Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties

    How do queer spaces help to shape people's lives?  Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ community? What is the impact of losing these spaces? Lost Spaces explores these questions (and more!) through conversations with members of the LGBT community. Each week host K Anderson sits down with a different guest to discuss a space from their past, why it was important to them, and how it helped shape who they are. Expect conversations about coming out, going out, and getting down. And snogging strangers on sweaty dancefloors. We can't talk about gay history without that coming up.

  • 'Being Gay Is A Great Superpower' - with Santana Sexmachine

  • 'A Beautiful Go-Go Dancer' - with Manuel Skye

  • 'A Rite Of Passage For Any Gay Man Living In New York' - with David Kennerley

  • 'I Didn't Have Gay Friends At That Point' - with Neil Laird

  • 'Queerness Is Such A Big Part Of My Identity And Definition' - with Matte Namer from The FMs

  • 'It Didn't Feel Very Queer To Me' - with Ames Pennington

  • 'Full Blown Gay...' - with J3M

  • 'I Wasn't Very Popular In Gay Male Spaces' - with Miah Jeffra

  • 'Oh, Look, There's International Mr. Leather!' - with John Pendal

  • 'The First Gay Place That I Went Inside...' - with Alex Iantaffi from Gender Stories Podcast

  • 'Seeing These Beautiful Queer Faces' - with Terrence O'Brian Henderson

  • 'My Queerness Is My Strength' - with John Sizzle

  • 'The Seediness of New York' - with Richard Skipper

  • 'There Is No Word for Gay in the Samoan Context' - with Edward Cowley (aka Buckwheat)

  • 'Maybe We Should Explore Polyamory...' - with Mehgan Sapphire from Sapphire's Earplay Podcast

  • 'I'm In San Francisco And Everyone's Dying From Sex' - with Daniel Nardicio

  • 'Looking Back Through This Queer, Non-Binary Lens' - with Holly Revell

  • 'I'm Really Lucky That I'm Gay' - with Eric Marcus from Making Gay History Podcast

  • 'Gays Aren't The Best At Catching' - with Recognition

  • 'All These Gay Men With No Shirts On...' - with Van Hechter

  • 'A Gay Man in New York' - with Colin Drucker from Alright Mary Podcast

  • 'That's Where Cruising Tends To Happen...' - with Marcus McCann

  • 'Every Letter Of The Alphabet Mafia...' - with Karl Dunn

  • 'I Felt That Way About Pulse' - with JJ Ivey

  • 'I Didn't Have Any Gay Friends' - with Rudy Jeevanjee

  • 'Where Do Lesbians Go For Fun?' - with Layne the Auctionista

  • 'Disco 2000 Was The Hub Of The Club Kids Scene' - with Abdi Nazemian

  • 'I Can't Be Gay Because I'm Christian...' - with Dr Luke Wilson

  • 'This Kid's Probably Gay...' - with Matt Fishel

  • "I Needed To See Masculine-Of-Centre Black Lesbians" - with Anna DeShawn

  • "It Took Almost 30 Years Before I Actually Transitioned" - with Amethysta Herrick from Gender Identity Weekly Podcast

  • "Oh, But I AM Queer..." - with Eric Kostiuk Williams

  • "This Hotbed Of Trans Activism..." - with Dr Syrus Marcus Ware

  • "'Love Is Love' - Until You're Black, Trans, Disabled, Non-Binary..." - with Andrew Gurza from Disability After Dark

  • "My Faith Side And My Queer Side" - with Crystal Cheatham

  • "I've Never Really Liked This Concept Of 'Coming Out'"- with Lamya H

  • "Gay and Emo?" - with Matt Hey

  • "She Gave Us The Space To Be Ourselves" - with Barrak Alzaid

  • "It Felt Like There Was Only One Way To Be Queer" - with Natali Caro

  • "All The Other Black Queer Boys Who I've Known..." - with Jord Hailwood from The Winning Side Podcast

  • "Other Kinky Queer People" - with Auntie Vice from Fat Girls On Top Podcast

  • Introducing 'The Queer Family Podcast'...

  • Introducing 'This Queer Book Saved My Life!'....

