The audio bit should be self explanatory, but why 'zine'? First of all, we like the DIY ethos of zine culture. Anyone with a bit of time, a pen, a pair of scissors and access to a photocopier can publish something in a print zine, and we want to bring a bit of that to the audio world. We think it’s kind of like listening to an art journal - conversations, essays, interviews and creative stuff of all kinds. Good question! Someone recently called us a crowdsourced podcast.
Our hope was (and is!) that the zine format of Queer Out Here would encourage people to create a variety of pieces, exploring and interpreting the outdoors in different ways. We spent a year or so looking for the kinds of stories we wanted to hear before deciding that if we really wanted to have a variety of queer perspectives on the outdoors collected together in one place, we might as well do the collecting ourselves.Īs we are both sound nerds, we were interested in going beyond straightforward interviews (though they're great, too!) to include field recordings, sound art, music, spoken word, documentaries and more.
There were feature articles in magazines, there were a few blogs, there were people in the public eye who we knew were queer and outdoorsy, but this was back in 2016, when Unlikely Hikers was just starting to take off on Instagram, when Carrot Quinn’s Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart was on its way to becoming a queer outdoors classic, but when films like Climbing with Pride and podcasts like the The Ride did not exist.
We had an itch that needed scratching! We knew that queer folk were spending time outside, but we couldn't find any audio-visual channels where we could hear about these people and experiences in one place. We started this audio zine after struggling to find media focussing on queer people's experiences of the outdoors.
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