38 Best LGBTQ+ History Podcasts

1. 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
Email ****@makinggayhistory.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guest Lucy Salani
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2. 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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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guest Gavin Arthur
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 1.4KTwitter 17K Avg Length 51 min Format Long form 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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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 994Facebook 1.8KTwitter 2.9K Avg Length 72 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. History is Gay

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History is Gay is a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked queer ladies, gents, and gentle-enbies that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history. Because history has never been as straight as you think. Follow us on social media! @historyisgaypod on Twitter and Instagram, historyisgaypodcast on Tumblr, and subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts!MORE Host Leigh Pfeffer
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 750Facebook 1KTwitter 3.8KInstagram 532 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. The Log Books

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**Best New Podcast (Gold) at the British Podcast Awards 2020**What if you could glimpse into LGBTQIA+ life from decades ago? Since 1974 volunteers at Switchboard, the LGBT+ helpline, have written notes in the charity's log books. Hosts Tash Walker and Adam Zmith are re-opening these pages today, to explore untold stories from Britain's queer history.Each episode explores a different theme from LGBTQIA+ life through log book entries, dozens of voices sharing their own memories, and conversations about being queer today.https://www.thelogbooks.orgSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/th..MORE Hosts Adam Zmith, Tash Walker, Shivani Dave
Producer/Network Tash Walker, Adam Zmith and Shivani Dave
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 457Twitter 5.4KInstagram 4K Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2019 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
Email ****@sweetbitterpodcast.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 221Twitter 664Instagram 924 Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Queer Serial: American LGBTQ+ History

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Podcast radio drama telling true stories in LGBTQ+ history ? Produced by Devlyn Camp@devlyncamp ?Episode Guide at queerserial.com/episodes
Host Devlyn Camp
Producer/Network Mattachine Productions
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 206Facebook 11.5KTwitter 321Instagram 2.4K Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Historical Homos

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The world's only no-fucks-given guide to LGBTQ+ history. Join Bash and his brilliant guests each week as they wrench The Gayest Stories Never Told from history's deepest, darkest closets. Sign up on our website, and follow us on Instagram @historical.homos and TikTok @historicalhomosMORE Host Sebastian Hendra
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 160 Avg Length 68 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. 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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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 147 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. 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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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 99Facebook 3KTwitter 2.5K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Lost Spaces: Memories from Gay Bars, Lesbian Clubs, and LGBTQ+ Parties

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How do queer spaces help to shape people's lives? Why are they so important to the LGBTQ+ community?What is the impact of losing these spaces?Lost Spaces explores these questions (and more!) through conversations with members of the LGBT community. Each week host K Anderson sits down with a different guest to discuss a space from their past, why it was important to them, and how it helped shape who they are. Expect conversations about coming out, going out, and getting down. And snogging strangers on sweaty dancefloors. We can't talk about gay history without that coming up.MORE Host K Anderson
Producer/Network lost queer spaces
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 86Facebook 262Twitter 296 Avg Length 50 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. 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
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 56 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. 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 episode in Unboxing Queer History focuses on a different story from inside Gerber/Hart's collections and archives. The episodes range from discussions of the importance of collecting LGBTQ+ erotica to Chicago lesbian bar history and include interviews with community leaders, volunteers, researchers, and local historians...MORE Hosts Ari Mejia, Jen Dentel, Erin Bell
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest James Conley
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 38 Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. 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
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guest Ted Brown
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 25 Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

15. Out in the South

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Ever wondered what life was like for queer people before you? OITS uses oral history interviews, archival audio footage, and the papers left behind by activists and long-gone social groups to chronicle queer life in Southeastern Virginia. Listen as OITS tells the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. OITS is brought to you by the Tidewater Queer History Project.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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16. Queer Renegades

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When it comes to uncovering Australia's queer history, there's not a lot out there. What is preserved is often told through a colonial and heteronormative lens that sidelines queer, First Nations, and migrant voices. While more stories are finally being shared, many acts of resistance and resilience remain untold. Hosted by Farz Edraki and featuring a bold line-up of LGBTQ+ trailblazers, 'Queer Renegades' digs into *some* of Australia's queer history - spotlighting the rebels, risk-takers, and rule-breakers who shaped the queer resistance and continue to change culture along the way.MORE Email ****@sbs.com.au
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 17 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

17. 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
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8Twitter 9.7K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

18. 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
Email ****@secretagents.ca
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 47Twitter 2.5K Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. 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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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
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guest Matt Baume
Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 7 Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

21. Queer 101

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Hosted by LGBTQ+ activist and world-renowned entertainer Miss Peppermint, alongside celebrated queer historian and author Hugh Ryan, this podcast is your weekly deep dive into the untold stories, pivotal moments, and extraordinary individuals who shaped LGBTQ+ history. Each episode, Pep and Hugh unravel the struggles, celebrate the triumphs, and explore the cultural revolutions that have defined queer identities throughout time. With heart, humor, and a dash of glamor, they guide you through centuries of rich, vibrant LGBTQ+ legacy...MORE Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Marsha P. Johnson, Hugh Ryan
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

22. 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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23. This Month in Queer History

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 Sharing LGBTQ history that is accessible and entertaining! 
Producer/Network CAMP Rehoboth Community Center
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 8 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

24. Our Queer History

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Our Queer History explores the people, moments, and stories that shaped LGBTQ+ history across the world. Hosted by Lentil Pulse, the podcast uncovers both well-known and overlooked chapters of queer history; from remarkable individuals and cultural milestones to moments of resistance, tragedy, and celebration.Through storytelling and historical insight, Our Queer History brings the past into the present, reminding us that queer people have always been here.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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25. Here, Queer and Maple Syrup

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A look into queer Canadian history through the ages.
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26. Documenting Queerness Archive

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Researching and Archiving West African Queer History, Every day lives, and Imagining a Collective Future. documentingqueerness.substack.com
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27. 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 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

28. 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!
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29. 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
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

30. 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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31. 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 Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

32. 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
Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

33. 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
Email ****@coloradocollege.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 100 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

34. 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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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

35. Queer Histories Queer Futures

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A podcast series of Merri-bek's queer history told by the people who shaped it.
Email ****@3cr.org.au
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
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36. 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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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Margaret Cho
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 215Facebook 62.5KTwitter 187 Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

37. 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.org to learn how History UnErased is putting LGBTQ history in its rightf..MORE Host Deb Fowler
Producer/Network History UnErased
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 12 Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

38. Making Queer History

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Sharing queer history
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact