Oct 19, 2026 · 4 min · 5 segments
5 LGBTQ+ history podcasts honoring queer stories, from KALW's "Revisiting The Gay Life" and beyond. Curated picks for LGBTQ+ History Month listeners ready to explore.
Each issue of our newsletter is curated by a different person.
David Boyer put together this one.
Learn how to curate a list.
There are some amazing shows out there, so you can binge your way through queer history.
Part one, the OG Queer History Podcast has created a season that digs into the experiences of LGBTQ people in the lead up to World War II and the Holocaust.
Sadly, it's timely.
When we all get to heaven, setting the table cassette tapes discovered under the floorboards of a gay church in San Francisco that shed light on how the AIDS epidemic impacted the church and the city in the early years of the epidemic.
I'm a completist.
Start at the beginning.
Want to learn about how the ideal of gay masculinity ended up looking like hunky sailor? Bad gaze has the answer with this deep dive into Tom of Finland.
There's also a recent episode about the ups and downs of Lisa Minnelli that you may want to check out.
Queer serial gay panic.
1955.
Crush the monster.
Local officials claimed a predatory ring of homosexuals had corrupted hundreds of teenage boys.
15 men ended up in jail, including one man who was sentenced to life in prison.
Revisiting the Gay Life, the History of LGBTQ Radio, this limited series about a gay radio show that explores a pivotal moment in queer history, the time between the death of Harvey Milk and the onset of what became the AIDS epidemic.
The first episode goes even further back to the dawn of gay radio in 1958.
Yes, I made it with Cal W Public Media and the GLBT Historical Society, but it draws on an archive of more than 200 radio episodes from the 1970s and early 1980s that tell the story of the era in real time.
More from this issue's curator, the Earbuds team asked David, Do you remember how you discovered one or more of the podcasts you've included? At Third Coast in 2014, I met the executive producer of Making Gay History, Sarah Burningham, who said, have I got a show for you? As always, she was right.
Each issue of our newsletter is curated by a different person.
David Boyer put together this one.
Learn how to curate a list.
There are some amazing shows out there, so you can binge your way through queer history.
Part one, the OG Queer History Podcast has created a season that digs into the experiences of LGBTQ people in the lead up to World War II and the Holocaust.
Sadly, it's timely.
When we all get to heaven, setting the table cassette tapes discovered under the floorboards of a gay church in San Francisco that shed light on how the AIDS epidemic impacted the church and the city in the early years of the epidemic.
I'm a completist.
Start at the beginning.
Want to learn about how the ideal of gay masculinity ended up looking like hunky sailor? Bad gaze has the answer with this deep dive into Tom of Finland.
There's also a recent episode about the ups and downs of Lisa Minnelli that you may want to check out.
Queer serial gay panic.
1955.
Crush the monster.
Local officials claimed a predatory ring of homosexuals had corrupted hundreds of teenage boys.
15 men ended up in jail, including one man who was sentenced to life in prison.
Revisiting the Gay Life, the History of LGBTQ Radio, this limited series about a gay radio show that explores a pivotal moment in queer history, the time between the death of Harvey Milk and the onset of what became the AIDS epidemic.
The first episode goes even further back to the dawn of gay radio in 1958.
Yes, I made it with Cal W Public Media and the GLBT Historical Society, but it draws on an archive of more than 200 radio episodes from the 1970s and early 1980s that tell the story of the era in real time.
More from this issue's curator, the Earbuds team asked David, Do you remember how you discovered one or more of the podcasts you've included? At Third Coast in 2014, I met the executive producer of Making Gay History, Sarah Burningham, who said, have I got a show for you? As always, she was right.
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