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In a world where we need to stick together, we started a global queer group chat. Queer chat, news and laughs with UK broadcaster and podcaster Graeme Smith joined by special guests and regular contributors from around the world. Including OnlyFans Model and sex tech expert, our resident tart with a heart, Topher. The DIVA Magazine 2025 powerlist nominee and transmasculine icon Paris Munro, Trinidad born UK house DJ Nick Charles and trans reality TV legend Jaxon Feeley. From laugh out loud t ...
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The Live Your Truth Podcast brings you conversations like you have never heard them before! Being a transgender man only 3 years into his transition, and doing it whilst continuing his work as a prison officer, Jaxon has just a few words of wisdom when it comes to leaning into vulnerability and living your truth. He is on a mission to become the visibility he believes everyone needs to see in the world and is living proof that leading as your authentic life and doing what terrifies you on a ...
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Mental Health is one of the biggest concerns of our time. Whether it is Generalized Anxiety, Post Pandemic worry or the Cost of Living Crisis, or other mental issues like eating disorders, OCD or depression - most of us are directly or indirectly affected.Therapist, film maker and author Lynn Crilly talks to some of the wonderful people she has met on her journey, talking about all things mental health, and sharing doable simple strategies, so you and the people you love can enjoy better men ...
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OUTCAST WORLD residents the queer writer, journalist and Only Fans model Topher Taylor and Loud Brown Gays podcast host Nick Charles join Graeme Smith for a groupchat to talk through the latest happenings for LGBTQ+ people around the world: Has the rapid rise of Trump and the American evangelical right wing created an existential crisis for the LGB…
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Graeme Smith and his husband Steven John travel to Trinidad and Tobago to launch series 6 of OUTCAST just days after the country’s shock court ruling recriminalised homosexuality, reinstating a colonial-era law that now carries a 5-year prison sentence for same-sex intimacy. In this on-the-ground exclusive, OUTCAST WORLD meets Jason Jones, the acti…
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Healthy eating, exercise and mental health are key aspects of Albert Guerrera’s life and writing influence - he details his path as a retired technical sales engineer to writing about health, wellness and longevity. Learn to manage anxiety and depression with proven methods in Albert’s newest book- The Elephant in The Room : Anxiety - available now…
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The week after Esther Ghey accepted the Attitude award for her daughter Brianna posthumously at a ceremony in London attended by the great and good of the LGBTQ+ community. We got Esther and close friend Jaxon Feeley, who presented the award on the night to sit down in a studio in Manchester to chat about that awful period, what she learned and how…
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The worldwide hit LGBTQ+ show Heartstopper is back on Netflix for its highly anticipated third series. Just ahead of the launch, Bradley Riches caught up with Graeme Smith live in the studio in London to talk about how he got on the show, navigating life as a queer autistic person and how it really was in Celeb Big Brother earlier this year. THIS I…
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The app that changed the way we love, make friends and hook up at it's 15th birthday. In this special programme, The LGBTQ+ journalist and author of "Gay Man Talking" Daniel Harding looks into how the community are using the app we all take for granted. Watch this episode on our Youtube - search for thisisoutcastworld ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- L…
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Graeme catches up with the amazing Kitty Scott Claus with news of the new Ru Paul’s Drag Race Global All stars launching this week around the world. The best queens from around the world go head to head for £200k in cash! Also back to the fringe in Edinburgh for a catch-up with the legendary Kate Butch whose standup drag show has had the critics so…
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UK Black Pride took place on Sunday 11th August 2024, just a week after racist violence erupted on the UK's streets. Far right rioting, violent public racist attacks and inflammatory rhetoric have left some people of colour fearful or in their own homes. The UK's black and brown population have barely begun to process what has gone on. UK Black Pri…
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Graeme is joined in the studio by Daniel Harding the author and LGBTQ+ journalist to talk about the 15th anniversary of Grindr and his special documentary that you can watch exclusively from OUTCAST UK on your Spotify feed. Daniel is also the author of best selling LGBTQ book "Gay man talking" and has a new book coming next year called "Letters to …
