"Gay Can Be Anything" - with Pepper

I'm often guilty of romanticising small town queer bars, but I just think there's something really magical about everyone being in the same space and not segregating and splitting off in to different sub-communities like leather and lesbian and bears (oh my!)...

But, there are also downsides to this... being in a small city or town can get in the way of you having the freedom to explore who you really are... And, this very thing happened for week's guest, Pepper (who you may know as a finalist in the drag competition tv series Call Me Mother), who started feeling a bit boxed in when people celebrated her drag character but weren't so interested in her non-drag self.

We caught up to talk about The Roost, a legendary bar in the Canadian city of Edmonton. Along the way we chat about what we lose when the LGBTQ+ community gains wider acceptance, learning to be certain of who you are, and, the magic of the 1990s...

Do you have any memories of The Roost, or clubbing from your own queer scene that you want to share? Well, if you have please get in touch - I want to create the biggest online record of people's memories and stories - go to www.lostspacespodcast.com and find the section 'Share a Lost Space' and tell me what you got up to! Bonus points for embarrassing photos!

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Find out more about Pepper by following her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thepepper.1) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thepepper1).