Will and I first met Ben Hunte when he covered our podcast Homo Sapiens for the BBC. The podcast is our pride and joy, the favourite child of our jobs. It really started because Will and I are mates and we felt there was no space out there to hear queer people chatting about every-day life in the way women can on shows such as Woman’s Hour or Loose Women. It received a great reception and has grown to be an inclusive and diverse space where we have chatted to incredible people from transgender rodeo queens to Sam Smith and Troye Sivan.
I’ll confess that the first time we met Ben, neither of us knew he was gay for most of the interview.
I suppose we are so used to assuming that when it comes to news, it’s usually told from a straight man’s angle.