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UK LGBTQ rapper James Indigo has been delighting audiences around europe and hitting us with sexual energy to his music like "Daddy's coming home" and rapping about being a top and "D Print" for the last few years. The Birmingham born queer rapper with a staunchly catholic mum mixes his Jamaican / British background with his queer perspective on po…
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The Labour Party has won the UK general election with a landslide majority. Traditionally seen the party of LGBTQ+ progress, there has been little in the way of support through the general election campaign as they sought to avoid any difficult issues. So will the new occupant of number 10 be our friend? In this special episode that was broadcast o…
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The creator of "the other blue pill" podcast, HIV and prep expert Phil Samba from The Love Tank drops in to talk all things prep, getting access to it, and also new developments in sexual health like doxy pep. Graeme Smith and Topher Taylor host. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a revie…
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This week we speak to our favourite Lesbian from Leeds, the editor in Chief of DIVA magazine, Roxy Bourdillon. Roxy is in talking about making a new radio show and podcast about the recent Lesbian nightlife explosion and has a book due out next year. We talk about the journey from a 13 year old who passed off her interest in women as just feminism …
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One of the stars of new UK LGBTQ movie Bonus track drops in to chat to Graeme Smith and Topher Taylor.Bonus track is a story of young love, with reminders of "Heartstopper" and mid 90s queer classic "beautiful thing". Samuel drops in to explain why its so important to be involved in a film like this. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and subscribe …
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Trans model, influencer and activist Kenny Ethan Jones drops into the studio to talk to Graeme Smith and Topher Taylor about his new book "Dear Cisgender People". Kenny's mum was hugely supportive of his transition and despite the loss of her a few years ago, he still owes her acceptance, love and support everything. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Li…
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Hosted by Graeme Smith and Topher Taylor from the studios of Virgin Radio Pride. We hear exclusively from Esther Ghey, mother of Brianna Ghey, ahead of her documentary with Jason Feley for Virgin Radio Pride 2024. Kevin McGrath has the latest from Pride Daily and we talk through the week's LGBTQ+ happenings. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and su…
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Liam McDonald is in the studio with Graeme Smith this week, chatting about the latest happenings and events across the queer diaspora. Get involved on Tik Tok and Instagram just search PLAYOUTCASTUK. Includes a news update from Kev McGrath at Pride daily. THIS IS OUTCAST UK ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and subscribe wherever you get your podca…
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Topher Taylor and Graeme Smith are in the studio talking about what the Diane Abbott story says about us as a nation and the NHS stopping giving puberty blockers to under 18's.Plus a check on the week's LGBTQ+ news stories with Kev McGrath from Pride Daily.THIS IS OUTCAST UK ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and subscribe wherever you get your podc…
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Emmy award winning actor and fashion model, Greg Vaughan, joins Jacob and Trent to dive into his life as a father and his experience living abroad in Europe early in his life and his path back to his home in Dallas. Plus, the current challenges of breaking into the acting world and his current experience working on Days of Our Lives.…
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There has been an explosion in STIs in the UK in the last decade. But at the same time government funding for the services that treat potentially life threatening conditions has been dramatically cut in real terms. We speak to sexual heath expert Dr John White this week to discuss access to sexual health services and the ease of Hep C testing durin…
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With the shock news of queer strictly veteran Robin Windsor's passing this week, Graeme Smith talks to his friend David Allwood about grief and loneliness.We're also talking about the film that has cinema audiences in tears - all of us strangers AND how queer dance collective Homoparody is bringing the community together in London.Plus Kev is here …
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Our resident tart with a heart Topher is fronting this week's episode and takes Graeme along to the Grabby awards pre party in London. The great and good from the European gay porn industry throw an awards bash once a year with best bottom, best top and best collab. Thanks to sites like Only Fans, adult stars are no longer under the control of the …
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This week Graeme is talking through some of the world's biggest queer news with the New York born actor and podcaster Cameron Bernard Jones.Including the significance of Colman Domingo's Oscar nomination for the black queer community. Why Google have used the mid 20th century author civil rights activist and author James Baldwin.Also the worsening …
