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Around the Planet in 80 Gays : Introduction

Way back in I mentioned that one of my most favourite television series of all moment is James Burke&#;s &#;Connections&#; and all its spin-offs.

I&#;ve been gathering together many connections between people I&#;ve written about and have create links with many others. With this in mind I&#;ve created a large string of lgbt connections and display it to you in a brand-new series called &#;Around the World in 80 Gays&#;. I use the pos &#;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 queer group from all around the world and throughout history to create an unbroken chain on connections.

It would be quite easy to just write about &#;who knows who&#; but that would be too simple and too boring. 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 sp

Someone is waiting

I was support at the airport after a whirlwind three-week call on back home, cramming in trips to see family and friends in various parts of the territory, as if I hadn&#;t done enough travelling in the previous nine months. At least this hour 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 search 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 notion 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 incredible & 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 sta

Around the World in 80 Gays meets Mario Rosenstock

Alas listeners - the conclude 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 Queer 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 Lgbtq+ 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 partnership 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. Devote, Brian and Katherine.

One night only, we only acquire &#;til dawn

One night only

Over breakfast the next morning Tom got a text from his friends, Jill and Laurie (identical twins), suggesting a trip to the Japanese Gardens. The autumn leaves were just starting to deposit on a great display so it sounded like a nice plan. I made sure my camera was charged and we headed off to meet them. Tom gave me a point on how to tell the girls apart, which I promptly forgot as soon as I met them. As we walked through the gardens I chatted to Jill (I think) explaining my travels while Tom was in front chatting to Laurie. After stopping to take a couple of photos we carried on walking, this time I was chatting to Laurie while Tom walked with Jill. They kept swapping round for the whole time. It was surreal telling my story to equal twins and I have no idea if I repeated the same tale to the identical twin but they were both too lovely to say anything if I had.

We continued our day with what I was told was a Portland tradition &#; a trip to Voodoo Doughnuts where, apparently, "the magic is in the hole". I have to ad