  • "I Started Discovering These Gay Country Bars" - with David F M Vaughn from Gaytriarchs Podcast

  • "Becoming A Nightlife Celebrity..." - with Miss Guy

  • "Drag Can Be Different Things For Different People" - with Zelda Moon from Death to Everyone Podcast

  • "Drag And Gayness Requires Delusion" - with Lazy Susan from Death to Everyone Podcast

  • "I Don't Want To Be Gay, I Want To Be Normal" - with Stephen Griffiths from Are the Gays OK? Podcast

  • "Once I Get To College I'll Start Doing Gay Things..." - with Corey Sherman

  • "You Can't Defeat Queerness" - with Mya Byrne

  • "Small Town Gay Bar" - with Freddy Freeman

  • "That's What New York City Was Like In The 90s..." - with Sherry Vine

  • "We've Evolved Through Our Conversations As A Couple..." - with Charles and Martha from Full Circle The Podcast

  • "The Bear Community Is More Accepting" - with Benjamin Koll

  • "People Kept Having To Tell Me Really Obvious Things Like 'You're Gay'" - with Paulus the Cabaret Geek

  • Richard Hatch - "Engagement With Others Is Something Many Gay Men Yearn For"

  • "I Never Really Came Out To My Mother... She Read My Diary..." - with Sheria Mattis

  • "If I Get Interrupted On A Dance Floor I Am Upset" - with Digo and Caleb from the Ants Humans Stars Podcast

  • "I Saw Gay Men Everywhere. Gay Women? Not So Much..." - with Jaimie Kelton from The Queer Family Podcast

  • "What's Better Than Coming Out After A Tina Turner Concert?" - with Markus Hamence

  • "Something Out Of Old Fashioned Lesbian Folklore..." - with Emma Goswell

  • `'You Know How I Found Out I Was Queer?" - with Rush Kazi

  • "The Very Beginnings Of My Actual Gay Life..." - with Jacob Trueman

  • "I Was Getting Surprisingly Comfortable In My Queerness" - with Anthony Criswell from Beards and Sundries Podcast

  • "That Was The Fever That Made Me Gay" - with Johnnie Walker

  • "The Only Queer Place In Town" - with Jeena Bloom

  • "It Felt Very, Very Gay..." - with Brian Rowe from A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast

  • "It Became A Gay Bar For That Hour" - with Filip Jeremic

  • "Another Weird Thing About Being Bi...." - with Terry Bartley

  • "Are You 'In The Life'?" - with Phil Corin

  • "It Was A Big Gay Community There..." - with Robert Black

  • "Being A Black Queer Femme In America..." - with Lottie Ellington

  • "Eighth Grade Is One Of The Hardest Years For A Lot Of People" - with Wil Fisher from Queerly Beloved Podcast

  • "You're Gay And Gothic... And You're A Christian Now?" - with Chris Conde

  • "Unpacking My Relationship To Queerness" - with Manish Mathur from 'It Pod To Be You'

  • "The Eurovision Song Contest Has Always Been A Big Platform For The Queer Community" - with Rob Holley

  • "Don't I Know You from Somewhere?" - with Jay Roudybush from Beards and Sundries Podcast

  • "I Was Basically Spokesperson For Gay People" - with Alex Marcus

  • "I Was Afraid Of Being Gay In General" - with Ronda Vu

  • "Gay Can Be Anything" - with Pepper

  • "I Just Didn't Know Drag Kings Existed Before That" - with Maria Moschus

  • "A Group Of Gays Is A Gaggle" - with BBKyle

  • "If There're No Other Drag Queens, We're Going To Be The Drag Queens" - with Mentalika

  • "Those Trans Women That I Was Admiring..." - with Tiffany Rossdale

  • "Platonic Queer Joy" - with Sina Grace

  • "This Small Little Queer Cosmos That I Am Living In" - with Taylor Trash

  • "What's So Terrible About Gay Clubbing?" - with Edward Miskie

  • "I'm Such A Cliched Gay Of A Certain Age" - with Ty Jeffries

  • "I Was Still Just New To Being Gay" - with Homer Marrs

  • "I Got To Kind Of Shine In My Gay-ness" - with Joshua Lobb

  • "I'd Never Seen Any Lesbians... And Then I Saw ALL The Lesbians..." -with Naomi Mourra

  • "A Little Big Gay Community" - with Mason Dixon from With A Gay Twist Podcast

  • "I Didn't Even Know What Queer Was" - with Marlee Jane Ward

  • "Saying The Word 'Gay' Made My Voice Shake" - with Will Kostakis

  • "My Queer Awakening Is Through Dancing" - with Trevor Campbell from You Made Me Queer Podcast

  • "I Just Came Out But I'm Smooth With The Ladies" - with C.J. Johnson from Beyond the Rainbow Podcast

