https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-daniel-dunglas-home-with-avery-curran monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/15a68090-7284-4c70-8cd3-df8eba6199f5/Daniel_Dunglas_Home_by_Nadar.jpg Episode Archive - Special: Daniel Dunglas Home (with Avery Curran) - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Daniel Dunglas Home always knew he wasn't like the other boys. Not because he was gay, but because, while they were out on the sports field playing rugby, he was communicating with the dead. Despite being a huge celebrity in Victorian England, today Home is almost unknown. In this special episode, academic and novelist Avery Curran talks to Huw about one of the most significant mediums of 19th century Spiritualism, and what his life and reputation can tell us about gender and sexuality in high society at the time. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e10-tom-of-finland monthly 0.5 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/9d8cd9b2-8612-4c14-b897-1fce31c03d55/54.jpg Episode Archive - S9E10: Tom of Finland - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Live from Helsinki, we close out our season with Tom of Finland, the man who advertised the concept of gay masculinity to gays becoming men. Originally his illustrations were controversial because of his graphic depictions of gay sex, of sodomy and cocksucking and fisting in a pre-liberation, pre-internet age. Today, things have changed so much you can buy Tom branded products in department stores like Selfridges, and books of his drawings in Barnes and Noble. But at the same time, his representations of Black men and of Nazi aesthetics have drawn new criticisms, even while the fisting and piss and cock-sucking have become perfect home decorations. And the influence of his work on gay male sex cultures, on ideals of queer masculinities, and especially on leather scenes, remains enormous and contested. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e9-william-beckford monthly 0.5 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/2c927eab-ff05-4341-be48-e6e370f1c3c0/William_%28Thomas%29_Beckford.jpg Episode Archive - S9E9: William Beckford - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! William Beckford, who was born not in Bath but in London in 1760, is someone for whom property, in every sense of the word, was the defining factor in his life. He was a novelist, a member of parliament, a collector of art, antiquities, and books, a travel writer, and a builder of great palaces; he regarded himself as a man of culture, but he made his cultural qualities known by buying and building things. And he could afford to buy and build things - ridiculous things - because he was rich, extraordinarily rich, richer than we can possibly imagine. So all his status, his legacy, the thing that made him who he was, came from his wealth, and his wealth came from another form of property he owned: chattel slaves. And that wealth also enabled him to pursue troubling relationships with boys. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e8-e-m-forster monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/23fde77e-75f5-415f-a792-8c94f8afa9bc/E._M._Forster_von_Dora_Carrington%2C_1924-25.jpg Episode Archive - S9E8: E. M. Forster - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Live from Sheffield DocFest, it's E. M. Forster: who in his 91 years of life was one of Britain’s most successful novelists. He was raised in a climate of Victorian propriety so extreme he went to university without understanding human reproduction, and then fell in with a secret society known for alternative thinking and "aggressive" homosexuality. Italy — and later India — represented paradises of freedom and liberation in comparison to the cramped, horrid Edwardian upper middle classes. Erotic contact with the working-class/brown Other was the waters of Lourdes for this uptight Englishman, who was never able to transcend his own position. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e7-captain-moonlite monthly 0.5 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/32495f59-e2eb-461c-9a7a-17f6eb8309e5/Andrew_George_Scott%2C_alias_Captain_Moonlite.jpg Episode Archive - S9E7: Captain Moonlite - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Another episode down under: Andrew George Scott is best remembered to history as the enigmatic “Captain Moonlite”, and the story of his short but eventful life is a fascinating tale of personal conscience, colonialism, and criminality. Born in Ireland, he was taken by his family to New Zealand, became a military man, attempted to become a priest, robbed a bank, toured as an inspirational speaker, held up a sheep station, and requested to be buried in the arms of his lover. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e6-tracey-wigginton monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/99164e2d-bcd5-4bb9-aff7-b8f8207baf23/31f38fbd440d60aadedf0cec64baadc7.jpeg Episode Archive - S9E6: Tracey Wigginton - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! The place: Queensland, Australia; a state just recovering from decades of rule by "hillbilly dictator" Joh Bjelke-Petersen, a petty authoritarian with a reputation for brutal homophobia and the even more brutal repression of street protest. The time: the late Eighties, at the height of the AIDS epidemic and public fear about queers and blood. The woman: Tracey Wigginton, a deeply disturbed woman from an abusive background who committed a horrifying crime. The media saw a potential scandal, and created one: it was easier to believe lesbians are vampires than to believe in the endemic nature of family abuse and violence in our society. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e5-angela-calomiris monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/fc37ca97-d161-48a5-a7c7-2439fb95ef01/Angela_Calomiris.jpg Episode Archive - S9E5: Angela Calomiris - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Today we’re discussing a strange and compelling figure, the photographer Angela Calomiris. We can start at the end of her life, as a denizen of Provincetown, the little resort at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that has long been a haven for LGBTQ people. Angie had a reputation as a formidable figure in the town as a tough, and not always fair, businesswoman. She had made good money through some stiff deals. But she was also regarded as generous, if eccentric, by others. Yet behind Angie’s role as a local doyenne, she trailed a dark secret about her life as a young photographer in New York. How did Angela end up in Provincetown, and why was the mere sight of her name enough to induce horror in a fellow photographer? In today’s episode, we’ll discuss Angela’s life of FBI collaboration, naming names, secrets and lies. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e4-jacob-isral-de-haan monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/67fbd72e-a0b6-4f00-a814-864e5015a408/De_Haan_dressed_up_as_an_arab.jpg Episode Archive - S9E4: Jacob Israël de Haan - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Today's subject, Jacob Israël de Haan, wrote one of the first gay dutch novels. "What is it that I long for," he asked. "The sanctity of Israel or an Arab male prostitute?" Born in 1881 in the Netherlands, he was assassinated by the Haganah paramilitary at the age of 42 in Palestine, having moved there to establish Zion, and then having turned on the Zionist project because of its treatment of the Arabs. His love of young Arab men was both a source of scandal and a very troubling source of evolving solidarity. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e3-charles-hitchen monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/28fa4e1a-5368-4415-b54d-1f05e3b3769b/First_Marshalsea_prison%2C_London%2C_18th_century.jpg Episode Archive - S9E3: Charles Hitchen - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Let us take ourselves back to a very exciting time: we’re talking London, at the turn of the 18th century. The city is the largest in Europe, and growing - it’s passed the half a million mark and by the end of the century will have doubled. Crime was rife, and getting worse. The law was administered by a pay-to-play criminal justice system: and today's subject, Charles Hitchen, got rich playing both sides while touring through London's infamous "molly houses," back rooms of taverns or gin houses, where queer men could meet, cruise, and even fuck. These developed a much richer culture, with their own slang, faux marriage rituals, and drag performances including a queen giving birth to a wheel of cheddar cheese. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e2-dorian-corey monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/58f6183c-cdf1-409e-9409-ed6e4961978b/5ReoVJ9.jpg Episode Archive - S9E2: Dorian Corey - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Many people in our audience will have seen Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, an exploration of Black and Latinx ball culture in New York City. One of the film’s primary interview interlocutors is Dorian Corey, who is one of the film’s most quotable characters. Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And did you know that Corey knew, during all those serene interviews in Paris Is Burning, that the man she had murdered in self-defense and not trusted police to handle it (would you?) was mummified in the closet behind her. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s9e1-little-richard monthly 0.5 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/65eb19e1-bddf-4f17-b35e-90b2a1ea65ba/Little_Richard.jpg Episode Archive - S9E1: Little Richard - Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Today's episode is about three very different men and how their lives overlapped. The first was a pioneering rock and roll musician who stunned audiences with his fast-paced hits in a quite macho rock world: a huge influence on musicians from Elvis and The Beatles to James Brown, Prince, Patti Smith, Andre 3000, and more. It was a very eclectic mix and he lived an equally fast-paced private life off stage. The second man was a Seventh Day Adventist preacher from the deep south of the United States who preached about sin. The third person was a young Black queer man thrown out of his home by his domineering pastor father in the late 1940s who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne, performing in clubs and for traveling medicine shows and dressing in capes and turbans, singing obscene songs about anal sex while cruising bathrooms for sexual contacts with men. These were all one and the same man: Richard Wayne Penniman, better known by his performing name, Little Richard. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-episode-coil monthly 0.5 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/a0fde702-1d04-49f4-9a99-5a5cc5561ac0/Screenshot+2025-06-10+at+21.50.14.png Episode Archive - Special Episode: Coil - Today, we welcome music writer Hannah Pezzack to talk about the experimental electronica band Coil – namely, its two frontmen and only consistent members: vocalist Geoff Rushton, who performed under the stage name John Balance, and Peter Christopherson, nicknamed “Sleazy." At the heart of it all was an intense interest in the occult: in magic, alchemy, and esoteric symbolism. But just as central was their homosexuality: a queerness expressed through sexualised violence, the taboo, bodily fluids — blood, sweat, and scat — and an obsession with self-annihilation. Subscribe to EXTRA BAD GAYS on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to join the community of subscribing members who make episodes like this possible, and get our monthly chat show about gay culture and politics! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-episode-gavin-arthur monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/51e260ab-8dda-407c-a910-c3f2dfb54bd8/unnamed+%2829%29.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Gavin Arthur - Have you ever wondered who the sexual link between Edward Carpenter and Allen Ginsburg was? Wonder no more, and meet Gavin Arthur: grandson of US President Chester Allan Arthur, astrologer, sexologist, Irish Republican, sometime Communist, sometime Democrat, Haight-Ashbury hippie rabble-rouser, and chaotic bisexual. Our guide to his life is longtime friend of the show Maurice J. Casey, historian and author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals. This episode is based on research carried out as part of the Queer Norther Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation project at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. If you have a moment, do fill out their survey. Join our community of Extra Bad Gays on Patreon or Apple Podcasts for special episodes and more! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-episode-alexander-von-humboldt monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/265fb86f-57a0-46f5-b686-ac0665d5c7af/Alexandre_humboldt.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Alexander von Humboldt - Today we welcome Michael Huldt, host of Worm From Home, an environmental history podcast focused on East London, to discuss the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Born in Berlin in 1769, he would travel the world amassing a wealth of botanical, geological, and human knowledge. Working in Europe, Russia, and South America, Humboldt became a pioneer of Western environmental thinking, breaking with contemporary scientific norms to forge an interconnected, ecological view of the world that still resonates today. His life was one of illuminating contradictions, and he is a fascinating figure for thinking about the creation of new concepts of 'Nature' as racial capitalism was in its ascendancy - a vocal anti-slavery advocate, who was personal friends with Thomas Jefferson; an early European proponent of the idea that colonial extraction created massive environment destruction, who also forged a career through that colonial infrastructure; and a man with many famous friends whose very private - and homosexual - private life is still shrouded in mystery and historiographic embarrassment. Support our show and enjoy monthly extra episodes! Subscribe to EXTRA BAD GAYS on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e10-jacques-de-molay monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1bc7db0e-609d-4d33-bf1d-1e4b68d7bddf/JacquesdeMolay.jpg Episode Archive - S8E10: Jacques de Molay - Today’s subject, Jacques de Molay, was the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, or to give them their full title, the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. Ever since their dissolution, the Knights Templar have been associated with all sorts of apparent manifestations - of occultism, of shadowy transnational powerbrokers, as the Guardians of the Holy Grail or whatnot. Today we’re going to steer away from these fantastical theories, because the reality of the Templars is far more interesting. Support us on Patreon and listen to our subscriber-only show EXTRA BAD GAYS. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e9-adele-spitzeder monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/0fd4c513-cd8d-4e1c-bfe7-6c8cab1648b7/Adele_Spitzeder_-_Die_Gartenlaube.jpg Episode Archive - S8E9: Adele Spitzeder - Adele Spitzeder, born into operatic royalty, washed up when she tried a career on the stage: so instead, she started accepting bank deposits for 10% monthly interest, and paying old customers with new customers' money. In three years, she amassed deposits of 38 million Gulden, or the equivalent of more than 500,000,000 euros: the world’s first Ponzi scheme. Attempts to squirrel away some money by smuggling it with her girlfriend went about as well as expected. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for monthly episodes, our advice segments, and to support our work. Check out our new merch, including hats, shirts, and socks. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e8-anne-lister monthly 0.5 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/ff4b3c40-5702-47a9-a8e5-9be5778a0cfd/Anne_Lister_Restoration.jpg Episode Archive - S8E8: Anne Lister -  She was an industrialist, a lesbian, a landlord, a traveler, a businesswoman, a womanizer, a butch, a snob, a pioneer of gay marriage, a Tory. She was the original Tory girlboss, and19th century English diarist who coined such terms as "grubbling," for mutual masturbation. Ey up love, been grubbling? She was, of course, Anne Lister. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for monthly episodes, our advice segments, and to support our work. Check out our new merch, including hats, shirts, and socks. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e7-larry-kramer monthly 0.5 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/ce91560a-3096-4ad7-b3f9-bce487d01c43/%C2%A7Kramer%2C_Larry_%281935-viv%29_-_foto_di_Massimo_Consoli_1989_VI_New_York.jpg Episode Archive - S8E7: Larry Kramer - Today we profile Larry Kramer, the writer and AIDS activist. Kramer took space, took credit, operated in the world with tremendous privilege, and was somewhere between actively and passively misogynist and racist. But politically effective people are not always as we imagine them. We document Kramer's exclusions and blind spots, and explore how his hatred and fear of gay male sex culture, one that predated the AIDS epidemic, made his political work less effective; his gay male supremacism that led actual gay men to constantly disappoint him; and his prefiguring of a moralizing social media politics understanding rhetorical maximalism as the proof of radicality. We address Kramer as one of his narrators addressed his stand-in in the first volume of his last novel, The American People: “You fuckster! You are so fucksome. I love you very much.” Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for monthly episodes, our advice segments, and to support our work. Check out our new merch, including hats, shirts, and socks. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e6-abd-al-ilah monthly 0.5 2025-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/32a653fa-409a-40c8-8cb6-065cfed769df/%27Abd_al-Ilah_of_Hejaz.jpg Episode Archive - S8E6: Abd Al-Ilah - The Crown Prince of Iraq, Abd Al-Ilah, ruled the country as a prince regent on behalf of his nephew, from 1939-1953 - although not interrupted. A member of the powerful Hashemite dynasty, Al-Ilah was also an authoritarian antisemite who once took refuge on a British naval ship called the HMS Cockchafer. A dandy, he charmed MP Chips Cannon into writing: "We are very intimate …I never can resist a Regent.” Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for monthly episodes, our advice segments, and to support our work. Check out our new merch, including hats, shirts, and socks. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e5-reed-erickson monthly 0.5 2025-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/a00bd619-6eed-4567-9157-0aa7b176db6a/Reed_Leopard.jpg Episode Archive - S8E5: Reed Erickson - Today's episode profiles an eccentric, wealthy businessman––with the pet tiger, Mexican nudist ashram, ketamine and cocaine habits, and baroque legal battles over the title to various compounds to prove it––who also financially supported trans research, gay history, and dolphin ESP. Reed Erickson forged his own path in a difficult world and his life helps us understand two connections that were crucial for the developing gay and trans liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s: sexology and the New Age. Today's episode of our podcast was recorded before the 2024 United States Presidental election. Given yesterday's executive orders, discussion of the anti-trans backlash and fighting transphobia are more important than ever. Today, please consider contacting Trans Lifeline if you need support, or donating if you are able. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e4-albrecht-muth monthly 0.5 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/0639277d-1476-499b-ab73-8eb9cabe56c9/Muth.jpg Episode Archive - S8E4: Albrecht Muth - For today’s episode, I we take you into the murky world of the Washington foreign policy elites, and one of its murkiest characters, a man named Albrecht Muth. Who is Albrecht Muth? Well, that’s another question entirely. He claimed to be a dashing German aristocrat and married into Washington's foreign policy elite. The shocking truth became one of official Washington's biggest mysteries... Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for monthly episodes, our advice segments, and to support our work. Check out our new merch, including hats, shirts, and socks. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e3-elisar-von-kupffer monthly 0.5 2025-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/54e0a7bd-aa8d-4a53-b36e-9b4e27a5fbc3/11-Elisar-von-Kupffer-Kreeka-kostyymis-Foto-Elisarioni-keskus-72dpi_rgb_A4.jpg Episode Archive - S8E3: Elisar von Kupffer - A fascist femboy, a Baltic count, an orientalist white supremacist, editor of the first anthology of gay literature, painter of a 30-meter cyclorama featuring 90 androgynous twinks disporting themselves in the nude in a fantasia of the four seasons, devotee of Adolf Hitler, founder of a new religion, and poet: it's Elisar von Kupffer. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for monthly episodes, our advice segments, and to support our work. Check out our new merch, including hats, shirts, and socks. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e2-tom-mitford monthly 0.5 2024-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/256c3997-bf06-49bd-9abc-906d87f328aa/Thomas_David_Freeman-Mitford.jpg Episode Archive - S8E2: Tom Mitford - Today's episode profiles a very bad bisexual: the lawyer, soldier and society favourite, Tom Mitford. But the idea of featuring Tom is partly a ruse. This will be not just a profile of Tom himself, but of his whole family, and especially his six siblings, the famed Mitford Sisters, whose intense, often conflicting relationships have become something of an obsession for English culture - and not always a very healthy one. They embody so much about the English elite: eccentric, vicious, often listless and desperately sad. We also promise to you, as has become a theme of the podcast, some DBNs - Disturbingly British Names. And an indescribable cover of Right Said Fred by Jessica Mitford and Dr. Maya Angelou, on both voice and kazoo. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for more from us. Check out our new merch. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s8e1-olive-yang monthly 0.5 2024-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/c5751670-01fe-4968-94c6-0b198a9bf0f6/Image.jpg Episode Archive - S8E1: Olive Yang - From almost the first season of the show, we’ve been tantalised by stories of the Burmese gangster Olive Yang. Now, to open season 8, we have their story: Olive was a lesbian — or possibly transmasculine — gangster born royal in 1927 British colonial Burma, who when first married off to a man threw a pot of their own urine at him to prevent the marriage from being consummated. They ran away from polite society, dated actresses, ran opium, were involved with the CIA, and helped negotiate settlements between ethnic groups. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays for more from us. Check out our new merch. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-marianne-woods-and-jane-pirie-with-indigo-dunphy-smith monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/91614b4c-2f65-4170-afe0-f4e8ad78e251/pirieandwoods.png Episode Archive - Special: Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie (with Indigo Dunphy-Smith) - Today's special guest is the researcher and museum worker Indigo Dunphy-Smith, who is bringing her expertise to the case of Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie, two Edinburghian school teachers who found themselves embroiled in a sex scandal and court case in the early years of the 19th century. Their legal woes followed accusations by a pupil about sapphic goings-on at their small private school, and raised issues regarding attitudes to sex, race and colonialism in late Georgian era Scotland. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays, our monthly subscriber-only show for conversations about contemporary queer culture and advice segments from your favorite Gagony Guncles. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-jerome-robbins-with-liz-rosenfeld monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/d2df6603-a100-4d1b-ba89-9e3be1e308c9/Jerome_Robbins_ca._1968_cropped.jpg Episode Archive - Special: Jerome Robbins (with Liz Rosenfeld) - Today, special guest Liz Rosenfeld discusses the choreographer Jerome Robbins. Born in New York to Jewish immigrants, Robbins pursued dance and radical politics––until, under the threat of being blacklisted and exposed for his sexuality, reporting on his former comrades to the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. As one of Broadway's star choreographers, he helped define Broadway's Golden Age with striking dance theatre that integrated ballet technique into storytelling. His charisma, abuses of power, and boundary-obliterating working methods helped define an idea of choreographer-as-genius that still disfigures dance today. Support our show by subscribing to our monthly podcast EXTRA BAD GAYS by clicking this link and visiting our Patreon or directly through Apple Podcasts. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-christopher-marlowe-with-will-tosh monthly 0.5 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/7be406f4-3e98-42a9-97d2-9e1cee69c152/Marlowe-Portrait-1585.jpg Episode Archive - Special: Christopher Marlowe (with Will Tosh) - Today's special guest is Will Tosh, Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe, London, and the author of a new book, “Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare.” Having answered the obvious question in the prologue, the book becomes a sort of emotional biography of Shakespeare’s private life, but uses that his life and his work to ask broader questions about Elizabethan England, and especially how they understood their own sex gender system at the time. On today's special episode, we talk about one of his contemporaries, someone probably less well known but who has been deeply influential for queer writers and theatre practitioners through the ages: Christopher Marlowe. Subscribe to our monthly conversation on queer politics and culture EXTRA BAD GAYS to support the show! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e10-rotha-lintorn-orman monthly 0.5 2024-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/693e6712-428a-4c26-99a6-eb72d47c3525/Rotha_Beryl_Lintorn-Orman.png Episode Archive - S7E10: Rotha Lintorn-Orman - We close out our season with the story of a dashing tomboy who was the first woman to found a British political party. The only problem: that party was the British Fascists. Subscribe to EXTRA BAD GAYS, our monthly conversation about queer life, culture, and politics. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e09-baron-franz-nopcsa-von-fels-szilvs monthly 0.5 2024-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/04d96c36-21f6-4a0f-8b57-de0e5f766d4f/Baron_Franz_Nopcsa_in_Albanian_uniform.jpg Episode Archive - S7E09: Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás - Today’s subject had a multi-hyphenate name and a multi-hyphenate resume––, in his 55 years of life, he was an adventurer, a geologist, a spy, a dinosaur scientist, one of the founders of paleobiology, the world’s first airplane hijacker, a founder of the field of Albanian studies, a cosplay artist, and a murderer. Born in 1877 in Transylvania, the Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felsö-Szilvás may have been, except perhaps as a pub quiz answer, lost to history since his death, but in his lifetime he had an outsized impact on several scientific disciplines, central European politics and nationalisms, and, unfortunately, the man who he lived with until a murder-suicide ended both of their lives. