Queer Margins

This week's episode is with the co-founder of Queer Britain, the UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum, Joseph Galliano. Joseph and I spoke over the phone in the first half of 2020. It's the first time I've spoken to him but I've been to a couple of Queer Britain's events over the last few years- and they're always brilliant. I've been so excited about Queer Britain ever since I firs

Lisa Power's achieved so much during her life: she helped set up Stonewall, worked at Switchboard, was the policy director at the Terrence Higgins Trust and is now on the board at Queer Britain and was a consultant on Russell T Davies' new series 'It's a Sin' (more of which in the interview). When I spoke to people for series one Lisa's name popped up so many times in various place

HAPPY LGBT HISTORY MONTH Making Gay History has been a top listen of mine for years, so when I started doing this series I knew that I wanted to ask Eric Marcus to join me for an episode. I've listened to the Making Gay History podcast and Eric's soothing voice so many times, so when he said he's be on the Queer Margins I was over the moon. We spoke about Making Gay History (obviou

This episode I talk with the owner of Attitude Magazine Darren Styles. Attitude is the biggest gay magazine in the UK and has been around for 26 years. Darren bought Attitude back in 2016 when it was failing. Since then it's gone from strength to strength, with subscription numbers, followers on social media and online monthly user growing all the time- that and with the continued

Welcome back to a brand new series: Queer Margins in Quarantine. This series I'm focusing on talking to some of the most interesting people working within the LGBTQ+ community. I wanted to talk to these people during lockdown to find out how their work is changing but also to chat about what their lives are like normally. You can read more about that on the instagram page at @Queer

This is the last episode of the series Old Queens. And in this episode I'm talking to Dr Rupert Whitaker. Colin from episode one introduced me to Rupert when we were at an event for the National HIV story trust. And a week or so later I went round Rupert’s house in South London to chat to him.

Rupert’s a psychiatrist and has been living with HIV since the early 80s and he

This episode is the penultimate one of the first series and I wanted to post it as part of Lesbian Visibility Day. Diana messaged me on Twitter to tell me that I didn’t have enough trans people on the podcast, so I asked if I could talk to her for an episode. Diana told me she knew she was different from the other people in her class from a young age and when she was able to she

I met Chris last year at an event at the City of London Guildhall linked with the project AIDS Since the 80s. We started talking at the cloakroom and it transpired that he had a lot of stories so I met up with him a few weeks later in his house in Vauxhall and chatted over his dining table. The film that Chris mentions he worked on which raised a lot of awareness about HIV can be f

Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner whose work has meant the LGBTQ+ community have taken HUGE steps forwards over the decades. You probably know he’s been massively influential in the queer movement and has been involved in so many groundbreaking campaigns. 

I got into contact with Peter Tatchel a couple of months ago. 

I feel like I’ve always been aware of hi

I met Marc at an event at the Guildhall thrown by the organisation Aids Since the 80s. Jonathan Blake introduced us both and suggested I talk to Marc for this series. A few weeks later I went to Marc’s house in Brixton to chat to him. He lives just across the garden from Jonathan and when I got there I was greeted by a very excited dog and a cup of tea. We spoke about Marc’s up