Work With Us

Coming Out Stories would love to work with you.

By supporting our podcast and social channels, it will allow us to reach and support more LGBTQ+ people all over the world by releasing consistently high quality episodes and ensuring we have the resources to make sure everyone’s voice can be heard. We would create, produce and publish ads and/or host reads supporting your brand, product or service or special offer or event, which would feature on all of our episodes for an agreed time period.  We have both exclusive and non-exclusive options available.

About Us

We’ve just celebrated our fifth birthday, having been around since 2018!
(only 10% of podcasts make it past the first year)

130

Episodes released

250

Total Downloads

10

Average Monthly Downloads

(in season)

Our download stats put us in the

top   5% of podcasts  worldwide

(Source:  Buzzsprout,  October 2023)

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Countries and Charts

We have consistently ranked in the sexuality podcasts charts in the following countries…

#1 ISRAEL
#1 ANGOLA
#1 MALTA
#1 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
TOP 5: BERMUDA
TOP 5: COSTA RICA
TOP 5: CYPRUS
TOP 5: FRANCE
TOP 5: INDONESIA
TOP 5: IRELAND
TOP 5: ITALY
TOP 5: JAMAICA
TOP 5: KENYA
TOP 5: MALAYSIA
TOP 5: PHILIPPINES
TOP 5: SAUDI ARABIA
TOP 5: THAILAND
TOP 5: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
TOP 5: UGANDA
TOP 5: SWITZERLAND
TOP 10: DENMARK
TOP 10: GHANA
TOP 10: GREAT BRITAIN
TOP 10: HONG KONG
TOP 10: ICELAND
TOP 10: NEW ZEALAND
TOP 10: PORTUGAL
TOP 10: SLOVAKIA
TOP 10: TANZANIA
TOP 20: ALBANIA
TOP 20: BELGIUM
TOP 20: FINLAND
TOP 20: GERMANY
TOP 20: INDIA
TOP 20: MEXICO
TOP 20: ROMANIA
TOP 20: RUSSIA

TOP 20: SENEGAL

TOP 20: SINGAPORE
TOP 20: SOUTH AFRICA
TOP 20: UKRAINE

#1

Angola
Israel
Malta
Trinidad and Tobago

Top 5

Bermuda
Costa Rica
Cyprus
France
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Kenya
Malaysia
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
Uganda
Switzerland

Top 10

Denmark
Ghana
Great Britain
Hong Kong
Iceland
New Zealand
Portugal
Slovakia
Tanzania

Top 20

Albania
Belgium
Finland
Germany
India
Mexico
Netherlands
Romania
Russia
Senegal
Singapore
South Africa
Ukraine

Media - As featured on

The Coming Out Stories book has
been funded by the Welsh Government
to be translated into Welsh.

The Book was selected by
The Reading Agency for their
new Reading Well for Young
People’s Mental Health scheme.

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But, why work with us?

Because even those we’re in the 2020s, life continues to be really challenging for LGBTQ+ people.

Yes, There’s been a lot of progress over the decades but there are many, many reasons that LGBTQ+ people still live in fear and need our support.

Coming Out Stories is an important resource that young LGBTQ+ people treasure and it’s never been more important than now! Please note these stats are for the UK  – let’s not forget that (at the time of writing) there are still 64 countries where it is illegal to be gay and 7 countries where you could face the death penalty for engaging in same sex activity.

Still very much a minority

Hate Crimes

Poor Mental Health

Homelessness

According to the 2021 census, just 1.5% of the population described themselves as gay or lesbian and only 0.5% said their gender identity and sex registered at birth were different.

One in five LGBTQ+ people have experienced a hate crime or incident due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity in the last 12 months.

Half of LGBTQ+ people said they’ve experienced depression in the last year. Almost half of trans people have thought about taking their own life in the last year, 31 per cent of LGB people who aren’t trans said the same.

Almost one in five LGBTQ+ people have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. Rates are even higher amongst trans people, with 25% having experienced homelessness at some point.

According to Albert Kennedy Trust, more than three quarters of LGBTQ+ young people gave, ‘family rejection, abuse or being asked to leave home’ as a cause of their homelessness.

 

*Most of the above stats are according to Stonewalls LGBTQ+ survey in 2017.
More here and here.

Testimonials

We know that our podcast brings people hope.
We gets letters of gratitude from all over the world…