35 Best LGBTQ+ History Podcasts

1. Eastern Queerope: Belarus

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Two young researchers explore the queer history of Belarus. From the Middle Ages and Christianity to the USSR and Pride marches of 2010's💚 We love n-ost!
Ranking #75 in Apple Charts (BY)
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2. Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.
Host Eric Marcus
Producer/Network Eric Marcus
Email ****@makinggayhistory.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 1.7KFacebook 18.6KTwitter 7.5KInstagram 23.3K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2016 Get Email Contact

3. Queer as Fact

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Queer history podcast covering content from around the world and throughout time.
Hosts Alice McInnes, Jason Best, Eli Farrow, Irene McInnes
Producer/Network Queer as Fact
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 858Facebook 1.7KTwitter 2.9K Avg Length 71 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. Bad Gays

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A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com
Hosts Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey
Producer/Network Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 1.1KTwitter 17K Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. Fruitbowl: An Oral History of Queer Sex

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First person stories of queer coming of age. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and genderqueer people.
Host Dave Quantic
Producer/Network Qubed Media, LLC
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 104Twitter 580Instagram 1.5K Avg Length 68 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Sweetbitter | Women & LGBTQIA+ History

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About Sweetbitter | Sweetbitter is an investigative history podcast with a focus on queer & women's history. Each season, we explore a different corner of history, using historical figures and texts as a starting point to discuss a broader story of erasure of people with marginalized identities. Along with the listener, in collaboration with multidisciplinary experts, we untangle untold histories for a modern audience.Season 3 | This season, we explore the history of the Bible, unsettling assumptions about the text and religious tradition...MORE Hosts Leesa Charlotte, Ellie Brigida, Alyse Knorr
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 208Twitter 779Instagram 931 Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Cruising | Queer History and Culture

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Conversations about lesbian bars, sapphic spaces, and beyond! Not sure where to start? You don't have to listen in order! Pick your favorite city, space, or LGBTQ icon and dive in. Season 1 follows creators Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jen McGinity on their 2021 cross-country road trip to every lesbian bar in the U.S., sharing the stories of the humans that run these spaces and the humans that call them a home. Season 2 features 14 more spaces, chronicling the current lesbian bar resurgence AND taking you back in time to lesbian bars of decades past...MORE Hosts Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel B. Karp, Jennifer McGinity
Producer/Network Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 182Facebook 52.8KTwitter 187 Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Country Queers

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Country Queers is a podcast featuring oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA2S folks.  We uplift often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation.  Produced by and for country queers all over, we hope these stories help add more complexity to conversations and ideas about rural spaces and queer communities.MORE Producer/Network Country Queers
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 97Facebook 3KTwitter 2.5K Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. UnErasing LGBTQ History and Identities: A Podcast

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For educators, students, and absolutely anyone who wants to learn, teach, and engage with LGBTQ history, this is your podcast! In Deep Dives & Backstories you will meet history-makers with some fascinating - and empowering - stories! Our Pilot Season and Season One feature K-12 educators who share their experiences from the classroom and provide real-world advice and reasonable, practical strategies to guide you in bringing LGBTQ history into mainstream US history, civics, and social studies classrooms.  Visit UnErased...MORE Host Deb Fowler
Producer/Network History UnErased
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 9 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. Out in Oak Lawn: A Queer History of Dallas

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Out in Oak Lawn: A Queer History of Dallas is a student-produced podcast series focusing on the history of the Oak Lawn neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. Using archival sources and interviews with past and present queer icons, we are telling the stories of how Oak Lawn became a queer hotspot. Episodes explore the early history of Oak Lawn, queer cowboy culture, businesses and nightlife, the lesbian experience, political activism, and the what the neighborhood is like today...MORE Producer/Network outinoaklawn
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 14Twitter 9.7K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

11. Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast

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Season-2 tells the The True Story of Canada's LGBT Purge in a landmark eight part documentary series. It's the first documentary to share the full extent of Canada's anti-homosexual campaigns from WW1 to today, based on our research of thousands of pages of newly declassified documents released through the LGBT Purge class-action settlement. From ridiculous to shocking, you'll hear amazing true stories from courageous survivors; academics; researchers; former MPs, cabinet ministers and a retired Chief of Defence Staff...MORE Host Shawn Dearn
Producer/Network Shawn Dearn
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Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 45Twitter 2.5K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ Oral History Project

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The Colorado Springs LGBTQ Oral History Project is a growing archive of the life stories of longtime LGBTQ residents of Colorado Springs. It aims to document and honor the struggles and triumphs of queer and trans folks in a place that has often been called 'ground zero' of the late 80s-90s 'culture wars'. The archive highlights the voices of underrepresented queer and trans communities that continue to fight hard to make this city home. Founding Director: Dr. Rushaan Kumar, Colorado College; Faculty Collaborator: Dr. Tre Wentling, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.MORE Producer/Network Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 100 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

13. These Old Queers

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Megan and Thomas are two middle-aged, self-identified queer people. In each episode, they delve into historical events and people who are part of queer history, as well as take a look at aging in the LGBTQIA communityMORE Hosts Megan Beard, Thomas Donald Jacobs
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Avg Length 98 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

