Going Gay: A Beginner's Guide

Going Gay: A Beginner's Guide


Latest Episodes

Episode 8 – Pulse: One Year Later
June 27, 2017

On June 12th 2016, 49 people were shot and killed inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 53 others were wounded. It was the largest mass shooting by a single shooter in US history, and the worst attack on the LGBTQ+ Community ever.

Episode 7 – Queer + Greek = Queek
June 05, 2017

Being queer in a sorority is hard work. Rather than give up though, Zoë Brouns decided to do something about it.

Episode 6 – The LGBTQ+ Community Is Racist
May 28, 2017

“Everything’s a fucking rave. Brunch every weekend, endless mimosas… and we have these parades and floats and we celebrate ourselves. And yeah we celebrate ourselves because we have to, because that is a survival instinct.

Episode 5 – Queer Black Lives Matter
May 21, 2017

Being a queer black woman and an activist. How does navigating your identity shape your protest? This is the question I ask Nisa Dang, an inspirational woman who is leading a new fight for minority rights.

Episode 4 – Straight Best Friends
May 07, 2017

In this episode, I sit down with my best friend and fraternity brother Jimmy, to talk about what it’s been like to be the Straight Best Friend

Episode 3 – Gay&R: Loving Music and Men
April 30, 2017

Can you love men and music and still succeed? I sit down with Grant Genske (AKA Eliason) to chat with him about breaking into the music industry as an out and proud gay man.

Episode 2 – Boarding in The Closet
April 23, 2017

In this episode, I sit down with George, who went to school with me. It was a pretty traditional boarding school in the rural countryside of the UK. We chat about the difficulties of coming through such an environment as two, then-closeted, gay men.

Episode 1 – No Question Off Limits
April 16, 2017

Come with me as I peel back the curtain on the some of the gay community’s most closely guarded secrets. In this, the very first episode, I’m inviting my mum along to ask me those questions she’s always been a bit too nervous to put to me.