“It’s foreplay for your ears...just press play.” In a world where sexuality and Black Identity isn’t always accepted, meet Sapphire, radio personality, queer icon, and sexuality connoisseur. Unfiltered and unapologetic, speaking the truth even when it’s uncomfortable.
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How do queer spaces help to shape people's lives? Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ community? What is the impact of losing these spaces? Lost Spaces explores these questions (and more!) through conversations with members of the LGBT community. Each week host K Anderson sits down with a different guest to discuss a space from their past, why it was important to them, and how it helped shape who they are. Expect conversations about coming out, going out, and getting down. And snogging s ...
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Are you one of those people that has a crystal clear memory of where they were and how they reacted when they found out about momentous moments in history? For instance, do you remember where you were on September 11? When you first heard of the Covid-19 outbreak? Most importantly, do you remember the first time you heard Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ …
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We got a doctor in the hot seat! Dr. Leo Moore is a dedicated internal medicine, HIV medicine, and lifestyle medicine physician. With Sapphire, he discusses the importance of PREP and PEP, breaking down the stigma surrounding the medication, and how Black relationships can benefit. Want more of Dr. Leo?: https://lnk.bio/drleomoore Stay Connected: …
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We got a doctor in the hot seat! Dr. Leo Moore is a dedicated internal medicine, HIV medicine, and lifestyle medicine physician. With Sapphire, he discusses the importance of PREP and PEP, breaking down the stigma surrounding the medication, and how Black relationships can benefit. Want more of Dr. Leo?: https://lnk.bio/drleomoore Stay Connected:…
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I was gutted, understandably, when I found out earlier this year that my favourite queer bar, The Glory, was going to close. But I also had a bunch of questions, as it wasn't closing for the same reason that so many others do (£££). In fact, the owners opened a brand new venue, The Divine, within days of The Glory closing its door. So I needed to f…
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If you were trying to seduce someone in the audience when you were performing at a piano bar or at karaoke... what song would you sing? I imagine you'd go for something slinky and sexy, right? Or maybe something bombastic and exuding confidence? Well, not, it turns out, if you are this week's guest, the singer and story teller Richard Skipper, who …
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One of the things that I get asked a lot when people find out that I do this show is 'well, why are queer spaces important? bars and clubs close all the time, why should we care about them just because they're queer?'. And there are lots of answers to that, but the one that I keep coming back to is that they aren't just businesses - they're communi…
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'Maybe We Should Explore Polyamory...' - with Mehgan Sapphire from Sapphire's Earplay Podcast
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It's time to talk all about the fine art of ho-ing. And who is going to guide us through this very important lesson? Why, it's Mehgan Sapphire, host of the Sapphire's Earplay podcast. Mehgan joined me to talk about her lost space, The Lexington, a San Franciscan lesbian bar that she went to when she was just a little baby gay in her college days. A…
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It's a double Eargasm!! Lost Spaces host K. Anderson (@Kandersonmusic-IG, @lostspacespod-IG) joins Sapphire's Earplay and discuss their "baby gay" days as well as questions why queer spaces outside the club settings is such a rarity. Make sure to check out the show, Lost Spaces (Wednesday July 17th) as Sapphire shares her early experiences in San F…
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It's a double Eargasm!! Lost Spaces host K. Anderson(@Kandersonmusic-IG, @lostspacespod-IG) joins Sapphire's Earplay and discuss their "baby gay" days as well as questions why queer spaces outside the club settings is such a rarity. Make sure to check out the show, Lost Spaces (Wednesday July 17th) as Sapphire shares her early experiences in San Fr…
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San Francisco in the 80s. If you know anything about queer history then you may already know that that wasn't the most joyous of times. And, yet, despite that... despite all that was happening in the world - heightened homophobia, and the really real fear of contracting HIV - people got on with their lives and they found and made joy. And that is e…
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Transactional Touch with Madame Bella
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Madame Bella is America's oldest courtesan and wants you to know that paying for intimacy isn't something to be ashamed of. Intimacy doesn't always mean penetration, and while the future is in question of what will happen to places like Bella’s Hacienda Ranch. Find out why she stands out above the rest when it comes to redefining transactional rela…
