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 l

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 Spai