Sneaking into Gay Clubs and Reclaiming the Word "Queer" with Riyadh Khalaf
Doing It! with Hannah Witton
Global Media & Entertainment
4.8 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Hannah is joined by documentary maker, YouTuber and author Riyadh Khalaf. Riyadh shares his experience of coming out to his parents, the importance of queer spaces, and how his relationship with religion changed after coming out. Riyadh also talks about why he decided to write his book ‘The Gay Guide’, and why it’s important to talk about what happens after you come out to yourself. Him and Hannah talk about the guilt and shame that’s often associated with sex, and how Riyadh overcame this. Finally, they discuss reclaiming the word queer and who gets to use this word.
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| 0:00.0 | Dad sort of gets quite emotional and you can see he's physically in pain as he's trying to battle through this anecdote. |
| 0:06.7 | And it turns out the night he found out, he woke up at 4 a.m. when we were asleep and was walking around the house looking for pills to take his own life. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello, welcome back to Doing It. |
| 0:35.0 | This week's guest is Riyadh, who is a good friend of mine. It was an absolute pleasure to do it. This week's guest is Riyad Kalaaf, who is a good friend of mine. It was an absolute |
| 0:40.7 | pleasure to sit down and chat with him and also discover new things about him that I didn't |
| 0:46.5 | already know. Always a cool thing when that happens with your friends. So Riyadh is a YouTube |
| 0:52.6 | creator, TV presenter, podcast host and author, so many things. |
| 0:56.9 | He presented the incredible BBC documentary Queer Britain and hosted the BBC's unexpected fluids podcast with Alex Fox. |
| 1:07.5 | So I absolutely love talking with Riyadh because when it comes to sex, he really doesn't shy away from gritty details. |
| 1:15.4 | So we talk about lots of stuff in this episode. Last year, Riyadh published his first book, |
| 1:21.5 | Yay, You're Gay, Now What, a Gay Boy's Guide to Life, which is full of information, advice and personal stories on being |
| 1:30.0 | gay, coming out, but also just living in the world as a gay person. We talk about what it was |
| 1:37.3 | like for him coming out as gay in Ireland and how he sneaked into gay clubs as a teenager |
| 1:43.5 | and how a word that tormented him on the school |
| 1:46.9 | playground became the title of the documentary he hosted and he is now proud to claim it. |
| 1:53.7 | So without further ado, here is the episode. I hope that you enjoy it. |
| 2:00.5 | Hello, Riyadh. |
| 2:01.8 | How are you? |
| 2:02.6 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 2:03.8 | I'm really dazed. |
| 2:05.1 | I had like a really, really long party-filled weekend, |
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