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This is the full conversation showing just Jax and Sharon speaking as they chatted with Homosapiens podcast in their first interview together. Jax and Sharon both speak open and honestly about their journey dealing with Jess transitioning to Jaxon, what that was like as a family, how it impacted each individual and what they have done to get to whe…
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Jax speaks to GP leads within the North West of the UK talking about his story, the power of your own mind and doing the scary things in life. Jax does not centre his story around gender, but how he has overcome several transitional periods in his life and how we are all in transition in one way or another. We have to learn how to adapt to the chan…
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Graeme is joined by cancelled queer artist Liam McDonald to chat through all the goings on across the LGBTQ+ diaspora of late. Including the obsession with Gypsy Rose and why the senate twink is all of us. Also we also ask if chemsex has in fact peaked or is it still going strong after surveys show crystal meth use in the Manchester gay scene is hi…
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Sex educator, and Gay London Life columnist, Topher Taylor, joins Graeme Smith in the studio to chat about his Only Fans page featuring him performing with downlow straight guys interested in making anon p0rn.Includes a check on the latest LGBTQ+ news stories making the headlines right now with Kev McGrath from Pride Daily. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD…
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Here's Kev McGrath from Pride weekly with a roundup of the LGBTQ+ happenings from around the world this week. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a review. This helps us become easier to discover. Please take time to rate the show and if you're enjoying the podcast then take time to commen…
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Paris Munro from Gaydio breakfast joins Graeme Smith to chat through some of the worlds biggest LGBTQ+ news stories.Including an extended chat about the latest on the sad news this week about the death of Sophie Anderson just weeks after her partner. ---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD --- Like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a r…
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A mid week catch-up on the week's biggest queer news and chat with special guest Jaxon Feeley.Part two of Graeme Smith's interview with Jaxon Feeley from Channel 4 show Banged up - Stars behind bars. We talk about his reaction to increases in anti trans violence after the murder of Brianna Ghey in Warrington. As a trans man from nearby Wigan and so…
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Jaxon Feeley is a transgender male former prison officer who now appears on the new Channel 4 show Banged up- stars behind bars. Before this he worked in a prison in Wigan where he decided to transition with full knowledge of inmates. Jaxon gained their respect with his bravery and honesty and now a week ahead of organising the huge "live your trut…
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For World AIDS Day 2023 we got the experts in for a chat about all the latest news in the world of HIV. The amazing people behind The HIV podcast - Jessica Harding and Sarah Macadam join Graeme this week. Jess and Sarah are also the bosses of the HIV charity Thames Valley Positive Support and provide much needed support to people with HIV in Berksh…
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Chatting through the week's queer news stories is LGBTQIA activist David Allwood, the winner of Gold at Mr Gay GB 2022, Silver at Mr Gay World 2023 and founder of Homoparody.Minutes before the episode recording, Graeme learned of the sudden death of Oliver Spedding, the partner of Sophie Anderson and that Sophie herself is in hospital following the…
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We are back and after a check on the week's queer news stories with Kev from Pride Daily. GRAEME SMITH talks to Houston based author TATE BARKLEY. His new book outlines his battles with alcohol and partying and how he hit rock bottom and lost his law firm. After a friend paid for him to go into rehab, he built his life back up again. Tate’s 24 year…
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With Graeme still indisposed (he says moving his life from Manchester to London but Kev does not believe this)... Kev McGrath is on hand with a roundup of this world's queer news thanks to our new partnership with Pride Daily.Graeme returns next week with guest US based author, LGBTQ+ advocate and recovering alcoholic Tate Barkley. ---THIS IS OUTCA…
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A roundup of the weeks biggest LGBTQ+ news stories from around the world.Queer news man Kev McGrath sits in for Graeme Smith this week and he is back with a preview of his own podcast called Pride Daily. It's a roundup of the days LGBTQ+ news and it will be partnering with OUTCAST UK on our regular episodes to keep us upto date with the queer news …
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