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# QueerAF launches to support, mentor and create a new generation of queer media professionals.
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/queeraf-launches-to-support-mentor-and-create-a-new-generation-of-queer-media-professionals/
- Published: 2022-01-26T11:43:05.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-26T11:43:05.000Z
- Description: “We’re doing all of this because we believe the UK media industry thrives when it’s bursting with queer talent.”
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: News, LGBTQ, media, National Student Pride, queer

[**QueerAF**](https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe?ref=scenemag.co.uk), a new community interest company, has launched to mentor and create a new generation of queer media professionals, and then support them as their careers grow.

The first writers of the organisation’s **Queer Gaze** scheme include a host of non-binary, trans, disabled, asexual, Black and Asian queer folk who have *“already opened doors for the stories we need more of in the media”*. Now, they’re working with QueerAF to create a platform to help more marginalised queer voices launch a media career.

*“As someone who’s written for mainstream platforms, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with how I am not allowed to write about certain things,”* says non-binary activist and trans advocate **Ugla Stefanía**, (**My Genderation** co-founder).

*“With QueerAF I am really interested in delving deeper into the media structure, and how it enables the anti-trans moral panic that is sweeping across the UK.“*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/240774067_315535020366698_7706301084836855083_n.png)

**QueerAF** is supported by comedian **Joe Lycett**, a range of media professionals (at **Forbes**, **Sky**, **AudioBoom**) LGBTQ+ community leaders (at **UK Black Pride**, **National Student Pride**), queer business leaders and other queer folk – who have all joined as founding members of the organisation.

QueerAF is building on the success of its award-winning podcast, which was first funded by National Student Pride. and has included guests such as Sir **Ian McKellen, Courtney Act** and **Olly Alexander**.

**Jamie Wareham**, QueerAF founder, said: *““We’re doing all of this because we believe the UK media industry thrives when it’s bursting with queer talent.*

*“And that’s crucial because only a media industry that represents, hires, and understands us – can help shift the narrative on being queer in the UK.”*

The easiest way to support QueerAF, is by[ **signing up for their free weekly newsletter**](https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe?ref=scenemag.co.uk)