Rewind: I'm gay, and this is how I overcame my homophobia

First produced and published in 2018, in the British Podcast Awards nominated Season Two of QueerAF - Support our work After Sean Allsop produced this episode, one of his first paid documentary audio commissions, he’s gone on to have an illustrious career making documentaries for the BBC, The World Service, Virgin Radio, Absolute Radio: And a vast number of them about the LGBTQIA+ community. Sean’s brought the history of Section 28, The Legacy of Terrance Higgins and investigations into Poland’s LGBT free zones onto National radio. All, in part, because we were able to give him one of his first portfolio pieces, as well as the training and mentoring on how to do queer stories justice. That’s what we’re up to here, supporting queer creatives to build media careers so they can change the media - all to change the country. Sean suffered from internalised homophobia. He is perfectly OK with his sexuality, but kept asking himself why the LGBTQIA+ community has to be 'so queer.' At the time of recording, Sean Allsop was a recent radio graduate and set out to find if it's possible to overcome your shame of being gay – and learns why he has, until now, projected his own homophobia onto others. With thanks to Matthew Todd, author of Straight Jacket. To therapist Stephen Hanscomb, and also Switchboard. If you ever want to call them, you can call 10am-10pm every day on 0300 330 0630 or 0800 0119100 Sign up as a QueerAF member to listen along ad-free and support our not-for-profit work, investing in a new generation of queer audio professionals: If you like our podcast, you'll love our free weekly newsletter that thousands of readers use to understand the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 headlines, learn new perspectives and stay on top of the latest queer content. Try it now: Make sure to sign up for updates about Trans+ History Week, a QueerAF launchpad project: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode was published on Jul 21, 2025.

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