Beers with Queers: A True Crime Podcast

A woman’s desperate screams. 38 people witness a woman being attacked on the street. No one intervenes allowing an attack to go on for 40 minutes, ultimately leading to murder. In March 1964, Kitty Genovese was attacked just steps from her New York apartment. Reports claimed thirty-eight witnesses saw or heard parts of the assault, and yet no one intervened. Kitty was more than a headline, she was a 28-year-old bartender, daughter, sister, and a lesbian quietly building a life with the woman she loved. But her death became one of the most infamous tragedies in queer history, not only for the brutality of the crime, but for what it revealed about society’s indifference. In this episode, we examine the myths, the truths, and how the case shaped both the criminal justice system and the narrative of LGBTQ+ lives in danger.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light, all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

A late night knock. A false report. An arrest that should never have happened. And a landmark case that would change the lives for millions of queer Americans. What began as a humiliating raid in a small Houston apartment would ignite a legal battle that reshaped queer life in America. In 1998, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner were dragged from Lawrence’s home and charged under a Texas law that criminalized their very existence. They were not activists. They were not politicians. They were ordinary men caught in an extraordinary injustice that exposed how fragile freedom could be when queerness was treated as a crime.This case, Lawrence v. Texas, became a turning point in LGBTQ+ history. It struck at the heart of sodomy laws still on the books in more than a dozen states. In this episode, we trace the humiliating arrest, the years of legal battles, and the cultural shockwaves that followed. The story reveals how one case helped dismantle centuries of stigma and changed the landscape for queer rights in the United States. This is queer history, true crime, and justice colliding in one of the most important cases in American law.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

A quiet evening stroll takes a horrifying turn. A beloved teacher and librarian becomes the target of a hate-driven ambush.On June 21, 1985, Toronto school librarian and teacher Kenneth Zeller, a well-liked educator at three schools, was walking to his car after a night with friends when five teenage boys ambushed him in High Park, brutally beating him to death in a homophobic hate crime. This episode unpacks the senseless violence of that midsummer night, the chilling group dynamics, and the cultural climate that labeled queer spaces as danger zones. As we explore the aftermath, from legal responses to the community’s rallying to remember him as more than a victim. We delve into queer history, systemic intolerance, and the scars these injustices leave behind.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light, all with a cold one in hand.Press play, raise a glass, and join us as we honor Kenneth Zeller’s memory and confront the shadows of LGBTQ+ history.

A bullet on Ocean Drive. A world-renowned designer. And a murderer who left America terrified and searching for answers.By the summer of 1997, Andrew Cunanan’s trail of blood had stretched across the country, but his final act, the assassination of Gianni Versace turned a killing spree into global spectacle. In this episode, we unravel the chaos of the manhunt, the media circus that followed, and the queer identity threads so often erased in the retelling. Why did law enforcement fail to stop him? And how did homophobia shape both the investigation and the legacy of one of the most infamous LGBTQ+ true crime cases in history?Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light, all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

A fashion empire shattered. A serial killer hiding in plain sight.In July 1997, the world gasped as Gianni Versace was shot outside his Miami mansion. But what the headlines didn’t tell you was that this was only the final act of Andrew Cunanan’s bloody spree. Before the murder of Versace, Cunanan had already left multiple victims scattered across the country—each death more brutal than the last. In Part 1, we retrace his path from privilege to desperation, peeling back the layers of a killer who moved seamlessly through queer spaces while hiding a darkness no one saw coming. This isn’t just a fashion tragedy—it’s one of the most haunting LGBTQ+ true crime stories in modern history.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer history, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

A late-night party. A walk across a frozen lake bridge. And then—nothing. When Josh Guimond vanished without a trace, it tore open buried fears and unanswered questions.Josh was a brilliant junior at Saint John’s University—a proud scholar and someone with a spark of political ambition. On November 9, 2002, after a party on campus, he headed back across a bridge over Stumpf Lake and simply disappeared. Despite exhaustive searches, digital evidence emerging years later, and renewed attention from Unsolved Mysteries and the Simply Vanished podcast, answers remain elusive. In this true crime with a queer perspective episode, host Jordi and Brad explore the intersection of identity, secrecy, and how a young man’s hidden online life may hold the key to an unsolved LGBTQ+ mystery.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers toasts to queer stories, chilling puzzles, and untold injustices—one cold one at a time. Press play, crack open a beer, and help us shine a light on the coldest corners of queer history.

