What healthcare challenges do the queer community face?

QueerAF Podcast: Season Five, Episode 11. To celebrate 20 years of National Student Pride - in 2025, we were back on stage as a media sponsor, for a special live recording for a panel about disability and healthcare in the queer community. In a rich community conversation, the panelists discuss the Trans+, disability, mental and sexual health needs and challenges the queer community face – listen now.

Guests recorded live on stage at National Student Pride 2025 were:

• Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
• Stephanie Lynnette
• Ali Bromley
• Asad Zafar
• Hosted by Char Bailey

About this episode: 

This episode was particularly special because the last time we covered the topic in this way, it was also at Student Pride - check back for the Access All Rainbows episode in season four for that. As host of the panel Char Bailey sets out, this recording was the first time she publically talked about having autism, and so to come full circle back to both the QueerAF podcast, and Student Pride to further the conversation was a great moment.

It also marks the 20th anniversary of an event that helped launch QueerAF into the stratosphere. We worked with them for our podcast's first four seasons, to commission student and graduate queer audio professionals. Alum from those mentoring schemes have gone on to work at the likes of BBC, Radio 1, Radio 4, PinkNews, Sony Music, Gaydio and many other top-tier media companies.

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