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- Amy Zing on Margate Pride 2023Amy Zing is co-founder of Sink The Pink and alongside Glyn, they created their perfect club night out which became the largest LGBTQ+ performance collective in the UK. Amy has since moved to Margate and co-founded Margate Pride as-well as co-founding OUT Margate, an LGBTQ-friendly youth club. In this chat, they look back at their clubbing days and how Amy's passion for serving a community has been at the heart of all her work.
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42 min - Billy Porter on Queer UtopiaGlyn has an emotional and raw chat with Billy Porter about the ups and downs of his life and career. From 'learning to be straight' at drama school in the 80s, to being pigeonholed in Broadway in the 90s, Billy looks back on the moments that encouraged him to be true to himself and to find roles where he can express himself freely.
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43 min - Danielle St James on Trans Pride 2023
CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes conversations around addiction.
Glyn sits down with Danielle St James for an honest look back on London Trans+ Pride. Dani is the founder of the charity, Not A Phase, which aims to uplift the lives of trans people. She shares her story from being general manager of nightclubs, through overcoming addiction and continuing the quest for trans equality.
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53 min - VIN + OMI on Collaboration
CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes conversations around suicide and self-harm.
Vin and Omi are creators who together, have built one of the leading eco fashion brands today. Stitch by stitch, they are creating an ideology and their fashion shows have caught the attention of King Charles, Michelle Obama, Debbie Harry and Beyoncé. They share their experience of collaborating as a duo and living as a couple. They openly discuss their neurodiversities and the painful experiences that they each have channelled into creativity. With a punk, DIY ethic at their heart, Glyn gets to know what it's really like to work with your other half.
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38 min - Tom Rasmussen on Being In ControlTom Rasmussen talks about their journey to being a musical artist from their roots in as a drag performer. Tom opens up about their experience of physical violence and how they reclaimed their body and regained control through dance, music and creativity.
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14 min - Jake Shears on CreativityFresh off the back of releasing his solo album 'Last Man Dancing,' Jake Shears chats to Glyn about the creative process in making his music. He looks back on how some of the music from Scissor Sisters was created using answerphone recordings and how he always has his friends in mind when writing music.
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38 min - Josh Rivers on Pursuing JoyJosh Rivers is the creator and host of Busy Being Black, the award-winning podcast centring the lives and experiences of queer Black people. He goes on a trip down memory lane with Glyn, to the early Sink The Pink club days and recalls how he grew to bring a sense of enchantment into his life. Josh works closely with UK Black Pride and attributes his successes to choosing to follow his own joy and listen to words of affirmation.
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48 min - ABSOLUTE. on Self-Belief
ABSOLUTE. aka Anthony McGinley, is a DJ and producer who's roots are in queer clubbing. Anthony and Glyn were flatmates during lockdown and when they weren't drinking wine or watching Real Housewives, Anthony was in his bedroom creating music that he's now been able to play in clubs around the world. This episode, reveals the level of self-belief needed when trying to break through in the music industry.
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34 min - Kadiff Kirwan on AuthenticityKadiff Kirwan found his love for drama at school and is now a critically acclaimed actor in television & theatre. Kadiff shares his journey with Glyn as he looks back on the emotional time when he came out as gay to his religious family. Kadiff talks about how his lived experiences as a gay black man, inform his work as an actor and how he strives to promote authenticity within his roles.
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27 min - Dustin Lance Black on StorytellingGlyn chats to Oscar winning screenwriter and producer, Dustin Lance Black. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 'Milk' which tells the story of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. In this honest and emotional conversation, Glyn finds out the story behind the creative and finds a young man who dealt with coming out as gay within the Mormon community by building tiny worlds in shoeboxes. They discuss the importance of retelling LGBTQ history and providing a space for the future generation to learn from the pains of the past. Since marrying Olympic diver, Tom Daley, Dustin openly reveals how to protect their personal life and relationship from the pressures of fame. Dustin also reveals how he chose to take a chance meeting to find love over a potential work project with J.J. Abrams.
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About We Can Be Heroes
From the publisher's feed
From being a misfit in society to a hero for a community, We Can Be Heroes is a podcast that celebrates people who have pushed through boundaries to achieve an inspirational level of success.…
Hosted by LGBTQ+ icon, Sink the Pink founder and King of the UK's club scene Glyn Fussell, this is a podcast for anyone a bit different.
Glyn will interview inspirational guests who have harnessed the power of being different and turned it into the reason they've achieved the success they have. They'll be bearing it all, talking about their hardships and struggles, but focussing on the triumphs and successes to prove that it's by being ourselves and accepting our individuality that we flourish.
Working his entire life to inspire and be a leader within the LGBTQ+ community, Glyn Fussell has a deep respect for people who work to uplift others, and that's why he believes every one of his guests deserves to be called a hero.
Glyn will be bringing these extraordinary people down to a human level for an intimate chat, working out how they've managed to fight through the struggles. He tracks their journey from finding themselves, to accepting themselves, to embracing themselves and finally becoming a hero and making their differences a superpower.
When you're different, finding a hero to look up to can be hard. Now these role models are in one place for an inspiring series that celebrates the unique!
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