A needle through the eye. A brain forever altered. And a promise that it would make you “normal.”In mid-20th century America, the lobotomy was sold as a miracle cure, an answer for everything from depression to “sexual deviancy.” For queer people, that often meant something far more sinister: an attempt to erase who they were. At Atascadero State Hospital, chillingly nicknamed “the Dachau for gay people”, men labeled as homosexuals were subjected to invasive, irreversible procedures in the name of medicine. This episode peels back the curtain on how psychiatric institutions became instruments of control, the lasting harm these “treatments” inflicted, and the voices of those who survived to tell the truth.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand. Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

Kevin Fret gender non-conforming, genre‑shifting and outrageous burst onto the urbano world in 2018 with the LGBTQ+ anthem Soy Asi, redefining queer history in Latin trap. At just 24, he was shot eight times while cruising through Santurce on January 10, 2019 his death officially unclaimed, unsolved, and still unexplained. A prosecutor later claimed a top official ordered the investigation shut down just months in, exposing institutional erasure and the brutal cost of being openly gay in macho music scenes.In this episode of Beers With Queers, your go‑to LGBTQ+ true crime podcast, we dig into the tangled web of threats, extortion rumors, and systemic real‑world violence true crime with a queer perspective that forces us to confront injustice.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand. Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

They admitted to the assault and threatening his life but police refused to arrest them until it was too late. In rural Nebraska, 21‑year‑old Brandon Teena living as a trans man became a magnet for curiosity, until former friends John Lotter and Marvin “Tom” Nissen discovered his assigned sex at birth. What began with betrayal at a Christmas Eve party escalated into a brutal rape and murder in Humboldt. Despite credible evidence and a courageous report to law enforcement, sheriff Charles Laux dismissed the assault and warned the perpetrators placing Brandon’s safety in jeopardy. This episode explores transphobic violence institutional failure and how Brandon’s story shaped queer history and LGBTQ+ true crime awareness.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light all through a distinctly queer lens and always with a cold one in hand.Press play pour yourself something strong and join us as we unearth one of the most haunting queer injustices of the 20th century.

He gathered the lost, the lonely, the grieving—and turned their need for kindness into a nightmare. A trusted figure, a secret obsession, and a trail of bodies flushed down London’s drains.Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Nilsen—known as the Muswell Hill Murderer—lured dozens of vulnerable young men, many of them gay and homeless, into his North London flats. What began as offers of shelter, company, even a date, devolved into strangulation, necrophilia, and gruesome rituals of dissection and disposal. In Part 2, we follow the chilling unraveling of Nilsen’s double life: the domestic facade, the mounting odor beneath floorboards, and his tril. As we peel back layers of homophobia, isolation, and queerness twisted into violence, we confront how society failed its queer and queer-adjacent victims in this unsolved LGBTQ+ mystery.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light, all with a cold one in hand. Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

A secret desire turned fatal obsession. A charming loner in London, his predatory urges hidden beneath polite conversation. Until the night he drags a young man home and everything unravels.In late 1970s London, Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a reserved Scotsman grappling with his queerness and desire lured at least twelve young men and boys into his flat under offers of companionship, shelter, or a drink. This queer‑tinged true crime podcast episode delves into a chilling gay murder case fused with necrophilia, exposing how Nilsen's internalized homophobia and complex queer identity fueled one of Britain’s most disturbing unsolved LGBTQ+ mysteries. We trace the cultural shadows of homophobia, police indifference, and the lonely desperation that spiraled into ritualized killing. Each twist reminding us why revisiting queer history still holds urgent truth today.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light, all with a cold one in hand. Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

A body hidden beneath a mattress. A confession lost to suicide. And two families refusing to let her be forgotten.Venus Xtravaganza was a rising star in New York’s ballroom scene, immortalized in the landmark documentary Paris Is Burning. But before the film could finish, Venus was found strangled in a Manhattan hotel room in 1988. Her murder went unsolved, her legacy nearly erased. Now, decades later, I'm Your Venus, a powerful new LGBTQ+ true crime documentary follows her biological brothers and her chosen family from the House of Xtravaganza as they reopen the cold case, uncover shocking new evidence, and fight to reclaim her name and story. In this episode Jordi and Brad dives deep into Venus’s life, her death, and her enduring legacy, and even covers some information that isn't talked about in either of the documentaries covering her life. So press play, pour yourself a drink, and toast to uncovering queer stories too powerful to forget.

A Pride event. Armed neo-Nazis. And a police escort that sparked national outrage.In June 2019, Detroit’s Motor City Pride festival was disrupted by members of the National Socialist Movement—a neo-Nazi group—who marched through the event openly carrying firearms, tearing apart Pride flags, and hurling racist and homophobic slurs. Police officers formed a protective barrier around the group, escorting them through the crowd while pushing back counter-protesters. The disturbing images of Black officers shielding white supremacists in a majority-Black city ignited fierce backlash and raised urgent questions about who law enforcement truly protects. This episode of Beers With Queers dives into the events of that day, unpacking the deep tensions between the LGBTQ+ community and law enforcement. We examine how the police response mirrored broader patterns of systemic bias, and why the legacy of the Stonewall uprising still resonates. From the rise of armed hate groups at Pride events to the ongoing struggle for queer safety and visibility, we explore a chilling chapter in LGBTQ+ true crime history.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand. Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