  • "Little Looney Scared Queers" - with Joey Juschka

  • "Squishy Femme Bear" - with Neil Higgins from FMKLit Podcast

  • "I've Been Relationship Hopping For The Last 10 Years" - with Arielle Isaac Norman

  • "Everything You Would Do At A Gay Bar" - with Tempest DuJour

  • "There's Probably A Bar For That Somewhere In Bangkok" - with Ben

  • "I Own A F*cking Hot New Queer Bar" - with Keaton Kash from Mod Love Podcast

  • "For Me, Drag Always Was Like A Political Practice" - with Lil Miss Hot Mess

  • "Why The F&*k Are You Talking To My Husband?" - with Marko and Tony from Relationsh!t Podcast

  • 'Can A Straight Person Be Queer?' - with Scott Flashheart from Probably True Podcast

  • "Growing Up As A Queer, Non-Mormon Kid.." - with Dylan Rice

  • "I Started Going Out To The Gay Bars When I Was 16..." - with John Moletress

  • "All These Lesbians Turn Around And They Yell 'Fresh Meat!'" - with Li Isaacs from Lesbian Speaking podcast

  • "When I Think About A Gay Bar..." - with Mike and Kyle from Gayish podcast

  • "...And I Was Thinking, 'Am I Gay Now?'" - with Mat Hawley from Mat Tales Podcast

  • "When I Was a Young Teen Transsexual in Toronto" - with Morgan M Page

  • "A Slice Of Lesbian Reality That I Had Never Seen" - with Paris Poirier and Karen Kiss

  • "He Took Me To My First Gay Club" - with Jonathan Marotto from the Yaaas Bro Podcast

  • "Every Bachelorette Party Seems To Be At A Queer Bar Now" - with J.P. Der Boghossian (from This Queer Book Saved My Life Podcast)

  • "We Call It The Gaybourhood Here" - with Maurice Smith from Category Is... Podcast

  • "I Think A Lot Of Gay People Go Through That" - with Dillan Gay from The Sober Gay Podcast

  • "This Queer Felt That Way..." - with Owen Keehnen

  • "I Thought That Coming Out Would Sort Out My Life Once And For All" - with Nicholas McInerny

  • "The Best Amateur Go-Go Dancer Contest" - with Steve V Rodriguez from TAGS Podcast

  • "Just Being With Each Other In Queer Space... It Matters" - with Bitch

  • "Because Of Those Women In Those Lesbian Bars..." - with Crys Matthews

  • "At Night, The Gays Come Out Like Werewolves" - with Intesar Toufic

  • “Everybody Has A Time In Their Life Where They’ve Developed A Drag Persona” – with Mitzi MacIntosh / Graeme Browning

  • "Gay Porn And Lube And Poppers And Accoutrements" - with Glenn Gaylord

  • "I Just Wanted Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay" - with Mark Perez from Pink Milk Podcast

  • "Everything We Did Was Queer, Queer, Queer" (with Samantha Nye)

  • "Queer People Were Just Really Pushed To The Fringes" (with Imogen Kelly)

  • "Fat People Didn't Exist In The Gay Community" (with James from Sissy That Pod)

  • "I Don't Even Think I Knew Gay Bars Existed" (with Bryan from Pink Milk Podcast)

  • "Who's Got That Sequinned Thong?" (with Boogaloo Stu)

  • "The Queers Will Go To The Queer Spaces" (with Chris Pureka)

  • "Where's That Slutty Guy That Knew All The Moves?" (with Dennis Hensley from Dennis Anyone? podcast)

  • "As A Sort Of Lonely, Insecure, Gay Boy" (with Dave Quantic from Fruitbowl Podcast)

  • "The Sad, Sad Little Queer Punk With No Friends" (with Eric La Febre)

  • "90,000 Ways To Be Gay" (with Jeffrey Masters)

  • "Bring Me The Gays! Bring Me Your Finest Homosexuals!" (with Craig Law)

  • "Is There Such A Thing As Too Gay?" (with Seth from Thanks For Coming! Podcast)

  • "You Can't Cry At A Drag Show" (with Jaimie Sherling)

  • "Have You Heard Of Lesbian Drama?" (with Sade Giliberti)

  • "There's Something So Definitive About 'Gay'" (with Lee-Sean Huang)

  • "Wherever The Queer People Were, That Was Where I Wanted To Be" (with Amelia from Pitney and Amelia's Bitchen Boutique)

