Multitude’s 2025 Pride Podcast List

Happy Pride Month! Though we are proudly queer all year, we wanted to celebrate our community and honor the history that made Pride what it is today. Especially in times like these, it’s important to recognize the incredible LGBTQ+ creators, businesses, and shows that help bring representation and culture to our world.

With that said, here is a list of some of our favorite LGBTQ+ podcasts and businesses. Plus, we had to share a few of our qu-eerie-st Spirits episodes.

LGBTQ+ Podcasts We Love

The team at Multitude’s list of essential shows from LGBTQ+ creators!

Rainbow Parenting

Rainbow Parenting, a queer-and gender-affirming parenting podcast, sparks conversations about how to affirm queer, trans, an nonbinary kids with host and educator Lindz Amer. This show is perfect for parents, educators, caregivers, librarians, and anyone who knows, loves, and works with kids!

Nancy

Hosted by BFFs Kathy Tu and Toblin Low, Nancy is a critically-acclaimed podcast featuring queer stories and conversations about how we define ourselves, and the journey it takes to get there.

Hearthbound

Hearthbound is a 10-episode musical audio drama and a queer reimagining of the Odyssey. The podcast just premiered this month and has the first two episodes available to binge!

What’s All This Then

Love British culture? What’s All This Then is a show all about Britain from two Brits who no longer live there and basically “feel a bit ‘hrnnhghh’ about the place.” Explore British life with hosts Charlotte McDonnell and Libby Watson each week.

“The Great Pervoween Parade” Episode of StarTripper!!

StarTripper!! takes you on a road trip through the cosmos as Feston Pyxis leaves behind his old life in search of the best and wildest experiences the galaxy has to offer. And a special shout-out to the episode “The Great Pervoween Parade,” a space kink pride special co-written by noted queer icon and Bluetooth Lady Kristen DiMercurio.

Bisexual Behavior

Bisexual Behavior is a podcast for the bi+ community that amplifies queer voices and stories. Each month the host, Talia, sits down with different guests to talk about sexuality, pop culture, and queer life.

Spirits Episodes to Listen to This Pride Month

Episode 35: Wonder Woman and the Amazons (with Greg Rucka)

Leave the world of men and enter Paradise with this Spirits episode and special guest Greg Rucka, head writer of Wonder Woman for DC. We discuss comic books as mythology, dig into the historical roots of Wonder Woman and the Amazons, and revel in the super queer nature of paradise.

Episode 380: Abandoned Places (with Blake Pfeil)

Have you ever been haunted by an abandoned place? Spirits hosts invlited multidisciplinary artist Blake Pfeil to talk about his experiences exploring abandoned places, how abandoned places are inherently queer, and why they haunt us the way they do.

Episode 384: Queer Monsters (with Sacha Coward)

In this episode, we dive back in time with the help of author Sacha Coward to talk about the intertwined history of queerness, monsters, and mythology!

Episode 388: Making Queer Fairy Tales (with Melanie Gillman)

Cartoonist and author of Other Ever Afters, Mel Gillman joins us on Spirits to chat about growing as an artist, how allegories of fairy tales grow over time, and breaking the structures to write good horror.

LGBTQ+ Businesses We Love

gc2b

gc2b is a trans-owned, affirming apparel company based in Maryland. The founder, CEO, and designer—a Black and Latinx trans man—saw that the only binding options available were uncomfortable compression shirts made for cis men and started gc2b to combat that. 

GFW Clothing

GFW Clothing’s button-up shirts are designed to fit your body rather than your gender. Designed for all body types, the shirts have a looser cut with left-over right buttoning and a hidden bust button to avoid gaping in the chest area.

OurShelves

The children’s book subscription box company, OurShelves, envisions a world where all children have access to high-quality, varied stories that both affirm their own identities as well as positively introduce them to the wide range of humanity existing within our world.

Queer Candle Co.

Queer Candle Co. is a small-batch candle company, with each product made from soy wax and non-toxic fragrances. As a trans and queer owned business, they prioritize giving back to the community by donating 10% of profits to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an NYC based grassroots organization working to "guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence."

Wildfang

Wildfang is a queer and female founded apparel company on a mission to rethink gender norms. They believe your clothes should be as unique and expressive as you are. 

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The MultiCrew Drive Arrives!

It’s the start of fall, and you know what that means: the MULTICREW DRIVE!

This is where we make it extra worth your while to join the MultiCrew, the membership program empowers Multitude to make new work while sharing the process with you.

Our goal is to add 100 new and upgrading members to the MultiCrew by September 27th. And to thank everyone who has already joined or will join this month, we’re dropping even more bonus audio to the MultiCrew than usual: six brand-new Exclusive Bonus Podcast Episodes. Want to hear Moiya learn about the ocean from Mischa? Cheer for Isabel and Amanda in a head-to-head Business Email Competition? Get hooked on a reality show podcast from Eric and Corinne? Play along to a mythology-infused oneshot by Julia for Jenna, Brandon, and Mischa? AND EVEN MORE? Join the MultiCrew today!

