Gay for Play: A Video Game Podcast

About Gay for Play: A Video Game Podcast

Welcome to Gay for Play! A podcast about all things queer in the world of video games, pop culture, and beyond.👾🏳️🌈🎮💖 ~ Hosted by Eric Solis & Laurence Turner-Cordova ~ In each episode we take a video game or gaming topic and look at it through a queer lens—discussing LGBTQ+ representation, queer themes, cultural significance, and what the games we love have to tell us about the LGBTQIA+ experience at large. Whether you're a lifelong gamer or have even just a passing interest in gaming, join us each episode as we kiki over our favorite games!

Publisher

Eric Solis & Laurence Turner-Cordova

Category

comedy · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Nov 2020

Latest episode

22 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

110 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Dec 2025

   Our Favorite Games of 2025!

   Another year, another GOTY discussion! Though we haven't recorded as many episodes this year, we still found plenty of games to love this year (as well as plenty we missed, plenty of games from before 2025 that we tapped into for the first time this year, and lots more to yap about!) Join us as we get into all of our faves, and crown Gay for Play's 2025 Game of the Year! Games discussed (in no particular order) include: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, PEAK, Despelote, Death Stranding 2: On...

2. 

   19 Sept 2025

   SILKSONG

   After years of anticipation, HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG, one of the most anticipated games of the decade, is finally out, and we have been playing it non-stop! (No really, it was hard to pull time away to record, edit, and produce this episode because all we wanna do is keep playing more Silksong.) It’s the first game in a hot minute that both of us have been simultaneously obsessed with, and so Pharloom’s silk has beckoned us to the microphones to sing our song* (*record our pod). Befor...

3. 

   16 Jun 2025

   I Love to Switch 2 On (+ The Tony Awards and Summer Game Fest!)

   The hosts discuss the Nintendo Switch 2 release, the Tony Awards, and Summer Game Fest announcements, acknowledging the challenge of discussing entertainment amid serious world events.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

22 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

29 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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