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Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties

How do queer spaces help to shape people's lives?  Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ communit

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Sometimes on this show we talk about spaces that my guest went to religiously, and they have stories

What do you do when Malcolm McLaren, that hugely influential promoter and manager for punk rock band

What do you do when you're a drag queen who wants to get more gigs? Well, that's simple - y

Who doesn't love a bit of competition? I'm rarely happier than when there are dreams to cru

Who doesn't love a bit of competition? I'm rarely happier than when there are dreams to crush, plan

So, if you are a long time listener of this show you will probably know that I am on a bit of a ques

Picture it. It's an evening sometime in 2012. You've met up with a guy from one of the app

Sometimes being in a new location, surrounded by strangers and new-ness, is just the thing that you

I recognise that it's a total romanticisation, but I have a really soft spot for small-town gay

If you've ever wondered what 90s New York City was like, then today's episode is the one for

So, we talk a lot on this show about new, fresh, exciting love (or, let's be honest, lust!), and

Have you ever fallen in love with your best friend? Because - spoiler alert - it's a terrible,

So when I talk about the importance of queer spaces I'm usually thinking about the fact that the

So, if you ask me reality TV, as awful and cringey and addictive and delicious as it is, has been mo

Sometimes I feel a bit dumb (or maybe just a bit sheepish) about some of the revelations I have thro

You know how they say that no matter who you fall in love with during the course of your life you&#3

You know how sometimes these conversations are only very, very, very tenuously linked to a queer spa

I am kind of intrigued by this phenomenon of queer men feeling more comfortable in a lesbian bar tha

Out of all of the musicals you could possibly blame for making you gay, I would have guessed that Le

Ok, this might be a weird thing for me to admit... but, before this week's conversation, althoug