A Gay and A NonGay

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 vulnerable LGBTQ+ people escape these horrors. Please consider donating to the Russian LGBT Network, head to https://help.lgbtnet.org/enWatch Welcome to Chechnya on BBC iPlayer in the UK or HBO in the US.Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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

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/adchoices

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