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QueerAF is the award-winning (more than a) podcast with beyond-the-binary stories, mini-documentaries and live podcast events about queerness, history, sexuality, gender and identity from the UK’s only press-regulated not-for-profit LGBTQIA+ publisher.

QueerAF helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media. All our shows are created by a different budding LGBTQIA+ audio producer who we mentor and support to create an inspiring queer story. As well as a mix of mini-documentaries and limited series, look out for our live podcast specials, with celebrities, activists and inspiring speakers.

The podcast, with its roots and first four seasons in collaboration with National Student Pride, and later seasons with Trans+ History Week gives young queer creatives a crucial leg up on the career ladder. For many, it is their first paid audio commission. Our alumni have gone on to work at some of the UK’s biggest media organisati,ons including the BBC, Global and Gaydio.

Audio Production Awards 2025 ‘Changemaker’ Award – Gold

ARIAS 2021 ‘Impact Award’ shortlisted

British Podcast Awards 2020 ‘Moment Of The Year’ – Bronze

Five British Podcast Awards nominations

Download and take the UK’s best LGBTQIA+ inspiring stories podcast with you. Get the show in all the places podcasts exist.

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcast/

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

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Get updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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Latest Episodes:

Going back to my old home, to uncover the UK's first ever Trans+ conference May 20, 2024

Show notes

Did you know that 50 years ago, Leeds held the UK's first-ever Trans+ conference?

This week, Alexander Parnham Cope, a trainee broadcast journalist at City University specialising in data and investigative journalism travels back to a city he called his home.

In Leeds he uncover the curious and little-known history of the city, which held the UK’s first ever Transgender conference some fifty years ago. Leeds welcomed transgender people to its hotels and halls then. It is proud of its history of supporting trans people now.

Meet one of the organizers of a 50th anniversary celebration of the conference Luna
Join us for a walking tour of the city's queer sites with Kit Heyam
Interview with one of the last surviving members of the Trans group of the Gay Liberation Front, Roz Kaveney
End this episode loving Leeds's little-known but inspiring gender-diverse history.

Season five of the award-winning QueerAF podcast is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ people and gender-diverse communities with our first-ever launchpad project, Trans+ History Week. Every Monday, for the coming weeks right up to and through Pride season - we’ll be bringing you a new episode from a budding Trans+ audio professional whom we’ve paid, published and mentored to make you a beautifully crafted story about Trans+ history.

Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

Here is the article we recommended:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-gallae-transgender-priestesses-of-ancient-rome/

Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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Live Episode: Sex Education's Felix Mufti and Anthony Lexa May 13, 2024

Show notes

A live recording of the QueerAF podcast on the history-making TV representation In Sex Education:

Guest host Kenny Ethan Jones, the first trans man in a period product ad campaign
Stars of Sex Educations's T4T storyline Anthony Lexa and Felix Mufti
A discussion about the power of on-screen representation, creating inclusive stories about Trans+ communities and what it was like to make that visibility for Sex Education.

This episode was recorded in front of an audience of 200 people in London's Canary Wharf at our first ever Trans+ History Week community event. Make sure to subscribe for the whole season ahead, with a new mini-documentary episode out on your feeds every Monday from now, all the way through Pride month.

Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM

Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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Season 5 | Trans+ History Lesson You Never Had May 06, 2024

Show notes

This season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, it’s time for the history lesson we never had.

Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here to take you through the millennia-old history of gender-diverse communities.

Knowledge of our past is fundamental for our liberation, and launching during the first-ever Trans+ History Week - we’re back, and like any good comeback, we’re kicking off with a live event with Netflix’s Sex Education T4T couple, Felix Mufti and Anthony Lexa.

It’s time to collect, surface, and share our community's rich history, all the while, with our trademark stamp, investing in Trans+ creative talent, buying them equipment to keep forever, supporting them to change the media, and, yes - telling you beautiful stories.

Season 5 of QueerAF, with our first ever launchpad project, Trans+ History Week, is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ communities all over the world. Launching into your podcast app on May 13th, 2024, and out every Monday right the way through Pride month.

We are QueerAF, and so are you.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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MPOX: Just What The Pox is going on? Sep 07, 2022

Show notes

This is just episode one, of QueerAF's new podcast about Monkeypox. it has stories and resources without shame or stigma - "It's what I wish I'd had." Listen to the whole series by searching 'What The Pox?'...

