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OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat

Queer news, sex, politics and culture — all in one smart, funny and sometimes outrageous group chat. Hosted by Graeme Smith with guests from the UK, US, and beyond. From anti-LGBTQ+ laws to pop culture scandals to TRUMP. It’s the world from a queer perspective and it’s totally uncensored.With the best guests and interviews in the LGBTQ podcast world.Winner of GOLD at THE BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS"As well as compelling debates, this is also a lighthearted podcast in many ways.. an eclectic mix of

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31:53

Adam from I Kissed a Boy: HIV, Heartbreak & Telling...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/09/16

He kissed a boy. Then told the villa — and the whole country — he was living with HIV.Adam Williams went onI Kissed a Boylooking for love — and ended up schooling the nation on HIV and therapy.OnOutcast Worldthis week, Graeme Smith gets the goss straight from the masseria:Coming out (again) — this time on reality TV and ultimately the entire internet.Therapy, trauma, and trying not to cry on national telly.The truth about undetectable = untransmittable.Dating apps, reality TV edits, and managing a

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21:22

Junaid Ahmed: Queer, Muslim and Unfiltered on TOWIE

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/09/10

Junaid Ahmedis one of the most visible queer Muslims on British television — and he’s doing it on one of the UK’s most-watched reality shows.AsThe Only Way is Essexreturns toITV2 and ITVX on Sunday nights at 9pm, Junaid sits down with Graeme Smith to talk identity, faith, fame and the reality behind the reality TV.In this candid conversation, Junaid reflects on:Coming out as a British-Pakistani MuslimNavigating fame, faith and familyThe pressures of visibility in both the LGBTQ+ and Muslim

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26:52

Should We Ditch the Apps? Daniel Harding on Queer...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/09/01

On this week's Outcast World, Graeme Smith is asking the big question:should we finally ditch the dating apps?Author and broadcaster Daniel Hardingjoins the show to talk about the impact of his best-selling bookLetters To My Younger Queer Self, and his new project hitting the streets to find out how queer peoplereallyfeel about swiping, hookups, and love in 2025.Then, it’s music time with UK Eurovision girlbandRemember Monday, back with their summer anthemHappierand a Desperate Housewives-inspired

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35:54

Manchester Pride Uncovered: B*Witched, Jsky, Paris...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/08/26

Outcast World goes live fromManchester Pride 2025with Graeme Smith and Nick Charles right at the heart of the action hosting a podcast and radio show from the site on the afternoon of Graeme's stag doo in the city!As well as speaking to some modern Manchester queer icons and old school pop legends, we're essentially hosting the entire podcast outside on the street whilst getting ready to go "out out". For one of the last Big Pride's of the season we're headed back up North.Singerand Manchester

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27:02

Under the Ayatollah’s Gaze: Queer, Iranian, and Unseen

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/08/21

“This feeling I was nurturing… was punishable by death.”This week on Outcast World, Graeme speaks with writer and doctor Majid Parsa, author ofThe Ayatollah’s Gaze—a compelling story about growing up queer in the Islamic Republic of Iran.We explore forbidden desire, the underground queer scene in Tehran — full of joy, glamour, and danger — and what it means to party knowing your social gathering at home with friends could be raided at any moment.Majid opens up about gender performance, state

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28:49

TOWIE Essex Drama to Insta famous Floral Drama –...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/08/15

This week we’re going full cultural yin and yang.First,Harry Eric Derbidge(The Only Way Is Essex, ITV2 & ITVX) spills on the brand-newTOWIEseason kicking off this Sunday at 9pm – expect sun, sea, and classic Essex drama.Then, we swap spray tans for sculptural blooms withHamish Allan Powell, the Instagram-famous florist making waves in high-end floral design. This conversation comes fromThe BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!Podcast – for all things ART, QUEER.CULTURE.From reality TV to floral fantasy – two very

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34:37

Grindr, China & the Curse of the Andrews – Kuan-wen...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/08/05

Kuan-wen Huangis a queer, Taiwanese comedian, writer, and actor based in London. He’s appeared onComedy Central,BBC, andChannel 4, and has become a standout voice on London’s comedy circuit. Now, he’s bringing his brand-new one-man showAndrews Are The Worstto the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.In this episode ofOutcast World, Graeme Smith sits down with Kuan-wen to talk about heartbreak, hookup disasters, Fringe burnout, and the suspicious pattern that every villain in his life seems to be called

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40:51

Running the Church: LGBTQ, HIV-Positive… and on the...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/07/28

The Church of England just met to decide the future of LGBTQ+ people in the Church — again. Still no equal marriage. Still no full acceptance. Still a fight.This week, Graeme speaks to Phillip Baldwin — a gay man, HIV-positive, and one of the few openly queer members of the Church’s General Synod. From inside the Church’s governing body, Phillip takes us behind the scenes of a system still struggling to recognise LGBTQ+ lives with dignity.It’s a raw conversation about faith, identity, and what it

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21:23

Cliff Joannou on Queer Media, Coming Out & Culture Wars

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/07/22

What happens when you gather some of the most fabulous, fearless minds in queer media around a breakfast table? OUTCAST WORLDtakes you inside theBOYS! BOYS! BOYS!Breakfast Club — with legendaryAttitudeEditor-in-ChiefCliff Joannoufront and centre.Cliff is a defining voice in queer journalism — shaping the stories, covers and controversies that have marked a generation. In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about:🌈 The power and pressure of queer media🗞️ HowAttitudestays relevant in

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51:35

Do Ask, Do Tell: Darkrooms, Drag & Queer Chaos with...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/07/15

In this episode, Graeme Smith is joined byStu OakleyandLotte Jeffs— co-authors ofDo Ask, Do Tell, the bold, funny, and radically honest new book that lays queer life, love and culture bare.Stu is a film publicist who’s worked onStar Wars,Harry Potter, andJurassic World. Lotte is a genderqueer journalist, novelist, children’s author, and formerELLEeditor. Together, they’re also the co-hosts of the award-winning podcastSome Families— the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ parenting show.InDo Ask, Do Tell, they take

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28:06

Post Glasto Double Drop: Bob Vylan & the Rage Machine

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/06/30

Bob Vylan at Glastonbury sent the outrage machine into overdrive.We’ve scoped 24 hours of GB News to bring you every pearl-clutching reaction from the self-declared defenders of free speech.But here’s the twist: our guest, sex educator and writer Topher Taylor, actually knows someone from Bob Vylan personally — and brings rare, real-life insight into the kind of person behind the noise.THIS EPISODE CONTAINS AUDIO OF RECENT NEWS EVENTS THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND UPSETTING.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD

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27:53

Post Glasto Drop: Kneecap, Censorship & the Minister...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/06/30

As the Glastonbury Festival heatwave rolls on, the political outrage is just warming up.Graeme and Nick Charles unpackKneecap's headline-grabbing set and the pearl-clutching reaction from MPs and a media desperate to censor a culture they don’t understand.Did The 1975 let us down with the announcement mid set they didn't want to do politics.. to only then go and sing a load of inherently political songs. There's also Bob Vylan and the stage chants that got police attention.Are we all compelled to

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27:22

Jordan Burrow: From reality TV show ‘I Kissed a Boy’...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/06/23

Reality starJordan Burrowwon hearts onI Kissed a Boy—the BBC’s flagship queer dating show hosted byDannii Minogue—but his story goes beyond the groundbreaking global hit show.In this episode, Jordan opens up about using his platform to start real conversations: from coming out in a remote rural village, his love of football and sports, to his bold message onthe biggest billboard in Manchester UK, dedicated to his dad during Men’s Mental Health Week. The powerful image, featured inAttitude, made

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37:00

Kitty Scott-Claus: My grief for The Vivienne &...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/06/15

Graeme Smith sits down with UK drag royaltyKitty Scott-Claus, who opens up like never before.As a finalist onworldwide TV show - RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars, Kitty is riding high — but the past year has brought huge personal change. She speaks movingly about her friend and fellow queenThe Vivienne, and the impact her tragic passing had on the drag community. Kitty reflects on Viv’s strength, visibility and vulnerability — and how her loss underscores just how much pressure drag performers

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22:43

SlutDrop - Topher drops by

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/06/09

Cute lil catchup with Topher and Graeme. Topher is the sexual freedom awards writer of the year 2025 and a longstanding OUTCAST alumni.Once again his services have been in demand on various podcasts to talk about him dating downlow guys, it's worth unpacking what the appeal and issues are.And a chat about coercion and bribery in the chemsex scene, how criminal gangs are getting people into compromising situations in order to exploit them.---THIS IS OUTCAST WORLD ---Like and subscribe wherever you

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28:48

Queer grief is different

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/06/02

Graeme Smith is joined by writer andQueer I Ampodcast hostAndrew Flewittfor a deeply personal conversation aboutqueer grief— the kind that isn’t always spoken about, but lives quietly inside so many of us.Andrew’s new book,Do You Believe in Life After Loss?, explores the grief queer people carry: the loss of lovers, of friends taken too soon — and the quieter griefs too. The ones tied to shame, family estrangement, and the delayed onset of emotional adulthood many LGBTQ+ people experience because

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35:46

WHAT A GIRL WANTS? - DIVA's Roxy Bourdillon joins the...

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/05/27

This week we chat to Roxy Bourdillon, the editor in chief of DIVA magazine, the world's biggest media outlet for queer, trans and non binary women.Roxy has a new book called "What a girl wants" in which she charts the path of her teenage, sexually unsure self all the way to heading up one of the world's biggest queer media outlets, even using her teenage diary entries along the way.Nick Charles also joins the chat for a bit and updates us on his mum who listens all the time from Trinidad. Get well

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39:14

“Dear Younger Me...”

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/05/19

This week onOUTCAST WORLD, Graeme and newly crowned Sexual Freedom AwardsWriter of the YearTopher Taylorare talking about how Trump's budget cuts in the US have impacts for queer people everywhere. We’re joined by journalist and authorDaniel Harding, whose new bookLetters to My Younger Queer Selfis already being called essential reading. Together, we ask: what wouldyousay to your younger queer self if you had the chance?Plus:💬 Topher on winning big whilst being queer — and why it matters.💬 Daniel

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28:23

Queer groupchat: Trump / Reform and the Conclave

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/05/12

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 LGBTQ community?What the success of REFORM UK will mean for queer people in the UK?And Nick has some highly unconventional theories about the selection

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00:25:26

Gay and illegal - OUTCAST UK from Trinidad

OUTCAST WORLD - The queer group chat ·

2025/04/23

Graeme Smith and his husband Steven John travel to Trinidad and Tobago to launch series 6 of OUTCAST UK 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 UK meets Jason Jones, the activist taking the Trinidadian government to the Privy Council in London — the last hope for decriminalisation, not just in Trinidad, but for millions of

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