With the LGBT+ Branch of the 988 Help Line being shut down, if you or someone you know needs help or just someone to talk to, The Trevor Project is available 24/7 year-round. You can reach them by phone at 1 866 488 7386 or through Chat at TheTrevorProject.org/Get-HelpRemember there are people out there who care and want to help you. They dazzled onstage in feathers and pearls and then vanished under police raids and moral panic.For a brief, glittering moment, drag queens were the toast of Prohibition-era nightlife… until they became public enemy number one.In the late 1920s and early 1930s, America’s biggest cities erupted in what came to be known as the Pansy Craze a cultural explosion where openly queer performers headlined clubs, captivated audiences, and redefined gender expression under the glare of the spotlight. But behind the applause lurked danger. As the nation’s tolerance gave way to censorship and crackdowns, the very performers who once symbolized freedom were driven back into the shadows. In this episode, we explore the rise and fall of this forgotten chapter in queer history and what it reveals about the cost of visibility.If you're craving a queer history podcast that unearths lost legacies and buried truths, Beers With Queers delivers stories that are bold, emotional, and overdue.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

She didn’t identify as queer—but she believed in our right to exist. And for that, she was murdered in cold blood.In this episode, we cover the tragic case of Lauri Carleton, a beloved California store owner and ally who was fatally attacked outside her business for displaying a Pride flag. The small mountain town of Cedar Glen was shaken—and the LGBTQ+ community, once again, forced to reckon with the deadly cost of visibility. As investigators search for answers, we examine the culture of hate that continues to turn symbols of love into targets. This is a story not only of loss, but of quiet courage—and the price paid for standing with us.If you're drawn to LGBTQ+ true crime podcast episodes that explore queer history, allyship, and the ongoing fight against hate, this one deserves your full attention. It’s true crime with a queer perspective—and a warning that silence, too, can be dangerous.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

They came to dance. To celebrate pride. But by sunrise, it would become the deadliest attack on LGBTQ+ people in American history.Forty-nine lives, stolen in a place built for joy. And a nation left to ask—how did this happen?On June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub in Orlando was packed with Pride Month energy, Latin music, and queer love. But just after last call, a shooter opened fire inside the club—turning a sanctuary into a battleground. In this episode, we trace the minute-by-minute timeline of the tragedy, spotlight the lives that were lost, and explore how this hate-fueled attack became a turning point in LGBTQ+ visibility, grief, and resilience. From the chaos inside to the political aftermath, we investigate the questions still left unanswered—and why the Pulse shooting remains a defining chapter in queer history.This is LGBTQ+ true crime podcast storytelling at its most personal, its most devastating, and its most urgent—an episode that refuses to let the memory of Pulse fade into silence.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

They called it suicide. But the cliffs told a different story.For years, gay men were found dead at the bottom of Sydney’s seaside bluffs—while the police looked the other way.In the 1980s and '90s, Sydney was gripped by a wave of brutal violence against queer men. Bodies turned up at the foot of the cliffs. Cases were closed without investigation. And gangs of young men bragged about hunting in packs—while law enforcement refused to act. In this episode, we dig into the Sydney cliff murders, the culture of hate that fueled them, and the survivors still fighting for justice. This isn’t just a story about murder—it’s about what happens when an entire system decides queer lives don’t matter.If you're into LGBTQ+ true crime podcasts, queer history, or chilling unsolved LGBTQ+ mysteries, this one's for you.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

She was young, vulnerable, and in search of safety. But instead, Michelle Confait’s life would end in tragedy—and the fallout would shake Britain’s justice system to its core.In this episode, we travel to 1970s London to uncover the deeply disturbing case of Michelle Confait, a mixed-race, queer-presenting sex worker who was brutally murdered in her own home. The police arrested three teenage boys with learning disabilities—and claimed they had confessed. But as the truth unraveled, it exposed a harrowing chain of misconduct: coerced confessions, missing evidence, and institutional neglect of queer lives. This case didn’t just spark outrage—it led to a full-scale legal reform that still echoes today.A forgotten chapter of queer history, a controversial investigation, and a crime that changed the law—this is true crime with a queer perspective at its most urgent.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

He was just walking home. Then came the taunts, the chase—and the river.A summer night turned deadly, and a community’s silence became part of the crime.In 1984, Charlie Howard was a young gay man living openly in Bangor, Maine—a bold act of visibility in a time and place that offered little safety. When he was brutally attacked by a group of local teenagers, the town was left shaken. But what followed raised even deeper questions: How do you confront hate when it hides behind youth? And what happens when justice feels more like a lesson plan than accountability?This episode explores a pivotal gay murder case that continues to echo through queer history, shedding light on the dangers of visibility, the failures of the system, and the power of remembrance.For fans of LGBTQ+ true crime podcast stories, this case blends queer history, emotional reckoning, and true crime with a queer perspective—bringing to life an unsolved LGBTQ+ mystery that demands to be heard.Hosted by Jordi and Brad, Beers With Queers brings chilling crimes, queer stories, and twisted justice to light—all with a cold one in hand.Press play, grab a drink, and join us as we uncover the darkest corners of LGBTQ+ history.

In this episode of Beers with Queers, hosts Jordi and Braddelve into one of the darkest cases in true crime history, exploring the horrific acts of Dean Corll, a prolific serial killer, and his potential connections to the infamous John Wayne Gacy and the Odyssey Foundation, a massive sex abuse ring. The conversation covers the chilling details of Corll's crimes, the operations of the Odyssey Foundation, and the implications of these connections, leaving listeners with haunting questions about the extent of these networks and the cover-ups involved.