Tracks of Our Queers
Fascinating LGBTQ+ people explore the soundtracks to their queer journeys through one track, one album, and one artist. Activists, trailblazers, and icons help Andy Gott piece together the precious relationship that queer people have with music.
Episodes
47 episodes
Faustina Agolley, broadcaster and DJ
Faustina Agolley is a writer, producer, DJ, presenter, actor, and all-round legend.She hosted Video Hits, Channel Ten’s flagship music program in Australia, from 2006-2011; she’s toured with Oprah Winfrey as her resident DJ, and she made...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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45:45
David Polson AM, HIV advocate and educator
David Polson AM is an advocate and educator for HIV awareness. Just 29 in 1984 when he was diagnosed in HIV himself, David is currently celebrating his 70th birthday.In 2023, he founded Qtopia, a museum in Sydney dedicated to the...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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49:44
Ash Gordon, songwriter and composer
Ash Gordon is a New York-bred, LA-based songwriter, producer, and now playwright, best known for her collaborations with a galaxy of stars from RuPaul’s Drag Race, including but not limited to Trixie Mattel, Sharon Needles, Trin...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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48:53
Bishi, artist and composer
Bishi is an artist, composer and producer born in London of Bengali heritage. Trained in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles, she has released and composed three albums, several EPs, movie and documentary soundtracks, and tirele...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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55:30
Simon Graser / Simonetti, DJ
Simon Graser is a DJ and nightlife curator based in Naarm/Melbourne, and performs as Simonetti. He co-founded the Melbourne party CONFIDE, a love letter to the roots of house, and a means for relief, release, and resp...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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44:49
Christy DeGallerie, writer
Christy DeGallerie is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from New York. Her contribution to the Modern Love column in th...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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50:03
Benjamin Law, writer and broadcaster
Benjamin Law is a writer, broadcaster, television creator and producer, and refined homosexual about town in Sydney. He's also a former competitor on Australian Survivor – important.If you haven't already, I implore you to read...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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47:31
Bright Light Bright Light, singer songwriter
Bright Light Bright Light, aka Rod Thomas, is an entirely independent pop superstar based in New York City.Hailing from Wales, Rod has rewritten the rulebook for being a singer songwriter without major label backing, mostl...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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41:12
Geraldine Hickey, comedian
Geraldine Hickey is one of Australia's most beloved comedians, and multiple award-winning at that. She's a regular face on TV, a veteran of the Melbourne International Comedy and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and... a bird watcher. More on...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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37:22
Carlton Wilborn, life coach and former Madonna dancer
Carlton Wilborn is an actor, life coach, and former dancer with Madonna.At 25, Carlton was hand-picked to join the Blond Ambition World Tour, documented in the ground-breaking concert film Truth or Dare (or, In Bed w...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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42:17
Fenton Bailey, producer and co-creator of RuPaul's Drag Race
Fenton Bailey is a co-founder of production studio World of Wonder, the home of RuPaul's Drag Race. Together with Randy Barbato, Fenton has creatively collaborated with RuPaul since the mid-80s, helping birth his albums,...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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53:07
Sarah Keyworth, comedian
Sarah Keyworth is an award-winning comedian from Nottingham, England, who you may know from Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats, or their own BBC Soun...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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46:00
Brontez Purnell, writer and musician
Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, critic, model, zinemaker, dancer, choreographer, and quite literally, more. An Oakland punk by way of Alabama, Brontez has just published his fifth book, 10 Bridges I've Burnt. I'm ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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39:09
Carl Austin-Behan, RAF veteran
Carl Austin-Behan served in the British Royal Air Force from 1991 until 1997, when he was discharged for being openly gay. Lauded with honours for services to his country, including a medal for bravery, nonetheless he was ejected...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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39:17
Jenna Suffern, comedian
Jenna Suffern is a Sydney-based comedian, producer and writer. One half of comedy due Two Queers Walk Into...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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41:33
Josh Rivers, cultural worker
Josh Rivers is a cultural worker, broadcaster, and the presenter of the conversation series Busy Being Black
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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37:38
Tommy Murphy, playwright
Tommy Murphy is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright based in Sydney. Tommy adapted the Australian queer classic memoir Holding the Man for both stage and...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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35:13
Stuart Linden Rhodes, photographer and teacher
Stuart Linden Rhodes is the photographer behind the @linden_archives, a fascinating record of queer nigh...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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36:55
Bamby Salcedo, community leader
Bamby Salcedo is the CEO and President of the TransLatin@ Coalition, the largest trans-lead organisation in the United States, with a mission to improve and enrich the lives of t...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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40:13
Michael Cragg, journalist and author
Michael Cragg is a prolific music journalist for The Guardian, The Observer, Vogue and more, and as of last year, the published author of Reach for the Stars, an oral history of the mind-boggling perio...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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51:10
Sherry Vine, actor and drag queen
Sherry Vine is a drag legend. Over a thirty year career, she’s carved out a reputation for searing wit, spectacular performance, and filthy humour. Sherry joined me for this conversation as the second season of The Sher...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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38:39
Jeffrey Masters, broadcaster
Right back in ye olde podcasting days, I listened to just three shows – RuPaul and Michelle Visage's What's the Tee?, the BBC's Desert Island Discs, and the interview series LGBTQ&am...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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34:58
DJ Paulette
Welcome back to Tracks of Our Queers. One of only two female resident DJs at Manchester's iconic Haçienda nightclub in the early '90s, DJ Paulette has spent 30 years pioneering a rich legacy ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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51:26
Adriano Cappelletta, writer and actor
Adriano Cappelletta is an actor, writer, and creator across film, television, cabaret, and music. After researching Australia's reponse to AIDS in 2016 after years of volunteering with HIV/AIDS organisations, Adriano wrote the pl...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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45:01