#5 - On History, Media and the Gay Identity

In this short but urgent episode, I share why I’ve chosen to leave Big Tech services like Google (among others) in light of their complicity in human rights violations and global injustices. As Muslims - and as human beings - we have a moral obligation to act. I’ve moved to Pr ...

Introductory episode to the new podcast series, "Voices from Beyond the Rainbow".

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Over the past decades, the focus of LGBTQ activism has shifted and evolved, from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s to the fight for marriage equality to the focus on transgender rights today. Peter Hegarty, PhD, author of the book “A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology: From ...  Show more

Today I’m talking to Jack Rose, a 25 year old, gay man who is a trainee therapist in Integrative Therapy at Bangor University in Wales. He is currently living in Manchester, a city with a large LGBT population.. Jack previously graduated with a 2:1 in Psychology, with counsell ...

Why is it that men, straight Black men, are so afraid of being seen as “soft?” Why is it that so many in this country have learned that the most damaging thing you can be is queer or trans and that to see that in another triggers a wound so deep that it results in violence? In th ...  Show more

AAPI LGBT+ youth are struggling right now. A new report from the Trevor Project found that 40 percent of AAPI LGBT+ youth have considered suicide in the past year. What’s going on here? We talk to Myeshia Price, a researcher from the Trevor Project, to understand the factors a ...