We wanted to highlight who we think the UK’s top LGBTQ+ YouTubers are. 

At present, ‘Top # LGBTQ+ YouTubers’ lists typically focus on American creators, whilst lists here in the UK tend to exclude any discussion on sexuality/identity. We thought it was about time that changed, so here’s our list of the UK’s top 5 LGBTQ+ YouTubers. 

When the Bafta 2021 winners are picked from the unprecedentedly diverse array of nominees on Sunday night, we will get a glimpse of the impact that recent diversity efforts have started to make.

Co-founded in 2010 by Nick Bedu and Teddy Nygh, Fully Focused Productions is a non-profit, youth-driven production company. Through diverse and unique content, they’ve grown their YouTube channel, Million Youth Media, to 380K subscribers and have now been commissioned to produce a 4-part comedy series for the BBC.

Through her production company, Sister, Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has funded the Ghetto Film School to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to enter the film industry.

Disney as a media company has been criticised for some time in terms of their lack of diversity and inclusivity in both their employment behind the scenes, and in the content that they publish. However, in recent years they have recognised diversity as one of their shortcomings and have committed to changing that for the better.

A recent Women in Journalism report reveals that over the course of a week, there was not a single news story written by a Black reporter on the front page of any of the UK’s newspapers