LGBTQIA+ content creators you should follow
AC Dumlao
AC Dumlao talks about mental health, gender, sexuality, self growth and more. "When I was a child, society taught me to be racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, & more," they write in one post. "As I got older I learned this was wrong (& came out!). As an adult, I’m called out & called in. I listen & learn. And unlearn. I’ve changed & grown. Growth > consistency."
Allen Salway
Allen Salway is a queer, Indigenous advocate and climate activist.
ALOK
ALOK Vaid-Menon is an internationally renowned gender non-conforming writer and performance artist.
Amrou Al-Kadhi
Amrou Al-Kadhi is a writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics.
Anick Soni
Anick Soni is a creative, intersex campaigner, activist, and educator, focusing on charities, storytelling, children’s rights, mental health and culture.
Annie Elainey
Annie Elainey (also known as Annie Segarra) is is a YouTuber, artist, and activist for LGBTQIA+ and disability rights. Queer, Latinx, and disabled, Annie advocates for accessibility, body positivity, and media representation of marginalised communities
Ashlee Marie Preston
Ashlee Marie Preston is a journalist, activist, the first trans woman to become editor-in-chief of a national publication, Wear Your Voice Magazine, and the first openly trans person to run for state office in California.
Aubrey Gordon
Aubrey Gordon also known as Your Fat Friend, is an author, podcaster, and activist. She writes about fatness, fat acceptance, and anti-fat bias, and her podcast, Maintenance Phase, focuses on the poor science behind health and wellness fads.
Blair Imani
Blair Imani is an author, historian, and activist. She’s queer, black, bisexual and Muslim, and passionate about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Caleb Luna
Caleb Luna is an artist, public scholar and theorist of the body.
Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito is an actor, comedian, and podcaster known for her show Take My Wife, as well as her stand-up comedy and her podcast, Queery.
Char Bailey
Char Bailey is a mindfulness & autism awareness activist, volunteer for UK Black Pride and co-host of the Award-winning Qmmunity Podcast exploring LGBTQ+ identity, history, and issues.
Char Ellesse
Char Ellesse’s make-up and fashion is unreal, and she’s also on a mission to challenge gender norms and binary labels through her platform 'Girls Will Be Boys'.
Charlie amáyá scott
Charlie amáyá scott’s Instagram bio describes themself as “Indigenous trans-femme w/ great hair, inspiring joy & justice.” Couldn’t say it better.
Charlie T Craggs
Charlie T Craggs is the award-winning author of To My Trans Sisters and founder of Nail Transphobia.
Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Da'Shaun L. Harrison is a Black trans writer, abolitionist, and community organiser. Harrison explores Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing, and is managing editor of Wear Your Voice magazine.
DC Black Trans Support
DC Black Trans Support supports Black trans people living with HIV.
Dr. Sand Chang
Dr. Sand Chang is a non-binary psychologist and trainer, committed to body liberation for all people.
Dr Eric Cervini
Dr Eric Cervini is a historian of queer history, who writes the incredible Queer History 101.
Ericka Hart
Ericka Hart is a Black queer non-binary femme who talks about sexuality, race, sex, gender and health.
Ethan Tai Bossuyt
Ethan Tai Bossuyt uses social media and graphic design to create understanding and respect for marginalised people through accessible and kindhearted content.
Gina Yashere
Comedian Gina Yashere is a Black lesbian, proud of her “plural identity.” She’s hilarious, bold and insightful, on everything from racism and politics to being British in America.
On moving to America (because of racism in UK TV) she’s said: “If I'd sat in England waiting for someone to give me a TV show, I'd still be there, being the token Black face on Mock the Week. That, to me, is a slap in the face.”
Grace Shush
Grace Shush is an LGBTQIA+ activist, drag performer, and body positivity advocate.
Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby is comedian, writer, and actor. Her show Nanette won a Primetime Emmy.
Intersex Justice Project
Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil is an actor, presenter and activist, and founder of IWeigh.
Jamie Windust
Jamie Windust is a writer, editor, speaker and model, and their make-up skills are incredible.
Jason Kwan
Jason Kwan is a non-binary singer and youth worker who advocates for LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity Akt.
Jeffrey Marsh
Jeffrey Marsh is a writer, actor, artist, activist, and absolutely hilarious.
Jersey Noah
Jersey Noah’s Instagram bio is “Autistic, tanssexual, jewish, unhinged, disabled, st0n3d.” All that and more.
