21 Podcasts with Black & Queer Hosts
There are LGBTQIA+ content creators of color that are sharing their perspectives, and they deserved to be heard.
I’m known for telling people that one reason folks don’t support is because you suck still. In an age when people feel as though you are calling them out when a critique is given, I understand that my words can be difficult to swallow. The guidance is still difficult when I am the one that needs to digest them yet again.
After years of coaching and training queer-identified entrepreneurs to get their start in business, I decided to do something new and start a podcast! I just knew that I would be successful because I’ve been speaking since the 80’s when I was giving Easter speeches growing up in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in Oklahoma City. It just seemed a natural move to speaking on stages professionally and speaking to clients to now speaking to an audience that I couldn’t receive immediate feedback.
I have news for you.
This was not the case.
It was not natural.
I sucked.
It was time that I did something about the bullshit I was creating and find podcasts by people that were like me. To be clear, I’m queer as fuck. To be more clear, I’m a cisgendered, Black, book loving, business minded, pansexual man who is often seen as not feminine enough nor masculine enough. In all the labels that I find joy in desired, more than anything, to find queer podcasters that have been kissed by the sun so that I could remember just how amazing being a content creator could be for me.While I started compiling a list for me to connect with new shows, I realized that there may be others in the world that would benefit from such a list as well.
So without further ado, I give you excellence in color!
1.The EntreQueerNeur Show with Asa Leveaux is the intersection of entrepreneurship and all things divinely queer. Asa Leveaux is known as America’s #1 EntreQueerNeur Coach by helping queer identified business owners create their first $10,000 in business.
Twitter: @MrLeveaux
2. Join Kid Fury and Crissle for their weekly podcast covering hip-hop and pop culture’s most trying stars. Throwing shade and spilling tea with a flippant and humorous attitude, no star is safe from Fury and Crissle unless their name is Beyoncé. (Or Blue Ivy.)
Twitter: @ThisIsTheRead
3. E3 Radio is an online radio station playing queer & independent music in high rotation. Our three pillars are to educate, empower, & entertain. E3 Radio is Queer Radio Done Right.
Twitter: @e3radio
4. Black Radical Queer is a podcast that explores the intersection of blackness and queerness. Hosted by Jhavia Nicole. Our stories on our own terms.
Twitter: @blkradqwr
5. A podcast about queer Africans living, loving, surviving and thriving on the African continent and in the diaspora.
Twitter: AfroQueerPodcast @afroqueerpod
6. A new weekly Podcast Co-Hosted by 4 friends who are “30 Something, Black, and Gay.” Every week the Co-Hosts tackle break ups, make ups, friendship, online dating, and a plethora of other relevant topics with some celebrity gossip and entertainment news sprinkled throughout. These 4 friends are opinionated, witty, insightful, and best of all a little bit petty!
Twitter: @30SmthinBlkNGay
7. On Pod Save the People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Clint Smith. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.
Twitter: @PodSaveThePpl
8. Listen to BGD Blog podcasts, including “The BGD Podcast with Raquel Willis” and “Spirit Medicine: A BGD Podcast About Healing, Wellness and Liberation” with CarmenLeah and ChE.
Twitter: @BGDblog
9. A roundtable discussion podcast wherein a multiracial mix of queer writers talk sex, relationships, race, identity, what we like to read, and who we like to read.
Twitter: @Food4ThotPod
10. A Black trans Podcast. #MarshasPlate is a lively podcast where three friends come together every Thursday to share opinions and perspectives that centers the black perspective. Hosted By Diamond Stylz, Mia Mix, and Zee. All Houston-based digital strategists, black feminists, civil right advocates, and black trans people. We explore topics of gender, current events, politics, and scumbags all around the world upholding systems of oppression from a black trans feminist lens. With our funny no-holds-barred style we introduce you to new perspectives, stories that connect you to transness, and trans community leaders around the country.
11. Brothaspeak Podcast is a digital online platform where we interview the innovative, the daring, and the bold while providing informative topics for the black LGBT. On our podcast we discuss everything AFRO-LGBT related from politics to relationships. We talk to REAL PEOPLE in our interviews who gladly express their real thoughts & experiences.
Twitter: BrothaSpeak Podcast @BrothaspeakPod
12. This QPOC Life is the a podcast from the brain behind Edugaytion that looks at the world through the lens of a Queer Person of Color (QPOC). Each conversation is had with the intention of understanding how our mutual and individual experiences in different marginalized groups can empower us as larger community of whole people. In its second season, This QPOC Life took home People’s Choice at BRIC’s 2018 B-Free Media Awards. This QPOC Life is looking forward to entering is third season in fall 2019.
Twitter: @thisQPOClife
13. The SafeWordSociety Podcast launched in 2017 by QTPOC+ visibility company, SafeWordSociety is heralded for archiving the authentic narratives of QTPOC+ as a social justice initiative for public broadcasting and social networks. The hosts, Kristen McCallum and Lamika Young, use interviews & discussions with thought leaders, influencers and community members to navigate the authenticity of their identity. Their mission is to create a safe space for versatility and self-definition while uplifting the stories of those that are too often muted.
14. A black, gay excursion into pop culture with Craig Seymour, author of Luther: The Life & Longing of Luther Vandross; All I Could Bare: My Life in Strip Clubs of Gay D.C.; & Who’s Your Daddy? His forthcoming book is Special: The Life & Artistry of Janet Jackson (March 2019). Throughout his career, Craig has interviewed Jackson, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, and many others. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from UMCP, and his research is housed at the Archives of African American Music & Culture at Indiana University.
Twitter: Craig Seymour @craigspoplife
15. A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland’s very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.
16. Musings on Politics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life, is an irreverent weekly podcast that combines thought-provoking discussion and humor to navigate complex subjects. Recent episodes have covered a wide range of topics including sexual fluidity, mental health, and black elitism.
Twitter: @StrangeFruitPod
17. Me and the Gay Homie is about two homies challenging social norms and homophobia within the (black) community. Or whomever will listen.
18. A podcast hosted by @SoDebNair & @DewayneQ that tackles relationships for the LGBTQAI+ community through the lens of 2 gay men. New episodes every Wednesday
Twitter: @aothpodcast
19. Black, Trans, & Beautiful is a podcast from the Transwoman of Color Perspective.
Twitter: @BTransBPodcast
20. The Afro Cuban Podcaster with a Penchant for Pop Culture. I’m one Part Ratchet, One Part Bougie but ALL John Salvatore. My perspective is from a 30 something Queer man of Color that doesn’t fit into any box. I’m Brazen, Quick on my feet but Authentic to the core. Join me weekly on The John Effect Podcast
Twitter: @_TheJohnEffect
21. Monét X Change, Miss Congeniality of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 and winner of AS4 and Bob The Drag Queen, winner of Season 8 (she won the first time) are not actually siblings but they are the intensely hilarious comedy duo with infectious chemistry behind the hit podcast Sibling Rivalry
Twitter: @PodcastRivalry
Please comment with your favorite podcast with a Black & queer host that isn’t listed.