Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

My Name is Andrew Flewitt, and I am the creator and host of Queer I Am, The Podcast. The podcast is about celebrating and amplifying voices in the Queer community.

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

The first podcast I was dedicated to listening to was Happy Place, by Fearne Cotton; the interviews are always so interesting, and I love her style when she is talking to the guests about topics which are sensitive by nature, I took a lot from this.

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

I love speaking with people, and listening to inspiring stories, and always had the dream of being a host or an interviewer of some kind. When I moved to Brighton, I was having incredible conversations with people in the queer community, and it felt like a good idea to put these two things together and start Queer I Am. Queer culture and history is so interesting and important; I wanted the podcast to provide an opportunity to amplify underrepresented voices and give the listener something new.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

Happy Place for sure, but I also love other Queer podcasts like Coming Out Stories and The Log Books – they are so interesting engaging, and I wanted Queer I Am to feel like that too.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

I have few, but I would love to chat with Sir Ian McKellen, someone who has been such an instrumental part in moving queer history forward.

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

There are so many to chose from, and they are all brilliant! One of my favourites was in Season 2, with Bethan Roberts, Author of My Policeman, which was released as a film last year. Bethan was lovely to talk to, and is such an ally of our community.

Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

They can check out my Insta and Twitter @fleweyactually. My website is www.fleweyactually.com and the podcast is available on all major streaming platforms.

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We spoke to the team behind the show – Tash and Adam from Aunt Nell, and Executive Producer Dale Taylor-Gentles from The Love Tank – to find out a bit more about how it came to be…

What was your introduction to podcasting as a listener?

Aunt Nell: At Aunt Nell we all started listening to podcasts years ago. Some of long-time favs are Short Cuts, Bad Gays, Dreamboy, You’re Wrong About, Making Gay History. We’ve always been drawn in by the stories that aren’t being told elsewhere and by voices you rarely hear.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

Aunt Nell: This is such a difficult question, because our podcasts take inspiration from different sources, probably because each podcast series we make has its own unique combination of features. For sound design and storytelling we are constantly inspired by the work of Axel Kacoutié, Falling Tree Productions, a one-off series years ago called Dreamboy, and immersive BBC series like Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave and Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot.

For documentary work, it’s things like Making Gay History, some of the Tortoise Media series, some of the stuff Pushkin — and a new series on housing called Dwelling.

What would you like to see more of in the podcast space?

Aunt Nell: It would be great to see more opportunity to make original content in the podcast space, with the closing of the Audio Content Fund it is harder and harder for independent podcasters to be truly creative and focus on the stories that they want to share outside of the celebrity stratosphere.

Why did you decide that audio was right for sharing these stories?

Dale: I think the idea to do a podcast came about through spending time with the people you hear in the episodes. As the lead for the overall project that researches the health and wellbeing needs of queer migrant men and queer men of colour, I was fortunate enough to spend time both individually and in groups with them all in other outputs of the project, such as our day of workshops and events, and this allowed me to hear their stories of their joys, struggles and successes.

Each of their stories taught me something meaningful and resonated with me in ways unexpected. This planted a seed for me and my colleagues that we should create a space in which all these amazing people could talk about their experiences as queer migrants and queer people of colour navigating the city. From there we came together with those same people and built upon this idea to what eventually became our podcast.

What have you enjoyed most in making this podcast?

Dale: What I have enjoyed most is all the collaboration between myself, the Aunt Nell team and all the people who shaped the podcast and appeared on the episodes. Throughout the creative process, many interesting and important questions of identity and what connects were raised. It forced us to reflect on our place in the world and set the foundations for the rich conversations you hear within the episodes. I think we all came away from the experience prouder and taller than when we started this journey.

Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

More information on the collective and the project of Queer Roots and Routes can be found here. All our podcasts at Aunt Nell here and more on The Love Tank here.

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Who are you and what is your podcast about?

My name is Delta and I’m a 23 year old queer and disabled person and my podcast is about exactly that: issues regarding queer and disabled communities, sometimes on a more basic level for non-queer and non-disabled listeners and sometimes I talk about some of the intracommunity issues for people who are either queer and/or disabled themselves or more familiar with these communities. Very rarely I make episodes about other things, but these are still usually through a queer and disabled lens.

What’s the first podcast you ever listened to?

I actually didn’t listen to podcasts until 2019 when my partner introduced me to the medium. The first podcast I listened to must have been either Queersplaining or The Cis Are Getting Out of Hand, two podcasts I still enjoy to this day.

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

I grew up in a small village with not really any queer or disabled people around, so a few years ago my only outlet was Instagram, where I’d write small essays under pictures that I posted and quite a few people liked them. Then I moved to a different country and became even more isolated from my communities in a way, as due to my disabilities I can’t really get around town on my own, so I was online a lot. I’d write a lot of threads on Twitter, but I wanted something “more professional” I guess that wasn’t made of 15 Tweets and that would be easier to find. I also wanted something I could send to people so I wouldn’t have to explain the same things over ans over. I could just refer them to one place. I started a blog in 2020 that lasted about two months (Thanks, ADHD). Last year, I taught myself a little bit about audio editing and realised that I could just try to start a podcast. I love listening to podcasts, they’re my favourite medium, so why not make one myself? That’s how out_cast was born and it’s the one outlet that has lasted and is still filling me with joy.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

I take inspiration from many podcasts that I personally listen to, but mostly the guestless episodes of Queersplaining, as well as Gender Journeys, which is the only podcast I’ve found that addresses things from *inside* trans and genderqueer communities without being an interview podcast.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

I haven’t really had guests on my podcast, but I would probably like to have friends on, or many of the fellow podcasters I love listening to, like Callie Wright, Sarah and Kayla from Sounds Fake But Okay or Laura from Bad Attitudes.

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?

It doesn’t have to be perfect. When I started podcasting, I was a big perfectionist about editing. Ironically, due to disability I sometimes struggle with speech and with putting complex thoughts and ideas into spoken words, so I will often repeat words or sentences, mumble by accidents or slur my words, or even be silent for a long time. I still edit out the silence but not so much of the other things. I am disabled so I talk like a disabled person and “perfection” isn’t something I can or even want to attain anymore, especially doing everything myself too. You don’t need a particular voice to be a podcaster.

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

Probably my 30th episode titled “they asked WHAT about queer people?!” where I address misconceptions about different forms of queerness in a light-hearted way by answering questions that people frequently type into Google.

Where can the Pod Bible Readers find out more about you?

You can find my podcast @out_castpod on both Twitter and Instagram and you can find me privately @soongtypedelta on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

Listen to out_cast now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps.

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