A Gay and A NonGay

It's episode 250 of A Gay and A NonGay!!! Dan finally agrees with James on a long standing issue... Plus we're joined by screenwriter, fierce activist, academy award winning Dustin Lance Black. There's powerful moments on allyship, the UK's inaction on conversion therapy and we chat family as Dustin describes his journey to fatherhood with Tom Daley. WE LOVE YOU! Thank you so much for listening. Here's to the next 250! Your donations keep us going, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate! Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We hardly ever hear queer love stories so to celebrate Pride Month we welcome our first ever couple, BBC Radio 1 presenter Adele Roberts and her fiancé, actress Kate Holderness. James and Dan debunk some lesbian stereotypes, talk about overcoming shyness, showing up for pride and being yourself. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're joined by RuPaul's Drag Race royalty and stars of the West End's hilarious new show Death Drop, Willam and Latrice Royale! James is excited, Dan less so. The girls discuss crazy Drag Race contracts the UK's future at Eurovision and to celebrate Pride Month there's a special 'Things That Drag Queens Can't Say', where we find out TMI about Dan. Get tickets to our Big Gay Show LIVE at Underbelly Festival London at www.gaynongay.com/live. Click here to see Willam & Latrice Royale in Death Drop - A Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're starting Pride Month with power lesbian realness. Franco Stevens is one of the most important and influential figures in lesbian visibility. Today we chat about Franco's amazing story forming Curve Magazine, the documentary movie 'Ahead of The Curve' and her work to empower lesbian, queer women, trans women, and non-binary people. Happy Pride month. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is excited that a rock song won Eurovision.... Dan less so. Plus, James gives his informed opinion on Glastonbury and the annoyance of NonGay events clashing with #Pride. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan and James are both fed up with Lewis Capaldi being straight/boring. Plus is James cheugy? Get tickets to our Big Gay Show, visit www.gaynongay.com! Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James has posted his bum all over the internet, there's a Things Dan Cannot Say and a big gay announcement about our Big Gay Show!!! For more details check out gaynongay.com Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James had had an awakening, and we discuss Fat Mike's lack of showering. Support our podcast at www.gaynongay.com/donate. Buy our merch www.gaynongay.com/shop Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Britain's favourite priest Richard Coles joins us to chat about partying in Ibiza in his 20's, being openly gay in the church and his late husband's battle with alcoholism. We LOVE this episode! "God has no problem with (being gay) at all, the institution may have. You just have to live your life. God loves you, as you are, doing what you do". Join our family and support our podcast, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is causing drama in his family WhatsApp group. Dan doesn't want to talk about Fat Mike. Thanks for listening to our podcast today, join our chosen family at www.gaynongay.com/donate. Kisses. Mwah. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan and James are joined from California by legendary punk rocker Fat Mike of NOFX. This is an explicit episode. It's quite the ride through BDSM, cross-dressing, sex dungeons, live-in sex slaves and being abandoned by your friends. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's two weeks since the final of RuPaul's Drag Race and James refuses to credit Dan with correctly predicting the winner (spoiler free)! Plus, is metal homophobic? Dan and James discuss the reaction to metal star Roddy Bottum's proudly gay 'Man On Man' album cover. Support our podcast and help us to create more meaningful conversations, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate to become our patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Singer, icon and LGBTQ+ ally Louise Redknapp joins us on A Gay and a NonGay today. We talk about the importance of her LGBTQ+ fans, playing alongside Britney, and how her mum thinks her gay friends are why she’s single. She also offers her support for the transgender community on International Day of Transgender Visibility. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 1000 days since the U.K government promised to ban conversion therapy but still hasn't. James and Dan reflect on their BBC Radio 1 documentary 'Tell It: From Gay to NonGay' and chat to the co-director of CURED, a BFI Flare Festival documentary about the activists who brought about a 1973 victory in the movement for LGBTQ equality: the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Bennett Singer's movie perfectly explains that to 'cure' LGBQ+ people, we only need to be accepted. So why do Church and religion play a huge role in perpetuating stigma, discrimination and physical harm towards people because of their sexuality? We witnessed this trauma when we interviewed former Christian singer Vicky Beeching during our series about gay conversion therapy, 'Tell It: From Gay to NonGay?' and thanks to BBC Sounds, you can hear an incredibly moving preview from our series in today's episode. It's not an overly triggering episode, but we will issue a low-key trigger warning here just to be safe. Email us about 'conversion therapy' at any time, we're here to help - [email protected] LINKS: Listen to our BBC Sounds series. Search 'Tell It: From Gay To NonGay' in BBC Sounds or your fave pod app. You can also visit bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p099dnbw For more information and support on any of the issues discussed, visit some of our friends and organisations at gaynongay.com/resources CURED is available UK-wide as part of BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival until 28 March at bfi.org.uk/flare and find out more about the documentary at cureddocumentary.com Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women are not safe. James and Dan chat about the toxic behaviour of some straight men towards women and James realises how our shame prevents us from speaking out. Plus Dan wants gays to stop calling everything 'iconic'. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're celebrating #InternationalWomensDay with esteemed author Juno Dawson. We ask Juno about the state of trans in the U.K. Are things better or worse for trans people, and how things currently are for trans youth following the landmark High Court ruling against puberty blockers for children. Her new book 'What’s The T' is an exploration of what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the 21st Century, a go-to handbook for the young trans and/or non-binary queer community and their allies. Find out more about Juno and buy her books - https://www.junodawson.com/ Stonewall’s statement on the puberty blockers ruling - https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-high-court-puberty-blockers-ruling Support trans youth! Head to https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ and https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James and Dan are joined by award-winning activist and writer George M. Johnson - their memoir 'All Boys Aren't Blue', a story of growing up black and queer in America, is People Magazine's Best Book of the Year and a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color. We talk to George about the micro-aggressions black people face everyday, the fetishisation of black queer people, why 'Blackness is inherently queer' and Dolly Parton. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'I prayed to God to make me a girl'. James and Dan are joined from New York by Abby Stein - the first woman and the first transgender woman to be ordained as a rabbi by an orthodox institution. She talks about her life growing up in a strict community, coming out - first as non-religious and again as transgender - and offers a ray of hope to LGBTQ+ people trapped by orthodox institutions. Abby is the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community, this is her story. For more information on leaving orthodox communities visit Footsteps.org (USA) and Mavar.org (UK). Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan finds James' new found love of Valentine's Day hilarious, do the admin returns for a bisexual special and only Dan could end up leaving the food bank with food. #Sourdough. Support A Gay and A NonGay visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month in the U.K. and we’re joined by historian, sexual health and LGBT rights campaigner Lisa Power - talking medieval gays, the early days of the AIDS crisis and her work on It’s A Sin. Lisa's given us A LOT of amazing admin hun, check out the following links and resources for more on Britain's gloriously rich LGBTQ+ history. For more information on LGBT+ History Month visit https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/ Mark Ashton from Lesbians and Gays Support The Miners https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/library/mark-ashton-the-embodiment-of-pride/ The Switchboard Log Books https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/log-books-podcast-uk-queer-history.html Jeffrey Weeks https://www.ucl.ac.uk/campaign/jeffrey-weeks Dr. Daryl Leeworthy https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daryl_Leeworthy Noreena Shopland on Twitter @NorenaShopland Museum Wueerator Dan Vo on Twitter @DanNouveau Dusty Springfield is gay! https://www.vice.com/en/article/j577kp/dusty-springfield-lgbtq-lesbian-biography Nancy Spain https://www.advocate.com/women/2017/3/18/women-who-paved-way-celebrity-journalist-nancy-spain Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James and Dan take an HIV test for National HIV Testing Week in England. Plus there's a RuPaul Things Dan Cannot Say special and is James stereotypically gay? The Terrence Higgins Trust hope to end new cases of HIV in England by 2030. If everyone knows their status and is on treatment, it’s impossible to pass HIV on. Order your free HIV kit now, head to https://freetesting.hiv/. For more support and information about HIV and AIDS visit the Terrence Higgins Trust - tht.org.uk. In the USA visit HIV.gov. Check out our two-part documentary The London Patient: A Cure For HIV https://podfollow.com/gaynongay/episode/303ce7284482456271b9c06a6a755224bb1a6639 Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After binge-watching Russell T Davies’ iconic Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin, James and Dan reflect on the AIDS crisis and the similarities to Covid-19 for LGBTQ+ people. The Terrence Higgins Trust hope to end new cases of HIV in England by 2030. If everyone knows their status and is on treatment, it’s impossible to pass HIV on. Order your free HIV kit now, head to https://freetesting.hiv/. For more support and information about HIV and AIDS visit the Terrence Higgins Trust - tht.org.uk. In the USA visit HIV.gov - Check out our two-part documentary The London Patient: A Cure For HIV https://podfollow.com/gaynongay/episode/303ce7284482456271b9c06a6a755224bb1a6639/view Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan refuses to admit that he 'fancies' one of the queens on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Meanwhile, James is triggered by the deletion of his Wikipedia page and the general existence of acclaimed author James Barr. Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/. Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan’s got a new radio show and James is a fan, apart from the music. Dan is updated on the latest gay slang and we find out why James is talking about Dan in therapy. Listen to 'Dan With the Sickness' on Spotify. Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/. Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is excited about 'twenty-twinky-one' but Dan is more excited about 01/21 - the month of Birmingham. Who are the 'gays over Covid' and what good news can we take from 2020? ...anyone? Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/. Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some of our favourite, most inspirational moments with our favourite people to end an otherwise triggering year. It's going to be okay. Featuring Amanda Jette Knox, Beau Dyess, Chaz Bono, Dr. Ranj, Muna, Mark Fletcher, Rob Halford & Will Young! Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/. Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The magic of Queermas is upon us. James welcomes LGBTQ+ ally Santa back down our chimney for a third year but Dan's had enough... introducing Mrs. Claus AKA Divina de Campo from RuPaul's Drag Race U.K! Santa has a sassy new drag wife but she's only married him for the money. Divina and James get excited about RuPaul's Drag Race U.K Season 2, whilst Dan gives his thoughts on the Frock Destroyers new album. Spread some festive cheer/queer in our new Facebook group, a safe and inclusive place for our listeners to be who they are, visit www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is emotional about Little Mix but Dan's ready to get our guest on. Today we're joined by the brilliantly funny, feisty, and fierce Jamie Windust to talk about their new book In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life. Dan’s seen Jamie in a coffee shop ‘by the BBC’ and thinks they’re brave. Is that insulting? We talk about their dating experiences with ‘chasers’, being cut off from family… and ask if we're part of the problem. Thanks for coming to our TED talk, watch Jamie’s here https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_windust_support_for_trans_people_isn_t_radical_it_s_urgent Support for trans people isn’t radical, it’s urgent. Shop our inclusive merch now, with 10% to Mermaids, visit gaynongay.com/shop. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James checks in on Dan after a worrying Instagram photo and updates everyone on the minutes from his relationship AGM. Do you have meetings with your partner? Let us know, join our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Join our exclusive Christmas party for Patron's by supporting our podcast. Your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully one day lead to acceptance for many. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ to sign up. Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're so over transphobia. Today James and Dan welcome Beau Dyess to understand where it comes from. Beau found himself at the heart of the 'Gender Critical' Movement between 2018 and 2020. Today he joins the boys from Seattle to discuss the realities of TERF extremism. Please note that this episode was recorded before Beau shared his gender identity with the world. We're proud of Beau for sharing his story here and can't wait to witness more of their truth going forward. TERF extremism is a threat to trans and LGBTQ+ people. For more information: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/truth-about-trans https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ thetrevorproject.org Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is unhappy to discover his dog's sexuality and Dan's collection of asexual teddies are moving out. Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more - gaynongay.com/donate/ Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - gaynongay.com/shop/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan is offended by James' attempts to ‘support’ heavy metal. Would you rate someone you’d slept with? And do nongays have body image issues too? Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy International Metal Day. Today on the podcast we are joined by the rainbow of metal, the Metal God himself, Rob Halford, frontman for Birmingham heavy metal legends Judas Priest. Wahey. Rob came out as gay live on MTV in 1998, today we chat about his incredible journey as the gay frontman of one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world - his coming out, his meeting with Cilla Black at Buckingham Palace and his friendship with Lady GaGa! Today he offers his support to outsiders in the LGBTQ+ community and this episode is a really important reminder that not all gay people are the same. Get those leathers on and strap in… Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ . Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is celebrating the all new non-homophobic version of Fairytale of New York but Dan has a questions. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pope Francis has endorsed gays! Or has he? And we catch up with a listener who allegedly spills the tea on some allegedly gay priests, allegedly. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James wants to talk about his love life but Dan has a lot of musings. It's international pronouns day! Here's a few simple ways you can make our trans and non-binary family feel safe; Include your pronouns in your social bios. Share your pronouns on your email signature. Respect peoples pronouns like you'd respect someone's name. Pronouns are just pronouns not "preferred" pronouns. Remember that some people don't have pronouns and just go by name. Share your pronouns, wear your pronouns. Visit gaynongay.com/shop to buy our pronoun t-shirt now, 10% goes to Mermaids! Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Metal God Wrote A Porno. Dan has booked a legend onto the show for International Metal Day, but it’s all just porn to James. Get ready for International Pronouns Day! Visit www.gaynongay.com/shop to support our trans and non binary friends, every purchase gives 10% to Mermaids. Support our podcast, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan needs to say sorry to Will Young, there's a 'Things Dan Cannot Say - World Mental Health Day special' and James is answering your questions about depression in a 'non-depressing' way. - If you're struggling with an extended low mood, Switchboard.LGBT offer a safe and confidential space for us to chat. Call 0345 3 30 30 30. In the U.S, The Trevor Project offer 24/7 support to young people feeling suicidal, or in need of a safe and judgment-free place to talk, call the TrevorLifeline now at 1-866-488-7386. - Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ . - Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James and Dan are joined by singer, actor and author Will Young. We talk about how to overcome gay shame plus Will opens up on his struggles with love addiction, disassociation & dealing with homophobic attacks throughout his career. [email protected] . If you need help dealing with gay shame or any of the issues talked about in this episode, please contact: LGBT Foundation - 03453 303030 - lgbt.foundation . Switchboard LGBT Helpline - 0300 330 0630 - switchboard.lgbt/help . If you’re struggling with love or sex addiction, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous can offer life changing support. Visit SLAAUK.org . Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ . Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan and James catch up with Bright Light Bright Light and Mark Fletcher, the CEO of Manchester Pride. Mark opens up about the racism and fetishisation he’s experienced whilst running the festival, and the unexpected resistance he faced last year when Manchester Pride adopted the racially inclusive flag, with brown and black stripes. We also catch up with our fave queer music artist (and creator of our theme tune!) Bright Light Bright Light to hear about his new album Fun City and how he’s coping with a lack of ‘physical’ Pride events this year. Bright Light Bright Light’s amazing album Fun City is out NOW - https://orcd.co/funcity This episode was recorded in line with strict social distancing measures. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When did James know he was gay? When did Dan know he was nongay? And why did Dan say goodbye to his "dream beard / mohawk"?. Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/. Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ . Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James’ birthday is ruined by trolls. Plus Dan now thinks he looks like Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson (??) Is Dan delusional? Let us know in our listener group, head to facebook.com/groups/gaynongay ---- Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit gaynongay.com/donate/ Share your pronouns! Wear your pronouns! Support trans lives, shop our new merch gaynongay.com/shop. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's show we welcome actor and transgender man Chaz Bono to the show. In his own words he wanted to talk to us about his experience to help combat the many misconceptions about trans people that exist in the UK. We talk about his own coming out experience, his sadness over JK Rowling's transphobic comments and how you live life when Cher is your mom! ---- Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ If you enjoy this, check out A Gay, A Nongay and A Trans with Juno Dawson Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is back from his camping trip and he's got a PSA, trim your bush! Plus is Dan a ‘Debbie Downer?’ Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With so much erasure in the world, we felt it was time to catch up with British electronic pop legends Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, aka Erasure. They tell us about seeing George Michael on Grindr, being mistaken for other gay pop stars in Italy and comforting Boy George when radio stations wouldn’t play his song. Check out Erasure's brand new album 'The Neon' Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump follows Boris Johnson by stealing one of Dan’s catchphrases, and why on earth is YMCA his walk-off music? Also this week - do gay bars discriminate against bisexuals? Share your stories of discrimination, in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s two exclusives this week. After his viral sensation The Great Realisation, the boys welcome incredible poet Tomfoolery onto the podcast to hear his new LGBTQ+ ally poem Never Have I Ever. Meanwhile, Dan reveals his past life as a poet... Share your poetry, join our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully one day lead to acceptance for many. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do cooking pasta, crossing your legs and going to Paris have in common? Plus Dan’s been chased down the road again, this time it’s not a dog, but a Karen. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee now with 10% to Mermaids, - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ . Join our listener group, www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully one day lead to acceptance for many. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a very difficult, upsetting and triggering episode. Today we’re joined by director David France to talk about his latest film Welcome To Chechnya. "Unmatched since Hitler, it’s a government led campaign to round up and eliminate all LGBT people. The Final Solution…happening before our eyes" Since April 2017, the government in Chechnya has initiated state sanctioned murder, forced disappearances, abductions, imprisonment, torture of LGBTQ+ citizens - with an unknown number of people dying after being detained in what human rights groups call concentration camps. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov denies all of the above - or that gay people exist in Chechnya, stating that such people would be killed by their own families. In some cases, gay men have been let out of prison, specifically to enable their murder by relatives. David’s latest film Welcome to Chechnya shines a light on a vast underground network of safe houses, contacts, and pipelines created by Russian LGBTQ+ groups to help vulnerable LGBTQ+ people escape these horrors. Please consider donating to the Russian LGBT Network, head to https://help.lgbtnet.org/en Watch Welcome to Chechnya on BBC iPlayer in the UK or HBO in the US. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan's beard pics are getting all of the likes on instagram, James is annoyed. Do straight men enjoy thirsty attention from The Gays™? Plus has the 'Karen' insult run its course and James has a theory on J.K. Rowling. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices