QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives6 Mai 2025

Season 6 | Always Been Here, Always Will Be

Do you know who Lynn Conway is? Without her work on the microchip - you wouldn’t be listening to this podcast. Did you know that there are genderqueer ballroom voguing scenes in both India and Wales? How much do you know about the eccentric Reed Erikson, who funded research into dolphin telepathy and pioneering gender-affirming surgeries when no one else would?

This season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, we’re back for more of the history lesson we never had - with Trans+ History Week.

Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here with stories from Trans+ history to help us understand the queer world we live in now - plus how we can march for our future.

Knowledge of our past, is fundamental for our liberation. So we’re back with our trademark stamp, investing in Queer and Trans+ creative talent, buying them equipment to keep forever, supporting them to change the media, and yes - telling you beautiful stories.

Season 6 of QueerAF, is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ communities all over the world. Look out in your podcast app for a special live recording with Philsophy Tube and House of Dragon’s Abaigial Thorn with Netflix’s Sex Education’s Anthony Lexa May 7th, and the whole series comign out in June, and all the way through Pride season.

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The triumphs, trials and conundrum of Trans+ journalist Jan Morris

June 2nd 1953, London, England. Coronation day of Elizabeth the second, who would at the age of twenty seven become Queen of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth Nations, but that morning m...

31 Aug 30min

How to create a grassroots pride, without any corporate sponsorships

Margate Pride has been around for ten years, and depending on which local you ask, it celebrated its tenth, or 11th, anniversary this year. See, that’s the thing about local and regional queer stories...

24 Aug 25min

Trans+ life in the UK is more than concerning - what next?

Recorded in February 2026 at National Student Pride, a live recording of the QueerAF podcast, hosted by Juno Dawson, with guests Munroe Bergdorf, Zelah Glasson, Lars Fellows and Fizz Sinclair - the pa...

17 Aug 55min

The transgender refugees finding sanctuary in the North of England

The north of England has a long history of welcoming migrant communities, despite a growing far-right movement growing in the region. Indeed, immigration is an integral part of the history of the UK. ...

10 Aug 33min

What is solidarity, really? And how can you do it justice?

Allyship, solidarity. They’re words that are banded around a lot. Allies often ask how to show solidarity, and marginalised queer and Trans+ folks try their hardest to give ever-increasing practical i...

3 Aug 32min

Why are NHS gender clinic waiting times so long?

Rachel Taylor MP told the UK Parliment, "waiting times for gender affirming healthcare are nothing short of a national scandal". Speaking, using almost word for word our reporting in the Gender Clinic...

27 Jul 30min

Ian McKellen on Shakespeare, Magneto and LGBTQIA+ activism

Our show began as a collaboration with National Student Pride, where we worked with budding students, building audio production careers and giving them their first published work. The organisation, wh...

20 Jul 40min

How to build a better relationship with the news as a LGBTQIA+ person

News overwhelm is an increasing issue, making more and more of us switch it off - four in ten of us now say we selectively avoid the news. But this is at a time when we need to be even more keyed into...

13 Jul 53min