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.

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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

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

Jessie & Claud


Josh McKenna

Josh McKenna

Kai Cheng

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.


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

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!