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
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I'm so grateful to this trans woman for pioneering electronic music
Season 5 · Episode 10
Monday, July 22, 2024 • Duration 31:24
Figures like Wendy Carlos not only defined the genre but were also instrumental in developing the modern synthesizer. Meanwhile, SOPHIE redefined the boundaries of pop and experimental music. And then there are the musicians and sound artists working today. All Trans+.
Learning about how they came to their craft, exploring where they have blurred the lines between music and other mediums as well as asking why transgender musicians and artists are drawn to these genres in particular, this episode (the final of season five) explores Trans+ History Week's theme: We are more than Trans+, with guests:
Cai Gwilym Pritchard (they/them) – Sound Designer, Noise Artist and Writer
Chi B Williams (she/her) – Sound Artist, Writer
Zoe Blade (she/her) – Musician, Writer and Programmer
Roshanak Kheshti (she/her) – Writer and Academic – University of Berkeley
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The little known trans history I discovered in the UK's most famous museums
Season 5 · Episode 9
Monday, July 15, 2024 • Duration 34:03
Rehangs at art museums are rare. The last one at Tate Britain was in 2012. Whilst galleries will make small changes to their on-display collections, these are small, only happen every few months and usually happen for specific reasons (such as an item going on loan to another gallery).
But each rehang gives an art gallery to make a statement on what its mission as an institution is. A statement that visitors will likely see for ten or more years. So it's a big deal that Tate Britain and the National Gallery both increased the amount of LGBTQIA+ representation in their recent rehangs. This week's producer, Mills Dyer explores some key Trans+ history they reveal, with guests:
Live Episode: Sex Education's Felix Mufti and Anthony Lexa
Season 5 · Episode 1
Monday, May 13, 2024 • Duration 34:28
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.
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Season 5 | Trans+ History Lesson You Never Had
Season 5
Monday, May 6, 2024 • Duration 02:03
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.
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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?
The media is failing queer people: This is how to change it
Season 4
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 • Duration 04:41
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/
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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.
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...
Access All Rainbows: Being LGBT+ and Disabled – Live Episode
Season 4 · Episode 6
Monday, March 2, 2020 • Duration 30:45
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
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Dustin Lance Black, Lady Phyll, Evan Davis | Building Our Queer Family's Future
Season 4 · Episode 5
Sunday, February 23, 2020 • Duration 36:41
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.
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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.
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