51 minutes | Friday, 18 August 2023
This weekend is UK Black Pride and this episode is celebrating the voices and perspectives of Queer people of colour from the OUTCAST UK archives.
Graeme chats to DJ, music producer and radio presenter NICK CHARLES, LA based Queer rapper BOBO SANGO and DEI speaker in the tech startup world, STEVEN JOHN (who also happens to be Graeme's long term partner).
There is no singular voice to represent queer people of colour, its obviously an incredible broad community of people. But we wanted to bring some of the voices of some of queer black friends and family to takeover OUTCAST UK for this special episode.
Nick Charles is now making some big moves with his Doing career, and this weekend he’s busy gigging in Manchester before heading to London to headline at Fire at the peak of UK Black Pride weekend. He’s also got his weekly national radio show on Gaydio and he is the cohost of the Loud Brown Gays podcast with his bestie Dan James.
But Nick was born in Trinidad and had to leave there after a wave of anti LGBTQ violence over a decade ago. Now living in Manchester he told us the story of why he had to move to the UK. We heard a never before heard perspective of coming to the UK to escape persecution but being sent to a detention centre.
Bobo Sango talks about the differences in his experiences in the UK vs the US.
Steven John talks about Steven about how the brutal murder of George Floyd in the depths of Covid in 2020 brought the reality of structural racism right into the homes of many mixed relationships for the first time.
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