bins” (in Polish), with a pic of a pig on it. Fish did send some other (arguably nicer) pics to choose from, but we enjoyed this!

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TRANSCRIPT:

[Faint sounds of people talking, birds tweeting and crows cawing, a sense of space]

Fish: Hello everyone. I am checking in from somewhere called the Croatian Garden Square. [Footsteps go past] But we are not in Croatia; we are in Warsaw, Poland. This is Fish, and you’re listening to Queer Out Here.

[Background sounds fade out]

Thanks to Dee for this sweeper - so lovely to hear from a previous contributor and cover artist (Issue 08)!

TRANSCRIPT

[Background sounds of footsteps crunching on leaves and a dirt path, some wind and possibly faint aeroplane sounds continue throughout]

Hello. My name is Dee, and I am a long term listener - and fan! - of Queer Out Here. I’m currently walking though the wood, walking my dog who’s just paused to sniff. You may be able to hear the trees and there’s a beautiful autumn scene with yellowing leaves and a wondrous sunset sky. You’re listening to Queer Out Here.

Another sweeper from previous contributor Emily from Naarm/Melbourne. It's always so nice to hear from our regulars!

TRANSCRIPT

[Sound of suburban traffic, wind and twittering of small birds.]

This is Emily.

[Dog barks in the distance.]

I’m in Naarm, Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Country… and I'm enjoying listening to the birdsong on a Sunday when there’s finally no construction across the road from my apartment. You’re listening to Queer Out Here.

[Wind sounds, birdcalls, traffic sounds fade out.]

It's always great to hear again from a past sweeper-contributor, and this one is from Raine. Last time Raine was in a thunderstorm, this time they are at the beach. Join Raine on his windy lunch break!

TRANSCRIPT

[The sound of waves on the beach and wind blowing weaves throughout]

Raine: Hi, my name is Raine. I am ace, aro and agender, and I am sitting out here on my lunch break today watching the waves roll in at the Ninety Mile Beach, Country of the Gunaikurnai People. It is pretty windy out here for the first week of the school holidays, but the sea is absolutely spectacular. You are listening to Queer Out Here.

Fun to hear this sweeper from a rooftop garden, complete with helicopter passing overhead! Thanks Ez.

TRANSCRIPT

[Background hum of city traffic and tweeting birds.]

Ez: Hey, I’m Ez, a nonbinary queerdo living on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation.

[In the background, a helicopter comes into hearing range.]

I’m admiring the view of the city from the roof garden of my apartment building - and you are listening to Queer Out Here.

[The helicopter comes closer, and its loud machine noise is joined by a train whistle. There are some movements close to the microphone. The helicopter passes overhead and continues into the distance. Birdcalls can be heard again. A train whistles twice. The sounds fade out.]

Thanks to Lisa for sending this sweeper in from Gunaikurnai Country, Gippsland, Victoria. Love hearing the layers of water, bush and farm (cows!).

TRANSCRIPT

[Sounds of footsteps, wind, cows mooing] Lisa: Hi, this is Lisa. I am currently at Bellbird Corner in Gippsland, Victoria. And this is Queer Out Here. [Footsteps crunching on twigs, wind, water and cows]

Thanks to Mags for our first sweeper of 2025.

Transcript: [Sounds of nature, birds, etc.] Mags: This is Mags, this is early morning, Shivapuri, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu, for Queer Out Here.

Note: Check our website for submission details - queerouthere.com