QUEER BRITAIN brings together standout moments from our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS recorded live at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London.Intimate conversations in front of a live audience with creatives shaping queer culture in the UK today. Composer&nbsp;Iain Bell, described by the BBC as one of the most compelling musical dramatists of his generation, reflects on opera, audiences, and the question of elitism. Actor and his husband, the writer&nbsp;Michael Batten,&nbsp;discusses his critically acclaimed theatre work, including&nbsp;Remembrance Monday, and the journey from concept to sold-out runs in London and Mexico. Kitty Scott-Claus&nbsp;(RuPaul’s Drag Race UK) brings humour, warmth, and insight into performance and identity. Comedian and broadcaster&nbsp;James Barr&nbsp;talks candidly about being out on the radio, comedy, and navigating being a regular on the Piers Morgan show.

Queer Britain: Iain Bell, Michael Batten, Kitty Scott-Claus & James Barr

Graeme Smith speaks with two filmmakers whose work has been part of this year’s Academy Awards conversation, each telling a very different story about queer lives and history. First we cross to New York to meet Matt Nadel, the documentary filmmaker behind Cashing Out, an Oscar shortlisted short documentary produced by The New Yorker. The film uncovers a little known and unsettling chapter of queer history during the AIDS crisis, when investors began buying life insurance policies from dying gay men, turning tragedy into a financial market. It is a powerful and complex story about capitalism, mortality and a moment in LGBTQ history that is often overlooked. Then we head to the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café to meet Lee Knight. His short film A Friend of Dorothy earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short. The film stars two beloved queer icons, Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry, and Lee joins us in front of a live audience to talk about the remarkable journey from writing the script to finding himself in the Oscars race.

Inside the Oscars Race: with Two Nominated Queer Filmmakers 

Triple Booker Prize nominated author&nbsp;Tash Aw&nbsp;joins us to discuss his latest novel,&nbsp;The South&nbsp;— named one of Time Magazine's Top 100 Books of the Year. We talk about what it means to be recognised at the highest level of global literature, and how&nbsp;The South&nbsp;explores identity, immigration, queer lives and globalisation from a perspective rarely centred in Western publishing. A precise, intelligent conversation with one of the most critically respected writers working today.

Tash Aw: The Triple Booker Prize Nominee 

DJ Fat Tony is one of the most recognisable figures in British nightlife, spending decades at the centre of club culture, fashion and celebrity. His time DJing at Trade, the legendary gay hard dance club, was just one chapter in a much bigger story. Tony joins us for a revealing conversation at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in London to share his stories from DJing at the wedding of Brooklyn Beckham, reflecting on the ups and downs of his long friendship with Boy George, and looking back at his early days brushing shoulders with the New York art world with Keith Haring &amp; Andy Warhol, including a memorable detail about what Warhol actually smelled like. The conversation moves between funny, shocking and unexpectedly tender. Tony speaks openly about addiction, recovery and rebuilding his life. Now more than twenty years sober and happily married, he looks back on the chaos with honesty and perspective.

DJ Fat Tony: From Warhol to the Beckhams

This episode of&nbsp;BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!&nbsp;features a genuine political outlier:&nbsp;Carl Cashman, the 34-year-old leader of Liverpool City Council’s Liberal Democrats in the North West of England, a straight politician who has built influence by putting LGBTQ+ people at the centre of his politics. Carl represents a new generation of progressive politician: culturally fluent, visibly present, and entirely at ease in queer spaces. He’s as comfortable sharing the occasional gym selfie and taking the attention that follows as he is being clear and values-led on trans rights, European Union membership, and civil liberties. Often to the left of his own party, Carl has joked that at Liberal Democrats conference it can feel like&nbsp;80% of the room is LGBTQ+, and he’s clear that queer members and voters are central to the party’s progressive energy. The Liberal Democrats are the party that delivered equal marriage and the party still reckoning with the cost of the 2010 coalition. Yet in a landscape dominated by caution and culture wars, they remain one of the few national parties openly pro-EU and committed to individual rights. During a week of TV appearances in London, Carl joined Graeme Smith — equally Liverpudlian, equally direct — in front of a sell-out crowd at the&nbsp;BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café&nbsp;in London. Over a drink, in a queer space, he answered tough questions about trust after 2010, immigration, the arts, trans rights, Trump, and whether Westminster is next.