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One of the constant gifts of doing this show is the reminder of how privileged those of us who get to grow old are. It’s easy to forget this in a world saturated with messages glorifying youth, but youth isn't always that great (sure, I still have crippling social anxiety, but I'm MUCH better at masking it now!). So, getting the chance to talk to p…
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I don't know about you, but I really like the idea of being referred to as a gay elder at some point in the future. The only part about it that worries me is that I hope I'm not expected to suddenly be wise or level-headed or clever or anything... And though this week's guest, Eric Marcus from the Making Gay History podcast, might not like being re…
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I think what's so magical about a place like London is the promise of what the city represents rather than what it can actually meaningfully offer people... And, that might sound like a strange distinction, but for me London was always the place that I was going to run away to in order to become the person that I was meant to be. And it was here th…
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I love the kind of people that can go through a whole bunch of bullying, a whole bunch of othering, a whole bunch of shit in their life and still come out the other end and be like 'this is who I am, take it or leave it, I'm not changing for anyone'... And those are exactly the vibes that this week's guest, singer/songwriter Van Hechter, was puttin…
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'A Gay Man in New York' - with Colin Drucker from Alright Mary Podcast
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One of my favourite things about queer people is that they make shit happen. Ok, ok, so that's a massive generalisation. And here's another one... Straight people (apologies to any that are reading this) are not forced to put themselves out there and meet people and make new connections in the same way that queer people are. So they don't have to g…
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Light Up Your Pride with Marck Angel
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Marck Angel has the dulcet tones of MJ, Janet Jackson and carries the spirit of every LGBTQIA+ activist before him. As the season of Pride comes, he gives Sapphire a taste of his new project 'Seraphim: The Motion Picture'; a visual and musical love story about two lovers attempting to rekindle their relationship. As you listen, you may ask yourself…
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Marck Angel has the dulcet tones of MJ, Janet Jackson and carries the spirit of every LGBTQIA+ activist before him. As the season of Pride comes, he gives Sapphire a taste of his new project 'Seraphim: The Motion Picture'; a visual and musical love story about two lovers attempting to rekindle their relationship. As you listen, you may ask yourse…
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So, this week we’re doing something a little different. Rather than visit a lost space we’re setting out to answer the question ‘is the ancient art of cruising about to be lost?’. I know that's a fairly dramatic question, but there are a number of factors - like hook up apps and the over-gentrification of our cities - that seem to threaten these li…
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LA. Los Angeles. City of Angels. It's not really known to be the easiest of towns to live in. But, i think that's part of what makes it so exciting, right? Not to completely plagiarise a popular song, but if you can make it there then... you know the rest... And this is what brought Karl Dunn, who has just released his first book How To Burn A Rain…
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So, if you're reading these show notes I'm going to go ahead and make the assumption that you know about the Pulse nightclub shooting that happened in Orlando in 2016. And I'm also going to assume that you've heard some of the stories from survivors and families of victims about the impact of that night. But, now that we're a few years on and peopl…
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how your life can just happen to you. And, if you're not careful you can wake up one day wondering how you ended up there. But then, there are times when we take the bull by the horns and throw caution to the wind (and all the other cliches that you can think of), even if we know we might fail. Anyway, I had a …
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I love hearing people's stories of places that are close to their hearts - places where they spent tonnes of time, met lots of wonderful people, and figured out things about themselves. But, you know what else I love? When people want to talk about places that they HATED! And hate is maybe too strong a word for this week's guest's experience, but I…
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* Trigger/Subject Matter Warning * 15:18-16:39 contains chatter on murder/obsession over camming Financial domination isn't a new concept. If anything, it has become more mainstream, according to this week's guest, Master Arch(@AllforArch-Twitter/X) . A true OG with over 20 years of experience, Master Arch shares his views on being a "Death Escort"…
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'Disco 2000 Was The Hub Of The Club Kids Scene' - with Abdi Nazemian
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So, if you were to ask me to overly generalise and boil down the types of experiences that guests on this show have had when first accessing a queer space I'd say they neatly fit in to two categories: 1) there are those who feel instantly at home and like they've arrived. 2) there are those who feel like an outsider, or a 'tourist' in the space. So…
