167: Is Discrimination in LGBTQ+ Housing on the rise? | Part 1
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In a week that has seen terrible events unfold in Ukraine we would love to point you to Outright International who are doing brilliant work to to help support the LGBTQ+ people of Ukraine.
https://outrightinternational.org/ukraine
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This week on the show we’re talking to a very special LGBTQ+ couple, Luke Whitehouse and Lachlan Mantell who were refused a viewing and a chance to buy a house in London because of their sexuality. The pair have been together for eight years but received a message from the sellers saying “we just want to make it clear that we would be unwilling for two men in a partnership to view or buy our house”. They’ve come on to tell me their side of the story and not wanting to give their money to someone who doesn’t want to give them a home, how this sort of thing probably happens every day but isn’t reported on and feeling “ashamed” of being gay for the first time in years. It’s a shocking story but they’ve been so brave to come out and tell it.
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| 0:00.0 | Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden, it feels lovely and sunny, I feel like I'm on holiday |
| 0:04.5 | for Monest, which is very apt because I've got some more holiday reading for you. |
| 0:09.6 | This episode of Homo sapient is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid from Tufael Ahmed, author |
| 0:14.8 | of the acclaimed novel This Way Out. Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating |
| 0:19.8 | life after their mother's death. They're all living separate lives trying to live |
| 0:23.8 | up to their last promises they each made to their mother. |
| 0:27.2 | Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted spotlight on the family and forces the siblings |
| 0:31.8 | back into each other's lives. Three siblings, three promises, three lifetimes of saying |
| 0:36.8 | all the wrong things. Gosh, it feels familiar. I'll leave it at that for now, it's a really |
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| 1:08.3 | This is me starting the podcast. Listen as I'm going to tell you who I'm sitting with |
| 1:11.2 | in one second, which I tell you how professional we are. We've picked a time to record this |
| 1:16.6 | podcast when the church next to my house is doing its bell ringing practice. So apologies |
| 1:21.2 | for that. |
| 1:26.3 | Listeners, today I am joined by two luminaries of the gay universe who have been making |
| 1:32.1 | a splash over all of the newspapers, all of the television shows. It's Luke Whitehouse |
| 1:38.3 | and Loughlin Mantell, who recently were turned down for trying to buy a house or trying |
| 1:44.4 | to view a house, trying to buy a house in Surrey because you were gay. And YouTube said |
| 1:49.6 | we're not having that and we're taking it global. So welcome, Luke and Loughlin Mantell. |
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