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays, our monthly conversation podcast, to support the show! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e08-qutbuddin-mubarak-shah monthly 0.5 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/182652e8-4a9f-4bce-af40-95bb7e7a8591/qutbuddin.jpg Episode Archive - S7E08: Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah - "If you have to take an beautiful enslaved convert boy from another province to become your lover, and then you fall hopelessly in love with him, and then promote him and he attains great power, do be aware than he might actually want to take your throne." Somehow, this extremely specific lesson was forgotten by two generations of rulers. Join us in a trip back to the court of 1300s Delhi for a story of love, lust, intrigue, revolution, and, in the words of a historian of the time, "the results of pampering young men and catamites." Click here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e07-marthe-hanau monthly 0.5 2024-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/e7168d41-e4c2-417e-88d9-2fc9522425aa/Marthe_Hanau_1935.png Episode Archive - S7E07: Marthe Hanau - Marthe Hanau built a several-hundred-million-franc financial powerhouse: which turned out to be a fraud. Her investors had been promised returns of 8% interest on savings and in investments forty percent a year —but by the time she died in prison, they were owed a hundred and fifty five million francs. Some people even credit her spectacular swindle to the political confluence that brought Leon Blum and his popular front to power in France at the end of the 1930s. This is the fascinating tale of just how far one woman was able to go to accumulate wealth and power by any means necessary. Image via. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e06-john-whitgift monthly 0.5 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/e2d721b8-ed15-405d-b673-d28e35b8e76b/Bp_John_Whitgift.jpg Episode Archive - S7E06: John Whitgift - Today's episode is about England and its capacity to be deeply weird. Weget into one of England's weirdest, bloodiest, and maybe horniest moments, the English Reformation: a time of enormous tumult and violence, but also new ideas that reconfigured and reshaped the world. Today’s Bad Gay is perhaps an unlikely and unfamiliar candidate, but one whose life and loves sheds a light on that time: it’s the theologian, reformer, and Archbishop of Canterbury, John Whitgift. Click here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e05-james-levine monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/822148be-c615-4a0b-b60b-8fa9e6a076e6/11937897623_2705911974_k.jpg Episode Archive - S7E05: James Levine - Warning: this episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and workplace sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised. Many people may have seen Maestro, a biopic about the American conductor Leonard Bernstein, a handsome and extroverted communicator. The next most famous gay Jewish conductor of the 20th century was, in many ways, Bernstein’s opposite. Neither handsome nor extroverted, he made his musical mark not as a flamboyant podium acrobat or someone who communicated with the public but as a musician’s musician. His career ended after years of rumors culminated in several serious allegations of sexual harassment and assault, including against teenaged boys. We talk about beauty and power and what it means when people who make great art also do terrible things. Click here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s07e04-elagabalus monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/319d5997-e09c-46c8-8beb-03d720cd6681/Elegabalus.jpg Episode Archive - S7E04: Elagabalus - This episode has everything: a tyrannical little boy king, a dictator who wanted to overthrow the Roman pantheon and install a meteorite as the object of a new monotheism, prostitution and vestal virgins, and drowning your party guests in rose petals. We break down Elagabalus: the myth, the legend, the gender-bending icon and the searcher for the biggest dicks in the Roman Empire. Subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s7e03-ahebi-ugbabe monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/5d8224fc-5017-4336-bc60-bf77506fce0d/ahebiugbabe.png Episode Archive - S7E03: Ahebi Ugbabe - Today’s subject was an uneducated woman who was born in approximately 1880 and rose in her nearly 70 years of life from enslavement to sex work to female king. She was a leader of her community of Enugu-Ezike in present-day Nigeria and a collaborator with British colonialism in the region. Finally removed from power by British officials and local elders because she participated in a ritual in a way that only men were supposed to, the complex life of Ahebi Ugbabe helps tell the story of the colonization and decolonization of Nigeria and of the similarities and the differences between the sex-gender systems we are used to in the contemporary west and the vast array of possibilities in those sex-gender systems throughout different human societies. Click here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s702-joe-orton-and-kenneth-halliwell monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/dd9b3e73-2b94-4e80-8999-9dfaa2d717b2/OrtonHalliwell-361x480.jpg Episode Archive - S702: Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell - Warning: this episode contains discussions of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. A rare twofer this week on our show: we discuss the lives and careers of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. Both frustrated writers from the North of England making their way in the repressive, damp climate of the postwar UK, they were sent to prison for defacing library books into brilliant collage art. But when Orton achieved fame and success, the pressure was too much for Halliwell to bear. And their disturbing pattern of traveling to Tunisia to abuse children casts a pall on any simple attempt to recuperate them as heroes. Click here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s701-karl-lagerfeld monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/09a3097d-8ebf-4f91-86b0-f43e773724b1/Lagerfeld+photo.jpeg Episode Archive - S701: Karl Lagerfeld - Are you wearing the Chanel boots? Yes, we are. A white-haired, powdered, starch-cuffed petty dictator who ruled over the expanding business with an iron fist, stopping every once in a while to make a misogynist or racist public comment, Karl Lagerfeld was one of the most influential figures in the fashion industry as it shifted into late capitalist hyperdrive. Come for the racist and misogynist public comments, stay for Lagerfeld's great love, Jacques de Bascher, who may more perfectly epitomize Evil Twink Energy than anyone we've discussed on our show. Click here to subscribe to our monthly podcast "Extra Bad Gays" and support the work we do to make the show. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e10-benedetta-carlini monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/ad3a027e-f89d-413b-afd7-4ad2867fab61/Theatine_nun_1715.jpg Episode Archive - S6E10: Benedetta Carlini - What's your favorite Paul Verhoeven film? We knew you were going to say Showgirls–but we'll put in a word for his latest, Benedetta, with Charlotte Rampling acting up a storm and nuns diddling each other with dildos carved out of statues of the Virgin. Improbably, the film is based on a true story: and within it, and within its subject's life, there are important themes of power, gender transgression, sin, belief and deviance that are worth discussing in more detail. Today, we discuss the 16th century mystic nun, lesbian, possibly demonically possessed and possibly visionary heretic, Benedetta Carlini. Our paperback is available now! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e9-tokugawa-iemitsu monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/e22d2d6c-c618-4285-bdd4-1631adc85b4a/Iemitu.jpg Episode Archive - S6E9: Tokugawa Iemitsu - Through the life of this 17th century Japanese shogun, we explore the role of same-sex relationships in Japanese court culture of the time, the radically different meanings of age and gender in different times and places, and a gay teen romance that ends, alas, with being stabbed to death in the bathtub. Order our book in paperback for a free e-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e8-dong-xian monthly 0.5 2023-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/8f9ae8f5-b9b1-4851-b4d0-dae04d273edf/Dong_Xian_portrait.jpg Episode Archive - S6E8: Dong Xian - There’s power in being the king who sits upon the throne, but also power in being the throne upon who the king sits. This was true as ever in the court of Emperor Ai in Han Dynasty China in 22 BC. We’re going to be talking about someone who in 21 short years of life rose from a low class status to being one of the most powerful imperial officials in China – all by becoming the favorite of the Emperor. Their passion was so renowned it led to the creation of what remains a Chinese idiomatic expression for homosexuality. But we’ll also be talking about prevailing bisexuality in the Han dynasty court, the reception culture of this story both in China and outside it then and now, and how people in both China and the West have adopted this story. Pre-order our paperback now for a free e-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e7-tom-driberg monthly 0.5 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/6b757f56-4f78-443b-a7f0-f750a8e10ce9/Tom_Driberg.jpg Episode Archive - S6E7: Tom Driberg - Today’s figure is the sort of character who has been extinguished from British public life today, and maybe that’s for the best. He’s a mass of contradictions, the sort of mass that confuses the idea of an easy history of “lessons we can learn”. How did this man manage to be both an avant-garde poet and a gossip columnist, a communist revolutionary and a High Anglican devotee, a labour organiser and a lord? Or perhaps more accurately, how did he manage to inhabit all these roles with a level of seeming sincerity and honest commitment? Was he an honest man, or a devious one? A man driven by fidelity, or by treachery? Perhaps we’ll get to the bottom of it when we discuss the life of Tom Driberg, the Lord Bradwell, journalist, socialist, MP, Chairman of the Labour Party, and cocksucker. Pre-order our book in paperback and get a free e-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e6-griselda-blanco monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/b66e8edb-7b1b-42e8-a79c-957f2bf3bea1/Griselda_Blanco_Medellin.jpg Episode Archive - S6E6: Griselda Blanco - Nicki Minaj once rapped: Drug Lord Griselda, I used to move weight thru Delta. She’s referring to today’s subject, la Madrina, the drug lord of the Colombian Medellín Cartel, Griselda Blanco Restrepo, the Black Widow. Born in 1943 in Cartegena, on the north coast of Columbia, she became the so-called "Queenpin," and adopted all the macho tropes of the gangster. We argue she wasn't the biggest gangster at the head of her cartel, but one of the smallest gangsters in a whole world of cartels that have worked to bring the fruits of South America’s land into the United States market, at the cost of millions of human lives. Pre-order our book in paperback for a free e-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e5-andr-gide monthly 0.5 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/eaec28da-7be8-425b-8cbf-cc8246693c25/Gide.jpeg Episode Archive - S6E5: André Gide - Warning: this episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised. This week, we tackle the French author André Gide, a self-styled "immoralist" who oscillated between an austere Protestantism and a sensualism he associated with the so-called "Orient," and who elevated pederasty above sodomy in a way that helps us understand the often-disfiguring influence of upper-class male sexual desires on the construction of the 20th century gay male identity. Pre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e4-mustapha-ben-ismal monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/dce21b3f-3615-4fa5-8604-de4d7574f685/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1.jpg Episode Archive - S6E4: Mustapha Ben Ismaïl - Today we welcome special guest (and Associate Professor in History at the University of Cambridge) Arthur Asseraf to talk about Mustapha Ben Ismaïl, a terrifyingly ambitious twink who rose from being an illiterate street beggar to Prime Minister on the strength of the king's love for him –– and whose disastrous policies helped bring an end to Tunisia's independence. Arthur's Twitter. Arthur's faculty page. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e3-jorge-horacio-ballv-piero monthly 0.5 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/5764403e-c22a-42b0-9bcf-27f17b87057c/Horacio_Coppola_-_Buenos_Aires_1936_-_Corrientes_desde_el_edificio_COMEGA_diurna.jpg Episode Archive - S6E3: Jorge Horacio Ballvé Piñero - Argentina, 1942: a scandal breaks. Tabloids scream about newly discovered photographs –– taken by the amateur photographer Jorge Horacio Ballvé Piñero –– at homosexual orgies in Ballvé's apartment, photos allegedly depicting young cadets from the national military university in compromising positions. 29 cadets are expelled, discharged, and/or punished, Ballvé thrown in jail, and the government collapsed, toppled by a right-wing coup promising moral cleanup. Pre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s6e2-julie-daubigny monthly 0.5 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/417baa65-d28c-4071-9dcd-a069d2393050/Julie+D%27Aubigny.jpeg Episode Archive - S6E2: Julie D’Aubigny - She's an icon, she's a legend, and she is the moment: today’s subject caused such a scandal in her life that even its fictionalized depiction in a novel was banned by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. The Mozart of bisexual drama, sword-fighting crossdressing opera singer Julie D'Aubigny burned through a dizzying series of lives, loves, husbands, mistresses, swordfights, operatic performances, lovers, and successes at the Paris Opera before dying in a convent in her early 30s. Pre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/xsiwbmjjl9c8qtvijecxd14cfzf0as monthly 0.5 2023-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/023c2ec2-afae-45d5-b3a0-e888e15f3db4/Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg Episode Archive - S6E1: George Santos - We're starting off Season Six with George Santos, who rocketed the pathological homosexual narcissism we've spent much of our show discussing to the halls of Congress. In gay bar, there is at least one delusional queen who can't stop lying about his life. If you give him firearms and crystal meth, he turns into Andrew Cunanan. If you elect him to Congress, he turns into George Santos, who we argue is as likely as anyone else to become the first gay President of the United States. Pre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book! https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/jack-saul-live-at-foyles-in-london-with-shon-faye monthly 0.5 2022-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/754c0f25-3b21-44bc-97b5-64da095c399c/male-prostitution-Victorian-London-1-382x445.jpg Episode Archive - Jack Saul LIVE! at Foyles in London with Shon Faye - Happy Christmas! It's Bad Gays Live! Relive our reading of the Jack Saul chapter – covering the life and times of the Victorian sex worker and pornographer – from our book BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY at Foyles in London, with the inimitable Shon Faye reading out the saucy bits (maybe use headphones if you're spending today with Grandma, unless you and Grandma like joking about delicious frigging up the rear), followed by a conversation with her and the audience about the project. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-episode-magnus-hirschfeld monthly 0.5 2022-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1664907789339-53VMU0E487MSKIZ1HYF8/hirschfeld_und_tao_li-300dpi.0x600.jpeg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Magnus Hirschfeld It's the Magnus Hirschfeld episode. We invited Laurie Marhoefer – Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, and one of our most-cited historians ever – to discuss their new book on Hirschfeld, called Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. On the episode, we touch on Hirschfeld's life story as a pioneering doctor who helped invent modern homosexual identities and worked on some forms of trans-affirming health care –– while also discussing the ways he integrated racism into the homosexual identities he was creating, collaborated with eugenicists, and was often willing to accept more rights for some at the expense of others. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/itnpsqxnpnqvsu6730fdanxca2vmqn monthly 0.5 2022-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1654094712115-XH0HN18PXKLS3C7LDYMK/Sandow.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Eugen Sandow Happy Pride! We invited Ruby Hann, who completed her MA in History in 2020 and her MSc in History in 2021, both at the University of Edinburgh, to talk about Eugen Sandow, the bodybuilder who spread the cult of muscle around the world. Her research is focused on masculinity, sexuality, and the body in early twentieth century Britain. Ruby is not currently in academia, but she still occasionally writes, lectures, and attends conferences. You can follow her Twitter @RubyVolunteers to find her work. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e11-jeffrey-dahmer monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1647352886797-6D23OUBDRAOGKV2WSXPG/Jeffrey_Dahmer.jpg Episode Archive - S5E11: Jeffrey Dahmer - For white, suburban, heterosexual middle America, Jeffrey Dahmer, like AIDS, was the natural, even the righteous, consequence of homosexual promiscuity. He remains one of the exemplary constructions of the supervillain serial killer, the perfect subject of a true crime story. Today’s episode is about Jeffrey Dahmer as man and metaphor: about the phenomenon of the serial killer-monster, about the ways in which homophobia, racism, and the various true crime myths Dahmer helped reify ironically impeded his arrest and enabled his crimes, and about the twisted, slap-happy identification with Dahmer pursued by some gay men. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e10-john-wojtowicz monthly 0.5 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1646123494581-5YHCRB9S2IXOEMU9CNV4/Wojtowicz.jpg Episode Archive - S5E10: John Wojtowicz - It's a dog day afternoon: today's episode profiles the bank robber John Wojtowicz, who infamously (and as memorialized in Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon) held up a bank in 1972 to pay for gender-affirming surgery for Elizabeth Eden, his trans girlfriend. Or did he? We take a look, using the story to think through 1972 as a fault line for emerging attitudes about homosexuality and trans femininity, Wojtowicz' surprising involvement in early gay liberation activism in New York City, the Dog Day Afternoon phenomenon and what it says about growing distinctions between gay men and trans women and how they were represented and compensated, and the ethical complications of Wojtowicz as a figure in history and in historical memory. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e8-cressida-dick-part-one monthly 0.5 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1644910555161-3RGH2GWMO6A97M2JZMKR/Keith_Palmer%27s_funeral_%28006%29_%28cropped%29.jpg Episode Archive - S5E8&9: Cressida Dick - Unusually for this show, which normally focuses on long departed historical figures, today we’re going to talk about someone who’s still very much in the news. Until last week, she was the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London’s police force, and was the first woman and the first LBGTQ person to hold the rank, Dame Cressida Dick. In part one of two: we begin telling Dick's life story and then delve into the history of the Met, its relationship with LGBTQ people, and the conflicting strands of LGBTQ politics that emphasize conflict vs collaboration with the police. In part two of two: we discuss Dick's tenure at the Metropolitan Police, the extrajudicial murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, Dick's cynical deployment of her identity to deflect critique, the spy cops scandal, the botched investigation into gay serial killer Stephen Port, the Met's dismal record on race, and the protests that finally forced Dick out. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e7-freddie-mercury monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1644308191107-79TDACJ2P2SQWTMADULN/3479284116_3a70e29a02_c.jpg Episode Archive - S5E7: Freddie Mercury - For a time, one of the world's most famous rock stars – singer of stadium rock anthems that still signify foot-stomping machismo – existed as an avatar of the most exuberant, feared, liberation-era forms of homosexuality: going from a 1970s long hair in skin-tight leotards cut to the navel to a Castro clone with a handlebar moustache who wore fisting T-shirts in his music videos. If the legacy of Mercury and his music often seems to smooth his work, and that of his band, Queen, into a sort of middle-aged, KISS FM everyday normality, here we lean into the contradictions of the charismatic man and the nuances of queer life in the 1970s and 1980s. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e6-franco-zeffirelli monthly 0.5 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1643701213348-MYRPTBCVXZVWL2A8N4ZN/zeffirelli.jpg Episode Archive - S5E6: Franco Zeffirelli - A very special opera queen episode profiling an opera queen gone wrong: the Italian opera and film director (of 1968's famous Romeo and Juliet) who fought fascists as a partisan in the hills over Florence, mingled with Visconti and Cocteau and Marais and Chanel, and directed Callas in many of her mid-career triumphs before beginning to harden his style from lush realism to a celebration of set decoration above all. Zeffirelli, born at a time when the last composers whose works still fill the grand opera repertory were dying, faced, like all practitioners of the operatic arts in the 20th century, a choice between making living theatre or dead, ten-ton museum pieces. He chose the museum-piece approach and in so doing did tremendous artistic damage. CONTENT WARNING: THIS EPISODE DISCUSSES CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND RACIST LANGUAGE. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e5-anne-bonny monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1643094745531-5DPG37GXS588UC9612W0/Bonney%2C_Anne_%281697-1720%29%281%29.jpg Episode Archive - S5E5: Anne Bonny Are you ready to have your timbers shivered and your mainbrace spliced? Today’s subject is a mysterious one, a historical figure whose life and reputation are confused by propaganda, romance and mythology: the Irish pirate Anne Bonny. We'll use her story to discuss gender, race, and class in the Golden Age of Piracy. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e4-philipp-prince-of-eulenburg monthly 0.5 2022-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1642494197393-G59IBFOUJJE0B4UJUR2T/Philipp_zu_Eulenburg.jpg Episode Archive - S5E4: Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg The "Eulenberg Affair," a series of media scandals about homosexual behavior at the highest levels of the German Imperial court, dragged on in the press for years as it made and broke careers in journalism, sexology, and the court while helping define both Imperial Germany’s relationship to masculinity and the emerging homosexual emancipation movements. Plus drag ballet, Wagnerists, extremely racist paintings, songs about roses, and moustaches with names. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e3-ernst-vom-rath monthly 0.5 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1641833933016-7P8GSW7EN2HTY7HVLS9H/Vom+Rath.jpeg Episode Archive - S5E3: Ernst vom Rath - This Nazi diplomat was assassinated by the Jewish activist Herschel Grynszpan –– and his death became a pretext for the murderous pogroms of Kristallnacht. Grynszpan's lawyer, the flamboyant anti-fascist Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, pioneered in this case what was perhaps the first –– and only morally good –- use of some version of a 'gay panic' or ‘gay blackmail’ defense. But was vom Rath actually gay? https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e2-joe-carstairs monthly 0.5 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1641237594457-M99K2969M4HB65K8GREH/Joe-and-Lord-Tod.jpg Episode Archive - S5E2: Joe Carstairs - The eccentric inheritor of an enormous oil fortune and gender non-conforming-lesbian-trans man (we'll talk about it!) who dated Marlene Dietrich, raced speedboats, and turned their private Bahamian island into a domain over which they ruled over native people with an iron fist while allowing themselves and their guests every possible eccentricity and pleasure. All this accompanied by their lifelong companion: a foot-tall leather doll named Lord Tod Wadley. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s5e1-francis-bacon monthly 0.5 2021-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1640376467097-UCGSIARUMB661I3O97M6/copyrighttheestateoffrancisbacon.jpg Episode Archive - S5E1: Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon was an artist whose radical generosity teetered on the edge of self-obliteration –– and he sometimes pulled others over the edge with him. Many of our listeners will be familiar with Bacon’s work, or at least would recognise his idiosyncratic style if they saw it; sweeps of fleshy paint across black fields of colour, portraying contorted, mangled bodies, racks of hanging meat, and the iconic screaming mouth. But Bacon is almost as famous for the way he lived his life: his raucous partying, brutal barbed tongue, and love of boozing made him an emblem of London’s bohemian Soho scene. What linked his work and his life was an obsession with violence, something that he knew intimately. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-episode-pacchierotto-and-florentine-sodomites-with-max-fox monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630527041852-G3W2RZSWYNURT456I3DL/Colored_woodcut_town_view_of_Florence.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Pacchierotto and Florentine Sodomites (with Max Fox) Not a huge amount is known about Pacchierotto, a sodomite who was convicted and publicly humiliated in Florence, Italy, in 1486, but his story tells us much about the changing fortunes of sodomites at the time, and the important role they played in the politics of the time. In this special episode, Huw talks to Max Fox, editor of Christopher Chitty's Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System about Florentine sodomy in the Renaissance, and Chitty's groundbreaking new book. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/special-episode-arthur-gary-bishop-with-david-eichert monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630526961150-S8VTIJNDQ3F9A6H79FEE/Arthur_Gary_Bishop.png Episode Archive - Special Episode: Arthur Gary Bishop (with David Eichert) - The crimes, trial and execution of Utah citizen and devout Mormon Arthur Gary Bishop seemed to be the manifestation of many of both the public fears and moral panics of the United States in the 1980s. 