A Gay and A NonGay

When did James know he was gay? When did Dan know he was nongay? And why did Dan say goodbye to his "dream beard / mohawk"?.Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/.Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ .Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ .Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James’ birthday is ruined by trolls. Plus Dan now thinks he looks like Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson (??)Is Dan delusional? Let us know in our listener group, head to facebook.com/groups/gaynongay----Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit gaynongay.com/donate/ Share your pronouns! Wear your pronouns! Support trans lives, shop our new merch gaynongay.com/shop. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's show we welcome actor and transgender man Chaz Bono to the show. In his own words he wanted to talk to us about his experience to help combat the many misconceptions about trans people that exist in the UK.We talk about his own coming out experience, his sadness over JK Rowling's transphobic comments and how you live life when Cher is your mom!----Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ If you enjoy this, check out A Gay, A Nongay and A Trans with Juno DawsonShare your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is back from his camping trip and he's got a PSA, trim your bush! Plus is Dan a ‘Debbie Downer?’ Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ .Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With so much erasure in the world, we felt it was time to catch up with British electronic pop legends Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, aka Erasure. They tell us about seeing George Michael on Grindr, being mistaken for other gay pop stars in Italy and comforting Boy George when radio stations wouldn’t play his song.Check out Erasure's brand new album 'The Neon'Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Share your stories in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ .Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ .Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump follows Boris Johnson by stealing one of Dan’s catchphrases, and why on earth is YMCA his walk-off music? Also this week - do gay bars discriminate against bisexuals? Share your stories of discrimination, in our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ .Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee, hat or vest with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ .Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully lead to acceptance for many more. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s two exclusives this week. After his viral sensation The Great Realisation, the boys welcome incredible poet Tomfoolery onto the podcast to hear his new LGBTQ+ ally poem Never Have I Ever. Meanwhile, Dan reveals his past life as a poet...Share your poetry, join our listener group at www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ .Show your love for our trans and non-binary family. Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee with 10% to Mermaids - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ .Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully one day lead to acceptance for many. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do cooking pasta, crossing your legs and going to Paris have in common? Plus Dan’s been chased down the road again, this time it’s not a dog, but a Karen.Shop our merch. Get your very own Pronoun Tee now with 10% to Mermaids, - visit www.gaynongay.com/shop/ .Join our listener group, www.facebook.com/groups/gaynongay/ .Please support our podcast, your encouragement helps us to keep going and create meaningful audio that will hopefully one day lead to acceptance for many. Visit www.gaynongay.com/donate/ Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a very difficult, upsetting and triggering episode. Today we’re joined by director David France to talk about his latest film Welcome To Chechnya."Unmatched since Hitler, it’s a government led campaign to round up and eliminate all LGBT people. The Final Solution…happening before our eyes"Since April 2017, the government in Chechnya has initiated state sanctioned murder, forced disappearances, abductions, imprisonment, torture of LGBTQ+ citizens - with an unknown number of people dying after being detained in what human rights groups call concentration camps. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov denies all of the above - or that gay people exist in Chechnya, stating that such people would be killed by their own families. In some cases, gay men have been let out of prison, specifically to enable their murder by relatives.David’s latest film Welcome to Chechnya shines a light on a vast underground network of safe houses, contacts, and pipelines created by Russian LGBTQ+ groups to help vulnerable LGBTQ+ people escape these horrors. Please consider donating to the Russian LGBT Network, head to https://help.lgbtnet.org/enWatch Welcome to Chechnya on BBC iPlayer in the UK or HBO in the US.Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan's beard pics are getting all of the likes on instagram, James is annoyed. Do straight men enjoy thirsty attention from The Gays™? Plus has the 'Karen' insult run its course and James has a theory on J.K. Rowling. Get bonus content on Patreon, with our super exclusive fan feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices