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Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties

lost queer spaces

How do queer spaces help to shape people"s lives? Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ community? What is the impact of losing these spaces? Lost Spaces explores these questions (and more!) through conversations with members of the LGBT community. Each week host K Anderson sits down with a different guest to discuss a space from their past, why it was important to them, and how it helped shape who they are. Expect conversations about coming out, going out, and getting down. And snogging

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00:31:53

"A Slice Of Lesbian Reality That I Had Never Seen" -...

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2022/08/17

* This episode is sponsored by Spaces, the new group chat app for queer communities - find out more at https://www.queerspaces.com/ (and, come join the Lost Queer Spaces Space after you've set up your profile! * Picture it. It's 1989. Maud's, one of the only lesbian bars in San Francisco, is about to close down permanently. And, in its last few days a plucky film crew sets up to document the final days of the bar, celebrate the women who went there, and mark the importance of such a space. I know

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01:00:05

"He Took Me To My First Gay Club" - with Jonathan...

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2022/08/10

* This episode is sponsored by Spaces, the new group chat app for queer communities - find out more at https://www.queerspaces.com/ (and, come join the Lost Queer Spaces Space after you've set up your profile! * You know how when you were a baby gay and you had to someone pluck up every single shred of courage within you in order to make that first visit to your local queer bar, and how you had to go through the emotional acrobats just to make that first step through the front door? Well.... my

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00:53:32

"Every Bachelorette Party Seems To Be At A Queer Bar...

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2022/08/03

*Before we dive in to this week's episode - did you know that I also write a weekly newsletter? I'd love to spend a little time in your inbox! If you want some queer shit once a week sign up here - https://tinyurl.com/lostspacespod * One of the perverse things about doing this podcast is that when I'm talking to a potential guest and they say that all of the bars that were ever significant in their life are still open, instead of me responding 'Yay! That's great news! Queer spaces are thriving', I'm

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00:34:17

"We Call It The Gaybourhood Here" - with Maurice...

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2022/07/27

*Before we dive in to this week's episode - did you know that I also write a weekly newsletter? I'd love to spend a little time in your inbox! If you want some queer shit once a week sign up here - https://tinyurl.com/lostspacespod * So, you're new to a city... You know no-one... The job you moved for has since disappeared, and you've got to start from scratch... Where do you go to meet people? How do you make new friends? Well, how about... Facebook? (You thought i was going to say your local gay

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00:50:05

"I Think A Lot Of Gay People Go Through That" - with...

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/07/20

*Before we dive in to this week's episode - did you know that I also write a weekly newsletter? I'd love to spend a little time in your inbox! If you want some queer shit once a week sign up here - https://tinyurl.com/lostspacespod * It's no secret that there's an addiction issue in the queer community, with those identifying as LGBTQ+ more likely to experience an addiction. And there are different theories about why this is - LGBTQ+ people are more likely to experience early emotional trauma, which

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00:31:25

"This Queer Felt That Way..." - with Owen Keehnen

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2022/07/13

*Before we dive in to this week's episode - did you know that I also write a weekly newsletter? I'd love to spend a little time in your inbox! If you want some queer shit once a week sign up here - https://tinyurl.com/lostspacespod * This week we're doing something a little different - we're not going to a bar, a club, or even a community group. We're embracing summer and headed to a lost queer beach! The Belmont Rocks were large limestone rocks on the lakefront of Lake Michigan, Chicago, that

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00:37:20

"I Thought That Coming Out Would Sort Out My Life...

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/07/06

*Before we dive in to this week's episode - did you know that I also write a weekly newsletter? I'd love to spend a little time in your inbox! If you want some queer shit once a week sign up here - https://tinyurl.com/lostspacespod * Coming out later in life brings a whole different set of challenges and questions about identity, community and where you fit in to all of that. This week I was lucky enough to sit down and talk to writer and podcaster Nicholas McInerny, who is the host of Rainbow Dads,

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00:39:09

"The Best Amateur Go-Go Dancer Contest" - with Steve...

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/06/29

*Before we dive in to this week's episode - did you know that I also write a weekly newsletter? I'd love to spend a little time in your inbox! If you want some queer shit once a week sign up here - https://tinyurl.com/lostspacespod * So, my American guests often talk about go-go dancing as though it's this super common thing, and I always feel a bit too dumb to ask too many follow up questions. But, this week I put all of that aside and asked EVERY. SINGLE. DUMB question there is to ask about the

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00:41:51

"Just Being With Each Other In Queer Space... It...

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2022/06/22

Cast your mind back to the year 1999 - we were all worried about the Y2K bug, there's this new cartoon called Spongebob Squarepants, and the queer folk punk duo Bitch and Animal release their debut album 'What's That Smell?'. One of the songs on the album, 'Drag King Bar', documents the band's misadventures at a night called Club Casanova, which was a weekly drag king night held at Velvet in New York City. I was lucky enough to nab some time with Bitch, who is in the midst of touring her latest

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00:37:00

"Because Of Those Women In Those Lesbian Bars..." -...

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2022/06/15

Sweet, sweet love.... Usually on this show when a guest brings up affairs of the heart i’m like ‘ugh, let’s move on…’, but this week I didn't. Maybe it’s the summer weather, maybe I’m mellowing in my old age, but this time i leant right in and learnt all about a significant relationship in social justice singer-songwriter Crys Matthew’s life. And, that relationship would not have happened were it not for the lesbian bar Phase 1 in Washington, DC. We talk all about the evolving nature of language

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00:49:47

"At Night, The Gays Come Out Like Werewolves" - with...

