32 Best LGBT Stories 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
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 1.9KFacebook 19.8KTwitter 7.5KInstagram 23.6K Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2016 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Coming Out Pod

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Coming Out Pod is a weekly podcast hosted by Lauren Flans where queer folks from all walks of life tell the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large! Because who doesn't love a coming out story?MORE Host Lauren Flans
Producer/Network Coming Out Pod
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests BJ Colangelo, Catherine McCafferty
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 673Twitter 2.3K Avg Length 67 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. The Queer Family Podcast LGBTQ Families & Queer Parenting Stories

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A hilarious and heartfelt dive into LGBTQ family life, parenting, and the challenges queer families face. Hosted by queer mom Jaimie Kelton, The Queer Family Podcast brings you weekly interviews with LGBTQIA+ guests exploring how they made their families and how they navigate a world that wasn't necessarily built for them. The mission? To normalize, elevate, and celebrate queer family life. Through laughter, honesty, and representation, this show tackles inclusive parenting, family-building journeys, and the age-old question: What's it really like to raise a family as an LGBTQ person?MORE Host Jaimie Kelton
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guest Marie Newman
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 427 Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. 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
Email ****@adamzmith.com
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

5. PRIDE

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On Pride, host Caitlynn McDaniel deep dives into the LGBTQ+ stories lighting up our screens — and the people who bring them to life. Each week, she sits down with the stars we love, the creators behind the scenes, and the voices changing the way stories are told. From on-screen firsts to behind-the-scenes breakthroughs, Pride is where iconic characters, coded moments, and groundbreaking storytelling all come together...MORE Host Levi Chambers
Producer/Network Straw Hut Media
Email ****@strawhutmedia.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests James Sweeney, Maggie Kang +4 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 281Facebook 1.2KTwitter 358Instagram 16.3K Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. LGBTQ&A

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*Nominated for Outstanding Podcast at the GLAAD Awards* Weekly interviews with the most interesting LGBTQ+ people in the world. Recent guests include Laverne Cox, Janelle Monáe, Pete Buttigieg, Brandi Carlile, Alok Vaid-Menon, and Angela Davis. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters.MORE Host Jeffrey Masters
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Mark Segal, Susan Stryker
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 921Facebook 2KTwitter 7.9KInstagram 7.9K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2016 Get Email Contact

7. Probably True

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Stories of queer life and even queer-er sex. Created to remind all of our queer siblings that we are, none of us, alone. The repeatedly award-winning, slightly filthy storytelling project tackling LGBTQ issues in a fun and engaging way. Much like its creator, it's a smutty but charming collection of personal misadventures working to make the world a better place, one silly, sexy story at a time...MORE Host River Scott
Producer/Network Flashheart Digital
Email ****@probablytruepodcast.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 243 Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. 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
Email ****@gmail.com
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

9. Latter Gay Stories

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What is it like to be gay? Am I alone in this journey? How do I reconcile my faith and my sexuality? Is leaving my religion to find happiness even possible? Welcome to Latter Gay Stories! We're a podcast featuring real people, real stories, and real talk! We discuss life inside and outside of the closet—and living your best and most authentic LGBTQ+ self. You are not alone. You are not broken. And your best days are ahead. Most of our guests have a background in Mormonism and we discuss how a variety of religious traditions influence the queer journey.MORE Producer/Network Latter Gay Stories
Email ****@lattergaystories.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 133Instagram 32.4K Avg Length 110 min Format Extended Since Dec 2012 Get Email Contact

10. Ireland Said Yes

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Voted 'Best of 2025' by Apple Podcasts. Shane Daniel Byrne celebrates 10 years of marriage equality, taking listeners on an emotional journey exploring the decades-long fight for LGBT+ marriage. From the deeply personal stories of queer activism and resistance, he explores the cultural shifts that eventually made the historic 2015 referendum possible. The series includes live standup from Shane's sell-out run at Vicar Street in Dublin, as he revisits a time that transformed Ireland completely. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Email ****@news.co.uk
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Katherine Zappone
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 112 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Coming Out Stories

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Real people. Unique Stories.Coming Out Stories will take you to one the most important moments in many people's lives. It will perch you on sofas in suburban sitting rooms, stand you in front of officials' desks, put you at the centre of a crowd in a noisy classroom, everywhere where these conversations have happened. It doesn't even matter if you haven't had a conversation like this yourself, or indeed ever plan to. Everyone can recognise the innate human desire to love and be loved, and that's what these stories are about.MORE Hosts Emma Goswell, Sam Walker
Producer/Network What Goes On Media
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Wendy Cole
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 98Facebook 2.7KTwitter 1.4KInstagram 980 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. Queery with Cameron Esposito

