Eat, Gay, Love: LGBTQ+ Travel with Calum McSwiggan

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Calum McSwiggan, who is an LGBTQ+ writer, advocate, and author. Calum discusses his debut book, Eat Gay Love, an LGBTQ+ travel memoir, as well as his experiences traveling different parts of the world as a gay man. He and Hannah talk about visibility, and Calum’s privilege within the LGBTQ+ community as a white cis gay man. Finally, Hannah and Calum discuss the idea of community, what home means, and how LGBTQ+ people exist everywhere. Also: penises.

MORE ABOUT CALUM MCSWIGGAN
Calum McSwiggan is a writer, radio presenter, and LGBT+ advocate. His first book, Eat Gay Love, is out on 9 July!
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalumMcSwiggan
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calummcswiggan/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/eatgaylove

📝CHECK OUT THE SHOW NOTES 📝
https://doingitpodcast.co.uk

✨CONNECT WITH US ✨
https://www.instagram.com/doingitpodcast
https://twitter.com/doingitpodcast

👀WANT EARLY & AD-FREE ACCESS TO EPISODES?👀
https://www.patreon.com/hannahwitton

✏️SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER✏️
http://bit.ly/HannahWittonsNewsletter

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Schoda SUV showcase event is now on, featuring the Schoda Camique, Karuk and Kodiak,
0:04.8	three confident SUVs, all crammed with character, created with commitment,
0:09.9	carefully crafted for curbs, the country and carrying kids to karate, and now with £500 off
0:15.2	Camique and £1,000 off Karok and Kodiak. Come quickly to a Skoda retailer between the 19th of May
0:20.5	and the 9th of June for a closer look.
0:22.7	Customers saving, including VAT applied on the road price on retail invoice.
0:25.7	Retail customers only.
0:26.5	Offer cannot be claimed retrospectively.
0:28.0	Deasancies apply, participating retailers only.
0:29.9	I think what I realized quite quickly is that when you're traveling as a straight person,
0:54.5	the opportunities for like a romance or a one-night stand or like a hookup or like a chance encounter with an interesting person, certainly for me traveling, so much of the time I was just so lonely and I just found that all of the straight people around me were you know constantly finding these little summer romances and things and I just wasn't.
1:04.0	Welcome to doing it with me Hannah Witten where we talk all things sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
1:14.5	Hi everyone, welcome back.
1:17.2	It is season three of doing it.
1:20.2	I am so excited to dive into this season.
1:24.7	Thank you so much for being patient with us over the last couple of weeks
1:29.7	as we've taken a bit of a break. But I have been recording with lots and lots of exciting
1:36.4	and interesting people. And here we are, episode one of season three.
1:50.2	My guest today is absolutely wonderful, and I may be a bit biased because he is one of my best friends, and he is also our first double guest on doing it.
1:55.3	And it is Callum McSwiggin, who is an LGBTQ plus writer, advocate, and now author. So in this episode, we talk about
2:05.1	his debut, LGBTQ plus travel memoir, eat gay love, which actually comes out tomorrow,
2:15.2	the day after this podcast is going live on the 9th of July. So the book is out
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Global Media & Entertainment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Global Media & Entertainment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.