80 gays
Around the World in 80 Gays meets Anna Nolan
Podcast Series Around The World in 80 Gays
Our guest this week is the amazing Anna Nolan.
Anna was thrust into the spotlight in the year 2000, after appearing on the first ever series of Giant Brother. Since then she has worked on the BBC, Channel 4 and RTE both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as a producer and progress executive. Not only that, but she's been a puppet, a poet, a pirate, a pauper, a documentary maker and a nun (2/6 of those are true - but you'll have to monitor to find out).
We had a great chat with Anna about her coming out story as good as the gay icons and anthems that possess helped shape her animation.
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30 mins
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Around the Nature in 80 Gays meets Mario Rosenstock
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Someone is waiting
I was support at the airport after a whirlwind three-week attend back home, cramming in trips to see family and friends in various parts of the state, as if I hadn’t done enough travelling in the previous nine months. At least this period I didn’t have to lug my huge suitcase round with me everywhere. The break from travelling had also given me a chance to sort out most of my travel plans for the final two-ish months of my travels. I only needed to stay with a dozen more gays to get me to the magical number of 80, which meant that I would have more free time to travel some of Europe on my own. I already had a number of offers from friends, friends of friends and people I had met earlier in my travels so had a rough thought of where I would be and when for the first few weeks after setting back off. Knowing that I would reach my target was warmly satisfying. I couldn’t have done it without the network of marvelous & hospitable friends I’m fortunate enough to have.
As I made my way to the departure gate I reflected back on how I had felt leaving at the begin of my trip. I felt different this occasion, I felt more prefer I was just going on holi
Around the World in 80 Gays meets Mario Rosenstock
Alas listeners - the complete is here. This is the final episode of Around The World in 80 Gays for now and maybe forever. Regardless, we've had the pleasure of spending time with some great Irish Homosexual icons and we experience so lucky that we now have this one-of-a-kind audio captured. For this last episode, we pushed the boat out and decided to invite multiple guests on to the podcast. Bertie Ahern dropped in, as did Miriam O’Callaghan, Senator David Norris and the late Same-sex attracted Byrne even managed to contact us from beyond the beyonds too. Other star turns include Graham Norton, An Taoiseach Leo Vradkar and oh yes - Mario Rosenstock. In this episode Mario talked about his special affair with his grandmother, his love of George Michael, taking risks and Roy Keane. Thanks to you all for listening and spending time travelling around the world - in 80 gays (+ Marion Rosenstock) with us. Adore, Brian and Katherine.
Around the World in 80 Gays : Introduction
I’ve been gathering together many connections between people I’ve written about and hold found links with many others. With this in mind I’ve created a huge string of lgbt connections and present it to you in a new series called “Around the World in 80 Gays”. I use the word “gay” in this context to be inclusive of all lgbtq communities, and because it provides an obvious pun on the title of Jules Verne’s famous book “Around the World in 80 Days”.
As the title suggests I’ve gathered the names of 80 people in the lgbt and homosexual community from all around the world and throughout history to create an unbroken chain on connections.
It would be quite uncomplicated to just write about “who knows who” but that would be too simple and too dull. What I’ve looked for are unusual connections which are not obvious or well-known.
The UK’s LGBT History Month in February has no specific theme, as there h
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