I’m Rad Konieczny, I’m hosting this episode, and my theme is MEN ARE TRASH.

I’m joking. Am I though?... In the past two weeks I got heartbroken, I got rejected, I got ghosted AND I got catfished. My life is a telenovela, and I’m trying to MAKE SENSE of it all. So for my episode of Queer Roots and Routes, I got some of our podcast collective to share their stories of dating and sex.

There’s Stanley, who’s written a poem called “I fell in love with a boy who then blocked me on Grindr”. Then Xing, who teaches me some scary Chinese dirty talk. Also Chase and Tokyo on liking big guys. And a flirty conversation between Fausto and Mali ;)

As I mentioned in the episode, if you also need a HIV or sexual health test, you can go to the NHS — it’s free and confidential. AND there’s a charity called AIDS Map, who have an HIV Test Finder, where you can put your postcode and find somewhere to get tested confidentially.

You can find a transcript of this episode here in text and pdf.

Queer Roots and Routes is an Aunt Nell Production for The Love Tank, a not-for-profit community interest company that promotes health and wellbeing of under-served communities through education, capacity building and research.

Produced, edited and engineered by:

Tash Walker

and

Adam Zmith

Assistant producers:

Saaqib Afzal

José Carlos Mejia

Amardeep Singh Dhillon

Chase Edwards

Stanley Iyanu

and

Rad Konieczny

Creative design and artwork by:

Richard Kahwagi

Music by Edoy

Recorded at Pirate Studios in Dalston and Hackney Wick, east London

Executive producers:

Marc Thompson

and

Dale Taylor-Gentles

Sound effects from freesound.org.

Full credits and the episode transcript available here.

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