[YMMQ! PRESENTS] QUEERIAL: A TRUE CRIME-ISH LIMITED SERIES PODCAST.
Ask anyone: something, somewhere, is making people queer.
In this limited series, full-time queer, part-time detective Trevor Campbell follows the fingerprints and feather boas back to the original scene of the crime. Hyper-sexual fungus bugs? Deepfake pyramid schemers? Career candy stripers from Peach Springs, Arizona? Anything's game when the game's afoot. You won't believe what develops in the dark room of this hard-boiled, half-scripted absurdist radio noir.
Queerial is a true crime-ish whodunnit that will have you on the edge of your chaise lounge as it searches for the answer to the ultimate question:
What the blazes is making everybody queer? Who is Patient Queero?
Presented by:
Follow the case from start to finish: Six seasons and a movie? Not in this economy! Queerial's case goes from "unravelled" to "that's a wrap!" in only 10 episodes, giving you a meaty mystery with full closure before you can say "two tickets to Puerto Vallarta."
Everything you loved about The Sonar Network's award-winning podcast, You Made Me Queer!: Deep-cut queer satire served with a side of wit, warmth, and ham-fisted stupidity. Best of all, it's a podcast, which means you can enjoy it without having to look at anyone's big, dumb face.
Calling all citizen detectives: Your local police department may have called your cyber sleuthing "consistently unhelpful" and "a gross impediment to justice", but we can't get enough! Help solve the case on social media and decide where we point the finger.
Blur the line between fact and fiction: Interviews! Improv! Scripted bits! You'll be clutching your headphones (and your pearls) in disbelief as your blood sugar plummets and you wonder aloud: "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"
For media inquiries and interview requests: Please contact Marianna Miniotis at The Sonar Network at info@thesonarnetwork.com.
CREATOR, PRODUCER & HOST
Trevor Campbell is a comedian, host, and radio creator who can regularly be seen on festival stages and heard on the CBC. His work has won four Canadian Podcast Awards (13 nominations) and earned recommendations from Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Xtra, CBC, and CBC Podcasts, and an opening spot for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee at the 2022 Hot Docs Podcast Festival.
He's also a part-time detective. When the biggest case of his career lands on his desk, he finds himself irrevocably drawn into a web of intrigue, deception, and an old hat that his brother bought him at a flea market in coastal New Brunswick.
This time, it's personal. As the world's first and only full-time queer, part-time detective, he's uniquely positioned to untangle the mystery and crack the case — with the help of his assistant, Ruby 3000. But he's also in a desperate race against time.
Can he find what's queering the world before it's too late?
CREATOR, PRODUCER & HOST
Trevor Campbell is a comedian, host, and radio creator who can regularly be seen on festival stages and heard on the CBC. His work has won four Canadian Podcast Awards (with a total of 13 nominations) and earned recommendations from Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Xtra, CBC, and CBC Podcasts, including an invitation to open for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee at the 2022 Hot Docs Podcast Festival.
He's also a part-time detective. When the biggest case of his career lands on his desk, he finds himself irrevocably drawn into a web of intrigue, deception, and an old hat that he found in his friend's hallway and just happened to fit on his child-size head.
This time, it's personal. As the world's first and only queer part-time detective, he's uniquely positioned to untangle the mystery and crack the case. But he's also in a desperate race against time.
Can he find what's making the world queer before it's too late?
EPISODE ONE: BUGGY AS HELL
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 2025
Part-Time Detective Trevor Campbell is at the end of his rope when he's handed the biggest case of his career by a mysterious mother named Eve Majors: Who is Patient Queero?
With the help of his text-to-speech royalty-free A.I.-powered robot assistant Ruby 3000, he chases his first lead: a big book at the public library. Unfortunately, it's all about bugs.
And so is everything else.
This episode includes:
Part-Time Detective Tips: 3 • Trips to the Ol' Dunkaroos Factory: 1 • Mysterious Locations: 4 • Crabs: 10 • Christmas Beetles: 1 • Cicadas: 10,000+
FEATURED GUESTS:
Kristopher James Truchan, Lauren Deborah, Natalie Duncan, Filip Jeremic, Caroline Moore, Rachel Brittain, Slappy Davis, Caleb Buys, Nug Nahrgang, Brie Salonga, Johnnie Walker, and a text-to-speech avatar named Kimberly as Ruby 3000.
KRISTOPHER JAMES TRUCHAN
Kristopher is a bug breeder and drag artist who grew up in Guelph, Ontario and came out when he was 16. Drag became an important part of their gender expression and healing their trauma from bullying. Kristopher also went to film school at Humber North, studied dance between the ages of 8-16, and has a love of K-pop, hyperpop, Pokemon and science. He performs under the stag name Molly Kewl.
LAUREN DEBORAH
Lauren Deborah (they/she) is a genderfluid & queer comedian, podcaster, writer and artist. They are best known for their podcast about coming out, My Dad Stole My Limelight (604 Podcast Network). It has been seen live at Vancouver Pride, in iHeart Podcast spotlight features and Elizabeth Bank’s WHOHAHA’s featured podcasts. Her digital journal of a chronic oversharer, hi, lauren deborah! lives on Substack. Her writing has been published in Vancouver Pride Magazine. Lauren spends her time split between travelling the world housesitting — perfect for the on-a-budget, animal-loving traveller — and sitting in her grandparents’ kitchen while working on their first novel.
NATALIE DUNCAN
Bug wrangler. Co-founder & CEO @ Bug Mars.
“We are rethinking the ways in which sustainable farming can be made profitable and accessible. I want the world to consume more insects, and I want to find new ways to make that possible.”