  • "As A Vaguely Self-Hating Queer..." (with Doug Crossley)

  • "I Will Preface This By Saying I'd Had A Few Drinks..." (with DJ Dan Murphy)

  • "Where Are All The Lesbians?" (with Lisa Haas)

  • “I’ve Never Felt That Included In The Gay Community” (with Martin J Dixon)

  • "Where Were All These Gay Pubs When I Was A Kid?" (with Charlie Sayce)

  • "Everybody I Ever Knew Who Had HIV Had Died" (with De'Vannon Hubert)

  • "I Don't Hide My Lesbianism. It Is Always A Kernel Of Everything I Do" (with Gretchen Phillips)

  • "Even Though I Was Gay, I Wasn't Limp Wrist Gay" (with Reese from Not Another Drag Race Podcast)

  • "What Type Of Gay Person Do I Want To Be?" (with Michael Ryan)

  • "I saw the word transsexual, and I thought, 'Well, I guess that's me'" (with Cidny Bullens)

  • "I Never Wanted To Do Drag. Other People Wanted Me To Do Drag" (with Regina Gently / Gentleman Reg)

  • "I don't think anyone thought I was full-hetero" (with Lori Bell)

  • "I Finally Came Out And I Was Avoiding Lesbians" (with Bobby Macumber)

  • "Two and a Half Homosexuals" (with Emerson Collins)

  • "I was trying to decide what watching so much gay porn meant, and why I still liked kissing girls..." (with Hayden Winston)

  • “Lean Into My Transness” (with Simona Castricum)

  • "We Need To Be More Inclusive" (with Barb Snelgrove)

  • Teenage Crush (with Alistair Barton)

  • Taking your boyfriend to prom, foam parties, and *gasp* dating Republicans (with Michael Dumlao)

  • Flirting tips, avoiding audience participation and how to spot the signs you've joined a cult (with Erika and Paul from That Aged Well)

  • Go-go dancing, overcoming addiction, and long distance relationships (with Kevin Steinberg)

  • Pandora Boxx: Falling in love with straight men, petty fights, and embracing your inner slut

  • Queer as Punk: Gritty, Dirty, Nasty Fun (with Demi Wylde)

  • The history of G-A-Y (with Jeremy Joseph)

  • Making out in the car park, breaking boys' hearts, and finding community during the pandemic (with Seren Oakley)

  • How the success of ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ changed the gay scene in Sydney (with Andrew Prior)

  • Getting comfortable with rejection, sleeping with your school bully, and overcoming pee-shyness (with Conor Collins)

  • Sticky dancefloors, sweaty bars, and choosing songs for your own funeral (with David Paisley)

  • Sex work, white cis-men, and dark, dark rooms (with Tim Lagman)

  • Is It Even a Lesbian Bar If It Doesn't Have a Pool Table? (with Clare Lydon)

  • Remembering Pulse on the 5-year anniversary of the nightclub shooting (with Jared Lipscomb)

  • Honey Mahogany's History of Queer San Fransisco

  • Astrology, Online Dating Profiles, and Virgil's Sea Room, San Francisco, USA (with Nat Gunn)

  • Tucking, Mormonism and the Aberdeen Queer Scene (with Romy Deepcheeks)

  • Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. in the 90s (with Craig Seymour)

  • A Very Awkward One-Night-Stand - featuring the 9th Avenue Saloon, NYC, USA (with Conor Kelly O'Brien)

  • Lotus Hotel, Vancouver, Canada (with Jordan King)

  • Making the Queer Scene More Inclusive (with Sharifa Whitney James)

  • Rose and Nana (from Two Twos Podcast) Reminisce About London's Black Queer Scene

  • Queer Nation, London, UK (with Marc Thompson)

  • The 'Gay Best Friend' stereotype (with Ros)

  • Granny's Nightspot, Portsmouth, England (with David Ledain)

  • F.A.G. Club, Bristol, England (with Chris Hubley / Crystal Mighty)

  • Pleather harnesses, living it up as an A-Gay, and death by dildo (with Bernie Hodges from 'What, That Old Queen?' podcast)

  • Ultra Naté reminisces about the early days of her career, getting sweaty in the club, and her lost space - The Paradox in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  • Champers, Swansea, Wales, UK (with DJ Craig Law)

  • Popstarz, London, England, UK (with Scott Flashheart from Probably True podcast)

  • Club Muthers, Rochester, NY, USA (with Mrs Kasha Davis)

