Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast: Spotlighting Black LGBTQ+ Professionals

 I reviewed this podcast in February 2024. So now, I am doing it again. Why, you may ask, would I review a podcast a second time or even more than that? First, podcasts, especially independent podcasts, grow, mature, and get better over time. The hosts become more comfortable and the options for guests expand, leading to better episodes. To be clear, Erick Taylor Woodby was solid right from the first episode, but his experience, growth, and commitment to excellence have made him better and, of course, more ear worthy.

Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast is a biweekly podcast hosted by Erick Taylor Woodby that spotlights Black LGBTQ+ professionals globally, sharing stories from over 28 countries. It acts as an educational and inspirational platform for individuals in the African diaspora often overlooked by mainstream media, featuring intimate interviews with artists, professionals, and changemakers.

The podcast serves to document the queer Black experience worldwide and, in its sixth season as of April 2026, focuses on celebrating global communities.

 Creator / Host Erick Taylor Woodby interviews individuals who inspire and educate others about who they are, highlighting a population often overlooked by mainstream LGBTQ+ and Black media outlets. Mr. Woodby is attempting to offer greater visibility in a world that often tries to make underrepresented communities invisible is such a large task. 

Erick Taylor Woodby is a Los Angeles–based creator with a background in creative communication and, as of 2025, has traveled to several countries including South Africa, Sweden, and Germany. Mr. Woodby has written for publications including Queerty's Native Son and Krull Magazine. He was selected for the National Black Justice Collective's (NBJC) 2025 Cohort of 100 Black LGBTQ+/SGL Emerging Leaders to Watch, which recognizes individuals making a significant impact.

Some of the episodes I recommend include Loving who we love is not a choice, the April 8th episode with Dakarai Larriett, who is an Alabama U.S. Senate candidate and the founder of Gerrard Larriett Aromatherapy Pet. With over 20 years of experience in team management across diverse industries, Larriett is the son of a U.S. Army veteran, a successful entrepreneur, and a longtime community volunteer. He is the author of DON’T FLUSH!: From a False Arrest to a Political Awakening: My Journey to Making a Difference (2025). His book recounts the night in April 2024, when he was wrongfully arrested in Michigan for suspected DUI. 

In the February 25th show, Mr. Woodby talks with Eric Gyamfi, a Ghanaian photographer whose exhibitions have been shown in Ghana, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, the United States, as well as other locations. Gyamfi’s work has been featured in A Diagnosis of Time: Unlearn What You Have Learned, a collaborative effort of Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (Ghana), ARoS Art Museum (Denmark), and in Ecologies and Politics of the Living in Vienna, Austria. 

Mr. Woodby has put effort into his video YouTube podcast and it shows. The video and sound quality are solid, the graphics are a nice touch, and his horizontal split screen works well for the eye, as well as the ear. 

In his video and audio versions, the show's easy-flowing intro and outro music echo the put-together persona of Erick Taylor Woodby, who often expresses his outrage over the treatment of LGBTQ people in societies with insightful rhetoric, a belief in resistance instead of resentment, and reinforcement of the proverb that "We are all fingers on the same hand."

Our Black Gay Diaspora Podcast enables listeners and viewers to meet people from all walks of life and people from around the globe. I find Mr. Woodby's guests, such as Eric Gyamfi, the Ghanaian photographer, utterly fascinating. I admire and respect that Erick Taylor Woodby continues to steer us to a world where race, religion, ethnic background, color, sexual orientation, and gender orientation make us distinctive, but not different.