For this episode along with my guest will be dissecting Derek Jarman’s historical, religious, but ultimately queer debut Sebastiane.  

Released in 1976, is set in a sun drenched rocky coast line of the Mediterranean island of Sardinian. With a dialogue entirely in Latin, Sebastiane tells the story of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.

The film is not a biopic by any means but more of a queer BDSM interpretation of this biblical story. The film, was seen as one of the first unlicensed ‘underground’ queer films, which was allowed into the public spaces of commercial cinema and television and one that featured positive images of gay sexuality, in comparison to previously released queer films. But also, interestingly it was also the first ever film passed by the British Board of Film Censors that depicted an erect penis.

To talk to me about the film, I invited along film critic and writer Robert Stinner. It’s a  conversation I very much enjoyed where we able to discuss in depth the films audacious homoeroticism, its timelessness and its influence on future queer filmmaking.

Thank you for listening!

Music: James Jones @james-jones-music

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EPISODE 25: Sebastiane - Interview with writer Robert Stinner

Barbie Breakout ist unsere 2. Botschafterin für den CSD Leipzig 2024 und in unserer brandneuen Folge lernt ihr sie kennen. Unsere Podcasthost Jasmin hat sich dafür mit ihr zum Online-Gespräch getroffen. 

Barbie Breakout ist eine Drag Ikone und Vorbild für die queere Community. Sie ist Podcasterin, Autorin, Aktivistin und sie bringt als Moderatorin der ersten Staffel von Drag Race Germany den Glamour auf die Bühne und das Kultformat von RuPaul nach Deutschland. 
In der Podcastfolge gibt uns Barbie einen Einblick in ihre beeindruckende Karriere. Wir sprechen auch über Drag Race Germany und darüber, wieso der Kampf gegen Stigmatisierung und Diskriminierung von Menschen mit HIV weiterhin so wichtig ist.

Hört euch die neue Folge jetzt unbedingt an und lasst euch von der einzigartigen Barbie Breakout verzaubern! Nebenbei freuen wir uns auch über ein paar freundliche Kommentare und Likes. Ach ja, ihr dürft den Podcast natürlich auch gern mit all euren Freund:innen teilen und weiterempfehlen. Vielen Dank! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Ihr wollt noch mehr über Barbie Breakout erfahren? Hier könnt ihr euch Barbies Lebensgeschichte als Hörbuch anhören:  https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/0U6oN2Fyc8k4UinRcoyglv

Checkt gern auch mal ihren Merch aus: https://barbiebreakout.shop/

Und last but not least Barbies iconic performance mit Sasha Velour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rgKvTkJB-E

Ihr habt Fragen, Kritik oder Themenvorschläge zum Podcast? Schreibt gerne eine E-Mail an Jasmin unter podcast@csd-leipzig.de

📆 SAVE THE DATE: Die nächste Podcastfolge erscheint am 07. September überall wo es Podcasts gibt!

🏳️‍🌈 CSD Leipzig 2024 vom 09. bis 17. August – Alle Infos und Daten: csd-leipzig.de

❗️ Für die sichere und reibungslose Durchführung der CSD-Demo am 17. August werden noch dringend Ordner:innen gesucht! Meldet euch gern unter csd-leipzig.de/ordner

Folge 43 – Spezialfolge mit Barbie Breakout (CSD-Botschafterin 2024)

I thought I'd start uploading my podcast here too! This is the first episode and premiered November 19th, 2020

Tasty Ear Bits Podcast - Way Back Hallowhen S01 E01

Hey friends! This week we are talking about Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban! We’re talking about our love for Regency era media, including Bridgerton and Downton Abbey and why british people say ton instead of town!! And so much more! 

It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here.

Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting, with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she’s gotten all her flair, fun, and less-than-proper party games.

It doesn’t take long for Gwen to hatch her latest scheme: rather than surrender Beth to courtship, they should set up Gwen’s father and Beth’s newly widowed mother. Let them get married instead.

Of course, just as their plan begins to unfold, a handsome, wealthy viscount starts calling on Beth, offering up the perfect, secure marriage.

Now Gwen must face the prospect of sharing Beth with someone else, forever. And Beth must reckon with the fact that she’s caught feelings, hard, and they’re definitely not for her potential fiancé.

That’s the trouble with matchmaking: sometimes you accidentally fall in love with your best friend in the process.

Theme Song by Man With Roses.

