Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTamara de Lempicka: Bisexual Baroness of Art Deco (feat. Stephen Brower)
Season 3 Episode 19
"I live life in the margins of society. And the rules of normal society don't apply in the margins."
Welcome to the saucy, scandalous slag-paradise th…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Queer History of Mermaids (feat. Sacha Coward)
Season 3 Episode 18
Wait, why are mermaids so gay?
It turns out everyone’s favorite sea-gals have been floating around for millennia, from ancient Syrian mer-goddesses to…
1 year, 9 months ago
RENAISSANCE: Queer Harlem's Forgotten "Flamboyants" (feat. George M. Johnson)
Season 3 Episode 19
How do you start a renaissance?
The one woman who knows - Beyoncé - was unavailable to answer my questions.
So instead, we've gone back to 1920s Harlem…
1 year, 10 months ago
Thom Gunn: Poet Laureate of the AIDS Epidemic (feat. Michael Nott)
Season 3 Episode 18
“I wake up cold, I who
Prospered through dreams of heat
Wake to their residue,
Sweat, and a clinging sheet.”
(The Man with Night Sweats, Thom Gunn, 1992)…
1 year, 10 months ago
"Kinaidoi," Forgotten F*ggots of Classical Antiquity? (feat. Prof. Tom Sapsford)
Episode 2
"'Cosmus is a great big cinaedus. He keeps his legs apart and sucks d!ck.' ... I believe that's almost a direct paraphrase."
– Professor Tom Sapsford,…
1 year, 11 months ago
Samurai Sissies: Getting Railed In Medieval Japan (feat. Dylan Adler)
Episode 2
“Who knows how many holes actually started wars in Japan…I’m sure many.”
– Dylan Adler, Japanese-Jewish comedian to the stars!
Join us this week on a r…
1 year, 11 months ago
Virginia Woolf Invented Lesbian Love Letters (Summer Repeat)
Episode 2
I've been talking about gay men for FAR too many episodes recently, so please enjoy this summer repeat of one of my favorite episodes ever from Seaso…
1 year, 11 months ago
Hadrian & Antinous: Toxic Boyfriends of the Roman Empire (feat. Neil D'Astolfo)
Episode 2
Is it toxic for a Roman emperor to steal a child from his home, give him all the riches of the world, groom him, and then maybe ask him to kill himse…
2 years ago
The Symposium a.k.a. Let's Have An Ancient Greek Kiki (feat. Cosima Carnegie)
Episode 2
Get in b*tch, we're having an Ancient Greek kiki!
We're back, baby! Join us as we navigate the wine-dark and wine-soaked symposia of Ancient Greece, t…
2 years ago
Mademoiselle Raucourt, Priestess of Parisian Lesbos (Summer Repeat)
Episode 2
Historical Homos is celebrating its one year anniversary!
Like any Mother worth her salt, I forgot my child was turning 1 last month.
It's been one yea…
2 years, 1 month ago