In this special episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, actors Sebastian Croft & Connor Jessup curate highlights from their first Queer Was Always Here Residency at BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café London.

British menswear designer Geordie Campbell joins i-D magazine’s Douglas Greenwood for a conversation about fashion & queerness; Marty Davies is in conversation with Drag King Don One about why & how they set up Trans+ History Week; film-makers Jomo.Wrld join Connor to discuss the relationship between film & queerness; and we have readings from poets Troy Cabida, Jaime Lock, William Rayfet Hunter, & William Wyld (all published by Fourteen Poems).

Queer Was Always Here is a community dedicated to queer lives, queer art and queer history. For more information visit queerwasalwayshere.com

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Ben Pentreath OBE is an English architectural and interior designer, described by Country Life as one of the best country-house architects in Britain.

Recorded live at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London, Ben joins Alistair James to discuss colour, beauty and his belief that the best homes and buildings should evolve over time.

He also reflects on working closely with King Charles, his lifelong love of Scotland, and the chance discovery that led him and his husband Charlie to leave Dorset for a remarkable new life on Orkney - an experience many listeners will know from his Financial Times column.

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This week’s BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! podcast looks at queer publishing through fiction, photography & independent print.

Matt Cain is interviewed by Graeme Smith in front of an audience at a BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS event at our gallery in London, discussing his career, the rejection he faced from mainstream publishers, the launch of Pansy Books and his new novel, The Castle of Stories.

Alistair James talks to Adrian Lourie, the photographer and publisher behind the cult gay zine MEAT, and to German author Kai Spellmeier about his debut English-language novel, Boy Friends.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS continues again soon at our gallery in Fitzrovia, London. Upcoming guests, dates and tickets are available on boysboysboys.org.

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For more than 50 years, William Yang has documented Australia's queer community through his camera, creating one of the country's most important social archives.

Although his name may not be familiar to everyone, his photographs have captured generations of queer life, from the liberation movement of the 1970s, through the AIDS crisis, and into the present day. His work has become an invaluable record of queer history.

As William celebrates his 80th birthday, BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! revisits his remarkable story in this exclusive chat with one of the pioneers of gay photography. Graeme Smith speaks to William about his extraordinary career, the stories behind some of his most powerful images, and why preserving LGBTQ+ history has never been more important.

William features in Volume Six of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! magazine, where we celebrate his life and work.

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It is great when two like minded organisations get together. So it is a great privilege for BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! to partner with Queer Was Always Here: a community dedicated to queer lives, queer art and queer history.

They also work in partnership with Choose Love to secure futures for LGBTQIA+ refugees and displaced people around the world. It is an extraordinary organisation set up by two extraordinary young actors: Sebastian Croft and Connor Jessup. Both stars from juggernaut TV shows that you will have seen: Sebastian from Heartstopper, and Connor from Falling Skies.

From 30 June - 2 July Queer Was Always Here will take over the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Cafe in London for a residency hosted by the boys. You can get more information and details on how to get tickets from our Instagrams @queerwaslawayshere @boysgallerycafelondon or via linktr.ee/boysfineart

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Two of the most exciting young queer actors working today, recorded live at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café.

First, Xelia Mendes-Jones, the breakout star playing Dane in Amazon Prime Video's post apocalyptic juggernaut 'Fallout' opposite Ella Purnell and Kyle MacLachlan. Footballer turned Cambridge scholar turned screen actor, Xelia is razor sharp on trans representation, on the difference between a character whose transness is the whole story and one for whom it is simply true, and on why the loudest takes about who gets to play whom usually miss the point.

Then, Tiptoe star Gabriel Clark. First coming to our attention as Ollie Morgan on Hollyoaks, now in Russell T Davies' hot new drama 'Tip Toe' alongside Alan Cumming and David Morrissey. Gabriel also takes us inside the chemsex play 'Jock Night' and the tabloid storm around his coming out. Funny, fearless and unafraid to say the things most actors will not.

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This episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Breakfast Club comes from one of the most significant locations in queer history: the Oscar Wilde Suite at The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, in London. The room where Oscar Wilde was arrested in April 1895.

Joining Graeme Smith & Ghislain Pascal is the award-winning historian and biographer Matthew Sturgis, whose acclaimed biography Oscar: A Life is widely regarded as the definitive account of Wilde's life. Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and praised by the Times Literary Supplement as "the Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade", Sturgis drew on newly discovered letters, court records and years of original research to create the most authoritative portrait of Wilde ever written. If you're going to tell the story of Oscar Wilde in the very room where history unfolded, there is no better guide.

Then we are joined by BOYS! photographers Paul McDonald and Nigel Grimmer to discuss photo fairs & galleries; Paul's new zine Things I Wanted to Say - but Never Did; and Nigel's striking brutalist series in the latest edition of our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Magazine Volume 11.

From Oscar Wilde's final days of freedom to contemporary queer photography and storytelling, this episode brings together history, art and lived experience in one of London's most remarkable rooms.

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This special episode was recorded in front of a live sold out audience in the Rare Books Room at the landmark Strand Books in New York for the launch of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! The Magazine Volume 11.

Dan Wakeford (former editor of People and Us Weekly & founder of Celebrity Intelligence) was in conversation with BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! founder Ghislain Pascal & photographers Sean Patrick Watters, Michael Epps & Sebastian Perinotti.

A live BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! conversation about art, sex, identity, publishing and queer culture, from the heart of Manhattan.

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Before liberation had found its language, Arthur Tress was photographing hidden queer worlds in New York City.

Born in 1940, Tress is regarded as one of the masters of modern American photography, his work held in many of the major museum collections in the United States. His photographs trace seismic shifts in social history while exploring desire, sexuality and the complexities of human encounter, alongside an extraordinary body of ethnographic work.

In this special extended episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast, Graeme Smith speaks with the legendary 85-year-old photographer about a life spent documenting dream imagery, underground culture and social change.

Best known for work moving between documentary, surrealism and homoerotic fantasy, Tress reflects on photographing men in The Ramble in 1969, the subject of his extraordinary new book The Ramble, published by Stanley Barker.

The conversation ranges from cruising culture before Stonewall, Coney Island ruins and ethnographic travels, to 1980s New York, Robert Mapplethorpe, queer visual history, masculinity, fantasy and the underground worlds that shaped modern queer photography.

A rare long-form conversation with one of the great, if still too little-known, figures in American photography.

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On this episode, American photographer Christopher Makos reflects on a legendary career spanning decades, including his iconic collaborations with Andy Warhol and his lasting impact on queer photography. He shares insights on the people, places, and images that continue to define his work, and what he’s looking forward to next.

New York-based artist Jordan Eagles discusses his provocative and politically charged practice using blood. In a conversation focused on identity, stigma, and the realities around blood donation for the LGBTQ+ community, Jordan explains how his art confronts systems and challenges perceptions.

And we hear from our very own photographer AdeY, who introduces his latest series and book, JOY, offering a short look at his newest work.

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