Coming Out Stories

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Coming Out Stories episodes

May 03, 2023 Dharma: The teacher told me to play with the other boys, but I knew I wasn't a boy. It was a secret I kept for a long time.
Dharma: The teacher told me to play with the other boys, but I knew I wasn't a boy. It was a secret I kept for a long time.

Dharma Kelleher is a pansexual crime writer, based in Phoneix, Arizona who puts lesbians and trans women at the heart of her novels.

She grew up in a small town just outside Atlanta. She knew as a very young child that she was trans.

Find out more about Dharma's work here.
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
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
32 min
April 19, 2023 Clifford: My dad suggested conversion therapy and I let him sit with that idea, I was literally the first gay person he knew.
Clifford: My dad suggested conversion therapy and I let him sit with that idea, I was literally the first gay person he knew.

Clifford is our first sapio sexual storyteller. A real world citizen, he is of Indian heritage, had a Catholic upbringing in Dubai in now lives in Australia.

He speaks about what being sapio sexual means to him and how his family reacted to his coming out as gay.
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
37 min
April 12, 2023 Special Episode: Queer We Are with Coming Out Stories' Emma Goswell and Sam Walker
In this very special eisode, we're sharing an intervew we did with Brad Shreve on his excellent podcast Queer We Are, a show where Brad talks to entertainers, activists, politicians, artists, athletes, and more of the most interesting LGBTQ people from diverse backgrounds.

We hope you enjoy it!

Find out more about Brad and Queer We Are
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
47 min
April 06, 2023 Brad: For more than 30 years I convinced myself "I can't be gay. I will change someday"
Brad: For more than 30 years I convinced myself "I can't be gay. I will change someday"
In this episode, we're back in the United States, to the Californian desert to meet Brad.
Brad didn’t come out until his 30s, by which stage he had married a woman and had had a child.
Brad also came out in a way that we've never spoken about on this podcast before...

Find out more about Brad and his podcast Queer We Are

You can find out more about The Trevor Project here
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
33 min
March 23, 2023 EJ: I’ve had quite the internal war about how I identify. I don’t want to use the labels that society gives us!
EJ: I’ve had quite the internal war about how I identify. I don’t want to use the labels that society gives us!
EJ is a young person who lives in a small town in Ohio, USA.
They identify as a gender queer masc lesbian.
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
28 min
March 08, 2023 Andrew: I told myself that being bisexual was just a phase. It was not!
Andrew: I told myself that being bisexual was just a phase. It was not!
Andrew identifies as bisexual.

He hails from Scotland and is behind the LGBTQ+ sports website Pride of the Terraces.

Although he is now very open about his sexuality, it was a big decision for him to come out in a newspaper.
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
36 min
February 22, 2023 Grady: For forty years, I prayed for God to "fix me" Then I realised there was nothing to fix.
Grady

Grady Throneberry is the first openly gay police chief in Kentucky.

He didn't come out until his sixties and what a story he has to tell!

Married to a woman, with grown up daughters, he lived in his words as a "straight, conservative man" until 2018. Until he was outed, very publicly, which led to him being called into the Mayor's office for a meeting...

Find out more about Grady and his book My Journey to the Rainbow on his website gayandgray.net
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
33 min
February 08, 2023 Lucy Lou: The moment I put that dress on, I thought "I'm here!"
Lucy Lou

The moment I put that dress on, I thought "I'm here!"

Lucy Lou is a trans woman who waited nearly 40 years to become the person she always was.
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 all major shops now!
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Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
32 min
January 25, 2023 Day: It took me all night to garner the courage but at sunrise, I came out to her
Day

It took me all night to garner the courage but at sunrise, I came out to her

Day is an artist and writer from California.

He identifies as a gay man and is passionate about the power of rituals.

You can find out more about Day here and more about his book Hello, goodbye. 75 rituals for times of loss, celebration and change.
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 all major shops now!
JKP.com | Queerlit | Waterstones | Amazon
Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
34 min
January 11, 2023 Mark: I was so nervous, I had to leave the room, and came out to my mom from the kitchen.
Mark

Because I only heard the term in the playground, I used to think "gay" meant someone who was bad at sports.

Mark Chesnut is an award-winning travel writer based in New York City.
He is also the author of the memoir Prepare for Departure: Notes on a Single Mother, a Misfit Son, Inevitable Mortality and the Enduring Allure of Frequent Flyer Miles
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 all major shops now!
JKP.com | Queerlit | Waterstones | Amazon
Coming Out Stories is a What Goes On Media Production
34 min

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