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Hosted by Spencer Macnaughton · society · EN · 23 episodes
UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton is a podcast that investigates the people, money and power behind anti-LGBTQ ecosystems. Join Spencer twice a month as he interviews newsmakers about the most pressing issues facing the LGBTQ community today. From highlighting the voices of people fighting back against systems of injustice to challenging the forces attempting to undermine queer rights, UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton offers a perspective on LGBTQ issues you don’t find anywhere else. Spencer Macnaughton is a Gracie Award-winning and Emmy-nominated journalist. He has written and produced for 60 Minutes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vice, Vox, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone, and he teaches LGBTQ journalism at New York University. He founded Uncloseted Media, a nonprofit news publication focused on investigative journalism, in 2024. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank
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UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton is hosted by Spencer Macnaughton. The show has published 23 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Trump Is Trying to Silence the Press. Don Lemon Is Holding the Line." (3 October 2026, 29 minutes), "Trans Sports Dominate Culture Wars. But What Do Scientists Think?" (19 September 2026, 38 minutes), and "Meagan Morris Speaks From Jail After Being Sentenced to 50 Years by the Trump Administration for an Alleged Terrorist Attack" (8 September 2026, 36 minutes).
UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 23 episodes.
Booking probability for UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton's contact route on record: verified email.
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Spencer Macnaughton hosts UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton, a society show with 23 episodes published.
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Episode #22
Don Lemon is one of the most well-known journalists in America. He became a household name during his 17 years working for CNN before breaking out on his own in 2023 and starting Lemon Media Network the year after. That...
Episode #21
The debate over trans athletes has reached a fever pitch. Riley Gaines , a former collegiate swimmer who tied for fifth place with a trans swimmer in 2022, has become a star in the world of conservative politics. Former...
Episode #20
On July 4, 2025, a protest outside of the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility near Dallas, Texas, escalated as some protestors broke off and committed acts of vandalism . The protest...
Episode #19
Tristan Schukraft started his first business when he was 21, selling Razor scooters out of his pickup truck to help finance his idea for an e-ticketing platform for the airline industry. Now, he boasts a portfolio of 68...
Episode #18
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is one of the foremost LGBTQ health professionals in the U.S. In November 2020, the waning months of Trump’s first term, he was appointed director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the...
Episode #17
Lindsey Graham, who passed away on July 11 at 71 years old, served in the Senate for 23 years and garnered a reputation for his hawkish views and hardline anti-LGBTQ beliefs . Years before his death, rumors swirled as...
Episode #16
In her first video interview from Johnson County Jail in Texas, Hill tells Uncloseted Media she is a “political prisoner.” She says she and her co-defendants—two of whom are also trans—have been unjustly locked up by...
Episode #15
In February, Doug Wilson made headlines after giving a sermon at the Pentagon as part of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s monthly Christian worship service. Wilson, the lead pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho...
Episode #14
Brien James, who joined the Ku Klux Klan as a teenager, speaks with Uncloseted Media about far-right extremists’ views on LGBTQ people in 2026. For my newsletter this week, I wanted to take a deeper look into Patriot...
Episode #13
After appearing on the 11th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World, the sixth season of RuPaul’s All Stars and now the 11th season of All Stars, Silky Nutmeg Ganache...
Episode #10
<p>“UNCLOSETED, with Spencer Macnaughton” is a new podcast by Uncloseted Media, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication. Follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube // Spotify //...
Episode #9
<p>On May 6, the Trump administration released their new counterterrorism strategy. It delineated three “major types of terror groups,” including “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs,” “legacy Islamist terrorists”...
Episode #8
<p>LGBTQ kids make up a third of the American foster care system and transgender kids enter it at five times the rate of the general population. But in 2026, there are few legal protections for LGBTQ youth in the...
Episode #7
<p>Peter Boykin founded Gays for Trump 10 years ago as an organization to “get out the vote” for gay Trump supporters during the president’s first run for office. The organization grew fast by creating Facebook...
Episode #6
<p>In 1992, James Dale sued the Boy Scouts of America after they kicked him out for being gay. The case lasted nearly a decade and made it all the way to the Supreme Court. </p><br><p>While SCOTUS ultimately ruled...
Episode #5
<p>Matt Bernstein, also known as Mattxiv on Instagram, where he boasts 2.2 million followers, is one of the most influential Internet voices for young queer progressives in the U.S. Through vertical videos, uniquely...
Episode #4
<p>On March 31, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) voted 8-1 to overturn Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy. In their ruling, which was seen has a huge blow for LGBTQ rights, SCOTUS sided with lawyers from the Southern...
Episode #3
<p>Ketamine use is on the rise among Americans. But if you’re a gay man, that probably comes as no surprise. Gay and lesbian adults are almost four times more likely to use ketamine than their heterosexual counterparts...
Episode #2
<p>On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order that banned all forms of gender-affirming care for trans people in federal prisons. Six months later, a federal judge issued a preliminary...
Episode #1
<p>When Katy Faust was 10 years old, her parents divorced. After that, her mom began a relationship with another woman. </p><br><p>Faust says she loves her mom. So it may surprise you to learn that she’s now at the helm...
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