'Stranger Danger', pornography, homosexuality and childhood sexual abuse became the focus of heated public debate and new religiously-inspired political organisations such as the Moral Majority. Huw is joined by David Eichert, a PhD candidate studying international law, sexual violence, gender and sexuality, to discuss Bishop, his relationship with his Mormon faith, and wider social attitudes towards his crimes. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-special-denniscooper monthly 0.5 2021-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1614022424845-XE93OEY7AKH6T06GV789/51C9sns7fbL.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Dennis Cooper (with Diarmuid Hester) - On the (in)famous author of the George Miles cycle, The Sluts, and many other classic works of radically transgressive gay fiction. Joining Ben to tackle Cooper's work––as challenging to traditional notions of identity-driven and self-consciously pretty gay fiction as it is to the hetero mainstream––is Diarmuid Hester, a radical cultural historian of the United States after 1950, and an authority on sexually dissident literature, art, film, and performance. He is based at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and is the author of the acclaimed new critical biography of Cooper, Wrong. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4e10-violette-morris monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630528730494-L6II1Z01924VUN3GD1KR/Violette_Morris_1920.jpg Episode Archive - S4E10: Violette Morris - Violette Morris, a powerhouse athlete with 14-inch biceps, discovered a love for trousers and fast driving while piloting ambulances for the Red Cross during the First World War. But her outrageous and mannish style – she dated Josephine Baker, smoked, and cut her breasts off to better fit behind the wheel of a race car – outraged the respectable upper-middle-class world of women's athletics. And when she was cast out of respectable society, she became a Nazi spy and a sadistic torturer known as the "hyena of the Gestapo." https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4e9-camilla-hall monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1607969500552-67QNERWRSWKVDSJOU6SV/1920px-Camilla_Hall_as_a_child.jpg Episode Archive - S4E9: Camilla Hall - Camilla Christine Hall was born on March 24th, 1945, in St Peter Minnesota. Her father was a Lutheran pastor, and her childhood was suburban and unremarkable. Like many of her generation, she would become involved in the anti-war movement and the New Left; unlike many of her generation, she would also become involved in Gay Liberation, and a strange cult-like organization called the Symbionese Liberation Army, which became infamous for bank robberies, murders –– and the 1974 kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-gertrude-stein monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1607375351042-Q7Z7HQAUGD9DL66VTMHO/Gertrude_Stein_1935-01-04.jpg Episode Archive - S4E8: Gertrude Stein - Gertrude Stein is remembered as a novelist, playwright, poet, and, art collector –– and the hostess of a Paris salon that gathered the cream of interwar modernism, including Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Matisse. A semi-open lesbian, her books include Q.E.D., one of the earliest English-language lesbian novels, and Tender Buttons, a book of poems full of allusion to lesbian sexuality. But in the last years of her life, as a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein sustained her lifestyle as an art collector and ensured her safety through the protection of powerful Vichy government officials – part of a pattern of involvement in far-right, antisemitic, and fascist politics. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-prince-albert-victor monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1606755389948-DOISF1Z0473VWYSZE2O5/image-asset.jpeg Episode Archive - S4E7: Prince Albert Victor - Today’s subject is the man who would be King, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, firstborn son of Edward VII, Grandson of Queen Victoria, known to his friends and family simply as “Eddy." Wrapped up in a sizzling sex scandal, he became a prime example of a British royal story: an intellectually dull man, charmless, with neither cultural interests nor creative talents, but who, due to sheer accident of birth, found himself permitted to indulge all his whims. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-truman-capote monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1606131850116-O4UNZSU7JCNPP6QJBFIW/Truman_Capote_Moscot.jpg Episode Archive - S4E6: Truman Capote - Born in a violent and difficult childhood in the American South, Truman Capote would rise to the highest levels of literary celebrity, praise, and fame: even joining the highly-exclusive jet set of 1960s and 1970s high society. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television dramas. But Capote would be pursued by demons throughout his life – alcoholism, other forms of addiction, and crippling self-doubt which would end up leading him to destroy his own social reputation. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-carl-van-vechten monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1605605186108-2A0R3QJIPI49AAQVHM2X/Self-Portrait_of_Carl_Van_Vechten_Crisco_edit.jpg Episode Archive - S4E5: Carl Van Vechten - A man with a passion for the dangerous, subversive, and avant-garde; who eschewed the middle brow and loved the urbane and modern. Known in his life not just as a man of taste, but a tastemaker, someone who set the tone for elite cultural society in his lifetime; the white author, critic and photographer Carl Van Vechten became enchanted with the Harlem Renaissance, approached Black cultures as a source of ideas that he could take and exploit, and perpetuated racist stereotypes in his work. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-benjamin-britten monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1604997743366-KMUYBW05QNJWT46NKJ2Y/Benjamin_Britten%2C_London_Records_1968_publicity_photo_for_Wikipedia.jpg Episode Archive - S4E4: Benjamin Britten - The composer Benjamin Britten was a central figure of 20th century music; and the national composer that Britain had been searching for since the death of Henry Purcell in 1695. He never shook his Communist and pacifist sympathies –– even as he rose to the highest levels of elite British cultural production. A fervent pacifist, antinationalist, and homosexual –– with a deep, complex, and troubling love of children –– Britten, through the strength of his music and through the nation’s desire to have a musical hero of its own, became an utterly unlikely national celebrity. Content warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual attraction to children. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/jeremythorpe monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630526552017-Q1F9TJQWFP3RARHXYMTH/Jeremy+Thorpe.png Episode Archive - S4E3: Jeremy Thorpe - This is a story of sex, death and political malfeasance that will make Teddy Kennedy look like Anne of Green Gables. It has everything you’ve come to expect from a Bad Gays story about the English upper classes — psychosexual repression, violence, class prejudice, hypocrisy, the brutality and cheapness of life at the heart of the political system, and plenty of people named things like Rupert, Auberon and Emlyn. But as ridiculous and kinky as the fruity rulers of Britain are, the story is darker than that. This story is also about the way the law is impervious to the informal networks of power in the British establishment, and how homosexuality was subject to a series of double standards, tolerated in the powerful but suppressed in the ordinary citizen, practiced in private and denied in public. Today we’re discussing the life of a man whose sexuality stole his chance at power, the MP and leader of the Liberal Party, the Right Honorable Jeremy Thorpe. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-liberace monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1603653314982-31TDDK83TGGDXOTD3JCW/1024px-Liberace_Colour_Allan_Warren.jpg Episode Archive - S4E2: Liberace - This "deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love" rose to stardom playing "classical music without the boring parts" and didn't need to stay in the closet because he wore its entire contents. How could he become an emblem of Middle American family entertainment? The United States of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s was undergoing enormous social change –– the Civil Rights Movement, the Summer of Love, Women’s Lib, the Stonewall Riots, Gay Liberation, and the beginning of the AIDS movement –– and Liberace was an entertainer who appealed to precisely those parts of the country who sought to resist those changes. Hated by classical music critics, he was beloved by audiences precisely because of the openness of his secret and the way he performed a kind of minstrel act that nevertheless won him fame, riches, and glory. