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Understanding Sex Addiction: Insights from Tomek Zdyb

When Tomek Zdyb speaks about his experience with sex addiction in this episode of In the Key of Q, he touches on a truth that reverberates far beyond his individual story: “We talk about drug addiction, we talk about alcohol addiction, but we never talk about sex addiction.” The public conversation around sex addiction remains…
Pride, Prejudice, and the Price of Permission

Well, here’s a turn-up for the books. Corporate sponsors are fleeing Pride events faster than hen nights from a leather bar, leaving organisers scrambling to cover funding gaps. Pride in London needs £1.7 million to put on their 2025 event, but longtime American sponsors have stepped away, and three-quarters of UK Pride organisers have seen…
Tomek Zdyb: Breaking Taboos in Electronic Pop

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE This week’s guest Tomek Zdyb is a Polish electronic pop artist with a chemist’s education and a dancer’s heart, bringing to this episode of In the Key of Q a rare combination of analytical clarity and emotional courage that feels both refreshing and necessary. Context and Importance Poland – a country…
The Paradox of Perfectionism in Artistry

There’s a moment in my conversation with Carrington Kelso where he confesses to endlessly tweaking a mix of “Eden,” making microscopic adjustments to a mix he’d delivered to me before as ‘complete’! It’s the kind of perfectionism that would drive most people to distraction, but I found myself nodding along with recognition. Because I’ve been…
Pride Special: Navigating the Shadow Self

“It was the one space where I felt like I could be a fully dimensional human,” says Kele Fleming in The Key of Q’s Pride special, describing a gay club that became her sanctuary in 1980s Victoria. She continues with an observation that resonates across generations of Queer experience: “Your shadow self was existing in…
DROP! Carrington Kelso: Embracing Grief and Displacement in Music

When Carrington Kelso first graced this podcast three years ago, I knew we’d captured something special. His return here less like an interview and more like catching up with a talented friend. Since our last conversation, Carrington has done what many of us dream about but few actually achieve. He’s uprooted his entire life, moving…
Aging and Visibility: A Gay Men’s Perspective

ASSISTANCE (UK) FOR SUICIDAL THOUGHTS The Story That Stopped Me Cold “He killed himself over that very theme. When he had to start paying for sex, it hit him hard.” A few minutes into her interview with In the Key of Q, Rita de Los Angeles offers this devastating aside about her business partner who…
Pride Special: Rethinking Body Image

The human body has never been politically neutral. For Queer people especially, bodies have long been battlegrounds—criminalised, pathologised, and subjected to intense scrutiny both within and outside our communities. In The Key of Q’s Pride special, James Taylor Junior touches on something many gay men recognise: the punishing body image standards that pervade Queer spaces.…
The Queer Immigrant Experience in Country Music

The American Dream in Country Rhythm “Because my parents came from Egypt, there, you know, Arabs were not really warmly welcome,” Rita de Los Angeles explains in her In the Key of Q interview. “My parents wanted so desperately to seem more American to the point that they refused to speak Arabic with my sister…
Spectacle and Visibility: Prince to Lil Nas X

I remember the first time I saw Prince on Top of the Pops in the mid ’80s. It was probably the music video for ‘Raspberry Beret’. I was still in primary school, awkward and uncertain about almost everything except how to win at Jacks. He appeared wearing eyeliner and ruffles, radiating a confidence so absolute…