A Gay and A NonGay

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LGBTQ+ Football with Ryan Atkin Jul 14, 2022

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We've extended Pride Month for a special chat with The FA's first ever openly gay referee Ryan Atkin ⚽️🏳️‍🌈. We discuss Jake Daniels coming out as the UK's first openly gay footballer, homophobia in sport, the forthcoming World Cup in Qatar and how football can be used to drive positive change in the world. We love this episode.

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Happy Pride! Acast's Audio Pride Parade Jul 04, 2022

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Pride is a protest! LGBTQIA+ people face challenges and obstacles that heterosexual people don’t and today we proudly join podcasts all over the world by marching in Acast's Audio Pride Parade.

James chats about growing up gay in his home town, and Dan tells us how how he celebrates pride as an 'ally'. Happy Pride babies. Next up in Acast's Audio Pride Parade: Homosapiens!

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This Arab Is Queer with Elias Jashan Jul 01, 2022

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For Pride Month, the boys are joined by Elias Jashan, ‘Priti Patel’s worst nightmare’ and editor of the new Anthology This Arab Is Queer, the first of its kind featuring the memoirs of eighteen Queer Arab writers.

What inspired Elias to put together this book? Which was the memoir that had him in tears in a coffee shop? (Spoiler alert - he won’t tell us!) And with such a focus on family, is it always harder for LGBTQ+ Arabs to come out?

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Why is Love Island So Straight? With Sharon Gaffka Jun 24, 2022

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As Pride Month continues, James and Dan battle logistical difficulties to welcome Love Island’s Sharon Gaffka, who came out as bisexual on the show in 2021.

For the first time ever, she talks at length about her sexuality, coming out on the show, being trolled online and being fetishised by straight partners. Plus, how *actually* logistically difficult is it to make Love Island less straight?

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Ella Vaday Jun 16, 2022

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James and Dan are joined by West End icon and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK finalist Ella Vaday! Nick shares his coming out story, we talk life after Drag Race and Ella’s new film Sumotherhood. Plus get ready for our new quiz show 'Ella Vaday or Theresa May' 👀. Happy Pride Month!!!

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Happily Ever Trans with Jake and Hannah Graf Jun 11, 2022

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It's Pride Month and James and Dan are back with a whole host of fabulous guests.

First up, Jake and Hannah Graf the UK’s first transgender parents.

Jake is an international multi award winning director, writer and actor.

Hannah is formerly the highest ranking transgender officer of the British Army.

We talk about trans dating, why life is so much harder for trans women than trans men - and James and Dan find out if Hannah and Jake will end up in the Dragon’s Den.

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Straight Jokes Jun 02, 2022

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Burn the bridge Becky. People keep telling James he's "too gay". In this episode we hear about James' new stand up hour 'Straight Jokes' and his experience working as an openly gay man in the media.

Get tickets for up-coming dates in London, Manchester & Edinburgh at www.jamesbarrcomedy.com 🏳️‍🌈. Love you babes.

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A Stand-Up Guy May 20, 2022

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Do all straight white men live in Kent? James thinks so 😝. Dan's learning stand up comedy and we reflect on his enormous success at the Shakespeare Marathon - he's raised over £6000 for Marie Curie Solihull in memory of his mum and counting - but James is bored of hearing about all of his many media appearances. Jealous much?!

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Diversity and Inclusion for Straight White Men May 12, 2022

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Dan and James are joined by Suki Sandhu OBE. He's a CEO and author of the book, A Judgement-Free Guide to Diversity and Inclusion for Straight White Men

On the agenda - How can you tell when a business is just pinkwashing? Should social media companies give allies rainbow ticks? And why can't we say BAME anymore?

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Dark Rooms in Deutschland May 05, 2022

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James and Dan are joined by multi-award winning film director Sebastian Meise to talk about his new film The Great Freedom. We learn all about the history of Paragraph 175 that criminalised homosexuality in Germany, plus his research trips to dark rooms and the beauty he found 👀.

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