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'I Can't Be Gay Because I'm Christian...' - with Dr Luke Wilson
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We seem to have, in the last few months, had a lot of religious guests, and through that we've had a lot of conversations about how religiosity can be in direct conflict with queerness, and all the issues that that can create. But what we haven't really talked about are the similarities between religion and queerness. And, to be fair, there probabl…
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Can you really call yourself queer if you don't have a weird love/hate relationship with your home town? Because even if you love the place that you're from and you had an idyllic childhood there's still that reckoning that you need to have with all of those feelings of isolation and anticipation judgement and scorn when you came to terms with your…
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Forging Alliances with The Blacksmith
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An unlikely ally upon first glance, the Blacksmith (@Black_Cat_Metalworks-IG, the_saltycaptain-Twitch) has been organizing everything from presentations on consent & scene-building to leading workshop labs on impact & psychological play, as well serving as an accomplice to the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities for over 15 years. In this episode, Sapph…
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Forging Alliances with The Blacksmith (Visual)
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An unlikely ally upon first glance, the Blacksmith (@Black_Cat_Metalworks-IG, the_saltycaptain-Twitch) has been organizing everything from presentations on consent & scene-building to leading workshop labs on impact & psychological play, as well serving as an accomplice to the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities for over 15 years. In this episode, S…
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How much of yourself do you bring to the spaces that you spend time in? How much of the different sides of yourself do you bring out when you are at work? At dinner with friends? Spending time with your family? Hanging out at the club? Do you dial back your queerness, do you push down your beliefs or censor your thoughts? Or, are you one of those p…
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"It Took Almost 30 Years Before I Actually Transitioned" - with Amethysta Herrick from Gender Identity Weekly Podcast
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There's one question that gets asked in this week's episode that’s really stuck with me and that I continued to ponder even after we'd said our goodbyes and turned our microphones off... And that question is: how do you know when you have become the person that you’re supposed to be? By that I mean - at what point do you say 'yes this is the person…
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Have you ever shown up at the tail-end of a really exciting party just as everything was ending, and you get that overwhelming feeling of having had missed out on something big? Well, that's kinda what happened to illustrator and cartoonist Eric Kostiuk Williams. He had moved to Toronto in 2008, and took a few years to discover the corner of the sc…
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So, it's well documented on this show that queer spaces are good for many things - they're for dancing, socialising, drinking, falling down, getting back up, losing yourself, finding yourself in the arms of some strange men at 2am in the morning... BUT, they are also for organising and activism, and I think that's something we don't talk about enou…
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"'Love Is Love' - Until You're Black, Trans, Disabled, Non-Binary..." - with Andrew Gurza from Disability After Dark
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I know there's always the risk with this show of completely romanticising queer spaces as these glistening oasis' of tolerance and acceptance. But, that's really not the case - despite how wonderful and freeing they can be, they can also be a bit shitty and exclusionary. And I was reminded of that this week when I sat down to talk to talk to Andrew…
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What happens when two women who are horny for horror, have herpes and share a love for adult entertainment get together?! Listen as Tricia Wise aka The Safe Slut and newbie to p*rn as Cassie Black comes back for an intimate discussion on maintaining her herpes status while breaking down the barriers in the adult industry. Want more Cassie Black and…
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What happens when two women who are horny for horror, have herpes and share a love for adult entertainment get together?! Listen as Tricia Wise aka The Safe Slut and newbie to p*rn as Cassie Black comes back for an intimate discussion on maintaining her herpes status while breaking down the barriers in the adult industry. Want more Cassie Black and…
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I have a fairly straightforward relationship with religion in that... well, I don't have one. I wasn't brought up religious, I've never dabbled in religiousity, and it's never seemed to be something that particularly drew me in. Where it's a bit more fuzzy for me is when talking about the intersection between queerness and religiousness. It'll come…
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We talk in this episode a little about Lamya's new memoir, Hijab Butch Blues. If you're interested in snagging yourself a copy why not take a look at my Bookshop store? https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13642/9781785788499 Books! Is there anything more inviting and accepting than a good book - one that seems to know you better than you know yourself? Books…
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F*ck Yo' Valentine's Day: Polyamory Edition
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It's no secret Sapphire isn't one for the day of love. With the help of Mr. Suit & Tie(@theoldbenriver-IG) they invite you to their Valentine's date night! Find out what it's like to date this dynamic duo also learn how to introduce other partners to your relationship dynamic. Stay connected: https://linktr.ee/msradiosapphire…
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It's time to put on your skinny jeans, dig out your studded belt, and apply about a week's worth of black eyeliner, because this week.... we're going emo! Now, if you’re listening to this episode 300 years from now and you’re like ‘what the heck is emo’ let me break it down for you... According to dictionary.com emo is 'a style of rock music resemb…
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This study was published at the beginning of 2024, and it talks about the key role of Aunties and 'othermothers' in supporting queer children to flourish by providing emotional and practical support. Admittedly, it's probably one of those studies that confirms what everyone else has known for years, but it's particularly interesting to me because I…
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So it's fairly well established that I think queer spaces are really significant and an important way to explore your identity and dip your big toe into the queer lake of fabulosity. But, what we don't talk a lot about on this show is the importance of queer performance spaces, where people who are just starting out - singers, comedians, jugglers -…
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"All The Other Black Queer Boys Who I've Known..." - with Jord Hailwood from The Winning Side Podcast
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Now, you might want to sit down or take a deep breath before you read this episode description, but.... it's possible that I've managed to find someone wracked with more self-doubt than me! Now, i hope you haven’t spit out your coffee or come over all faint, but I can confirm it is absolutely true. And who is that person? Well, it’s host of The Win…
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Bring Da Mayhem with Mandy Mayhem (Visual)
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A new year and a new era is coming to Sapphire's Earplay! What better way to kick off the show's new vibe than with special guest Mandy Mayhem (@MandyMayhem-IG, @MsMandyMayCheetham-TikTok) LEGENDARY in her own right and paving a new wave of p*$$y power for the rap game. The ladies discuss their bedroom habits, why LA dating apps are TRASH, and find…
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Bring Da Mayhem with Mandy Mayhem
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A new year and a new era is coming to Sapphire's Earplay! What better way to kick off the show's new vibe than with special guest Mandy Mayhem (@MandyMayhem-IG, @MsMandyMayCheetham-TikTok) LEGENDARY in her own right and paving a new wave of p*$$y power for the rap game. The ladies discuss their bedroom habits, why LA dating apps are TRASH, and find…
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On this week's show I'm starting to question whether I should be getting in to the world of kink or not. And, who is enticing me over to the kinky side? Why, it's podcaster and well-known kinkster Auntie Vice, who tells me all about what drew her to the world of kink, as well as what was so special about her lost space, Wicked Grounds in San Franci…
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The Filthy MFer: Vic Lagina
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If porn needed a "What to Expect" book, Filthy: The Rise and (Pending) Death of Vic Lagina would be it. Legendary (and former) Brazzers/Mindgeek director, producer, and camera operator Vic Lagina(@viclagina-IG, Twitter) gets naughty with Sapphire about his wild experiences in the porn industry. Aside from the wild tales, they discuss the importance…
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Introducing 'The Queer Family Podcast'...
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More new podcast recommendations this week! This week I'm sharing an episode of The Queer Family Podcast, a show all about queer families. Every episode is a chat between host Jaimie and different guests who have been through the process of starting their own family, and I've learnt so much from listening about how varied everyone's journey is. Thi…
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Ahoy! I'm taking a few weeks off over the festive period to recharge (and eat too many mince pies). But, rather than leaving you languishing out there in podcast land without any fresh content I thought I would share some of my favourite episodes from past guests' own podcasts. And, the first show that I'm sharing is..... This Queer Book Saved My L…
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Sapphire hosts an impromptu on the MŌN App after a recent episode of MTV's Catfish has someone say they're "Poly because it's trending". She had to call upon Niyyah, (@heauxonthegeaux-IG) to discuss the toxicity of influencers using alternative lifestyles as a trend. Stay connected: https://linktr.ee/msradiosapphire…
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