  • XES Lounge, Chelsea, New York City, USA (with Honey LaBronx)

  • The Cossack, Sheffield, England, UK (with Heather Paterson)

  • Westgay at Westway, NYC, USA (with Big Dipper)

  • Klozet, Paceville, St. Julian's, Malta (with Chucky Bartolo)

  • Flamingos, Bristol, England (with Will Warren)

  • WAR at Andrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (with Rory Boyle)

  • Gay.com (with Darby Lynn Cartwright)

  • Dancing On Your Own (with Venn Smyth)

  • Too2Much, Soho, London, United Kingdom (with Holestar)

  • The Beaver, Toronto, Canada (with Casey Mecija)

  • Spin, Chicago, USA (with Alexis P. Bevels)

  • Manray, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (with Melissa Ferrick)

  • Danny's flat, Damascus, Syria (with Danny Ramadan)

  • Town Danceboutique, Washington, D.C., USA (with Tom Goss)

  • The Bay Horse, York, England (with Joseph Segaran)

  • The Picador, Manchester, England, UK (with Liz Naylor)

  • The Henhouse, Toronto, Canada (with Joseph Amenta)

  • Psychic City, Montreal, Canada (with Tranna Wintour)

  • XY, Vancouver, Canada (with Rogue)

  • Citibar, Montreal, Canada (with Gerard X Reyes)

  • The Coral Reef, Ottawa, Canada (with Ember Swift)

  • Slacks, Toronto, Canada (with Brandon Ash-Mohammed)

  • The Beaver, Toronto, Canada (with Prawn Waters)

  • Just, Bristol, England (with Jamie Jamal)

  • Lambda Rising, Washington, D.C., USA (with Eric Himan)

  • Bath Tap, Bath, England, UK (with Darryl W. Bullock)

  • The Parliament, Belfast, Northern Ireland (with Marcus Hunter-Neill / Lady Portia)

  • Smashing, London, UK (with Martin Green)

  • Triangles, Connecticut, USA (with Timberlina)

  • Men's Bathroom, Student Union Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Campus (with Conner Habib)

  • Q&A, The Builders Arms, Melbourne (with Jess McAvoy)

  • Mr Pussy’s Café De Luxe, Dublin (with Veda)

  • H.A.M. at P.O.D., Dublin (with Declan Buckley / Shirley Temple Bar)

  • Instinct Bar, Cork, Ireland (with Candy Warhol)

  • Kiss, Dublin, Ireland (with Phil T. Gorgeous)

  • Albury Hotel, Oxford St, Sydney (with Bob Downe / Mark Trevorrow)

  • Greyhound Hotel, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia (with Dean Arcuri)

  • The Market, Commercial Road, Melbourne, Australia (with Katie Underwood)

  • Patches, Brisbane, Australia (with Fat Gay Vegan)

  • The Black Cap, Camden, London (with Mark Brummitt)

  • The Duke of Wellington, Islington, London (with Timberlina)

  • Embers Avenue, Portland, USA (with Diana Fire)

  • 135 Pearl, Burlington, Vermont, USA (with Gregory Douglass)

  • Vibe @ Club Ego, Edinburgh, Scotland (with Venn Smyth)

  • Triangles, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (with Drake Jensen)

  • Big Cup, Chelsea, New York (with Norman Brannon)

  • The London Lesbian & Gay Teenage Group (with Kevin O'Neill)

  • Crash, Vauxhall, London (with John Lee Bird)

  • The Fallen Angel, Islington, London (with Colin Clews)

  • Her Upstairs, Camden, London (with Dr J)

  • Princess Julia’s history of Queer London Clubbing - Part 2 (1980s - now-ish)

  • Princess Julia’s history of Queer London Clubbing - Part 1 (1970s - 1980s)

  • Crackers, Gloucester, England (with Darryl W. Bullock)

  • Shinky Shonky at The Polar Bear, London (with Boogaloo Stu)

  • Ace of Clubs, London (with DJ Jo Bunny)

  • Trash Palace, London (with Quiet Choir)

  • First Out Cafe, London (with Ali Brumfitt)

  • The Princess Victoria (The PV), Brighton, England (with Kathy Caton)

  • The Terminus, Brisbane, Australia (with Kurt Luthy)

  • The Black Cap, Camden, London (with Joe Pop)

  • Ghetto, London (with Charlotte Richardson Andrews)

  • Kudos Bar, London (with Wilfrid Wood)

  • The Joiners' Arms, London (with Mark Walton)

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