14. Unboxing Queer History

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Unboxing Queer History is a podcast from Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, one of the largest LGBTQ libraries & archives in the world.Each of the 8 episodes in Unboxing Queer History focuses on a different story from the LGBTQ history inside of Gerber/Hart's collections and archives. The episodes range from discussions of the importance of a LGBTQ circulating library to Chicago drag history and include interviews with community leaders, volunteers, researchers, and local historians. Unboxing Queer History is created by Ari Mejia, Jen Dentel, and Erin Bell...MORE Hosts Ari Mejia, Jen Dentel, Erin Bell
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 30 Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. Historical Homos

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The no-f***s-given guide to LGBTQ history. Welcome to the Gayest Stories Never Told! Hosted by Bash. Edited by Alex Toskas. Sign up on our website, and follow us on Instagram and TikTok.
Host Sebastian Hendra
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 258 Avg Length 70 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. The View From Here

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The View From Here is a UK-based podcast shining a fresh light on LGBTQ history through long-form interviews with some of the UK's leading changemakers. Our aim is to keep these stories alive and inspire the activists of tomorrow.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

17. Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast

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podcast on food, feminist, LGBTQ, and restaurant histories!
Producer/Network Feminist Ingredients for Revolution
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

18. Remnants of Resistance

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Episodes in this limited podcast series delve into the unique and hidden stories in queer history contained within the Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender at California State University Northridge and beyond. Hosted by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, episodes will look at queer themes in early 20th century horror magazines, what happened when 40 queer activists were arrested at an underground slave trade in 1976, the founding of an independent Catholic church that ordained openly-queer priests, the twisted treatment of non-binary individuals in research, and more.MORE Producer/Network University Library, CSUN
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 35 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

19. Restful Rainbow

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LGBTQ History bedtime and relaxation stories, aiming to offer comfort, representation, and a touch of magic to listeners drifting off to sleep.
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

20. Dot Femme

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Incoming broadcast! Join two best friends as they broadcast across time and space and explore LGBTQ history. From profiling groundbreaking figures, pivotal moments, key locations, and technological advances in trans and queer history, Dot Femme is a deep dive into our queer past to learn the lessons and messages our elders left for us. Smart, sharp, and unapologetically bold—this is the podcast where history meets identity and resistance fuels innovation.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 3.7/5 Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

21. Queer at Last

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Two pals. One museum artefact. Millennia of queer history unlocked before your very ears Podcast episodes released fortnightly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Producer/Network Harriet and Katherine
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Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

22. Closeted History: LGBTQ+ Stories of the Past

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The show where together we out the Queer and Trans History you never knew. It's all about education, learning, and making the LGBTQ stories of the past, that have been previously hidden from our society, more accessible for everyone.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 76 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

23. But We Loved

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As a gay kid growing up Catholic, in conservative Texas, Jordan Gonsalves knew nothing about queer history. Now, as a journalist, he's searching for the stories he craved when he was coming of age. Through intimate interviews with LGBTQ elders, Jordan uncovers the untold stories of queer history. And in the process, he discovers the role models he always needed and the wisdom they've been waiting to pass down.MORE Host Jordan Gonsalves
Producer/Network Outspoken
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 139 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

24. South Sound Sapphic

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South Sound Sapphic Queer History. Local Resistance. Collective Joy. Welcome to South Sound Sapphic —a powerful, community-rooted podcast and community organization amplifying the voices, stories, and resistance of queer, trans, and sapphic folks in Washington's South Puget Sound. Hosted by Roxy, a queer Black femme entrepreneur, creative, storyteller, and organizer...MORE Estimated listeners
Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

25. Semua Kita - all of us

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Semua Kita - 'all of us' - is a podcast featuring oral histories of the LGBTQ community in Singapore, from the 1980s until decriminalization in 2022. If you're interested in stories of queer activism in the Lion City, then you are in the right place. Learn about the time before the repeal of Section 377A, of the social groups that existed before Pink Dot, and of the in-person and on-line spaces which led to the formation of a Singaporean queer community. Listen to what challenges they faced, and how they overcame them, in the voices of the people who were there.MORE Producer/Network Semua Kita
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Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

26. Santa Cruz County Queer History Podcast

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Created by and for students. Older LGBTQ people in Santa Cruz County are interviewed by younger queer students about their stories since the 1970s in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride. Students from across Santa Cruz County conducted the interviews and then edited and produced each 20-minute long podcast. These podcasts will be released each Tuesday in 2025. We thank Patti Maxine on the steel string guitar for providing the music and the art was developed by Hex, one of the involved high school students.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

27. Stroll Through LGBTQ History with A Gnome

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In this serise we will Explore Queer History Pre-Stonewall to the present as well as touching on some Older topics, and current events
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28. This Month in Queer History

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 Sharing LGBTQ history that is accessible and entertaining! 
Producer/Network CAMP Rehoboth Community Center
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 8 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

29. An Unauthorized Queer Oral History of Salt Lake City

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Documenting the lived experiences of Utah's LGBTQIA community through interviews nancyraygun40.substack.com
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30. Sapphic Lore

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Sapphic Lore is the queer history and pop culture podcast where WLW icons get the messy, dramatic deep dives they deserve. Hosted by Rowan (sarcastic culture buff) and Jules (dreamy history nerd), each series unpacks the love stories, scandals, and legends of sapphic women—from ancient poets who invented the word 'lesbian' to secret 19th-century cottagecore power couples. It's history, but make it gay, hilarious, and unhinged.MORE Estimated listeners
Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

31. Queer Histories Queer Futures

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A podcast series of Merri-bek's queer history told by the people who shaped it.
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