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Music Interviews · Andy Gott

Tracks of Our Queers

by Andy Gott

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.

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The Huxleys on our queer musical bloodlines

Garrett and Will Huxley, or The Huxleys, are my final conversation of 2026. Divine queer deities making art in every form imaginable, their striking costumes, multi-med

Oct 11
1 h 03 min

[Full video] David Hoyle on the right to live in a perpetual state of ecstasy

Full video version now available on Spotify David Hoyle is a performance artist, comedian, film director, cabaret legend, and British queer icon. David’s long running

Oct 6
53 min

20 Years of Loose Ends · A Tracks of Our Queers Special

Loose Ends, one of Australia's finest queer parties, turns 20 years old this weekend. To celebrate this incredible milestone, I asked the party's den mother and my very

Sep 27
49 min

David Hoyle on the right to live in a perpetual state of ecstasy

David Hoyle is a performance artist, comedian, film director, cabaret legend, and British queer icon. David’s long running residency at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern c

Sep 19
58 min

Jackie Kay on the throughline from Bessie Smith to Nina Simone and beyond

Jackie Kay is a poet, writer, and former Makar: The National Poet for Scotland. I first heard Jackie on my own favourite podcast Desert Island Discs, which lead me to he

Sep 12
46 min

Malaya Bayanihan (@babydilfx) on George Michael, the Spice Girls, and a queer utopian future

Malaya Bayanihan (he/she/they), also known as Emil Cañita or @babydilfx online, is an artist, advocate for those living with HIV, sex worker, and spectacular human. Incr

Aug 25
54 min

Lea DeLaria on scatting (the jazz sort)

Lea DeLaria is a multi-hyphenate of the unapologetically queer kind. Whether you met her on Arsenio Hall, Orange is the New Black, Edge of Seventeen, through her own mu

Aug 17
44 min

Bruce Vilanch on his half-century partnership with Bette Midler

Bruce Vilanch is a legendary writer and actor across Hollywood, Broadway, television, and most recently, memoir, with the release of his autobiography It Seemed Like a Ba

Aug 4
47 min

Daniel Nour on Aladdin's bare chest, progressive Christianity, and Rahim Redcar

Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian writer and journalist based in Sydney. Last year, he released the memoir How to Dodge Flying Sandals, a collection of stories docu

Jul 27
47 min

Sister Roma on finding queer solace in San Francisco, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Sister Roma is perhaps the best known member of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, the charitable, protest, and street performance movement founded in 1979 in San Francis

Jul 21
58 min

It's an Aural Fixation Love Sensation: Madonna's 'Confessions II' with Drew Tweddle

Long before Tracks of Our Queers was birthed, Andy co-hosted the show Aural Fixation with his bestie Drew Tweds. Much like the Spice Girls in 2000, the show never officia

Jul 6
54 min

Laura Wilkinson, managing director of the LGBT Foundation

Laura Wilkinson is the managing director of the LGBT Foundation, the UK's largest health and wellbeing charity for LGBTQIA+ people.  She's also one of my best

Feb 24
47 min

Pete Crighton, author

Pete Crighton is an author from Toronto.  Last year, he published The Vinyl Diaries: Sex Deep Cuts and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy, a memoir of his life through vinyl, an

Feb 17
53 min

Willis Chimano, singer songwriter

Willis Chimano is a singer-songwriter, author, and performer from Kenya.  A member of one of Kenya's most successful musical acts ever, Sauti Sol, Chimano has branc

Feb 10
50 min

Mardi Pieronek, trans elder and content creator

Over 600,000 queers and non-queers alike follow content creator and activist Mardi P for her gripping testimonials on a long, and fabulous, life lived trans. Born to a P

Jan 27
59 min

Mitch Brown, former AFL player

Mitch Brown is an advocate, father, and a former AFL player.  Last August, Mitch came out publicly as bisexual in an interview with The Daily Aus, sparking a tsunami of

Jan 20
53 min

Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner

Peter Tatchell is an activist and human rights campaigner. Not long after leaving Australia for the UK, Peter joined the Gay Liberation Front and became one of the co-or

Jan 13
52 min

Travis Alabanza, writer

Welcome back to Tracks of Our Queers. Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, playwright, and theatre maker from Bristol. They've sold out the Southbank Centre,

Jan 6
56 min

Tracks of Our Queers is back

Trailblazers, queeroes, and fascinating folk feature in Season 6, launching in early January. Support the show Follow the pod on Insta at @tracksofourqueers, or email m

Dec 21 2025
2 min

John Benjamin Hickey, actor and director

Tony Award-winning actor and director John Benjamin Hickey joins me on Tracks of Our Queers. From his breakout role in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!

Jun 30 2025
58 min

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