A new Spanish-language podcast is disrupting the digital landscape of religious content by offering something rarely seen: a theological deep-dive into the Bible that affirms LGBTQ+ dignity. Lo Que No Me Dijeron (“What They Didn’t Tell Me”) addresses a void in faith-based media by challenging how scripture has been used and misused to marginalize queer people.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and its own website, the podcast speaks directly to Spanish-speaking listeners raised in religious environments that framed LGBTQ+ identity as sinful, shameful, or incompatible with faith. Through rigorous scholarship and vulnerable storytelling, Lo Que No Me Dijeron invites audiences to reconsider what the Bible actually says and what it never did.
The show’s creator and host, Dr. Pierre Berastain, is a theologian and public health expert who launched the project out of both personal experience and moral urgency. “It started with conversations in my own family,” Berastain shares. “People I love were repeating things they had heard in church or online, equating queerness with promiscuity, moral collapse, or divine punishment. I realized how little accessible content existed in Spanish that challenged those ideas with actual historical or theological grounding.”
The first season takes on six of the most commonly cited “clobber passages”—those verses used to justify exclusion or condemnation of LGBTQ+ people. These include the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Levitical purity codes, Paul’s letters to the Romans and Corinthians, and other contested texts. Rather than dismissing scripture, the podcast approaches each passage with care: returning to the original language, cultural context, and interpretive history to ask what these verses really meant and how they've been weaponized over time.
What emerges is a powerful reframing. The podcast reveals how centuries of interpretation shaped by patriarchy, colonialism, and homophobia have distorted the meaning of key biblical texts, while also uncovering the deep roots of love, justice, and inclusion that run through the tradition. Lo Que No Me Dijeron insists that scripture, properly understood, does not exclude LGBTQ+ people, but instead, it demands their full belonging in the story of faith.
Each episode balances intellectual depth with emotional resonance. Berastain shares personal reflections, theological insights, and cultural commentary to create a layered listening experience. The tone is curious, compassionate, and grounded rather than polemical.
In many ways, the podcast is also a response to what’s missing online. A search in Spanish for “what does the Bible say about homosexuality?” still yields overwhelmingly condemnatory content: sermons, opinion pieces, videos, and doctrinal statements that promote shame and silence. By contrast, Lo Que No Me Dijeron meets its listeners with nuance, history, and an invitation to stay connected to both faith and self.
The podcast is especially timely. Across Latin America and among Spanish-speaking diasporas, religious rhetoric plays a central role in public debates over marriage equality, adoption, gender identity, and anti-discrimination protections. In that context, theological arguments matter, and this show equips listeners to challenge exclusionary interpretations from within the tradition itself.
Beyond reinterpreting biblical texts, the podcast seeks to correct the historical and theological misreadings that have justified exclusion and to insist on the moral responsibility of faith communities to embrace LGBTQ+ people with dignity and full belonging. “This isn’t just about correcting misreadings,” Berastain notes. “It’s about creating space for people to heal spiritually…to know that their existence was never a mistake in the eyes of God.”
Future seasons promise to explore how faith, identity, and liberation intersect beyond the biblical canon, from historical erasure and colonization to the embodied resilience of queer and trans people. But for now, Lo Que No Me Dijeron is already making space where none existed.
For LGBTQ+ individuals and their families navigating questions of belief, belonging, and truth, the podcast offers something rare: a sanctuary of ideas. It’s a declaration that the Bible does not belong only to those who condemn but also to those who love, question, and seek justice.
