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+ communit

Episodes

Total: 262

Diana Fire is Portland's Daddy Bear Drag Queen, and is best known as a contestant in Season 2 of Cam

Gregory Douglass is a singer-songwriter, born and raised in rural Vermont. Though now based in Los A

Aww, student life! Staying out late, sleeping in, eating cereal for dinner, and.... handing out cond

Drake Jensen is a Canadian country singer, who was born and grew up on the tiny Cape Breton Island,

This week's episode is our first trip to the US! Norman Brannon, musician and writer, was busy figur

The London Lesbian & Gay Teenage Group, which started in 1975, was pretty damn revolutionary as

John Lee Bird is an artist/designer/musician and all around glorious human being. He is also one of

Though he only lived in London for a short while, author Colin Clews has fond memories of The Fallen

Her Upstairs was a kitschy drag and cabaret bar in Camden, London, which opened shortly after anothe

More rambling (her words, not mine!) goodness from the one and only Princess Julia. In this episode,

Princess Julia launched into her tales before I got a chance to even set the mic up, and so I hastil

Not all queer spaces are queer. Or, at least, exclusively queer... In smaller towns and cities, wher

Obscene badges, old-school game shows, and exploding butts were all things you could expect to see i

What's the difference between regular drama and lesbian drama? What is the lesbian uniform? Which do

Spread over two floors, Trash Palace was THE drinking place of choice for alternative queers for a h

We are back to London this week, and visiting another venue that fell victim to the Crossrail develo

Brighton is generally accepted as the ‘queer capital’ of the UK, with an estimated 15% of all adults

Queensland didn’t legalise homosexuality until 1991 (which kind of blows my mind when you think of A

London’s heart broke when legendary drag bar ‘The Black Cap’ closed in 2015. I caught up with artist

Ever fallen in love on the dance floor? That’s what happened to journalist and writer Charlotte Rich