Our standards
This LGBTQIA+ podcast directory is a community index, not a verdict on anyone's identity or a measure of what makes a show worth hearing. These standards exist to make the directory useful without making it careless.
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We list hosts who have identified themselves as LGBTQIA+ in a public context: their own bio, their show's description, an interview, a post, or reputable reporting that treats their identity as public. We do not infer identity from a name, a partner, a topic, or a rumor.
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Every entry has a public source link. It is there so readers can see the basis for the listing, and so the person named can tell us if the information is wrong, incomplete, or no longer theirs.
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Hosts are not sorted by audience size, press coverage, network affiliation, reviews, or cultural importance. A show with ten listeners belongs here on the same terms as a show with ten million.
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This directory indexes people, not subject matter. Hosts of any kind of show can be included: sports, history, parenting, business, comedy, science, fiction, politics, and everything else.
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We do not list someone because another person says they are out. If public visibility could create risk, we leave the name out. We would rather have a smaller directory than put anyone in a position they did not choose.
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Anyone can submit a correction. Any listed host can ask to be removed, without explaining why. We treat stale language, changed names, pronouns, show status, and removal requests as editorial work, not as exceptions.
The Out Mic Directory is convened by Christopher Bylone — a podcast host himself, and one of the entries on this list. Domain, hosting and upkeep are currently covered by Innovation Unbiased, the belonging and People Experience consultancy he founded.
That arrangement buys nothing. There is no sponsored placement, no paid inclusion, no ranking to climb and nothing for sale. Entries sit in alphabetical order by surname, and every one links to its source so anyone can check the work.
“Currently” is doing real work in that sentence. If who pays for this ever changes, this paragraph changes with it.
It cannot be complete. It cannot settle every edge case. It cannot replace a host's own words. It can show its sources, stay open to correction, and keep making room.