QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives
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QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗

QueerAF is the award-winning (more than a) podcast with beyond-the-binary stories, mini-documentaries and live podcast events about queerness, history, sexuality, gender and identity from the UK's only press-regulated not-for-profit LGBTQIA+ publisher.


QueerAF helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media. All our shows are created by a different budding LGBTQIA+ audio producer who we mentor and support to create an inspiring queer story. As well as a mix of mini-documentaries and limited series, look out for our live podcast specials, with celebrities, activists and inspiring speakers.


The podcast, with its roots and first four seasons in collaboration with National Student Pride, and later seasons with Trans+ History Week gives young queer creatives a crucial leg up on the career ladder. For many, it is their first paid audio commission. Our alumni have gone on to work at some of the UK's biggest media organisati,ons including the BBC, Global and Gaydio.


  • Audio Production Awards 2025 'Changemaker' Award - Gold
  • ARIAS 2021 'Impact Award' shortlisted
  • British Podcast Awards 2020 'Moment Of The Year' - Bronze
  • Five British Podcast Awards nominations


Download and take the UK's best LGBTQIA+ inspiring stories podcast with you. Get the show in all the places podcasts exist.

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https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

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84 episodes
since June 21, 2016
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The triumphs, trials and conundrum of Trans+ journalist Jan Morris

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 much of the United Kingdom was already celebrating. News had broken that four and a half thousand mi…
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How to create a grassroots pride, without any corporate sponsorships

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 and history. You often have to rely on one of the queerest forms of communication to find them out…
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Trans+ life in the UK is more than concerning - what next?

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 panel explores Trans 2030, what life is like now and how Trans+ lives have changed. Without National…
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The transgender refugees finding sanctuary in the North of England

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. While that’s in part due to a horrific colonial past, today we would hardly be anywhere without it.…
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What is solidarity, really? And how can you do it justice?

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 insights. But what do those words, really mean? How do you do justice to the work? Only by trul…
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Why are NHS gender clinic waiting times so long?

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 Files - an investigation into the length of waiting times for NHS gender identity clinics (GICs) -…
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Ian McKellen on Shakespeare, Magneto and LGBTQIA+ activism

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, which ran for 21 years, had it’s final event this year in February.  We were back, as the e…
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How to build a better relationship with the news as a LGBTQIA+ person

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 what's happening - so we know how to fight back against it. QueerAF founder Jamie Wareham sits do…
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Cute twinks and gym bros: Why do we police trans masculine identities?

Cute twinks and gym bros: Why do we police trans masculine identities?

This week, on QueerAF in an episode from our mentoring programme for Trans+ History Week, we’re going to trace back in recent history where body standards for both gay and trans men come from, how they show up, and challenge labels from drag acts to gym bros. It’s a nuanced discussion, especially w…
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The He-She Ladies: The Case of Boulton and Park

The He-She Ladies: The Case of Boulton and Park

In 1870, Fanny ‘Fredrich’ Park and Stella ‘Ernest’ Boulton were arrested at the Strand Theatre by three undercover policemen and prosecuted for violating the Offences Against Persons Act of 1861 – aka, Solicitation for Sodomy. They also left behind rare visual sources of their cross-dressing, which…
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