Queerly Beloved

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In Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. is the well-known namesake of his great grandfather, one of the country’s former prime ministers. After moving to San Francisco, though, he was just a queer, Muslim artist trying to build a community that accepted the intersections of his identity. That’s when he met Ana, a recent transplant from Colombia who understood the alienation of being not only queer, but an “outsider” in the US.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeffrey has spent most of his life in prison, where he lost contact with his biological family. Via the LGBTQ prison pen-pal network Black and Pink, though, he found Dorsey—who, over the years, has become someone he can always count on.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liara Roux is a genderqueer sex worker who, over time, became a queer mentor to a client interested in experimenting with her gender expression.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Diana and Seth are biological siblings who are both trans and who, despite having vastly different stories of coming out, influenced each other’s notions of gender and identity throughout their entire lives.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Kelli, a self-identified butch dyke, fell deeply in love with dominating cabaret dancer Heather, she already knew she would soon lose her to cancer. But she had no idea that Heather would leave her a list of all her ex-lovers that would turn out to be exactly the queer community she needed while mourning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Queerly Beloved ​is a new podcast series from Broadly. Co-hosted by Broadly editor Sarah Burke and Fran Tirado of the popular queer podcast Food 4 Thot, it’s a multifaceted portrait of LGBTQ chosen family—the people who help us figure out who we are and inspire us to live as our most authentic selves. The hosts speak to a trans sex worker who becomes a mentor to their transitioning client, a gay incarcerated man and the queer pen-pal who has become his confidante, two siblings who are both trans but have vastly different coming out stories, and two immigrants from across the world who found a sense of home and queer community in each other. In a world obsessed with significant others, Queerly Beloved focuses on the unconventional, seemingly insignificant relationships that actually end up shaping us most. The first season of Queerly Beloved includes five episodes.The first episode launches Wednesday, September 12, with new episodes every week​. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.