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Sit in on an hour long-conversation between host and standup comic, Cameron Esposito, and some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ family. Queery explores individual stories of identity, personality and the shifting cultural matrix around gender, sexuality and civil rights.MORE Host Cameron Esposito
Producer/Network Maximum Fun
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 4.2KFacebook 2KTwitter 5.8KInstagram 14.8K Avg Length 50 min Format Long form Since Aug 2017 Get Email Contact

13. The Transgender Show

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The transgender stories podcast. Every week on The Transgender Show, Emily interviews members of the greater trans community as well as friends, family and allies. Listeners will find comfort, encouragement, and growth throughout the program as guests share their lives and transition experiences. their successes and challenges...MORE Host Emily Kleckner
Producer/Network The Transverse Media
Email ****@thetransverse.net
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest AVA VAL
Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 92Facebook 5.4KTwitter 102Instagram 2K Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

14. 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

15. 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

16. Out Loud: LGBT Stories of Faith

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LGBTQIA+ individuals tell their stories about faith, community, and the divine, hosted by Greg Thompson.
Host Greg Thompson
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 39Facebook 465Twitter 147Instagram 1.6K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Since May 2018 Get Email Contact

17. Queer We Are

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An LGBTQ podcast featuring entertaining queer people, include celebrities, community leaders, and everyday people with interesting and positive stories. Challenges our community faces today may come up but we don't stay there long. On Queer We Are, guests aren't allowed to just complain about the world as it is. They share what they're doing about it, what you can do about it, and hear some good news for a change. Sometimes they're here just to entertain.Guests include gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and non-binary, intersex, and allies sharing their stories.MORE Host Brad Shreve
Email ****@bradshreve.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 19Twitter 1.4KInstagram 1.1K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

18. Talk Out Loud - Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex LGBT LGBTQ Stories

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Talk Out Loud is a podcast that shares the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex + people's motivational and inspirational stories. Each episode features a different guest part of the LGBTQIA+ community and is focused on the guest's life experience. From challenges they have faced, to spiritual practices, love, marriage, death, discrimination, racism, and more.Hosted by married couple, Jeff Miller and Anthony Navarro, each brings a different element to show...MORE Producer/Network Talk Out Loud, A LGBTQIA+ Podcast
Email ****@talkoutloudlive.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 33Facebook 1.3KTwitter 32Instagram 612 Avg Length 64 min Format Long form Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

19. Queer Love Stories

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Growing up under the shadow of Section 28, I never thought love—or a full, authentic life—was possible for someone like me. Suppressing my true self until my late twenties, I found that love stories for people like us were rare—so I decided to create a space where they could thrive. Dubbed the 'THE gay Carrie Bradshaw of the 2020s,' I share my own dating highs and heartbreaks alongside real, heartfelt stories from the LGBTQ+ community. From romance and friendship to chosen family and self-love, Queer Love Stories celebrates the connections that define and inspire us...MORE Producer/Network Eden Heath
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

20. Coming Out + Beyond | LGBTQIA+ Stories

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Anne-Marie Zanzal, M.Div is the creator and host of Coming Out & Beyond | LGBTQIA+ Stories. She deeply believes that in the hearing of another's story we can often here our own. Her podcast focuses on sharing the coming out stories of the Queer community. . Coming out stories is what connect everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. These stories are compelling, heartbreaking and inspirational. But this podcast does not stop there...MORE Host Anne-Marie Zanzal
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Sarah Locke
Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

21. Queer Yid Podcast: LGBTQ Jews Share Our Stories

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There are a rainbow of perspectives that make up the LGBTQ+ frum experience, and the Queer Yid Podcast is here to explore them all. Be it growing up gay in a community that doesn't have language for those feelings, or embracing yiddishkeit years after coming out trans, our stories matter. So whether you're queer, questioning, or simply curious about our experiences - we invite you to listen and reflect on the narratives that our guests have to share. To send us your feedback or to contact us about a story you'd like told, please visit queeryid.comMORE Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 19 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

22. QueerAF | Inspiring LGBTQIA+ stories told by emerging queer creatives

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QueerAF is the award-winning (more than a) podcast with beyond-the-binary stories, mini-documentaries and live podcast events about queerness, history, sexuality, gender and identity from the UK's only press-regulated not-for-profit LGBTQIA+ publisher. QueerAF helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media. All our shows are created by a different budding LGBTQIA+ audio producer who we mentor and support to create an inspiring queer story...MORE Producer/Network QueerAF
Email ****@wearequeeraf.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 3.8/5Apple Reviews 292 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

