On this page you will find details relating to various podcasts about queer histories and experiences.
The list below is in alphabetical order.
Please use our search function below to check if we have details of a specific podcast you are looking for.
We also have our own podcast created and supported by queer/disrupt and the Queer Heritage Forum.
The podcast aims to explore queer topics in an accessible way. The individual sessions are hosted by different people each time to ensure a wide variety of topics are covered.
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Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
A podcast about evil and complicated gay men in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains?
LGBTQ+ Music Study Group - various guests
An interview-based podcast, featuring discussions with music historians, theorists, composers, and performers about the queer things that they do.
Fluid as a series explores narratives throughout history that often position the queer community as abnormal, and probes questions at wider notions of who and what we "should" be.
Gretchen Ellis and Leigh Pfeffer
History is Gay is a twice-monthly podcast where two queer nerds use their passion for social justice, history, and storytelling to examine the overlooked and underappreciated queer ladies, gents, and gentle-enbies from the unexplored corners of history. Because history has never been as straight as you think.
Eric Marcus
Bringing the voices of queer history to life through intimate conversations with LGBTQ champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
Laura Mills
An eclectic Australian mix, veering from portraits of queer figures in history to discussions with experts and bigger-picture issues like the media's representations of homosexuality.
Devlyn Camp
A podcast dedicated to exploring the overlooked, forgotten, or often-untold stories in queer history, told in serialized episodes.
Caitlin Benedict and Amrou Al-Kadhi
You might have heard the term non-binary. This is how it feels.
Morgan M. Page
A trans history podcast - Brings all the dirt, gossip and glamour from trans history!
For LGBT History Month in 2018, the University of Oxford commissioned a series of lectures from prominent queer activists, historians and academics on what LGBTQ history means, the lives of figures like Alan Turing, and why LGBTQ memory is so important.
Clare Balding
A six-part podcast series presented by broadcaster and author Clare Balding, which explores the lost and hidden LGBTQ stories from collections, gardens and landscapes the National Trust cares for. Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.
Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio
Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. From Teaching Tolerance, Queer America takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.
Queer as Fact: A Queer History Podcast
Alice, Eli, Irene and Jason
A truly international historical podcast; its past episodes have included Oscar Wilde, Chinese poet Wu Zao and erotic pottery from ancient Peru. Prepare for things to go in unexpected directions.
Lena Mattheis
Queer Lit is a podcast about LGBTQIA+* literature and culture. In each episode, literary studies researcher Lena Mattheis talks to an expert in the field of queer studies. Topics include lesbian literature, inclusive pronouns and language, gay history, trans and non-binary novels, intersectionality and favourite queer films, series or poems.
Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman
Sexing History is a podcast about how the history of sexuality shapes our present.
Adam Zmith and Tash Walker
The Log Books is an award-winning history of LGBTQ+ life in Britain as noted by volunteers at the helpline Switchboard. Each episode of this stirring podcast centres around log book entries made by the volunteers who staffed the phones from the charity’s very first day.
A comedic exploration of gays gone by.