On her weekend outing this week, Emma will be chatting to an actual Olympian! Chelsea Wolfe made history as the first ever trans person to be selected for Team US, and is about to head out to Tokyo to be an alternate for the BMX team. Plus Emma meets Amir and Aamir, hearing how they suffered family rejection but went on to fall in love and become the first same sex South Asian couple to get married in Bradford!

And finally, she'll also hear from Tony Openshaw; a gay man who's spent the last 40 years fighting for the rights of LGBT people, asylum seekers and those with HIV. In the 80s, he knocked tennis balls filled with condoms into the grounds of Strangeways Prison!

Please note, some of the topics discussed in this episode might be sensitive and/or triggering. For help and support with any LGBTQ+ issues you might be facing, you can contact Switchboard on 0300 330 0630. Alternatively, the Samaritans are available twenty-four hours a day on 116 123.

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The Weekend Outing with Emma Goswell: Chelsea Wolfe, Amir and Aamir, and Tony Openshaw