A Gay And A Nongay

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

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

JK Rowling. Donald Trump. Central Park Karen. There's a lot of hate attacking our community and friends right now. Should we try to understand it? Where does it come from and how can we safely engage with people that hate us? James and Dan catch up with Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi skinhead who has dedicated his life to preventing extremism and helping people to disengage from hate movements and other violent ideologies.  Trigger warning. This episode contains depictions of violent attacks. Christian talks about his time inside the white supremacy movement, how conversations with black and LGBTQ+ people helped him change direction, and why some minorities can end up embracing extremism. For more information on leaving behind hate and racism, please visit freeradicals.org. If you’ve been affected by hate and violent extremism and feel comfortable sharing that with us, as ever we’d love to hear from you, please do reach out and email us@gaynongay.com. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Te

Why is Britney a gay icon? Plus Dan's getting a drilling and James tells us his feelings on Pride 2020 after attending the Black Trans Lives march in London. 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

A year after we travelled to Belfast for BBC Radio 1 documentary about so-called 'gay conversion therapy', the boys have an update on the state of gay in the U.K. Plus we chat to the queer star of Dating Amber, Lola Petticrew about growing up gay in Belfast. This is a beautiful story about overcoming shame and finding one's self. Listen to our series 'From Gay to NonGay' on BBC Sounds here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07lym2f . Watch Dating Amber on Amazon Prime here, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dating-Amber-Fionn-OShea/dp/B0891QV4YF . 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 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/adchoice

We discuss the long overdue US Supreme Court's landmark decision on LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace. Plus with transphobia and racism rife in the UK, does arguing with people on social media achieve anything? Join our listener group, www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Support our podcast, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ . Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee now 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 upset with JK Rowling’s transphobia, Dan is fed up with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic after his pro-Trump status and we welcome our listener Orren to discuss Black Lives Matter and the struggles of being both gay and black. Thanks for listening babes. Stay safe. Join our listener group, www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ . Support our podcast, visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ . Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee now 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

A small audio note from us this week & some links For ways you can support Black Lives Matter visit: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.. Plus: Anti-racism resources for white people: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES Why don't 'All Lives Matter'?: https://twitter.com/JlTEAGEGE/status/1265838993196740608?s=20/. UK Black Pride: https://twitter.com/ukblackpride/. Watch 13th streaming free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8 Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The boys are back and after weeks of amazing guests, it's just family this week. James & Dan chat about our latest documentary 'A Cure For HIV?', will Dan be taking an HIV test? Plus, is wearing a Covid Mask de-masculating? and find out why Dan can't look at a tin of M&S biscuits again. Our new merch, The Pronoun Tee has sold out but it's all good :). We're getting ready for our new #pride collection, sign up to our mailing list at gaynongay.com and be the first to get YOURS. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I remember all the people who died with HIV, they’re always in my heart and I want to be their voice". This week we welcome Adam Castillejo, The London Patient - the second person in the world to be cured of HIV. This episode was recorded in accordance with government social distancing measures. In a truly inspiring, life-affirming interview, Adam opens up about his extraordinary journey and his mission to be a voice of hope for millions - from being diagnosed with HIV at 23 years old, to his fight against both HIV and cancer & his battle to overcome both illnesses, which stunned the world. Trigger warning: Contains upsetting audio. The London Patient: A Cure For HIV? is a two-part series - funded by the Wellcome Trust and the British Podcast Awards Fund. What does the London Patient’s story tell us about a cure for HIV? Plus amongst a backdrop of Covid19, can the story of HIV and AIDS offer the world any hope?   The most recent estimate suggests that there are currently around 7,500 undiagnosed HIV+ peo

We've heard about 'expendable' populations before, but last time they meant gay people. 32 million people have died of AIDS related illnesses since the 1980s and in 2018, 770,000 people died worldwide because of the virus. The London Patient: A Cure For HIV? is the first episode in a brand new two-part series - funded by the Wellcome Trust and the British Podcast Awards Fund. Both episodes were recorded in accordance with government social distancing measures. This week, we look at the start of the epidemic, chat to AIDS activist Sir Nick Partridge OBE and head to Oxford to meet Professor John Frater who explains the science behind HIV. Trigger warning: Contains upsetting audio. Incredible advances in medicine now mean that if you are HIV+ and on effective treatment, you can’t pass it on. Undetectable = Untransmittable. And in March 2019, it was revealed that a second person had been cured of HIV - The London Patient. What does the London Patient’s story tell us about a cure for HIV? Plus in the age of C