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Homo Sapiens

142: LGBTIQ+ Homelessness

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that a quarter of queer youth experience homelessness? The Outside Project is an LGBTIQ+ Community Shelter, Centre and Domestic Abuse Refuge that is turning the tide on homelessness in ingenious ways. Their MD, Carla Ecola, joins us this week to tell us how they persuaded London Mayor @Sadiq to lend The Outside Project an old firestation, why gender affirming clothing is so important in homelessness, and what has Status Quo’s tour bus got to do with all of this…? Listen now to find out 


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0:00.0

Okay, ready. Hello, everybody. Oh, no, I'm not. I'm on.

0:05.0

Super gin.

0:07.0

While Alan's dying, I'm going to say, hello. Welcome to Homo sapiens.

0:13.0

We greet you. We embrace you. We call for you. How are you, Alan?

0:17.0

Well, apart from my consumption, I should be bursting into La Boya in second.

0:22.0

I'm pretty good. La La and I have had a lovely walk outside for her

0:27.0

and I'm still plowing through Borgon. It's thrilling, but it's not a thrill.

0:33.0

It's a Danish TV show. It was actually started like 10 years ago,

0:37.0

but I've just come to it very late and I'm just obsessed with it.

0:40.0

It's about politics and it's a bit like a good wife. You know that show I was in?

0:44.0

It's a bit like a Danish good wife, I realize.

0:48.0

But it's about this woman who becomes the prime minister and then she stops in private.

0:52.0

It goes on for many seasons, but it's just really, it's my sort of treat.

0:57.0

And the thing is what's really interesting about it, because of the subtitles,

0:59.0

you really have to pay attention. Do you know what to mean?

1:02.0

That's what I actually, I think it's quite good. I think I've realized I've got into the habit

1:05.0

of that thing of watching tally whilst doing other things.

1:09.0

And I think it's that phone and hand or kind of, you know,

1:13.0

reading or cooking or doing something else.

1:16.0

So I'm actually really enjoying back being back to that sort of,

1:19.0

trying to, that's my new thing. I'm trying to focus more,

1:22.0

not to have my phone in my hand at all times,

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