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We all know the trope: the supportive bestie who helps the main character finally achieve their dreams, gives the advice that helps them land the heartthrob or drops hard truths that lead to epiphanies. We all know that’s producers and casting directors' favourite place to tick their diversity boxes. I should know, I’m the actor playing them.
But what this week's producer Ki Griffin wants to know, especially as an actor and a black trans-masculine person who uses he/they pronouns is: "When do I get to be the main character?"
Join Ki as they explore, where is the black trans-masc representation in TV and Film?
Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/Here is the article we recommended:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/we-have-always-been-here-a-poetic-ancestral-history-of-trans-nigerians/ Watch the Transcending Words poetry night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmbn900ekPM Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:
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This episode is made possible with the support of Publicis Groupe UK.

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"I’ve been taking PrEP for almost 7 years now. During that time, I’ve been crazy enthusiastic about making positive changes to reduce health inequalities. But I have seen how queer health has been mishandled time and time again."
So today Phil Samba is here to help us all discover the untold story behind PrEP, the revolutionary pill that's transforming HIV prevention and sexual health.
In the first episode of our new six-part limited series documentary, we dive into the battle for PrEP access in the UK by not only looking at the court case fought here in England for the drug - but the advent of HIV and AIDS in the 80s.
Did you know we knew PrEP was effective from the early 2000s? Why did it take until 2020 to get it on the NHS you ask?
Join host Phil Samba as he uncovers the legal struggles, the historic activism, and the groundbreaking moments that made PrEP a reality. From the early days of HIV awareness to the modern fight for equitable healthcare, this is the compelling journey of The Other Blue Pill.
This week, we understand the past of this HIV game-changer, so in the first episode of a series about the the present, and future of The Other Blue Pill.
Hosted by Phil Samba, it is a QueerAF production for The Love Tank, supported by National Aids Trust.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-other-blue-pill/id1744532072Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kOezXQXHp4ZnVXJLzBaZe?si=bf88e76133ee4da2QueerAF: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/theotherbluepill/
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Seeing your own experiences reflected back in history is often challenging when your identity has been erased, as many queer people know.
As an Irish lesbian living in Dublin, Oran Keaveney spent a great deal of time documenting and discovering the queer women who shaped modern Ireland. It was a huge turning point and they felt like they fit into their country’s mythology.
Now that they’ve transitioned and moved to London, they're here on QueerAF to look for this moment of self-recognition in Irish history again - but this time through the lens of transmasculinity, with a search for a trans masc hero from Irish history, with guests:
Dr Mary MacAuliffe a lesbian historian and expert on Margaret SkinniderEliott Rose, a trans, post-graduate historian at the university who specializes in queer studies speaking on Dr James BarryIarfhlaith O’Connell, Oran's co-host on the In Awe of Mná podcast for Near FM
Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/Here is the article we recommended:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/every-time-you-wash-your-hands-you-honour-this-transgender-doctors-legacy/Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:
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Do you love a queer punch up too? The comedic kind of course.
Lucie Isle's first gig was in the basement of an Italian restaurant in Edinburgh, during the fringe:
Back then I was presenting as a straight guy, and performing routines about how terrible my hometown was. I stopped performing for a while as I went on other adventures, but after an 8-year, hiatus, I’m back as a transgender woman."
This week, comedian Lucie Isle takes us on a trip to the 80s where, set against a backdrop of an HIV/AIDS moral panic, a comedy scene emerged as a direct challenge to the widespread racism, sexism and homophobia in the press and wider society.
The diverse 80s comedy scene began as underground, grassroots Alternative Cabaret, with stilt walkers, drag acts, prop comics, sketch troupes and stand up on a regular old lineup. But this underground alt-punk comedy scene that challenged the punch-down culture is still alive today. Lucie Isle and co-host Jamal Utting explore it's roots, as well as having a right old giggle along the way:

Meet Dr Olly Double, reader in Comic and Popular Performance at the University of Kent to hear about the scene's roots Jeremy Topp, comedian, host and co-owner of The Queer Comedy Club in London - the UK's only dedicated queer comedy venuePlus a modern analysis of this, and the queer comedy and cabaret scene now with Lauren Bryant, aka the Punk King of Drag, Will Power.
Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/Here is the article we recommended:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-section-28-and-sex-ed-denied-us-knowledge-crucial-to-our-lives/ Plus, be sure to sign up for our newsletter to understand the LGBTQIA+ news every Saturday:
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Did you know that 50 years ago, Leeds held the UK's first-ever Trans+ conference?
This week, Alexander Parnham Cope, a trainee broadcast journalist at City University specialising in data and investigative journalism travels back to a city he called his home.
In Leeds he uncover the curious and little-known history of the city, which held the UK’s first ever Transgender conference some fifty years ago. Leeds welcomed transgender people to its hotels and halls then. It is proud of its history of supporting trans people now. 

Meet one of the organizers of a 50th anniversary celebration of the conference LunaJoin us for a walking tour of the city's queer sites with Kit HeyamInterview with one of the last surviving members of the Trans group of the Gay Liberation Front, Roz KaveneyEnd this episode loving Leeds's little-known but inspiring gender-diverse history. 
Season five of the award-winning QueerAF podcast is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ people and gender-diverse communities with our first-ever launchpad project, Trans+ History Week. Every Monday, for the coming weeks right up to and through Pride season - we’ll be bringing you a new episode from a budding Trans+ audio professional whom we’ve paid, published and mentored to make you a beautifully crafted story about Trans+ history. 
Read more stories from Trans+ History Week:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/
Here is the article we recommended:
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-gallae-transgender-priestesses-of-ancient-rome/
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A live recording of the QueerAF podcast on the history-making TV representation In Sex Education:
Guest host Kenny Ethan Jones, the first trans man in a period product ad campaign
Stars of Sex Educations's T4T storyline Anthony Lexa and Felix Mufti
A discussion about the power of on-screen representation, creating inclusive stories about Trans+ communities and what it was like to make that visibility for Sex Education.
This episode was recorded in front of an audience of 200 people in London's Canary Wharf at our first ever Trans+ History Week community event. Make sure to subscribe for the whole season ahead, with a new mini-documentary episode out on your feeds every Monday from now, all the way through Pride month.

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