Hosted by Nigel May, whose guest today is Jean-Pierre Barda, best known as one of the members of the fabulously flamboyant Swedish pop group Army Of Lovers who first splashed onto the music scene in the UK back in the early 1990s with the massive disco anthem Crucified.
Nigel remembers seeing the video for the song for the first time and watching the eye-linered Jean-Pierre reclining in a bath fanning his hairy-chested self and pretend sword-fighting in not much more than a loincloth and falling in love with the sheer gay-fabulous nature of it. It was camp, it was sexual, it was beautiful and it was unapologetically queer. That was 1991, and now more than three decades, many singles and seven million album sales later the band are still making music with a new album Sexodus.
This series is a celebration of a beautiful queer community; people of all ages, people who have had to tread their own path to live their real truth, who have fought with their emotions and emerged victorious, who inspire, who aspire and always entertain.
Every week, Nigel speaks to a person from the LGBTQ+ rainbow to hear their story; one person, one life, one conversation. And guaranteed, a Gay Old Time!
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"When the zombie apocalypse happens, baby, it's going to be full of queer people" - with Dominic Skinner
"I really wanted to be able to talk about sex in a way that straight people do" - with Cazwell
"If I embrace everything I have been taught to hate about myself there's power in that" - with Miss Coco Peru
"I got to know Divine quite well...he was a bit wary of me at first." - with Hazell Dean
"They told me not to be slutty at breakfast!" - with Jimbo
"I got fired from the bank for wearing women's clothing to work" - with Peppermint
"I was very traumatized. It isn't normal to be burying your friends when you're 23" - with Paul Burston
"Going for drinks with a random guy at three o'clock on a Wednesday" - with Bright Light Bright Light
"I was a very bad dominatrix" - with Margaret Cho
"There's a big difference between being a gay dad and a gay daddy, as my DMs will attest to" - with Charlie Condou
"When I've finished being a boy I'm going to be a lady" - with Adele Anderson
"I have always identified as an in-between" - with Trinity the Tuck
"I really stepped into my gayness and I rubbed it in your face" - with John Partridge
"Just like any good homo, I'm gonna write a musical to protest" - with Jonny McGovern
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