Jessamyn Stanley
Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga teacher and body liberation advocate. "I both have fat and I AM fat. Being fat is part of who I am. It is part of my identity. I cannot be #BodyNeutral My body has been politicised since the moment I got here and it is my responsibility to own every inch of it. Even the bad parts. Even the hard parts. ESPECIALLY THE BAD AND HARD PARTS."
Jessie & Claud
Josh McKenna
Kai Cheng
Dr Karen Gurney
Dr Karen Gurney is a sex-positive clinical psychologist "on a mission to improve the sex lives of the nation".
Kuchenga
Kuchenga is a writer, journalist, feminist, and supporter of Black women’s literature.
Lauren Tom
Lauren Tom is an actor. One of her best known roles was Julie in Friends.
Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane
Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane is one half of the literary podcast @CheekyNatives, a bookstagrammer, literary archivist and word lover who uses their platforms to highlight queer issues and literature.
Melissa Ellzey
Melissa Ellzey is a writer, activist and autistic self-justice advocate.
Laverne Cox
Of course you know who Laverne Cox is. Come on.
Lena Dirscherl
Lena Dirscherl is an artist, illustrator and comic artist.
Leo Sheng
Leo Sheng is an actor and trans rights activist known for playing Micah Lee on The L Word: Generation Q.
Mari Wrobi
Mari Wrobi is a queer, trans and intersex activist, spoken word artist, photographer and short-film director. Mari works at a shelter for LGBTQIA+ youth affected by homelessness, and advocate with InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth.
Marquisele Mercedes
Marquisele Mercedes is a fat liberationist writer, creator, educator, and doctoral student.
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Matthew Blaise
Matthew Blaise is a Nigerian queer rights activist. In 2020, they led the Twitter campaign to #EndHomophobiaNigeria and organised with End SARS.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
Megan Jayne Crabbe is an author and body positive content creator (formerly @BodyPosiPanda).
Michael Twitty
Michael Twitty is an African-American Jewish writer, culinary historian, and educator.
Mikail Khan
Mikail Khan is a Bangladeshi transmasculine and non-binary artist and activist.
Munroe Bergdorf
Munroe Bergdorf is a DJ, activist and trans advocate.
Mzz Kimberley
Mzz Kimberley has been called the “living, London equivalent of Marsha P. Johnson.” She created Allies Corner.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a writer, professor, and social commentator. Probably best known for her groundbreaking collection of essays, Bad Feminist.
Ryan Ken
Ryan Ken is a writer, actor and comedian. They write for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
@ryan_ken_acts Reply to @millenniumbutterfly22 #fyp #foryou #comedy ♬ original sound - Ryan Ken
Sade Gilliberti
Sade Gilliberti is a TV presenter, actor and model. Sade works on media representation and cyberbullying of LGTBQ+ people with the #HaltTheHate campaign.
Sam Dylan Finch
Sam Dylan Finch is a writer, digital creator, queer rights and mental health advocate.
Schuyler Bailar
Schuyler Bailar is an American swimmer, and the first openly trans NCAA Division I swimmer. He was also the first publicly documented NCAA D1 trans man to compete as a man in any sport.
Sonalee Rashatwar
Sonalee Rashatwar, the Fat Sex Therapist, is an award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturer, and grassroots organiser.
Sonya Renee Taylor
Sonya Renee Taylor is an author, poet, spoken word artist, speaker, humanitarian and social justice activist, educator, and founder of The Body is Not An Apology movement.
Spencer West
Spencer West is a queer, disabled activist and motivational speaker.
Tanya Compas
Tanya Compas is a youth worker, founder of Exist Loudly, and was head of youth engagement for UK Black Pride.
Thando Hlophe
Thando Hlophe is a hilarious LGBTIQA+ digital storyteller whose YouTube channel Azania Realness tackles all things queer.
TheQueerAdvocate
TheQueerAdvocate is a queer, trans, neurodivergent and non-binary writer, filmmaker, body liberationist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist.
Transgender Together
Travis Alabanza
Travis Alabanza is an English performance artist, activist, poet, writer, artist and theatre maker.
Tuck Woodstock
Tuck Woodstock is the brains behind the amazing Gender Reveal podcast. Follow Gender Reveal on Instagram and Twitter.
Vico Oritz
Vico Oritz is a Puerto Rican actor, drag king and activist.
Vinny Welsby
Vinny Welsby is a non-binary, fat-positive world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet culture.
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Let me know in the comments, and I’ll add them to the list!