Coming Out Stories

Ed is a writer and LGBT+ travel expert Boston.  He kept his sexuality a secret until he was inspired to come out by other LGBT+ students at Harvard Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We have a book!  Coming Out Stories is...

Poet, comedian and theatre maker Jackie Hagan identifies as bisexual, or queer.  She has a very unique list of her first childhood crushes! Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We have a book!  Coming Out Stories is availabl...

Oskar grew up in Trinidad  and identifies as trans masculine, but non binary.  In terms of their sexuality they identify as pansexual.  Suppressing the urge to transition for 20 years had a huge impact on their mental health.   Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStori...

Kate McCabe is a stand up comedian. She grew up in Pensylvania, but then went to University in New York City, where despite having a gay best friend you will never believe who she chose to come out to first… Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram...

A story that really proves it’s never too late to come out.  Naomi is a film maker and lives in Berlin, but grew up in South Africa and Namibia.  She was married to man for 23 years before coming out. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @Coming...

Lev AC Rosen is an author.  He grew up in a liberal household in New York in the 1990s.  He didn’t feel he should have to come out as gay, because straight people don’t have to come out as straight!  He never could have guessed his mother’s reaction! Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us o...

  Yvy De Luca is the author of the memoir  “Tainted Beauty” She identifies as an Indian trans woman, who is also a pansexual She really struggled to come out in the Muslim community of 1990s Blackburn and for a while, led a double life. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @Com...

Matthew Schaffer is an actor, dancer, choreographer and author.  He’s so out and proud he’s written a book called “Dancing Out of the Closet” . He wasn't always so proud though, and lived in the closet for years, worried his sexuality would ruin his career and friendships. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutsto...

JJ, or Jessie, is a gas fitter from Manchester who is happily married to a woman and has two children. But they identify as non-binary or gender fluid and were terrified they would lose their family when they came out. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on...

Matthew  Diebler is a filmmaker and TV producer (listen to find out more about his lesbian horror movie!)  who lives in LA, but growing up in rural Ohio he had a terrible time at school. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod...

Lil King Cat is a singer who came out in Limerick in Ireland in the 1990s.  She was in for quite a shock when she came out to her mum… Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We have a book!  Coming Out Stories is available at...

James Barr is an out and proud radio presenter, comedian and star of the podcast "A Gay and a Non Gay." He wasn't always out though, in fact he was quite religious in his youth and struggled with coming out, finding bible passages to reassure himself that Godf would still love him if he was gay.     Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story. ...

Comedian, TV presenter and "person from Birmingham" Joe Lycett tells us about coming out three times, firstly as gay, then as bisexual, then pansexual. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We have a book!  Coming O...

Talented singer songwriter, Katey Brookes is originally from Bristol, but grew up in London, in a religious cult based in Arizona, which had a huge effect on her relationship with her own sexuality   Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingO...

Jose, a Puerto Rican man who lives in the Bronx in New York City tells us about his huge challenges coming out, suffering terrible sexual abuse, being thrown out of home at just 13 by his father, then finding his logical family in Greenwch village and eventually finding love. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstori...

GJ struggled with coming out as a lesbian because of her Rastafarian faith.  Her parents hail from Barbuda,  near Antigua.   She was outed without her knowledge by The Carribbean Times newspaper and had to make a tricky phone call to her parents.... Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on...

Christine , the author of Trans Britain, has been at the heart of the Trans Rights movement since the early '90s, campaigning to get laws changed and was eventually awarded an MBE for her work. She also has one of the earliest coming out stories we have heard – she was just four when she told her mum she wanted to grow up to be a woman.  But it took another 20 years until she came out to them...

Asad grew up in a British Pakistani muslim household and feared the worst when coming out to his parents.  So much so, he packed a bag and had a friend wait outside in his car, ready to escape. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStor...

Growing up in rural wales, pre-internet, Mark says it was penpals who helped him understand his sexuality, but it was appearing on national TV show Stars in Their Eyes, that led him to him coming out on a big scale! Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on In...

Saski is a singer and a Pride host. She struggled coming out at school, but now works for Educate and Celebrate.  Her story contains one of the best reactions from a parent ever! Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We have...

A very special episode to commemorate 50 years since one of the most important events in LGBTQ+ history: The Stonewall Riots. Martin Boyce was the son of Italian immigrants and grew up in New York, coming out in the 60s at a time it was very dangerous to be gay in the city. He was at The Stonewall Inn on 28 June 1969 and stood, defiant, as the NYPD charged. His story is moving and incredible.  Ple...

Nadia grew up in a religious household with a Christian mum and a Muslim dad. She was always too afraid to come out at school becuase of the intense bullying she witnessed.  But when her mum was seriously ill in hospital  Nadia knew she wanted to tell her exactly who she was. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstori...

LGBT historian and author of the book Making Gay History talks to us about his televised coming out story, in an epsiode recorded outside The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod...

The first relationship Chris McNaghten had ended up with him being blackmailed.  He talks frankly about his struggles with mental health and tackling homophobia in his sport head on. Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We h...

Mum and children's entertainer Lucia was giving her mum a lift when she came out.  She didn't expect the response she got... Presented by Emma Goswell Produced by Sam Walker We'd love to hear YOUR story.  Please get in touch www.comingoutstoriespodcast.com or find us on twitter @ComeOutStories and on Instagram @ComingOutStoriesPod We have a book!  Coming Out Stories is available at...