As part of an illustrious military career that’s earned him an OBE, Mark Abrahams has helped formulate policy, build networks and inspire a whole generation of LGBTQ+ people in the British Air Force, Navy and Army.
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Jessie Grimes: ‘It took a long time within classical music for me to stand in a place of authenticity and say, ‘this is who I am’’
The clarinettist and BBC Radio 3 contributor on coming out in classical music, growing up gay in Ireland, and why so many LGBTQ+ people of her generation experience secret relationships.
Gogglebox Australia’s Tim Lai tells his coming out story on new inclusive LGBTQIA podcast
Tim, of ‘Tim & Leanne’ Gogglebox fame, tells OUTcast Podcast about being a gay Asian in the late 80s onwards and what it was like coming out to his Malaysian family.
Meet the gay Nigerian refugee who sought asylum in the UK to escape death threats, conversion therapy and violence
Victor Iringere shares his story of being gay in a country where it’s illegal, relenting to extreme conversion therapies, and becoming a homeless asylum seeker in the UK.
Meet the trailblazing transgender priest making communities more inclusive
Sarah Jones was outed as transgender in the national press after she became ordained in the Church of England. Now she speaks about her experience openly to champion diversity, inclusion and LGBTQ+ rights in the church and beyond.
Tilly Lawless: ‘There are so many gay women in sex work’
Queer novelist and sex worker Tilly Lawless tells her coming out story, shares her thoughts on feminism in the sex industry, and expounds that Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ inspired her first novel.
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