Monkeypox. That’s what What The Pox? is all about - a ‘poxcast’ if you will. Quite a lot of people have got it or had it at this point. I’m one of them. And it was not fun.

When I was home alone with Monkeypox in all kinds of pain, feeling scared and alone I had very little information. So I went online to find help.

And guess what? There wasn’t much official advice.

But I did start talking to all kinds of people: experts, people who’ve had the virus, and to those who see this outbreak as part of a much bigger picture.

We’ve spoken to those on the frontline of the response, and trying to understand this virus, including at 56 Dean Street, NAM Aidsmap, Prepster, Love Tank, London School of Hygine and Tropical Medicine and many more. It features contributors from the UK and US.

What The Pox is the information and support I wish I had at my disposal when I was going through Monkeypox.

Monkeypox is spreading worldwide - and for many of us queer people, the response feels a bit too familiar. You see history rarely repeats - but it often rhymes.

Tune in to steal our insight on this virus, what it means for our community and how we should handle it. Together, let's work out just What The Pox? is going on?

Listen to understand:

What we know about the virus, and how it spreads

Why we feel shame and stigma about catching it

What the parallels are with the HIV outbreak in the 80s

Why this sits in a bigger picture with conversations about queer sex and health inequalities

And crucially: What can we do next?

Because before you start listening: I’ll let you in on a secret - we have the tools to manage this outbreak; we’ve just got to use them.

It comes out every Wednesday, or you can sign up to support our show - and unlock all the episodes as soon as they are ready in the archive coming soon below.

The first episode is out 7 Sep, 2022.

Let's keep the conversation frank, honest, open and alive. Because, to borrow a phrase, silence = pox.

Hosted by me, Martin Joseph, an award-winning podcaster and comedian. What The Pox? is a QueerAF production.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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The media is failing queer people: This is how to change it Jan 25, 2022

Show notes

Can we tell you how to change the way the media writes about queer lives? It’s a change we need urgently.

From transphobia led by the press, media getting it wrong and regulator Ofcom and the BBC signalling, queer lives are up for debate. It’s a growing pattern that is spilling out onto the streets in the form of rising hate crimes. It’s time for an organisation to fight back. To advocate for us in the media. To show change is possible by commissioning and then supporting the voices who are too often left behind.

Meet QueerAF, our new community interest company that builds on the previous work we've done here as an award-winning podcast.

Find out how we're going to launch the careers of LGBTQIA+ emerging creatives - with a platform funding content, creatives and mentoring for people from marginalised queer identities - bring back the podcast. And show change in the media is possible.

Or, make it possible. Join us here: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/podcastoffer/

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex? Mar 16, 2020

Show notes

Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex?

Yes, it’s here. Another fantastic episode ahead by #QueerAF regular producer Jacob Edward. And this week, we’re talking about a spectrum of feelings when it comes to sex, the differences between asexuality and sex shame plus Jacob, who used their portfolio to get a job Radio One’s first non-binary presenter shares boldly and bravely.

Listen to the latest episode and subscribe (rate and review) #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere.

Support

https://switchboard.lgbt/

Producer Jacob Edward

First nonbinary presenter on @BBCR1 (Xmas 19) | Either on a train or on the radio | Gaydio Presenter, Queer Culture Podcast and Twitch Streamer.

https://twitter.com/ItsJacobEdward

LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

Eve Westwood @evewestwoodmusic

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Ts3DNDq3puCRk0r3duPD8?si=lch3fVa2TZ21k1sxO6DZug

National Student Pride 2020

This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

Carving out space for womxn in the community
Queer Sex
Disability
Researching the Rainbow (STEM)

Visit www.studentpride.co.uk

We are #QueerAF. And so are you.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can you be single, queer and happy? Mar 09, 2020

Show notes

How can you be single, queer and happy?

Growing up in the 90’s things seemed pretty simple.

You get to your mid-twenties, find someone you are attracted to who lives in close proximity, get married and live a happy life. But Martin could never relate to any of this because he is gay.

Cut to now, aged 32 and a little jaded by love – he has no desire for marriage or a partner. But can he still be happy?

On today's episode of #QueerAF, he goes on a journey to find happiness and comfort in being single...

Listen to the latest episode and subscribe to #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere.