We are also hosting livestreams for our entire community, introducing exciting new benefits at our top two tiers, inscribing every annual member’s name on a plaque, AND sending every MultiCrew member a free enamel pin. That’s not even all of the cool stuff we have coming up.

So what are you waiting for?? Join today!

Credit Where Credit is Due

If you really love a podcast, chances are the person you most associate with the show is its host. Sharp-eared listeners may even notice producers, editors, or sound designers who actively work on several of their favorite podcasts. But what about the many other people behind the scenes during a podcast’s development and growth? 

Creating a podcast from scratch and running one every day takes a lot more work than most people know, and involves many more hands than the name or two that we most associate with any given show. So I want to encourage all of us in podcasting to start crediting more of the people who have helped form the shows we work on, starting with me. Some of that help is hands-on: people who listen to show ideas or sample audio, giving feedback and notes to help refine the idea. Some help is indirect, as we draw inspiration and motivation from other people’s work. Their names might not be listed in the credits of our episodes, but the people who spark ideas, give us opportunities, and help our shows grow need their shine. 

Here are some of the people whose inspiration and guidance made my own creative goals possible. 

Rose Eveleth’s groundbreaking mixing of fictional scenes with expert interviews on Flash Forward has been imitated but never duplicated in the years since the show started. Soon after my cohost Julia Schifini and launched Spirits in 2016, Rose invited us to contribute our voices to an episode of Flash Forward. Collaborating with someone whose work we knew and loved legitimizing us as podcasters and helped open professional doors for us. It’s no surprise that Rose is also creating the template for ending creative projects, too; their sunsetting of Flash Forward in 2022 (first announced at our first ever Multitude Podcast Conference!) is something I know I’ll be referencing again and again in my career as a creator.

Nichole Perkins is one of the greatest interviewers in podcasting, and choosing Multitude as the home of her show This is Good for You was a tremendous act of trust. She also introduced the term “furniture,” meaning the intro, outro, ads, and other bits of audio hosts need to record before an interview goes live, to Multitude producers. We use it all the time!

Lauren Shippen and Mischa Stanton’s work on The Bright Sessions inspired my colleagues and me in a ton of different ways. Both championed me and my future colleagues at Multitude as we were establishing ourselves in podcasting, and have remained incredibly generous with referrals and help in more recent years. Plus, Stanton’s sound design influenced our work on Join the Party, and Shippen’s community management and social media foregrounded how we build the community for Spirits (and later Multitude). I have a lot to thank them for.

But most of all, Eric Silver is a prolific podcaster whose list of credits don’t come close to capturing how many podcasts he’s helped start, grow, and thrive. He has supported me in countless ways as we started Multitude and grew it from a part-time umbrella for our podcast projects into a full-time business. As Multitude’s Head of Creative and also my husband, I witness every day how versatile and important his help is. But don’t just take my word for it—I asked some of his collaborators how they would describe his help.

• Lindz Amer, author and host of the podcast Rainbow Parenting, credits Eric with helping figure out how their show is structured. They said, “Eric has been such a helpful collaborator and someone to bounce ideas off especially when we were first trying to figure out how the show would work. We had great conversations about structure and overall vision and he really helped me work on the language we use to describe the show so we could communicate what we are doing to our audience.” 

• Dr. Moiya McTier, co-host of Pale Blue Pod, names two crucial areas of input from Eric: planting the seed of an idea for the show, and gut-checking details like metadata. “Eric urged me to make an astronomy podcast for a long time. When the show’s launch was imminent, Eric provided priceless feedback on the show’s cover art and description. I know his help made the show better at each stage and I’m so glad Eric’s creative lens was available to focus Pale Blue Pod’s brain power.” 

• Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim, co-hosts of Wow if True, also credit Eric with creating the branding that’s helped their show grow over the last two years. “As underrepresented creators, we sometimes fall into the trap of underselling ourselves, but Eric encouraged us to own our expertise and project confidence in ourselves,” Silberling said. Kim agreed, “Eric’s had a really sharp eye in zeroing in on what made our show unique, and in further helping us refine what our pitch and copy would be based on those things… That bulletproof branding has been guiding a lot of our growth since.”

• I benefit from Eric’s assistance most of all, whether it be from co-creating Multitude’s business plan to coming up with ideas that spark single episodes or whole miniseries of my podcast Spirits. Eric has encouraged me, supported me, and even gotten me out of bed and stepped in when I couldn’t do my job. Starting when I was 25 and burning out of my day job, all the way through to those terrifying early years of the pandemic, he’s stepped up countless times to support me, our colleagues, and his peers—all without credit. He deserves way more shine than I’ve given him for the work he’s done, on- and off-mic, creatively and business-wise.

Capitalism and startup culture laud founders, while extracting value from and obscuring the names and faces of everyone else who makes businesses work. I benefit from the perception that my podcasts and business are Herculean efforts of a few individuals, and it just isn’t true. So I want to especially urge those of us in positions of power, who benefit from the unsung work of people who work for us, to step up. Credits are real units of career capital, and our colleagues deserve more. Our industry as a whole is stronger when we name those who help our shows become the best versions of themselves.

So, tell me: who has inspired, helped, and guided your shows and career?