Lost Spaces
lost queer spaces
Alistair Barton is the host of Picking at Perfection, a podcast that aims to explore and break down perfectionist expectations. And on this episode of Lost Spaces we’re doing something a little bit different – instead of visiting a club we’re going to a youth group. Alistair says that the youth group he went to […]
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Jeremy Joseph, the owner of the G-A-Y nightclub chain, spills the dirt on the early days of the club, working with gangsters, and which pop star gave the worst performance in the history of G-A-Y. When most people think of G-A-Y, the iconic […]
This week we are talking to David Paisley, a Scottish actor known for roles in soap operas Holby City, and River City. He is also a tireless LGBTQ campaigner, recently being acknowledged with an Attitude Pride Award for his campaigning against the trans-exclusionary agenda of the LGB Alliance. He first moved to London when he got […]
For a long time Stoke Newington (or Stokey, if you want to sound like you’re a local) was commonly referred to as ‘lesbian mecca’. It had a sizeable queer community, an organic farmer’s market, and a good handful of lesbian bars. Heck, one of the schools in the area, the imaginatively titles Stoke Newington School, […]
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else In ye olden days (ok, like 20 years ago) London used to be full of small neighbourhood queer bars that had more of a community feel than the bigger, anonymous drinking establishments in the West End. And, if it was a lesbian bar […]
This week we are heading back to Bristol to meet Sharifa Whitney James, a Queer, Black activist, footballer, model and facilitator. Originally from Wiltshire, Sharifa moved to Bristol to take a spot at a football academy when she was just a teenager about 15 years ago. And Bristol was the city where she first went […]