EP 137; Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

Hey Friends! This week we are joined by Kellan McDaniel to talk about their new novel, Till Death! We're talking about vampires, queer community building and the trans dinosaurs in Jurrasic Park and much more! 

Book description below 
Theme Song by Man With Roses.

Howard is biding his time until he can finally leave for college, where he has been promised it gets better. The last thing he expected was to meet a boy. But George reminds Howard of the movie stars from the 1960s he’s obsessed with. Plus, George is endearingly formal and well-read, and his grandpa fashion is super authentic.

After over twenty years together, George is about to lose his life partner. He met James when they were teenagers then lost track of him until they reconnected in their early sixties. Now, James is going somewhere beyond George’s reach—because George is a vampire, forever trapped in the body of a nineteen-year-old.

As the two grow closer, George begins to see a future beyond losing his first love, and Howard stops imagining himself always being alone…even if companionship comes at the cost of his mortality. When the discrimination the men have suffered their whole lives rears its ugly head to take away their happy ending, they finally strike back at the world that’s done its best to subdue them their entire lives.


EP 139: Till Death with Kellan McDaniel

Feeling angry in 2025? Join the club. (No, seriously, we have some important things to discuss!)

In this episode we sit down with Kallie Klug to discuss all things anger: what it really is, what it does in the body, and what the hell to do with it once it’s here. 

So many of us shy away from anger and even couple it with shame. Why? Suppressed anger can express itself as stomach issues, jaw and shoulder pain, and irritating chronic symptoms. In this episode Kallie teaches us how to have conversation with tension in our body, process full body rage and interpersonal rage, and tune into safety in difficult times — necessary skills for improving physical and mental health. 

With studies showing that the prefrontal cortex shuts down during conflict, knowing how to take space and listen to your body is so important for effective communication and community building. This episode is for anyone who wants to improve their life by learning somatic exercises for anger, with specific tips for travelers and activists. 

- Email the new travel segment at hellounrulytravel@gmail.com
- Episode #71 on people pleasing: https://wanderwoman.online/index.php/2024/08/09/how-to-stop-people-pleasing-somatics-kallie-klug/
- KaliSomatics: https://kalisomatics.com

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- Join the Unruly Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/unrulytravel 
- Donate to the podcast: SoundCloud - @unrulystories,  Venmo - @unruytravel 
- Contact: calenotto@gmail.com 
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#83 What Anger Teaches Us In 2025 And Beyond - Somatic Anger Release Exercises With Kallie Klug

Hey Friends! This week we're talking about Late Bloomer by Mazey Edding! We're talking about buying a flower farm, what would we do if we won the lottery and some seriously spicy sapphic chemistry and more! 

Book description below
Theme Song by Man With Roses.

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can’t seem to stop saying yes.

With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, which to her translates to putting almost all her new money to buying a failing flower farm in Asheville, North Carolina to let the flowers live out their plant destiny while she uses the cabin on the property to start her painting business.

But her plans for isolation and self-preservation go hopelessly awry when an angry (albeit gorgeous) Pepper Smith is waiting for her at her new farm. Pepper states she’s the rightful owner of Thistle and Bloom Farms, and isn’t moving out. The unlikely pair strike up an agreement of co-habitation, and butt-heads at every turn. Can these opposites both live out their dreams and plant roots? Or will their combustible arguing (and growing attraction) burn the whole place down?

EP 140: Late Bloomer by Mazey Edding

Hey Friends! This week we are joined again!! by FT Lukens to talk about their upcoming YA modern fantasy Love at Second Sight! We’re talking about high school crushes, our favorite fantasy teen shows and which faction we’d join ourselves and much more! 

Theme by Man with Roses
Book description below: 

Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds wants to spend his sophomore year flying under the radar. That shouldn’t be too hard, considering he’s a human going to school with kids who have paranormal powers, like his best friend and witch, Al, and his longtime werewolf crush, Mateo.

Then Cam has a psychic glimpse of the future in front of most of the student body, seeing a gruesomely murdered teen girl from the point of view of the killer. When Cam comes to, he knows two things: someone he goes to school with is a future murderer, and his life is about to change. No longer a mere human but a clairvoyant, one of the rarest of supernatural beings, Cam finds himself at the center of attention for the first time.

As the most powerful supernatural factions in the city court Cam and his gift, he’ll have to work with his friends, both old and new, to figure out who he can trust and who might be a werewolf in sheep’s clothing. Because the clock is ticking, and Cam and his friends must identify the girl in the vision, find her potential killer, and prevent the murder from happening. Or the next murder Cam sees might be his own.