FILIP JEREMIC
Filip Jeremic is a New York City-based writer, comedian, and performer. Credits include writing for Disney’s animated series Hamster & Gretel and the kids educational podcast Who Smarted? (Atomic Entertainment). Also: Writer and correspondent on the CBS late night pilot, Old News, produced by Stephen Colbert, the ABC/Disney Discovers Showcase, and CBS Diversity Showcase. Filip also voices Nikola Jokic on Bleacher Report’s animated series Hero Ball, and has appeared in national commercials. Filip produces, hosts, and performs cabaret shows all over New York City as his alter ego, Saturday Jones, “Australia’s favourite television personality.” BFA in theatre, The Second City (Toronto), The Upright Citizens Brigade (New York).
RUBY 3000
EPISODE TWO: SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: THURSDAY, MAR. 6, 2025
An old flame shoots sparks in Part-Time Detective Trevor Campbell’s rented office. Public transit is out for blood, drag goes dressage, and a tortured writer shares the dark secret of her family estate.
And then the symptoms start.
This episode includes:
Part-Time Detective Tips: 7 • Phantom Phone Calls: 1 • Mysterious Locations: 4 • Welsh Mountain Ponies: 1 • Mail-Order Brides: 0 (and that's a problem) • Minutes in Heaven: 10,000+7
FEATURED GUESTS:
Verna Von Helsing, Hilary Yaas, Aurora Stewart De Peña, Nug Nahrgang, Caleb Buys, Steph Malek, and a text-to-speech avatar named Kimberly as Ruby 3000.
VERNA VON HELSING
Verna is a screenwriter by day — and also by night. That is, after all, when she gets her best ideas — and more importantly, when vampires are on the prowl. She prefers to stay inside with her typewriter, lest the bloodthirsty creatures find her.
In her interview, Verna mentions an enamel pin available for purchase at the link below.
HILLARY YAAS
Hillary Yaas is a drag queen comedienne known for OutTV’s CAMP WANNAKIKI (runner-up Season 4) and cohosting the two-time Canadian Podcast Award-winning podcast SQUIRREL TALK.
With Toronto-based drag duo YAAS & VYLE (with drag & comedy partner Selena Vyle) she has produced multiple monthly shows including: The Play We Just Wrote Just Now, Sex and the Golden Girls & Drag Buffet.
AURORA STEWART DE PEÑA
Aurora Stewart de Peña is a writer based in Toronto. Aurora’s essays have appeared in Vice, Canadian Art, Real Life Magazine, and The Globe and Mail, and her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Ex-Puritan, Little Brother, and Petal Journal. Aurora’s plays have been produced in Toronto at Buddies in Bad Times, The Harbourfront Centre, Summerworks, and The Factory Theatre, with others in New York, England, and Italy. She’s worked for some of the country’s most recognizable and awarded agencies, including Bensimon Byrne, Taxi, and Zulu Alpha Kilo. Recognized nationally and globally for her work, Aurora has won Clio, One Show, and D & AD awards among others.
EPISODE THREE: SCREAM, F*CK AND DIE
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: THURSDAY, MAR. 12, 2025
Part-Time Detective Trevor Campbell as an (un)lucky streak that’s built to last. Bad blood, bad omens, bad seeds — and Bad Girls.
Beep beep! Toot toot!
This episode includes:
Part-Time Detective Tips: 4 • Long-Lost Lovers: 2 • Mysterious Locations: 5 • Disco Vendettas: 1 • Dream Sequences: 2 (if you don't count the third one) • OBMs: One Bajillion +
OWEN EVER
Owen is a storyteller committed to wonder, history and healthcare justice. He co-hosted the acclaimed queer science podcast “A Field Guide to Gay Animals”, haunts the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum as a curator and tour-guide, and works in HIV care and prevention at a public health clinic. Owen finds queer joy in bird watching.
AARON BANES
Aaron Banes is an actor, singer and writer, who started reading tarot and practicing astrology in 2020. Art was how he found and freed his little queer self, so he views the mystical arts just the same. HIs books for readings are closed at the moment, but if you reach out, he may give you a prediction or two.
LAUREN McMENEMY
Lauren McMenemy wears many hats: Editor-in-Chief at Trembling With Fear for horrortree.com; PR and marketing for the British Fantasy Society; founder of the Society of Ink Slingers; curator of the Writing the Occult virtual events. With 25+ years as a professional writer across journalism, marketing, and communications, Lauren also works as a coach to writers looking to achieve goals, get accountability, or get support with their marketing efforts. You’ll find her around various events stepping up as a host, interviewer, moderator and general cheerleader. She writes gothic and folk horror stories for her own amusement, and is currently working on a novel set in the world of the Victorian occult. You’ll find Lauren haunting south London, where she lives with her Doctor Who-obsessed husband, the ghost of their aged black house rabbit, and the entity that lives in the walls.
Presenters: You Made Me Queer! & The Sonar Network
Writer, Producer, Sound Designer & Host: Trevor Campbell
Editors: Trevor Campbell & Harlow Castillo
Mixer: Harlow Castillo
Theme and Incidentals: Kritty Uranowski
Special Thanks: Queerial was partly funded through the generous support of an exceptional group of honourary detectives: Marianna Miniotis & The Sonar Network, Michael Hughes, J. Sean Elliott, Jules Koch, Peter Katz, Lauren Deborah, Kathe Rogers, Aaron, Lyn Wattam, The Campbell Family, and several anonymous donors who HATE ATTENTION. Thank you for upvoting justice!
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