All Episodes

Dying Out Loud: From Kansas To Coming Out With Courage

Finding Her Voice: A Lesbian Poet’s Journey

From West Virginia Secrets To Self-Love: Bobby Jean’s Journey

"The girl in the mirror was finally looking back at me" One trans woman's journey.

Finding Pride in Barbados: Patrick's Journey Through Sexuality, Gender, and Dementia

Born This Way: A Life Reclaimed After 60 Years of Silence

We're back! Season six is on the way!

Staying True: Kuchenga Shenjé's Journey of Identity, Resilience, and Creative Expression

How to *not* come out (and still live authentically!) Meet the YA author who has had his books banned

Dean Atta: The Challenges of Growing Up Queer

Jordan Gonsalves: Growing Up LGBTQ+ in Conservative Texas

Kevin: The Transformative Power of Coming Out Later in Life

Love, Literature, and Living Authentically with Robert Tregoning

From Silence to Advocacy A Trans Story of Resilience and Change

Jenny's Voyage of Authenticity: From Woking to Manchester via the Comedy Stage

Fostering Belonging: Anna DeShawn’s Journey Through Queer Identity and Media

Michael: From Summer Camp to Corporate Change, a journey of self-acceptance in the Big Apple.

Kirsty: Embracing Queerness on a Manchester Council Estate

Moe: Finding love, acceptance and dating as a trans, non-binary bisexual!

Blazing Trails: Arthur's Journey and the Formation of the World's First All-Trans Masculine Football Team

Living Out Loud: Annie Wallace on Pioneering Trans Visibility in Television

Gary: I felt jealous when my son came out to me. It took me 40 years to have the courage to do the same.

Braving the Past, Embracing the Future: Ann's Journey of Identity, Activism and Advocacy for other lesbian mothers.

Verity: I knew I was a boy but didn't know how to say that! The struggles and triumphs of a transgender athlete.

The Power of Acceptance: Luma Mufleh's Struggle and Triumph

The Journey of a Happy, Holy Homosexual: Reverend Jide's Story

The Undying Spirit of Juno Roche: Conquering Adversity in the Trans World

Coming Out Stories: A New Season of Resilience, Hope, and Love from the LGBTQ+ Community

Kit: I never understood why all my friends were obsessed with boys! Then I came out, fell in love with women and lost my mind!

Valentino: My family simply didn't know how to raise a gay child

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.

Clifford: My dad suggested conversion therapy and I let him sit with that idea, I was literally the first gay person he knew.

Special Episode: Queer We Are with Coming Out Stories' Emma Goswell and Sam Walker

Brad: For more than 30 years I convinced myself "I can't be gay. I will change someday"

EJ: I’ve had quite the internal war about how I identify. I don’t want to use the labels that society gives us!

Andrew: I told myself that being bisexual was just a phase. It was not!

Grady: For forty years, I prayed for God to "fix me" Then I realised there was nothing to fix.

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

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

Mark: I was so nervous, I had to leave the room, and came out to my mom from the kitchen.

Yo Yo: I grew up where it was illegal to be gay. I had to write love letters to my girlfriend in code

Andrew: I don't want to be hemmed into a box. I've done that for so many years.

Jennie: "So many people knew they were gay from a young age, but that's just not my story""

Jaxon: Walking back into work as a trans man was the most frightening thing I've ever done, but I've seen so many people change their mindset."

Rob: “I tried so hard to change who I was. I changed the way I dressed, the way I spoke and even the way I walked. I didn’t feel safe being myself.”

Serena: When I came out to my 9 year old son, he said “Mammy, that’s very brave of you!"

A National Coming Out Day special!

Paris: From the time I was a young kid, I always felt really connected to being both male and female

Oh! Hello season four!

Oskar: “Identity is an internal thing, not how you look to other people”

Divina de Campo “If ever there was a little queerdo kid – it was me”

Angela and Lucia: “We painted “Lesbians are everywhere!” on the sides of buildings!”

Jacob: So many people say I am the only non-binary person they know and I think “Really?!”

Asad: When I told my dad, I had a friend waiting outside with my suitcases.

JJ: I didn't think my wife would stay with me, but I had to tell her my secret.

Dean McCullough on growing up in Northern Ireland as "Gay Dean"

Tracey: “His dad still asks him: “When are you going to find a girl to marry?””

Des: Now I go to Pride, even if my sons can't make it!

Sarah: When my child told me they were trans, I didn't know what to say

Aruna

Marilyn

Bruce

Jackie

Annie

Stevie

Stephen

Marie

Alex

David

Faz

Lorelei

Melissa: The moment she kissed me, I felt an enormous sense of relief

Aidy

Lee

Val

Sam

Ray

Raga

Jamie

Rhian

Kestral

Leighton

Claire

"Coming Out Stories" X "The Euro Trip"!

Eleanor Crewes

We're Back!

Coming Out Stories the book is.....Coming Out!

Michael

Tim

Donnya

Divina de Campo

Phil

Rachel

Owain Wyn Evans

Kayden

Jessie

Patrick

Tim Sigsworth MBE

Asifa Lahore

Iain Dale