ShoutOut LGBT+ Radio

This week - Brighton Fringe announced its spectacular line-up of comedy, theatre and dance ahead of its return this May for their 21st year. They are proud to be an open-access festival, welcoming any artist to put on an event and perform. Steffi chats to organiser and chair Duncan Lustig-Prean. Duncan has built an impressively diverse career: from leading the campaign for LGBT people to serve in the Armed Forces, to ensuring that the global majority was better represented by English Heritage, to running a charity supporting LGBT veterans to opera singing, to chairing Brighton Fringe!We also speak to Sam Cook is a Bristol-based comedian. Being a relative newcomer to comedy when he started his career in February 2025, he is fast becoming a rising star in the UK comedy scene His material explores loneliness, mental health and dating in the LGBTQ+ community. Sam became the winner of the fourth series of Queerovision in 2025.

This week we chat to Nxdia about their career and also Fag Packet's Holly and Kheski about ambition, multilevel marketing and Queer Love within Dyke Systems.

This week we chat to a very young singer songwriter that's a big hit on Instagram and You Tube, performed in The Royal Albert Hall, has released multiple singles and is still only 19; Amity.Also, Terry brings us the pre release list of LGBTQIA books for a good old Spring read.

QueerStory is back with a down to earth look at Elton John. Also, off to the theatre with the latest production of Cock, we chat to 2 of the actors.Cock returns to London in an intimate new staging Wednesday 22nd April – Saturday 2nd May 2026 COLAB, 22 Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 9HB Press night: Thursday 23rd April 2026 Following sold-out runs in Canada and tours to Japan, South Africa, and Brazil, Cock comes to London this spring in a raw, intimate new staging from Canada’s acclaimed Talk Is Free Theatre. Originally written in 2009 by acclaimed British playwright Mike Bartlett, Cock feels newly urgent in this bold reimagining which examines the play through a contemporary lens, embracing fresh experimentation to ask how shifting identities and a changed world reshape the questions at its heart. After the 2022 West End adaption that had everyone talking, this new iteration offers London the chance to encounter Bartlett’s play again in a strikingly different, close-quarters setting, with an entirely new cast. 

This week, Shea Coffey is back with a new monthly series, plus Steffi chats to Author A A Sekhon about their new book Assumptions and that's not all, there's a new choir on the block, Sapphonic Bristol.

This week we chat to Simon Brandon about his upcoming theatre productions, Charlie and Striptease, comedic but very serious plays coming soon. Also we chat to carer and author Jon Stokes and his foster son Charley.

Stephen Fry introduces our main guest this week, Andrew Keates who runs Queer Theatre. Sex, drugs, alcohol and rock and roll took its toll; but Andrew made it through with Queer Theatre at his heart.

This week it's time to catch up with Bristol Pride on what's coming this summer. Also, we talk to Nour who's in Dubai about their family in Southern Lebanon and the Dubai queer scene.

Steffi chats to Shea Coffey about what's happened this week in the news, the upcoming Kent Trans Pride and her upcoming series right here on ShoutOut; "The Coffey Break". PLUS; Hafren and Lowie, the co-chairs of Trans Pride Bristol in the studio to talk about the upcoming Trans Pride in Bristol, which will include speeches, the march, Social events, workshops, stalls, a gig and a club night.

We chat to NOT IN OUR NAME about their campaign to support Trans Folk..."We are a collective of women who reject the weaponisation of our identities to justify discrimination. We want the media, government and other bodies to focus on the real threats that prevent women from thriving.We call for truth, solidarity, and action. Our safety depends on standing together."Plus: in the studio; Jakob; "We are an accessible sober events project, open to ANYONE who just wants to go to the night and the night happens to be sober. We want to bring in diverse audiences who are sober/sober curious through health, religion, culture, recovery, choice." 

Author, Mark Akst tells us about his Mark Cohn Quadrology, an imaginative and fast-paced speculative 4 novel series that explores queer leadership, identity, and power through the lens of Jewish history and modern geopolitics.One of the novel’s central figures is the first openly gay prime minister of Israel, whose leadership unfolds during a global crisis tied to ancient texts and emerging technology. Through this character and others, the book opens conversations about visibility, ethics, faith, masculinity, and how queer identity intersects with power and public life.Plus we catch up with the South West Fetish group where they explain just what fetish is, how it's open to all (over 18's of course) and bring us up to date on their upcoming events.

This Week, Cape Town South Africa: Now entering its fourth year with over 25 productions to its name, LEGACY has established itself not merely as an event, but as the architectural backbone of Cape Town’s queer Ballroom community - a space where the hierarchy is respected, the competition is strictly adjudicated, and the culture is preserved. To understand LEGACY, one must understand the global history it references. Ballroom culture emerged in New York City in the late 1960s and 70s, created by Black and Latino trans and queer communities who were systematically excluded from established drag pageants. In response, they formed "Houses" - alternative kinship structures led by "Mothers" and "Fathers" - and created "Balls," where members could compete for status and affirmation.PLUS It's also LGBT+ history month so we went back through our archives and found a lovely interview former ShoutOut team member Ben Bird recorded way back in 2012. He caught up with the lovely Peggy who ran the The Radnor Hotel - the best place to be in Bristol after the war, up until it's closure around 1976 (though it did open its doors again as many different things after that).Peggy passed away in 2021 but we were lucky enough to get her take on the importance of the Radnor, and a glimpse into gay life many decades ago.

Lurid Editions are in the studio, a new Queer publisher of old LGBTQIA books with something to say. ALSO; Lucy went to cover Scritch Cabaret. She chats to Oliver Asset and Kurt Sovain of Brizzle Boys who organise it, Esme Doll - Bristol's youngest drag queen and singer songwriter, Em.

From Dance to HIV testing to Pride, we cover it all here on ShoutOut. Choreographer Mathieu Gefferé chats about his upcoming productions, Brigstowe chat about the importance of HIV testing and Bristol Pride's Daryn Carter tells us about what's coming up this summer and the struggles Prides have with funding.

“There is rice at home” is a well known saying in African households to signify that we already have an abundance of what we need. “Rice at Home” extends this conversation in a documentary directed by Louise Ndibwirende and produced by Martha Redfern which brings together elders from Rwanda, Bangladesh and India as they reflect on their experiences of heritage, culture and ancestry.PLUS: Pride Padel, inclusive, non-profit padel tournaments and socials in Bristol, creating a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ players and allies to get active, meet people, and try a fast-growing sport that many haven’t had access to before. The events typically host around 40–48 players and regularly sell out, with people travelling from across the South West to take part.

Kris and Ryan tell us about their experiences of same sex adoption. In recent years in England, around 1 in 5 adoptions were to same-sex couples — about 20% of all adoptions in 2023/24. NOTE: The UK government data typically reports family composition (e.g., “same-gender couple”) rather than sexual orientation directly, so some LGBTQ+ adopters may not be fully captured in the number of adoptions). In 2025 figures show roughly 610 adoptions by same-gender couples out of ~3,040 total, which is about 20.1% of all adoptions. PLUS: The Arts, Lucy looks into what's happening within the Queer scene.

World Exclusive: we reveal the identities of the Bristol Dynamic Duo. They go where others fear to tread, causing FM mayhem and Diabolical DAB. It's a mash, crash and bash story of 2 superheroes. From causing traffic accidents due to the overrated music they play, to talking about pillows. We reveal ALL!!! ALSO, January can be a tough month, we look at what help is available for the LGBTQIA community.