23. Two Zero Q: 20 Questions With Interesting People from the LGBT community and friends

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Two Zero Q - 20 Questions With Interesting People, the show that tells the 'Origin Stories' of everyday superheroes in the lgbtqia+ community and friends. #twozeroq 'What's most valuable isn't what's exceptional, curated, or performative, but rather what's common, authentic, and directly experienced.' (JA Westenberg) Please 'like' and subscribe to my show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Host Timothy Kirk
Producer/Network The Very Handsome Tim Kirk: Raconteur, Bon Vivant, Man About Town.
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 10Twitter 330Instagram 630 Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Since Jul 2018 Get Email Contact

24. Rainbow Pajamas: Stories of Long-Term LGBTQ Relationships

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?️‍? Rainbow Pajamas is a podcast sharing stories from around the world of long-term LGBTQ+ relationships from 5 years to more than 50 years. You'll hear personal details from our guests about how they met, what they fight about, their sex lives, to practical matters such as having kids, financial planning & retirement, and we'll also discuss controversial topics like exclusive vs open relationships, polyamory and marriage.See pictures of our guests on Instagram: @rainbowpajamas_LGBTQ Relationship, Same-sex Relationship, Gay Relationship, Lesbian Relationship, Same-sex Marriage, etc.MORE Producer/Network Rainbow Pajamas
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 13Instagram 760 Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

25. Queer Life Stories

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Queer Life Stories is a podcast that shares the lived experiences of everyday queer people. Our main focus has been on Tasmania, Australia with some stories coming from the Australian mainland (and hopefully some international stories later on). Tasmania has had a turbulent history of LGBTIAQ+ rights, being the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1997, 25 years after the first Australian state in 1972. Tasmania went on to become a progressive gay rights state sharing early support of marriage equality and having some of the best anti-discrimination laws in the world. When laws change, community takes time to learn and adapt...MORE Host Garry Wakefield
Email ****@outlook.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 11 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

26. Hear Queer Stories

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Listen to LGBTIQ narratives from Southeast Asia. We talk to artists, activists, academics, and everyday heroes who continue to learn, advocate, and work for the inclusion of the Queer Community.Produced by The ASEAN SOGIE Caucus (ASC), a network of human rights activists from SEA that works for the inclusion of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in the mandate of human rights duty bearers in the ASEAN region.MORE Producer/Network ASEAN SOGIE Caucus
Email ****@aseansogiecaucus.org
Facebook 13KTwitter 4.9KInstagram 7.3K Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

27. OUTcast Podcast

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Coming out stories from inspiring LGBTQ+ people from all over the world. Hosted by Rosie Pentreath.
Producer/Network Rosie Pentreath
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 7Facebook 117Twitter 116Instagram 224 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

28. The Priceless Podcast

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A podcast about the topic of LGBT and spirituality. Listen to stories of people from all over Europe who are LGBT and have a religious background. Listen about their journeys of reconciling their faith and sexual orientation as well as their journey of self-discovery and acceptance. You will also hear about different countries and how it is for LGBT people to live there and what challenges they are facing and/or blessings enjoying.MORE Host Michael
Producer/Network The Priceless Podcast
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Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

29. Innies + Outies

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Innies + Outies brings you fascinating stories from diverse LGBTQIA+ Australians about coming out or staying in. Exploring a range of topics like coming out in high school, queer comedians who turn their trauma into jokes, and LGBTQIA+ folks who choose not to come out Innies + Outies brings you first-person stories, as well as the perspectives of parents, partners, friends, colleagues and even teammates who've been on these journeys too.MORE Email ****@abc.net.au
Twitter 133.4KInstagram 564.7K Avg Length 23 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

30. Legacy Pulse with Pepe Onziema

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They tried to write us out of the story. We're here to set the record straight—and gloriously queer. Join activist Pepe Onziema as Uganda's LGBT+ trailblazers spill the tea on decades of resistance, resilience, and refusing to disappear. From heartbreak to hope, these are the unfiltered stories of people who dared to live out loud when the world demanded silence.This is history with a pulse, told by those who made it and are still making it...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

31. My Life in Heels

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Hosted by Tiffany Scott, this weekly podcast offers real, unfiltered conversations from within the Transgirl community. Join Tiffany and her guests as they share personal stories, insights, and experiences on topics ranging from gender identity and transition journeys to crossdressing, relationships, and beyond. Whether you're part of the LGBTQ+ community or an ally seeking understanding, this podcast is your space to listen, learn, and connect. #LGBT #Transgender #MTF #Crossdressing #TransMORE Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Avg Length 10 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

32. STILL HERE BITCH: Inspiring Stories of Queer Resilience

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STILL HERE BITCH: Inspiring Stories of Queer Resilience, Strength, Courage & Overcoming spotlights everyday people facing sudden, intense life-changing events - and thriving anyway. Author and Host Gerry Walker, MAMFT is the Associate Director of Engagement & Equity at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Listen and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@stillherebitchpodcastMORE Producer/Network Gerry
Recent Guest Tony Valenzuela
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact