I'm Coming Out
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I'm Coming Out
I'm Coming Out explores what it's like to grow up gay in a straight world. Every week a member of the LGBTQI+ community chats with Jonny Harvey about discovering and coming to terms with their sexuality, and the steps they took to move out of the shadows and lead a more authentic life.
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#20 Gabi & Shanna from 27 Travels on why gay representation is so important & experiencing homophobia in NYC
Gabi and Shanna are two travel bloggers from New York City. I’ve been following them for some time now on Instagram and living vicariously through the...
#19 Dan on being gay & a fundamentalist Christian & Nick on being outed to his parents by his boyfriend
Dan & Nick from the 802 podcast met a few years back at a house party and instantly became firm friends. Dan is from Norfolk but now lives in London &...
#18 Brock Yurich on dancing at Pulse nightclub & why it's so important gay roles are played by gay actors
Brock Yurich is an American actor who has starred in Succession, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt & Tyler Perry’s the Have and the Have Nots. He was born and...
#17 Robin Windsor on why he didn't come out to his mum until he was 35
Robin was a dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, one of the biggest shows in the UK for the best part of a decade. Dancing since the age of three he becam...
#16 Mohsin Zaidi on growing up gay & Muslim in East London
It’s series 4 time!!!!! And I’m thrilled that my first guest is top criminal barrister and author Mohsin Zaidi. He released his memoirs ‘A Dutiful Boy...
#15 Chris McNaughten/Bear Strong on what it was like to come out in the hyper-masculine world of Strongman
Chris McNaughten (also known by his moniker Bear Strong) is a two-time Junior Ireland Strongman champion. He also owns his own gym near Belfast.
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#14 Isaac Oliver on growing up with gay-friendly parents & dating in New York City
Isaac is an author, playwright and stage comic. His debut book ‘Intimacy Idiot’ was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. The book details all the h...
#13 Lev AC Rosen on why being gay is a gift
Lev is an American writer who already has a number of novels & YA fiction books under his belt. His work has been translated into many different langu...
#12 Alex Leon on racism within the gay community & the urgent need for specialised LGBTQ+ mental health services
Alex is an Australian writer & campaigner and it was one of his tweets earlier this year on growing up gay which initially piqued my interest in him (...
#11 Lewis Laney on coming out at school aged 14 & what it's like to have a gay dad
Series 3 is here!!!!! New music, updated artwork & most importantly eight new coming out stories. And my first guest of the series is the author Lewis...
#10 Conner Habib on growing up as a gay kid in small-town America
Conner Habib is a really interesting character and has had a wildly diverse career. He hosts a successful podcast called Against Everyone with Conner...
#9 Brian Kennedy on coping with homophobia from his own family and why he feels uncomfortable with the use of 'daddy' in modern gay culture.
Brian is one of Ireland’s best loved singers with a career spanning over 30 years. He grew up in Northern Ireland in the 60’s and 70’s at the very hei...
#8 Rory Cowan on what it was like to be gay in Ireland pre-decriminalisation
Rory Cowan is of course one of the stars of the hit BBC sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys. He was born in Dublin and started out working for EMI Ireland, where...
#7 Matt Mahmood-Ogsten on dealing with & combating religious & cultural based homophobia
Matt is the founder of the Naz and Matt foundation, a charity he set up to honour the memory of his late fiance Dr Nazim Mahmood, who died from suicid...
#6 Rory O’Neill on expanding the definition of what it means to be Irish and why he doesn't like occasional gays
Rory is someone who needs no introduction. He has worked as a drag queen for over 30 years now and has toured the world many times over with his stage...
#5 Robert Rinder on kissing boys as a teenager & how best to deal with homophobes
Series 2 is here!!! Thanks to everyone for all your support and lovely messages for the first series. I have lots of new episodes coming in the next f...
#4 Andy West on how his experiences with women made him realise he was gay
People resign from their jobs all the time. But when Andy West left his job as a BBC journalist in 2015 it made headline news. Because his was no ordi...
#3 Steven Carter Bailey on growing up gay & Mormon and his struggle with food addiction
Steven Carter-Bailey was a finalist on GBBO in 2017 (his series is still on All4, if you haven’t seen it). He won three star bakers and several of tho...
#2 Jen Brister on how she struggled to come out in the nineties and why LGBTQ+ rights should never be up for debate
Jen is a stand-up comic and writer from London. She has written and performed five solo shows around the world including at the Melbourne Internationa...
#1 David Norris on being the first openly gay person on Irish TV and the homophobia he experienced from the Irish media during his presidential campaign.
David Norris is an Irish senator and an internationally recognised human rights campaigner with a political career spanning five decades. David fought...