Queerly Beloved

Introducing 'Uncover: The Village'

Hey listeners! It's been a while! We want to share with you an exciting new podcast from CBC Radio called "Uncover: The Village."Two waves of murders, 40 years apart. Who’s killing men in Toronto’s gay community and why are they getting away with it? The latest season of Uncover from CBC Podcasts is out now: cbc.ca/uncover

The Artists

In Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. is the well-known namesake of his great grandfather, one of the country’s former prime ministers. After moving to San Francisco, though, he was just a queer, Muslim artist trying to build a community that accepted the intersections of his identity. That’s when he met Ana, a recent transplant from Colombia who understood the alienation of being not only queer, but an “outsider” in the US. 

The Pen-Pals

Jeffrey has spent most of his life in prison, where he lost contact with his biological family. Via the LGBTQ prison pen-pal network Black and Pink, though, he found Dorsey—who, over the years, has become someone he can always count on. 

The Mentor

Liara Roux is a genderqueer sex worker who, over time, became a queer mentor to a client interested in experimenting with her gender expression. 

The Siblings

Diana and Seth are biological siblings who are both trans and who, despite having vastly different stories of coming out, influenced each other’s notions of gender and identity throughout their entire lives.