EP 141; Love at Second Sight with F.T. Lukens

Here today to tell us how we can *actually* protect trans people is Charlie Alexander, one half of the life-saving duo at TNET.

In this episode you'll learn how to protect trans people right now, after the election, and how to support trans rights in general. At the end of the episode we answer FAQ's from parents of trans youth like, 'Does my trans kid need to go to therapy?' and correct misconceptions about puberty blockers.

Get step-by-step instructions on:

- How to be a safe person for trans kids to come out to (what to say & do)
- What to do if you mess up someone's "coming out" moment
- What not to say to trans people 
- What to do if you misgender someone
- How to protect trans kids in schools as a teacher or parent

SHOWNOTES

- Join the Unruly Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/unrulytravel
- Quouch App (queer CouchSurfing): https://quouch-app.com
- Win a trip to BERLIN with Quouch: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwBL_eNApD/?img_index=1
- TNET: https://www.tnet.store
- Trans Love Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6Gnlkx6qo
- Episode language guide: https://wanderwoman.online/2025/05/how-to-protect-trans-people/

- Unruly Travel & Living Blog: unrulytravel.com
- -Unruly email newsletter: buff.ly/4a1bPwT
- Support the podcast: SoundCloud - @unrulystories,  Venmo - @unruytravel
- Contact: calenotto@gmail.com
- Unruly Instagram: www.instagram.com/unruly_traveller

#85 How To *Actually* Protect Trans People

“We don’t bleed quietly in this Archive.”

In this Pride Month exclusive, Calder N. Halden sits down with the impossibly sharp Director Threnna Vale to discuss the origins of EchoFyre, the secrets behind its most haunted characters, and the future of the recursion-bound saga.

Topics include:
— Queer memory as myth
— Sex as sacred language
— The danger of writing yourself into your own fiction
— And yes... the gargoyle is canon.

This episode contains sexually explicit themes, ritual-level intimacy, and unapologetic queerness.

You’re not outside the recursion anymore. You’re in it.

🔗 Learn more at: https://echofyre.com
📘 Full transcript and sigil log available on the website.

EchoFyre: Beneath the Sigil - Pride 2025 Author Interview (NSFW)

Calder N. Halden writes myth-soaked erotic fantasy about men who remember too much, bodies that ache like scripture, and archives that touch back. Author of EchoFyre: The Archive Awakens, Halden weaves recursion, desire, and sigil-marked memory into every breathless line. He believes climax should be earned—ritualized, rewritten, and remembered.

LA's Most Disastrous Drag Queen. Star of OutTV's Sado Psychiatrist and My Drag Is Valid. Find music here that I've made for my podcast and for live appearances.

The Unruly Travel & Living Podcast sits down with experts who share illuminating ideas, how-to tips, and personal stories on travel, alternative lifestyles, veganism, nature, queerness, and off-grid living. 

Calen Otto, host of the Unruly Podcast, is a writer, activist, and avid traveler. They've been to over 30 countries, 20 national parks and 5 continents on an extremely small budget, exploring the intersections of social justice and alternative living along the way. With gritty beginnings of crossing the USA with only a bike and $300, they now help newbies and experienced wanderers alike travel as ethically, creatively, and colorfully as possible.

Tune in for epic adventures, exceptional storytelling, and practical ways to kickstart your adventures, regardless of income.

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A Bi-Weekly Podcast about literature pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community hosted by Brendan Patrick & Sophie Green

CSD Leipzig goes PODCAST! Wir wollen euch in unserem Podcast den CSD Leipzig vorstellen und euch auch mal zeigen, wie großartig, bunt und vielfältig die queere Community in Leipzig ist. Seit Juni 2020 erfahrt ihr bei uns, wer die Macher:innen sind, die jedes Jahr den CSD Leipzig und die Programmwoche gestalten. Wir verstehen unseren Podcast außerdem als Plattform, um Themen die uns am Herzen liegen mit der Öffentlichkeit zu teilen – und das inzwischen in der 5. Staffel.

„Inside CSD Leipzig – der Podcast“ erscheint immer am ersten Samstag des Monats. Wenn ihr Fragen, Kritik, Wünsche oder Themenvorschläge habt, meldet euch gern per E-Mail bei uns: podcast@csd-leipzig.de

Longtime Companion is a podcast dedicated to conversations and analysis of queer themes in film.

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