Support

https://switchboard.lgbt/

Producer Martin Joeseph

Podcast Producer - ‘Voices With Sally Morgan’ / ‘The Clueless Mum’ – Host - 1/3 Of @realbrunchpod

https://twitter.com/mynamesmartin

LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

Girl In Red: Kate’s Not Here

Girl In Red on Instagram @girlinred

National Student Pride 2020

This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

Carving out space for womxn in the community
Queer Sex
Disability
Researching the Rainbow (STEM)

Visit www.studentpride.co.uk

We are #QueerAF. And so are you.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Access All Rainbows: Being LGBT+ and Disabled – Live Episode Mar 02, 2020

Show notes

Recorded live as part of National Student Pride, at the University of Westminster in collaboration with the university's Creative Enterprise Centre: We present Access All Rainbows.

Join our conversation about being LGBT+ and disabled, considering; Hidden disabilities, access, perceptions on ability and, support in relationships.

The Speakers:

Jamie Wareham – University of Westminster Alumni Jamie Wareham is the Head of Digital Production at Attitude Magazine and host of National Student Pride's podcast #QueerAF. Jamie recently spoke at the inaugural WINC festival about coming to terms with his hidden disability, and how that has become part of his wider queer intersectional identity.

Callum Dziedzic –Callum is a script editor working in TV drama. He is an alumnus of the University of York’s Film and Television Production degree and Channel 4’s Production Training Scheme. Since graduating he has assistant script edited Ackley Bridge at The Forge, and Giri/Haji, a contemporary bi-lingual thriller produced by Sister Pictures for BBC Two and Netflix. More recently, Callum has developed an international nuclear armament thriller with Pulse Films and Netflix and has returned to Sister Pictures to script edit an upcoming comedy drama for BBC Two.

Callum was born with Tetraplegic Cerebral Palsy and uses a manual wheelchair for mobility. To him, the act of storytelling in film and television is intrinsically inclusive and universal. Ultimately, a great story can come from or captivate anyone, and it should not just be regarded as a means of self-expression but also as a way of levelling the playing field for all.

Char Bailey - Char is a celebrity life coach, acclaimed writer and speaker. Black, lesbian and autistic woman, she is the co-host of the Qmmunity podcast and well-being ambassador for UK Black Pride

See more:

https://mailchi.mp/westminster.ac.uk/2019wincfestgallery

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/qmmunity/id1438250877

National Student Pride 2020

This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

Carving out space for womxn in the community
Queer Sex
Disability
Researching the Rainbow (STEM)

Visit www.studentpride.co.uk

We are #QueerAF. And so are you.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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Dustin Lance Black, Lady Phyll, Evan Davis | Building Our Queer Family's Future Feb 23, 2020

Show notes

A live episode of #QueerAF, guest hosted by Evan Davis with Dustin Lance Black and UK Black Pride's Lady Phyll.

An Oscar-winning screenwriter and the co-founder of UK Black Pride chat to BBC broadcaster Evan Davis to headline our daytime festival (Sat 22 Feb).

Dustin Lance Black first appeared at National Student Pride in 2015 and has gone on to start a family with Olympic diver Tom Daley.

Lady Phyll is a trailblazer within the UK LGBT+ community. As well as co-founding UK Black Pride, she sits on multiple boards including Stonewall and the Trades Union Congress.

This exclusive talk will be released as a live episode of our #QueerAF podcast.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you get a haircut to work out how to be queer too? Feb 17, 2020

Show notes

Does Rosa need to get a queer haircut to feel part of the community?

That’s what she explores in her university town of Bristol this week on #QueerAF.

Meeting the towns local queer hairdresser who has been helping trans, non-binary and LGBT+ people feel more at home with the identity they want to show to the world.

And despite Rosa’s love for her femme, long hair. She wonders after seeing so many people get empowered by having the chop – whether she wants to or should have a queer haircut too.

Something, by the end of this episode she resolves – for better or worse.

Subscribe to #QueerAF now on Spotify, Apple and podcast apps everywhere.

Producer Rosa Eaton

Rosa Eaton is the Charles Parker Award winning Radio Producer, Theatre Maker and Artist. Eager to tell true stories, with a special in sex and death. (She/her)

https://twitter.com/RosaEaton

LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week:

Dan Bowskill’s Lick It Back is on YouTube. https://youtu.be/YavrQn7rUDM

Find Dan on Twitter @morethanmusic1

National Student Pride 2020

This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:

Carving out space for womxn in the community
Queer Sex
Disability
Researching the Rainbow (STEM)

Find out more about the festival, back on the 21st-23rd February, and visit www.studentpride.co.uk – where we have yet another amazing star-studded live podcast recording on the main stage.

We are #QueerAF. And so are you.

Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project:

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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