Episodes

  • 19: EP 18 - Bathhouses Out Of Business: The Future Of Queer Saunas

    19: EP 18 - Bathhouses Out Of Business: The Future Of Queer Saunas
    Jun 30 2021
    Rory tries to establish what has led to gay saunas going down the drain by speaking with Southampton's Pink Broadway owner Nick Batt, Nottingham Trent University's Professor of Psychology, Rusi Jaspal and former sauna employee and customer, Antonio Blanche.
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    21 mins
  • 18: EP 17 - Bad Hair Day: The Queer Experience of Barbershops

    18: EP 17 - Bad Hair Day: The Queer Experience of Barbershops
    May 16 2021
    Rory delves into the fear and anxiety many Queer people face when getting a haircut by speaking to non-binary barber C.J. Hernández, who was kicked out of a barbershop at age 14 for not being male and community organiser Dez Marshall, who sought a barbering licence to protect other LGBTQ people from facing her negative experiences.
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    23 mins
  • 17: EP 16 - Out On The Inside: Access To Education For Queer Prisoners

    17: EP 16 - Out On The Inside: Access To Education For Queer Prisoners
    Mar 31 2021
    Rory highlights the positive effects of education for Queer prisoners by speaking with former art teacher and author of Inside & Out and Released Inside, Phil Forder. He also chats to writer and Trans rights in prison advocate Dalton Harrison.
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    26 mins
  • 16: EP 15: It's A Sin: Forgotten Queer History of HIV

    16: EP 15: It's A Sin: Forgotten Queer History of HIV
    Feb 19 2021
    Rory and Nic Desborough chat with Seyan Sarvan of Channel 4’s hit show It’s a Sin and Human Rights Campaigner Ceri Hutton about the forgotten Queer history of the HIV and Aids crisis of the 1980s, exploring themes brought to light by the show. This episode was recorded for Roundhouse's celebration of LGBT+ History Month.
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    35 mins
  • 15: EP 14 - The Death of Cruising: End of a Queer Era

    15: EP 14 - The Death of Cruising: End of a Queer Era
    Jan 17 2021
    Rory analyses the rapid decline of what was once a queer rite of passage by speaking to writers Jeff Leavell and James Greig - both of whom have written about their experiences of cruising in different eras.
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    24 mins
  • 14: EP 13 - Queer Censorship: Silenced On Social Media

    14: EP 13 - Queer Censorship: Silenced On Social Media
    Dec 20 2020
    Rory looks at the negative effects that shadow banning and algorithms have had on the online presence of the queer community. He speaks to sex workers Livia Roth and Jack Hunter, as well as portrait artist JBG, all of whom have been hidden, silenced or removed from social media.
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    26 mins
  • 13: EP 12 - Separated By Gender: The Queer Experience of PE

    13: EP 12 - Separated By Gender: The Queer Experience of PE
    Dec 5 2020
    Rory questions whether many queer people's problematic behaviour with fitness stems from their experiences of PE. He speaks to University of California Santa Cruz student Ash Whipple as well as writers Jordan Page and Rosie Hewitson to get their respective views on exercise as a trans person, gay man and queer woman.
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    28 mins
  • 12: EP 11 - Queer Life In Poland: LGBT-Free Zones

    12: EP 11 - Queer Life In Poland: LGBT-Free Zones
    Nov 17 2020
    Rory examines the harsh reality of Poland's LGBT-Free Zones by speaking to activist Bart Staszewski and Polish Drag Queen collective Slav 4 U, who recount their experiences of growing up queer in an overtly homophobic country.
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    30 mins