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Journalist. Podcaster. Dog Mom 🏳️‍🌈

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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This Saturday (July 25) is Christmas in July. We are holding a comedy afternoon at The Gaffe, Bristol, to raise £££ to keep sending gifts to children spending Xmas in hospital. The event stars Marc Burrows, Eloise Dale, Jess Lo & Tahira Kulsoom www.ticketsource.com/christmas-fo...
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Comedy Afternoon (A Christmas For CAMHS fundraiser) at The Gaffe Comedy Club
Tickets are now available for Comedy Afternoon (A Christmas For CAMHS fundraiser) at The Gaffe Comedy Club, Bristol on Sat 25 Jul 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your ticket...
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This week I’m celebrating reaching 100 readers on Substack! Thank you so much everyone who has supported Late In The Gay. I came out last year aged 43. I write a (hopefully funny) Sunday newsletter, an LGBTQIA+ events email, host a podcast and organise meet ups 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I tried not fancying women for ages. It was shit. Happy Pride month pod.link/1896785731?f...
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Late In The Gay
Listen to Late In The Gay wherever you get your podcasts!
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
What if the falling birth rate has nothing to do with lack of affordable housing or low paid jobs or phone usage or entertainment or the horrors of online dating or feminism or toxic masculinity and maybe it’s really just because children are clearly a lot of effort and we cannot be bothered.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 🏳️‍⚧️Today on my Substack I wrote about moths 🦋
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I saw this moth and thought of you
There are more than 2,560 types of butterflies and moths in the UK and most of these are moths.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
People are talking about the wrong man’s mental illness.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy #InternationalWomensDay Here’s how to succeed as a woman open.substack.com/pub/yvetteca...
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International Women’s Day and how to succeed as a woman
It’s probably because I’m a terrible person but when I read the inevitable ‘inspiring women’ stories that come out around International Women’s Day I don’t feel empowered or inspired, I feel like a us...
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When you’re not emotionally ready to bin the makeup they discontinued a year ago:
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Pancake Day
A modified version of the Wuthering Heights film poster depicts a jar of Nutella and the word ‘Me’ on the verge of a passionate snog
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
As someone with bipolar disorder type 1 who has seasonal depression - every single day of January I told myself ‘just get through January.’ It’s over! Hallelujah! It’s basically spring:
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy February aka LGBT+ history month 🏳️‍🌈
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A gay old time
History!
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I was reading about social media trends for 2026 and a big one is IRL communities as a pushback against everyone being online and that totally makes sense but that also sounds familiar, I mean I don’t think cults are a new invention
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I just don’t think I have the energy for this platform as well as the others, can you just all follow me and I’ll leave?
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Can’t really remember what I post on this place any more so here’s a ‘definitely not a scam’ text I received over Xmas.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Happy New Queer - read my newsletter here yvettecaster.substack.com/p/happy-new-...
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Happy New Queer
I came out in 2025 aged 43.
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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Thank you Vanguard Bath and @bathecho.bsky.social for supporting us and helping us spread the word about how we send gifts and decorations to children in hospital www.bathecho.co.uk/news/communi...
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Over 1,500 Christmas presents on their way to youngsters in hospital
Vanguard Branch Manager Anil Kellay said the team had been delighted to get behind the cause.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
One thing I think about more than is probably normal is how different languages interpret dog barks. For example, in French it’s not ‘woof woof,’ it’s ‘ouf-ouf’. Anyway, remember to greet French dogs accordingly when you’re abroad.
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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our 2025 festive tree decorations are available to buy online now! We’d love to see your photos of them on your tree - remember to tag us and use the hashtag #ChristmasForCAMHS www.christmasforcamhs.org.uk/decorations
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Tree Decorations — Christmas for CAMHS
Buy a limited edition Christmas For CAMHS 2025 tree decoration. While doing so, you help us to provide gifts to every young person in the UK in hospital for their mental health over the festive…
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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Last year one of our trustees, journalist @yvettecaster.bsky.social won Travel Connection Group’s charity champion award. She’ll be back this year at #TravYuleBaubles25 talking about Christmas For CAMHS, what we do and how you can help us spread festive joy. Come and say ‘hi!’
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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We’re thrilled to be taking part in #TravYuleBaubles25 this evening to talk about what we do and to celebrate the achievements of top travel journalists, creators, PRs and industry insiders 🥂🎄Read more about our mission here:
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Christmas for CAMHS
Christmas For CAMHS is a registered charity who provides special Christmas gifts every year for children and young people who are inpatients in child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) wards across…
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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Last year we delivered more than 1,100 gifts to young people in CAMHS wards across the UK. Help us do even more this year.
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Making Christmas Magical for Young People on Mental Health Wards (2025)
Help us to deliver Christmas (gifts, decorations and activities) to all children and teens who are inpatient on CAMHS wards over the festive season, helping them to feel special, remembered and…
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This week’s Late In The Gay (my newsletter about coming out aged 43) is about lesbians, sex toy drawers and Leeds open.substack.com/pub/yvetteca...
