LGBTQ+: Recommended Resources

Whether gender makes you feel "???", "!!!", "?!?!," or something in between, Gender Reveal is the pod for you. The bulk of the episodes feature queer and equity educator and journalist Tuck Woodstock gender-philosophizing with non-binary and trans revolutionaries like Torrey Peters, Jeffrey Marsh, Thomas Page McBee, and Gaby Dunn. But Tuck also releases educational Gender 101 episodes, defining terms like cisgender, non-binary, and transgender, too.

Produced by The Advocate magazine in conjunction with GLAAD, this pod features "weekly interviews with the most interesting LGBTQ+ people in the world." Both the host and guests live up to that bold claim, as Masters welcomes high-profile people like Pete Buttigieg, Holland Taylor, and Laverne Cox with his unique brand of probing curiosity. Don't miss the illuminating episode featuring actor, singer, and author François Clemmons, the gay man who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

Emotional glimpses into the lives of unsung, if not entirely sidelined, trailblazers who made their mark on the LGBTQ civil rights movement—people like Vito Russo, Jean O'Leary, Bayard Rustin, and Del Martin. Marcus, author of a 2002 book also titled Making Gay History, pulls from his own recorded archives and conducts original interviews to collage together episodes on heroes who deserve robust chapters in the history books.

One from the Vaults shines light on a subject that's only begun to get its due in recent years: Trans history. Episodes are often devoted to telling the story of an unsung transgender person such as singer, lion tamer, and poet Georges Marasco, or Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two trans women closely associated with the 1969 Stonewall uprising. For the pod's fifth anniversary, Page is presenting interviews with artists, writers, and historians who are equally dedicated to preserving trans history, such as The Lady and the Dale director Zackary Drucker.

The stand-up comedian and actor, Cameron Esposito, conducts hour-long, heartfelt conversations with diverse members of the LGBTQ community: Abby Wambach, SOAK, Our Lady J, and Bob the Drag Queen, just to name a few. Esposito doesn't shy away from wading into a guest's darker times—but she also uses warmth and wit to shine a light on queer folks' successes as well as their struggles.