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Podcast Recommendations
The Podcast Academy Celebrates Pride Month 2026
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This Pride Month, we're proud to spotlight podcasts created by members of The Podcast Academy. These shows celebrate the LGBTQ+ voices, stories, experiences, and perspectives that make our industry stronger and our community more connected.
We're honored to support the creators behind these podcasts and to help amplify their work for audiences around the world.Take a listen, discover something new, and join us in celebrating the storytellers who make podcasting such a powerful medium.
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The Gay Podcast for Everyone
The Disney Bubble
When you visit Disney World, you enter "the bubble,” a time when you shut out the world around you and focus solely on the joy inside the park.
In this Pride episode, Angela shares how a recent visit to Disney and experiencing the bubble reminded her of the importance of creating safe spaces for ourselves and for our community.
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Sista Brunch
Luchina Fisher on “The Dads” …
Sista Brunch is a podcast sharing the stories of Black women and Black gender expansive people thriving in film, TV and media.
In this episode, Luchina Fisher shares her story. She's the director behind the new feature documentary The Dads — a follow-up to her Emmy-winning 2023 Netflix short of the same name, which follows fathers of trans and gender expansive kids deciding whether to stay and fight or leave the country.
THREE
When We All Get to Heaven
Episode One: Setting The Table
When We All Get to Heaven is a 10-episode series that tells the story of one of the first gay-positive churches, the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, and how it faced the personal, social, and political trials of the AIDS epidemic, including the deaths of hundreds of its members.
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FOUR
Music is Therapy
DJ Hesta Prynn and Tegan Quin Discuss Music's Transformative Power for Emotional Healing and Personal Growth
In this episode, DJ Hesta Prynn sits down with Tegan Quin of the iconic duo Tegan and Sara for a conversation about music, identity, and healing.
They explore how Tegan and Sara's music has become a source of strength and solace for the queer community, and why authentic storytelling in music has the power to make listeners feel seen, heard, and less alone. A must-listen for anyone who has ever found healing in a song.
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Modern Dadhood
She / Her / DAD | Tessa White on Trans Fatherhood
In this episode of Modern Dadhood, we talk with trans dad Tessa White about the complexities of identity in the trans community, her children’s choice to continue calling her “dad,” perspectives on gender-neutral pronouns, and more.
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Spirits
Spirits is a curious queer podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Queer folks have always been here, and so have our stories!
SEVEN
Humans, On Rights
Ralph Bryant: State of the Queer — Manitoba's first-of-its-kind 2SLGBTQ+ Survey
In this episode, Rainbow Resource Centre’s Ralph Bryant discusses The State of 2SLGBTQ+ Communities in Manitoba 2026, the province’s first comprehensive survey of queer Manitobans and public attitudes toward the community.
The findings reveal both the resilience of 2SLGBTQ+ people and the ongoing challenges related to mental health, safety, belonging, and acceptance.
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EIGHT
Cultureful
Flipping the Latino Script: Colombian & Queer
How do you balance being Latina, queer, and polyamorous? Michelle, a proud Colombiana, shares how she found the courage to be fully open with her family about her sexual orientation and multiple partners.
Beyond coming out, she found a way to ensure her family shows her partners the respect they deserve- all while remembering her culture and roots. This is a two-part exploration of romance, meet-cutes, and intersectional identity.
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RedHanded
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
As 2026 marks the the 10th anniversary of the Pulse shooting, RedHanded hosts Hannah and Suruthi revisit the tragedy, ask what really drove one of the deadliest attacks in modern American history, and underline the importance of Pride Month in overcoming darkness and creating community.
TEN
Consider This For Comfort
Consider [Drag Race] for Comfort
Consider This For Comfort explores what our favorite comfort TV shows reveal about society and culture. In this episode, host Eteng Ettah examines how ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ introduced mainstream audiences to drag and ballroom culture while exploring the Black and trans communities that created and sustained these art forms long before they reached television.
This conversation invites listeners to think critically about representation, visibility, and who benefits when marginalized cultures enter the mainstream.
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Spotlight Podcast
Curated by CBC Podcasts
Resurrection
In a moment of fate in 2017, Dane Stewart is gifted a bundle of love letters and theatrical scripts, written by a queer man named Daryl Allen before AIDS took his life in 1991.
Along with the letters, Dane is given a task: tell Daryl's story and give his art the audience it lost when his life was cut short.
Community News & Notes
From EarBuds readers like you. Submit here.
🏆 Maria Rodriguez Bross is excited to announce the launch of Bodega Botanica Tales, a fictional series exploring cultural myths, folklore and superstition.
✨ Andrew Johnstone shares “the new season of Seemingly Unrelated brings the same unexpected connections between the everyday and the seismic shifts in history to one very important topic: gender constructs.”
📣 In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends Inside The Lines.
Inside the Lines is the sweetest, kindest, most absurd and funniest thing I have unearthed in awhile and is one of my favorite audio dramas I’ve ever heard.
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