Sarah, Nicholas and Richard are very pleased to announce that Rainbow Mums has been nominated for two awards in the Parenting and Sex, Love and Relationships categories at the INDEPENDENT PODCAST AWARDS 2025!
The winners will be announced on October 15th 2025!
HERE ARE THE RAINBOW MUMS!
LAUNCH WEDS OCTOBER 23RD
The first two series of RAINBOW DADS established us as part of a great LGBTQ+ conversation about rainbow parenting. We won Bronze in the National Podcast Awards, Silver in the Community Radio Awards, made guest contributions in numerous podcasts, and connected to allies all over the world. Also 15,000 + downloads to date!
So now we are back with our new series – RAINBOW MUMS – Stories of Gay and Bisexual parents. This time we have a wonderful new interviewer – Sarah Pletts – who will be our guide through the stories of five fabulous Mums. These include – becoming an older mum to a daughter with Downs Syndrome, exploring what it means to be a non-biological Mum, sexuality and faith in a Muslim family, the joys of polyamory parenting, and how it’s never to late to heal a traumatic upbringing.
Come and join us in celebrating the bravery, the vulnerability, and the extraordinary diversity of rainbow parenting – and perhaps as you listen you will hear some of your own stories too?
PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING, SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO PRODUCE RAINBOW DADS, MUMS, KIDS AND MORE.
For more information contact – Nicholas McInerny – 07770943556 –
nicholas.mcinerny@gmail.com – http://twitter.com/Rainbowdads http://instagram.com/therainbowdads/
Rainbow Mums was produced and edited by Evan Green, Grace Reeve and Megan Brady
Executive producers: Nicholas McInerny and Richard Shannon
Music by Mina
BRONZE AWARD 2023
FOR BEST SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS PODCAST
AT THE BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2023
Episodes
Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
48 min
Sarah and Nicholas reflect – What can Rainbow Dads and Rainbow Mums learn from each other?
Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
56 min
Anjum’s story – How I reconciled sexuality and faith in a loving Muslim family.
Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024
46 min
Emma’s story – How I became an older Mum to a daughter with Downs Syndrome.
Oct 23, 2024
Apr 26, 2023
Apr 26, 2023
Apr 26, 2023
Apr 26, 2023
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
41 sec
Dear Rainbow Dads and all our listeners, If you are able to donate £5 or more, we will send you an exclusive episode of Rainbow Dads - the Private Diary of Nicholas McInerny. The content is explicit and raw and honest. We know you will relate to this new material and hope you enjoy the intimacy of this very personal diary. Once you have donated, I will have your email contact and will be able to send you the diary.
Cheers Nicholas and Richard x
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
29 sec
Dear Listeners,
Please listen to this appeal and consider donating. Any donation, no matter how small, will help us make more episodes of Rainbow Dads, Mums, Kids.....
The donation button is above the photo of this year's Rainbow Dads!
Cheers Nicholas and Richardx
Jun 24, 2022
Jun 24, 2022
Jun 17, 2022
Jun 17, 2022
7 min
Rainbow Dads 2 will be launched on Friday 24th June. Here is a taste of what's to come!
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 28, 2019
Oct 25, 2019
Oct 16, 2019
Sep 25, 2019
Sep 25, 2019
5 min
Back in 2014 Nicholas McInerny was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write the first of four series of HOW TO HAVE A PERFECT MARRIAGE, an autobiographical drama about a married man who Comes Out. Nicholas appeared on WOMAN’s HOUR and wrote an article for THE TIMES. He later adapted it for a pilot webisode, YOURDADSGAY ( https://vimeo.com/276309656. Password : YDG102)
In 2019 Nicholas was approached by Richard Shannon, a playwright and Lecturer in Radio at Goldsmiths, to make a Podcast. Over two weekends in April six strangers met, and this is the result. Six Podcasts that cover the different stages these men went on their incredible journeys.
Ep1. The Early Years. Growing up gay or bi in a straight world.
Ep2. Marriage Blues or not? What was their experience.
Ep3. Day Zero. Did Coming Out solve anything?
Ep4. A Brave New World. Expectations v Reality.
Ep5. Fit for Practice.? How to be lovable again.
Ep6. What now? Breaking through and the need to heal.
Ep7 goes into more details of Nicholas’s journal used throughout the previous six episodes.
Presenter – Nicholas McInerny
Producer and Editor – Richard Shannon
Music by Mina
Special thanks to Neil Bull, Senior Technician, Radio Section, Goldsmiths College
All with extraordinary stories to tell – an arranged marriage, an evangelical background, a deep affinity with David Bowie! – as they shared raw, honest, funny, bittersweet memories of family, of fatherhood – and of self-acceptance.
‘Yesterday, whilst I was sleeping, my wife leant over and whispered in my ear, ‘Wake up happy…..’
These Six Podcasts cover different stages in this journey as the Dads talk with extraordinary bravery and insight and share moments of laughter and tears.
The final – Seventh - episode focuses on the journal Nicholas kept from 2007 when he first confronted the realisation he was Gay.
Richard and Nicholas believe there are other subjects to cover in RAINBOW DADS, and would welcome suggestions for further Podcasts.
And we really hope – wherever and whoever you are – these stories touch you too.
FOR MORE INFORMATION – Press Only
Contact Nicholas McInerny on 07770943556
nicholas.mcinerny@gmail.com
RAINBOW DADS – Stories from Gay & Bi Dads
Gay Dad by David Ladain
The second edition of David's ground breaking book
Having Gay Sex
A guide to male homosexual sex
by David Ladain
Rainbow Dads 2
Richard and Nicholas pick up the Bronze Award for Best Well Being and Sexuality podcasts 2023