ShoutOut LGBT+ Radio
ShoutOut LGBT+ Radio 15 episodes Nov 5, 2026
With weekly shows, and special release podcasts, ShoutOut is a magazine show for the LGBT+ community. With live guests and reports from all over, we cover everything from the serious to the stupid.
Episodes
Among Our People
This week the team is joined by a founder who has spent three decades building places for LGBTQ+ people to find each other.Eric Crespin talks about Among Our People, his new platform for LGBTQ+ homestays, flatshares, co-housing and travel — somewhere to find a room, a flatmate, a local friend or a community to move to, anywhere in the world. He explains how the idea grew out of years of living and
Happy Halloween (with a sprinkling of Christmas!)
It's a Halloween special this week, with the studio dressed for the season.The team is joined by Jordan Chan, the man behind the Red Ribbon Calendar, who explains why he has brought the Brit Boys back for another red-ribbon edition. Twelve men, one for every month, photographed in black and white with the red ribbon as the only colour in each shot, all in support of Terrence Higgins Trust and The
The Iris Prize Awards
The team marks the festival's 20th edition with a show built around this year's Iris Prize, and goes behind the scenes of how the world's biggest LGBTQ+ short film prize is actually decided.Sara Peacock, chair of this year's international jury, takes the team inside the judging process — ten jurors spread from California to Cardiff, 35 films from 22 countries and around nine and a half hours of vi
The Little Book Shop
The whole team is back in the studio together this week, and they have brought two very different kinds of story with them.For Black History Month, the team sets two extraordinary lives side by side: Storme DeLarverie and Pauli Murray. Storme DeLarverie was a performer who spent decades walking the streets of Greenwich Village at night as a self-appointed guardian, working the doors of lesbian bar
A Quakers Oats
This week the team is joined in the studio by David Heald, a Quaker, for a conversation that ranges from silent worship to chocolate. Quakers, he explains, grew out of a 17th-century split from the Anglican Church and threw out the trappings most churches are built on — priests, buildings, set services, hierarchy — in favour of meeting in silence and holding peace, equality, simplicity and truth a
Stories
This week's Queerstory tells the story of Claude Cahun — born Lucy Schwob in France in 1894 into a Jewish literary family, and a surrealist photographer, writer and, as it turned out, resistance fighter. Decades before words like non-binary or gender-fluid were in common use, she was already writing about gender as something changeable, something that could be put on and taken off like a costume,
Indonesia Goes Backwards
The team is joined in the studio by returning guests Andy and Jason, who are back to talk about the alarming reversal of LGBTQIA+ rights in Indonesia. They discuss the presidential decree that equates LGBT culture with terrorism, and the wave of violence that has followed — a movement that actively hunts trans and queer people on the streets, undercover police using gay dating apps to target and e
Houston We Have A Problem
We chat to Joelle of the Normal Anomaly based in Houston... What began as a platform for telling stories has grown into an organisation working to change the systems behind them.The Normal Anomaly Initiative began in 2016 as a grassroots movement rooted in digital storytelling. At a time when the experiences of Black LGBTQ+ people were too often overlooked, misunderstood, or told by others, they c
Hope Amidst Pain
This week the team is joined by Irish actor, producer and presenter Derek Murphy, the creative force behind Mammy's House — a new play coming to Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate from 1st to 13th September. Set in Camden in 1985, it follows a group of Irish friends who build a chosen family together in London after leaving Ireland in search of acceptance, only to be confronted by the AIDS cris
Hollyoaks Does it Again
Andy and the team are joined by Leo Cole, the actor behind Ro — the young trans man whose storyline has been making waves in Hollyoaks. Leo opens up about growing up, coming out at twelve, and the moment he told his mum over lockdown after a TikTok video made everything click. He shares how his family put names in a hat and pulled out "Leo", the reality of navigating the NHS, and why being able to
Art and Rugby
It's a show packed with sport, comics, and community. First up, they catch up with Anthony from the Bristol Bisons — the South West's first inclusive rugby team, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary. The Bisons are heading to Brisbane, Australia for the Bingham Cup (the Gay Rugby World Cup), named after Mark Bingham, a 9/11 hero and gay rugby player who helped prevent United Flight 93 from r
Ride on Time
This week, the team are replaying interviews recorded live at Bristol Pride, starting with an absolute gem — Celestine from Black Box. She's marking 10 years since she joined the iconic band, a journey that began with a panicked phone call when their singer didn't show for a gig at Ashton Court. "I got thrown in the deep end," she laughs — and 10 years later, she's still going strong, describing t
Stand Up, Stand Proud
We're joined by Jess from the Good Law Project, talking about the vital work they're doing using the law to fight hate and defend the trans community. Jess discusses how trans people have been made to feel unwanted in their own country, the GLP's legal challenge against GB News over broadcasting hate, and why this moment in history demands we all stand together — because "an attack on one communit
Sunflowers and Beer
Andy and Steffi Barnett are in the studio for this week's show, with a powerful conversation at its heart. Ez speaks to Loo Fletcher, founder of the Suicide Prevention Collective, about their new Sunflower Hub at Windmill Hill City Farm — a warm, living room-style space open every other Friday where people can just pause, have a hot drink, access confidential support, and feel less alone. They're
When We need Help
Life can be hard sometimes, especially with increased hate since Brexit. We chat to mental health practitioner, Jez Spencer, with input from ShoutOut's own mental health specialists, Ezra and Terry.Plus, Bristol Pride is nearly upon us. The team talk through some of the events that are on right now, and what's coming.Don't forget, you can listen live to Bristol Pride LIVE from 10am on the main day
