Podcast Episodes
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Season 4 Episode 26
Why is Disney's Hercules one of the greatest LGBTQ+ films ever made?
This episode attempts to answer that fraught and necessary question.
As you may kn…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
A Queer History of Witchcraft (feat. Marion Gibson)
Season 4 Episode 25
Wait, what’s so gay about witches, you ask?
First of all — sit down.
When I was a young f/hag in the late ’90s, Wicca was having a moment. The Halliwel…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
A Short History of Queer Parenting (feat. Kirsty Loehr)
Season 4 Episode 24
Remember when you found out you were gay (iconic of you btw) and you thought:
"Oh this is fine – I'll just have a regular heterosexual wife, a couple …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Hollywood's Gay Golden Age (feat. Michael Koresky)
Season 4 Episode 23
"Hollywood was swarming with gay people."
You know how Pedro Pascal hasn't come out yet? Well: this episode will explain why.
Between the 1930s and 196…
10 months ago
Gay Fascists: A Very Short History (feat. Alexis Sakellaris)
Season 4 Episode 22
"An important precedent was set: fascist groups will always use you until you're no longer useful to them."
Welcome to one of history’s darkest (and d…
10 months, 1 week ago
Rimbaud & Verlaine: Toxic Boyfriends of French Poetry (feat. Robert St Clair)
Season 4 Episode 21
What happens when a teen prodigy meets a drunk poet with a pistol in his pocket (the gun kind, not the fun kind)?
Answer: extremely gay chaos.
This wee…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
James Baldwin: Prophet of Love (feat. Clark Moore)
Season 4 Episode 20
We all know James Baldwin the high priest of Civil Rights, but what about Jimmy B, the extremely horny homosexual?
JB was a chain-smoking, vodka-swil…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Frida Kahlo Pt. II: Portrait of the Artist As A Young Slut
Season 4 Episode 19
"Make love, take a bath, make love again."
That was Frida Kahlo’s motto—and sweetie, she LIVED by it.
We all know about Frida’s messy, horny marriage t…
11 months ago
Frida Kahlo Pt. I: Patron Saint of Bisexual Chaos (feat. Carla Gutiérrez)
Season 4 Episode 18
"Love was the foundation of everything for Frida. This bisexuality, this eroticism was fundamental to her character."
She’s on your ex-girlfriend’s to…
11 months ago
Queer Georgians: A History of Gay Homemaking (feat. Anthony Delaney)
Season 4 Episode 17
Powdered wigs. Satin breeches. Candlelit salons.
And of course: sodomy.
This week we’re swanning back into Georgian England (1714–1837), a century of e…
11 months, 2 weeks ago