
Coming Out Stories
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Real people. Unique Stories.Coming Out Stories will take you to one the most important moments in many people’s lives. It will perch you on sofas in suburban sitting rooms, stand you in front of officials' desks, put you at the centre of a crowd in a noisy classroom, everywhere where these conversations have happened. It doesn’t even matter if you haven’t had a conversation like this yourself, or indeed ever plan to. Everyone can recognise the innate human desire to love and be loved, and that’s what these stories are about.
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Description:
Real people. Unique Stories.Coming Out Stories will take you to one the most important moments in many people’s lives. It will perch you on sofas in suburban sitting rooms, stand you in front of officials' desks, put you at the centre of a crowd in a noisy classroom, everywhere where these conversations have happened. It doesn’t even matter if you haven’t had a conversation like this yourself, or indeed ever plan to. Everyone can recognise the innate human desire to love and be loved, and that’s what these stories are about.
Language:
English
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!
Duration:00:29:29
Valentino: My family simply didn't know how to raise a gay child
Duration:00:50:38
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.
Duration:00:31:52
Clifford: My dad suggested conversion therapy and I let him sit with that idea, I was literally the first gay person he knew.
Duration:00:36:45
Special Episode: Queer We Are with Coming Out Stories' Emma Goswell and Sam Walker
Duration:00:46:33
Brad: For more than 30 years I convinced myself "I can't be gay. I will change someday"
Duration:00:32:19
EJ: I’ve had quite the internal war about how I identify. I don’t want to use the labels that society gives us!
Duration:00:27:28
Andrew: I told myself that being bisexual was just a phase. It was not!
Duration:00:35:48
Grady: For forty years, I prayed for God to "fix me" Then I realised there was nothing to fix.
Duration:00:32:04
Lucy Lou: The moment I put that dress on, I thought "I'm here!"
Duration:00:31:29
Day: It took me all night to garner the courage but at sunrise, I came out to her
Duration:00:34:10
Mark: I was so nervous, I had to leave the room, and came out to my mom from the kitchen.
Duration:00:33:50
Yo Yo: I grew up where it was illegal to be gay. I had to write love letters to my girlfriend in code
Duration:00:29:21
Andrew: I don't want to be hemmed into a box. I've done that for so many years.
Duration:00:35:03
Jennie: "So many people knew they were gay from a young age, but that's just not my story""
Duration:00:28:06
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."
Duration:00:47:31
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.”
Duration:00:33:41
Serena: When I came out to my 9 year old son, he said “Mammy, that’s very brave of you!"
Duration:00:22:39
A National Coming Out Day special!
Duration:00:33:08
Paris: From the time I was a young kid, I always felt really connected to being both male and female
Duration:00:23:59