Carl Cashman: How a Straight Politician Won the Queer Crowd

This week on&nbsp;BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! we speak with Tyler Udall - the first ever&nbsp;BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!&nbsp;photographer and a regular voice on the podcast. Recorded during one of our&nbsp;MEETS&nbsp;at our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café London, this episode traces Tyler’s path through a series of worlds that don’t often get connected. He began as a ballet dancer in New York, before moving through the fashion world, including as fashion editor of&nbsp;Dazed&nbsp;&amp; Confused and AnOther magazines, before stepping away from the industry to build a photographic practice rooted in intimacy and lived experience. Tyler is known for work that resists spectacle. His photographs focus on queer bodies as presence rather than performance, shaped by memory, vulnerability, and the politics of being seen. His undeniably personal and emotionally compelling photographs are shaped by the familiarity he has with his subjects, most of whom are friends and past lovers. In this conversation, Tyler speaks candidly about being diagnosed HIV positive in the late 2000s, and how photography helped him process this.

Tyler Udall: From Ballet and Fashion to Queer Photography

We talk to two extraordinary queer filmmakers:&nbsp;Ira Sachs, one of the defining voices of American independent film; and&nbsp;Benoît Duvette, an emerging French director making waves.&nbsp; Sachs to promote his latest film, Peter Hujar's Day, that centres on the legendary queer photographer&nbsp;Peter Hujar&nbsp;starring&nbsp;Ben Whishaw; and Duvette to talk about his recent film&nbsp;Eden &amp; Charlie, which caught our attention for its tenderness and clarity of vision.&nbsp;

Queer Cinema with Ira Sachs & Benoît Duvette

This episode of The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast presents highlights from our BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! MEETS, each recorded live in front of an audience at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café. We hear first from German photographer Richard Kranzin, on his journey from model to photographer, about exploring the sensuality of male youth and his new book Interior. Then from Argentinian photographer Sebastian Perinotti about his latest series &amp; zine The Mirror, who is joined by one of his models &amp; collaborators Bernardo. And finally from Irish photographer Charles Moriarty, who is joined by bodybuilder and actor Brock Yurick to talk about their new book BROCK.

The Queer Gaze with photographers Richard Kranzin, Sebastian Perinotti & Charles Moriarty 

Graeme Smith sits down with actor, writer, and queer trailblazer&nbsp;Darryl Stephens, the star whose breakout role in&nbsp;hit US network TV show Noah’s Arc&nbsp;became a defining moment for Black queer visibility on screen. Two decades from that show's first broadcast, and this year with Noah's Arc: The Movie, Darryl reflects on the show’s legacy and what it meant to millions who finally saw their own stories represented. He speaks candidly about navigating Hollywood as a gay Black man, how the industry has evolved, and where it still falls short. We also get personal. Darryl is now a father, and he reflects on how parenthood has transformed his routines, his connection to the LA gay scene, and his own sense of self. What does fatherhood look like when your community, your career, and your identity have been shaped by queerness and visibility? Finally, we dive into his creative life beyond acting including writing and storytelling.

Noah's Arc actor Darryl Stephens on the state of Hollywood Today

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ART. QUEER. CULTURE. The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS Podcast A finalist in the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 for Best Arts Show. Bringing the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! universe to life through conversations with queer photographers, cultural icons and creative innovators. Explore the intersections of art, queer, culture.&nbsp;Hosted by radio presenter and multi award winning LGBTQ+ podcaster Graeme Smith. For all things BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! head to boysboysboys.org Executive Producer: Graeme SmithEditorial Director: Ghislain PascalProducers: Olivia Jones &amp; Paris MunroContributors: Jorge Garriz &amp; Alastair James

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