11 Insightful LGBTQ+ parenting podcasts
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Discovering reliable sources that provide valuable guidance and a supportive community for same-sex parents and LGBTQ+ individuals embarking on the journey to build or expand their families can be a daunting task. That’s why we are returning with a panel on the LGBTQ+ Parenting Journey on March 27 at 4pm GMT. Click here to find out more.
In the meantime, we’ve also put together these insightful 11 LGBTQ+ parenting podcasts to assist you. Whether you seek insights on raising children within a same-sex parenting context, a deeper understanding of LGBTQ+ parenting culture, insights into the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ parents and individuals, then these podcasts are a great place to start.
We hope you will enjoy listening to them as much as we did!
The Proud Parent Club is an inclusive podcast and community for LGBTQ+ parents and future LGBT parents. Sanjay Sood-Smith (he/him) is joined by different guests each week to discuss all aspects of family building and LGBT parenting for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Sanjay and his husband Doug became parents through surrogacy and before starting their journey spent a lot of time researching the different ways that LGBTQ+ people become parents. These topics will be explored by talking to experts and people from across the LGBTQ+ community who have taken different routes to becoming parents including adoption, surrogacy in different countries, co-parenting, IUI, IVF, reciprocal IVF, solo-parenting, and having children before coming out.
Pride in Birth brings together for the first time academic and medical research about LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of conception, pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period. In each episode, Mari will talk to a different researcher, finding out what questions about LGBTQ+ pregnancy they were asking, how they went about finding answers, and what they discovered. Guests include professors, obstetricians, midwives, psychiatrists, and academic researchers. The podcast will explain some of the issues LGBTQ+ people face when they start a family, helping to reduce isolation amongst LGBT+ new and expectant parents, and aiming to help those caring for them to improve the services they provide.
2 Birds & A Baby is a weekly audio diary of Emma Goswell and her partners' personal adventures as LGBT parents. This podcast follows their journey of what it’s like to raise their IVF baby born with down’s syndrome and a heart condition. Expect laughter, tears, and lots and lots of references to dirty nappies!
The Queer Families Podcast, If These Ovaries Could Talk, is about making babies and non-traditional families. Queer parents Jaimie Kelton and E Bradshaw humorously go in-depth with weekly guests about their hopes, fears, and setbacks. The mission is to normalize, elevate and celebrate, while confirming that we're just like other parents, trying not to yell at our kids when they still haven't put their shoes on and we're 25 minutes late for school. The end result is a compelling podcast that amusingly explores the age-old question: what's it like to live as an LGBTQ family in a world built for the straights?
A fantastic podcast dubbed by review as a guide on ‘how to come out to your Indian parents’. When Hema first realized she was gay a few years ago after immigrating to the U.S., she knew had to tell her mom. But the conversation didn’t go well. Hema’s mom lives in India and is convinced being gay is a Western phenomenon. So how does Hema help her mom accept her for who she is? In this episode of How To!, they bring in Sonali Gulati, a professor, filmmaker and queer rights activist who made a documentary about the parents of LGBTQ+ people in India. Drawing from her own personal experience, Sonali helps Hema figure out the best way to frame the conversation with her mom. One tip? Speak your parents’ language to explain how your life fits their definition of success.
Follow along every other Tuesday as Kate and Karyne navigate reciprocal IVF using Karyne's eggs, unknown donor sperm, and Kate's uterus. Learn more at the gayestshowonbirth.com
LezBeMommies Radio | Lesbian Parenting
Host Elizabeth Caliva interviews guests on topics related to lesbian conception, pregnancy, parenting and health. Topics include gay parenting, donor sperm, getting pregnant, natural health, the legal issues associated with lesbian parenting, sex in long-term lesbian relationships, healthy pregnancy, birthing options, parenting tips, and more.
Gay Dads Podcast! Husbands and dads Yan Dekel and Alex Maghen bring out issues that arise in the gay dad community as they discover the world of parenthood.
Some Families, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ parenting podcast series, will break down queer parenting myths and answer questions for those thinking about parenthood. Hosts Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley will be sharing their own experiences as queer parents and chatting to a plethora of guests.
One to One: 'Growing up with a gay dad'
David Gregory-Kumar is a BBC journalist, and a gay dad. For this edition of One to One, he speaks to Sophie Mei Lan about her experience of growing up with a gay dad and step-dad. Two more episodes are available: “Being a Gay Dad” and “A surrogate's story”
Although created in 2014, this brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast is still very much relevant! In Britain, since the civil partnership and gay marriage laws have changed, more same sex couples are choosing to have children. Mary Smeeth, herself a mother of 2 boys brought up in a same sex relationship, talks to a number of couples to find out the challenges of conceiving and raising these children. For fans: Actors Sophie Ward and Charlie Condou share their experience in the podcast!
If you want your favorite LGBTQ+ parenting podcast to be added to the list, please send us an email to: [email protected]
On Wednesday 27 March, myGwork will host a discussion on the LGBTQ+ parenting journey. Click here to find out more about the free event and register.
