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.
Tracks of Our Queers
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 screen, while his limited series Significant Others was broadcast on the ABC last year. Most recently, he adapted Nevil Shute's On the Beach for the Sydney Theatre Company.
We discuss music by Whitney Houston, Olivier Messiaen, and Rufus Wainwright.
This conversation was recorded at Forbes Street Studios in Sydney. A huge thank you to Anthony Garvin for his support.
Listen to all previous guest choices in one handy Spotify playlist, Selections from Tracks of Our Queers and follow the pod on Instagram.
To celebrate our fiftieth episode, I want to hear your queer tracks. Send me a voice note of a song, album, or artist that has resonated with your life, and I'll include it in Episode 50.
Email me your voicenote at tracksofourqueers@gmail.com.
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