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We all love Leeds
The best thing you can do if you’ve had your heart broken is go to Leeds.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Today’s Late In The Gay newsletter is up now yvettecaster.substack.com/p/i-keep-dan...
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The friends you make when you’re Out Out
I was in my hyper femme era when I attended my fourth UK LGBTQ+ event.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Are we still doing things here? Tbh I totally forgot this app existed
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Who could possibly have predicted I would come out this year…? 🤣
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Latest edition of my Substack Late In The Gay - this one about LGBTQ+ allies open.substack.com/pub/yvetteca...
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LGBTQ+ allies: You’re more beautiful than Cinderella, you smell like pine needles and your face is like sunshine*
One of the upsides of coming out this late in life (43) is that I have a collection of longterm friends.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sure, I’ll lean in, right after I’ve dropped off my Mum at her dentist appointment, taken my grandad to lunch and babysat my niece and nephew after work
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Happy Father’s Day - here’s a blog about lesbian porn yvettecaster.substack.com?utm_campaign...
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Late In The Gay | Yvette Caster | Substack
The clueless musings of a woman who came out at 43 🏳️‍🌈. Click to read Late In The Gay, by Yvette Caster, a Substack publication. Launched 7 days ago.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Am I the only one watching Virgin Island screaming ‘why don’t you go to the pub?’ and/or - ‘travel back to a 90s house party & drink Metz & I guarantee not a single one of you will still be a virgin past 1am’?
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Some belated #WorldBipolarDay thoughts
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
March 30 is Mother’s Day and World Bipolar Day. Here’s Mum & I chatting about ours open.spotify.com/episode/6uKR...
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How To Support Someone You Love
Mentally Yours · Episode
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
May your Friday night arrive as swiftly as the rate at which the post-Ozempic media has pivoted from ‘shaming fat women’ to ‘shaming ex-fat women for being saggy’
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Dame Bibi Lynch @bibilynch.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Maybe I *did* have a child…
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Definitive proof that AI is not working… yet
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Ah spring, the official season of exes popping back up like crocuses
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
What I would like to know about social media is: what if you actually hate creating and watching short videos?
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Thank god for March
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
An upside of recent weight loss: I am visible to men A downside of recent weight loss: I am visible to men
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
V proud of this heartbreak playlist, it has cured me (well, that & Saturday night) 💔 open.spotify.com/playlist/13R...
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Ghosts 👻
Playlist · Yvette Caster · 64 items
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
2xMariah gigs in one year = best thing about 2025 so far www.heritagelive.net/whats-on/mar...
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What's On
Show and ticket information for the latest Heritage Live concerts.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Yes, of course I’m on Flashes, have you even met me? www.flashes.blue/profile/yvet...
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‎Flashes for Bluesky
‎Flashes is a native Bluesky photo/video app. Amongst other features the app offers: • Discover and Share photos & videos on Bluesky – a vibrant community of over 30 million users. • Enhance Your Cr...
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Tuesday. Wake up. Download the next social media app (today it’s Flashes - ‘the new Instagram’). Wish I was dead. Repeat.
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Christmas For CAMHS @christmasforcamhs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Good news - we have two new trustees! @charliclement.bsky.social is a neurodivergent & disabled speaker, writer & creative who has lived experience of mental health difficulties & autism, and @heynaomiii.bsky.social is a passionate activist & podcaster. Welcome, Charli and Naomi🎄
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
At what point watching Severance does it become entertaining and not an anxiety-inducing, nerve-wracking slog? At episode 7 and it still feels like some kind of endurance test. Unlike eg Bad Sisters / Desperate Housewives / Succession it takes itself far too seriously
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Sometimes I like to imagine that all the characters an actor plays are the same person. Watching Heretic certainly answers where ‘missing’ Daniel Cleaver was anyway.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
You’d think putting actual cameras in mental health units to monitor people (many already experiencing paranoia) would be a bigger story than non-existent benefits cheats but what do I know? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Call for Oxevision cameras to be banned in mental health patients' bedrooms - BBC News
Former mental health patients are worried camera surveillance is being used without explicit consent.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I get why people are mad because the anti-meds ideologues never shut the fuck up, but there will already be a bunch of social prescribing stuff in your area that's generally for people who are kind of isolated and might benefit from group activities. It's not for me, but it has its place.
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It's not"comedy on prescription". It's an intervention from a charity that could be 1 option for someone receiving social prescribing support. It's not NHS - social prescribing systems are partnerships across health, LA, & voluntary sectors. No-one commenting has any idea what they're talking about
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
And, in other news, let’s all enjoy the casual reference to ‘the Broccoli dynasty’ - which doesn’t at all sound like the baddies in an Aldi Christmas ad 🥦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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James Bond's long-serving producers give control to Amazon
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson step down after decades of tight family control of the franchise.
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Yvette Caster @yvettecaster.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
More in the news today about young people claiming benefits for mental illness. I can’t stress enough how difficult it is to receive benefits when you have a mental illness. There should be more focus on all the people struggling who are entitled to benefits but can’t or won’t claim them.
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