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2022/06/08

You know how I always get overexcited when I learn a new word or phrase on this show? Well, this week I was lucky enough to learn some gay Arabic terms when I sat down to talk to Intesar Toufic about growing up gay in Lebanon. Intesar is an author, stand-up comedian, and patrona of a multinational phone-sex ring. He first started going to Acid, a club that was found in the capital Beirut, when he was in university and had just started to meet other people like him. We talk all about community and

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00:32:32

“Everybody Has A Time In Their Life Where They’ve...

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2022/06/01

Mitzi MacIntosh is the drag persona of the artist Graeme Browning (oh, yeah, and she also happens to be queer Sydney royalty). Graeme moved to Sydney, from Canberra, in the late 80s and quickly established himself as a powerhouse performer, full of the typical down-to-Earth Australian wit and adorned with the most fantastic costumes. It was in the Imperial Hotel, which at the time was owned by Dawn O'Donnell, that Mitzi got the opportunity to really create big, bold exciting drag shows with her

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00:28:23

"Gay Porn And Lube And Poppers And Accoutrements" -...

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2022/05/25

The golden age of cruising... No one has quite pinpointed the exact years of this magical era, but the 70s were definitely a part of it. It was post-Stonewall, so there was a new kind of hope and enthusiasm, and it was pre-AIDs and HIV, which meant there was less shame attached to sex. And, it was at the tail end of the 70s that this week's guest, the award winning filmmaker Glenn Gaylord first moved to LA from Ohio. At this point he was too young to go to the clubs, but too horny to stay home, and

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00:36:48

"I Just Wanted Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay" - with Mark...

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2022/05/18

This thing about fancying straight people... like, I don't get it... is it because they're unobtainable? Is it because we're socialised in a heteronormative society that conditions us to see more value in straightness? Is it because we just really hate ourselves? I don't know... But, luckily I have recovering straight-luster-afterer Mark Perez, co-host of the Star Wars appreciating Pink Milk podcast, to help fill me in. We talk all about Club St. John, a bar in San Jose, California, that Mark

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00:50:31

"Everything We Did Was Queer, Queer, Queer" (with...

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/05/11

A few episodes ago I spoke to the wonderful singer/songwriter Chris Pureka (and, if you haven't heard that chat yet go back and give it a wee listen - I'll still be here when you get back!). After we spoke Chris suggested that I get in touch with their friend, the artist Samantha Nye. Samantha's work is all about a fantasy history and a fantasy future of queer/lesbian pleasure utopias made from references of 1960s pop culture, and so she has lots to say about the importance of spaces in forming and

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00:50:51

"Queer People Were Just Really Pushed To The Fringes"...

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2022/05/04

So, gentrification is a bit of a dirty word around here, and you'll no doubt have heard me talk to at least one of my guests about how gentrification pushes out the queers and the misfits from areas where they once thrived. One of the places in the world that has been totally transformed by gentrification is King's Cross in Sydney, Australia. When I was growing up as a little queer boy in Adelaide, King's Cross was known as a place of debauchery and sin, most famous for the strip bars and

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01:08:04

"Fat People Didn't Exist In The Gay Community" (with...

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2022/04/27

Usually on this show we talk to someone about a very specific time in their life when they went to a particular venue. What we don't do that often is look at the same venue at different time periods, and reflect on the journey and the growth that the person experienced in the intervening years... But, today, James O'Hagan, writer, activist and co-host of the Drag Race recap podcast Sissy That Pod visits to tell us all about two periods in his life going to Break for the Border, a bar in Ireland's

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01:00:14

"I Don't Even Think I Knew Gay Bars Existed" (with...

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/04/20

Have you every had that experience of being 'fresh meat'? When you walk in to a bar and receive all the attention of everyone who is in there? Well, this week's chat threw me back in time to the (admittedly very few) occasions when that's happened to me, and how glorious and all-powerful I felt in those moments! And, who reminded me of those heady days? Well, it's Bryan, the co-host of Pink Milk Podcast, a show that views Star Wars (and its many properties) through a queer lens. Bryan currently

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00:46:30

"Who's Got That Sequinned Thong?" (with Boogaloo Stu)

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/04/13

Very early on in the life of this podcast I had Boogaloo Stu on to talk about the cult London club night Shinky Shonky. And, in lots of ways, that was the episode that helped show me that the concept of Lost Spaces was going to work because suddenly people who used to go to Shinky Shonky were talking about the episode on social media and celebrating all of the good times that they had there. So, I wanted to bring Stu back on the show to talk about the final years of the night, when it had moved from

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00:39:52

"The Queers Will Go To The Queer Spaces" (with Chris...

Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs,... ·

2022/04/06

There's a really interesting conversation in this week's episode about the 'we're all in this together' mentality that queers in small towns have, supporting queer spaces even if they don't particularly enjoy the music or the events held there. And, to show us the way is singer/songwriter Chris Pureka, who took time from promoting their new EP, The Longest Year, to talk all about Diva's, the only queer bar in the small college town of Northampton, Massachusetts. In our chat we talk all about

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