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s4-cecil-rhodes monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1603180644043-518X58Q49XQO2TZZ1294/c7a3343163d630d479405a86ff6e3999.png Episode Archive - S4E1: Cecil Rhodes - Season 4 –– ! –– with apologies for socially-distanced audio quality. Today's victim was a British colonist and mining magnate who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. An ardent white supremacist – no matter what revisionist historians and the right-wing press claim – he rose from being a sickly child to having a near-complete domination of the world diamond market. Come for the "private secretaries," stay for the Big Hole. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/afyr7e5onnb5kzvt5l19gv0kzpym0q monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630526316633-9JMYL6NVBCYOJZJLKXYT/Keynes_1933.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: John Maynard Keynes (with Richard Power Sayeed) - Despite beginning his career as a member of the civil service ruling Britain's colonial empire, John Maynard Keynes was also a key member of London's cultural and artistic elite, the Bloomsbury Group, whose libertine approach to sexuality and relationships marked them out from their stuffy Victorian forebears. A patron of art, literature, opera and ballet, Keynes' economic writings would go on to make him one of the 20th century's most influential economists. Huw discusses the life and theories of John Maynard Keynes with Richard Power Sayeed, author of 1997: The Future That Never Happened (Zed Books, 2017) https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/cw21b2uyw6oqmv41l1encmqi0y0mqe monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1595848318743-SXFGGIW80SBSFSYTG4Y5/Radclyffe_Hall%2C_ca._1930.jpg Episode Archive - Special Episode: Radclyffe Hall (with Jana Funke) - The author of the iconic lesbian –– and trans –– novel The Well of Loneliness was born to privilege before consorting with suffragettes and radicals, embarking on scandalous lesbian affairs with singers, and writing the novel whose release and censorship would turn it into "the Lesbian bible" and them into "sapphic Jesus." But what problematic racial politics –– and flirtations with Fascism –– lie lurking in the biography of Radclyffe Hall, who offers a non-gay perspective on early 20th century theories of sexual inversion? Ben discusses these questions with special guest Dr. Jana Funke, co-editor of a critical edition of The Well of Loneliness set to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e10-lisa-miller monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1589451076860-91ZRBZQJA72WH9OEE7DM/LisaMiller.jpg Episode Archive - S3E10: Lisa Miller - To close our season, the story of Lisa Miller, an American woman who gave birth to a child coparented with her partner Janet Jenkins, and then left Janet, became a self-proclaimed ex-lesbian, sued for single custody of their daughter, and when the courts decided against her, abducted their child and fled the country with the assistance of well-connected far-right pastors in 2009. Lisa and their daughter, Isabella, are still missing. If you have any information on the whereabouts of Lisa and/or Isabella, please contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e9-morrissey monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1589450342012-KVVEZESX5LRNRFNRG9VT/Morrissey_crop_tie.jpg Episode Archive - S3E9: Morrissey - An essay on the Smiths frontman whose music and lyrics turned the abject aspects of the identities of so many queer teenagers into something that made them stand out and shine – and whose focus on working class cultures of masculinity began to turn towards the far right. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e8-aileen-wuornos monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630526061363-F9LZXLCP3O8841SU9NP9/Wuornos.jpg Episode Archive - S3E8: Aileen Wuornos - In 1992, Aileen Carol Wuornos, an itinerant sex worker, was arrested for the murders of seven men in or near Volusia County, Florida in 1989 and 1990: all of them shot while Wuornos was on the job, all of them shot at point-blank range. She became, in the view of the public, according to the filmmaker Nick Broomfield, who made two documentaries about her and about the media storm that surrounded her, a "man-hating lesbian prostitute who tarnished the reputations of her victims,” a useful foil for family-values string-em-up-dead politicians who wanted to show that they were tough on crime–and an unlikely lesbian hero. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e7-roger-casement monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1588526301724-LPKJGLWTQPUV7VJI5P57/Roger_Casement_Photo.jpg Episode Archive - S3E7: Roger Casement - At the height of his career, today's subject was a national hero in the UK, knighted by George V. His life ended as a traitor and a pervert, executed by hanging in Pentonville Prison before being thrown in an unmarked grave in the prison yard, his body covered in quicklime. His name was Roger Casement, and we'll talk about his rise and fall, Britain’s hypocritical relationship with imperialism and colonialism, and secret black diaries full of "gentle thrusts" and "splendid erections." https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e6-philip-johnson monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630525842270-EBJ0497U20V4457FUO7U/Philip_Johnson.2002.FILARDO.jpg Episode Archive - S3E6: Philip Johnson - Philip Cortelyou Johnson may be more responsible than anyone for the shift from Modernism as a new way of living to Modernism as an elite bauble. Born into immense power and privilege, he was a deeply committed elitist, and dilettante fascist, who used his money and connections to whitewash his youthful (and ongoing) embrace of Hitler in specific and far-right politics in general. As a key curator and preacher of the Modernist gospel in the United States, he was central in divorcing the style from its egalitarian political aspirations. In response to criticism, he said: “I am a whore. Very well paid.” PHOTO: BRUCE DAVIDSON/MAGNUM. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e5-elmyr-de-hory monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1587393126031-7Q9KJ1XJ7TC0UC2U16LC/32386870038_2b00cde48e_b.jpg Episode Archive - S3E5: Elmyr de Hory - A fraud and liar of epic proportions: a dashing art forger whose difficulties selling his naturalistic work in the Modernist-dominated 20th century art market, and experience of persecution as a gay Jew in Central Europe during World War II, fueled the creation and sale of millions' worth of fake Picassos, Matisses, and other masterpieces: some of which are still hidden in major collections and museums. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e4-barney-frank monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1586766469213-24K8264WSPZFAV1NX12N/Barney_Frank.jpg Episode Archive - S3E4: Barney Frank - On the "complicated" side of "evil and complicated" that makes up our show's motto, we present the story of the gravely-voiced Congressman who blazed trails for gay political involvement at the highest levels of power in Washington, only to spend the latter part of his career selling out the left to finance capital and excluding trans people from fights for non-discrimination legislation. Whip-smart, funny, and always ready with a biting comeback, Barney Frank came to embody the transformation of the Democratic Party away from the working class and towards a suburban party preoccupied with shallow diversity rather than true racial and economic justice. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e3-lord-castlereagh monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630525573783-5JK98Z2YLC7X7NM3X41A/Lord_Castlereagh_Marquess_of_Londonderry.jpg Episode Archive - S3E3: Lord Castlereagh - The Anglo-Irish aristocrat, politician and statesman Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry: better known, like Bjork or Madonna, by his mononym - Castlereagh. A Whig politician, he was hated by the populations of both England and Ireland for his support of vicious repression against liberal, reformist, and radical politics and activism. Lord Byron put it best: "Posterity will ne'er survey / A nobler grave than this: / Here lie the bones of Castlereagh: / Stop, traveller, and piss." https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e2-james-buchanan monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1585501034825-G4921VJGHP5O4FA13WD7/image-asset.jpeg Episode Archive - S3E2: James Buchanan - The United States of America's first gay – and worst – President. This bumbling slaveholder collaborated with the Confederacy, promoted the racist Dred Scott decision at the Supreme Court, and cohabited in Washington with a dashing Alabama Senator who, in the words of President Andrew Jackson was the "Aunt Nancy" to his "Aunt Fancy." https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/s3e1-nikolai-yezhov monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e490e2ddd74ca6a812fbc9a/1630525319727-GQWLA1187W5KRN0ZHFQT/Ezhov_NI.jpg Episode Archive - S3E1: Nikolai Yezhov - A man variously known as the “Iron Hedgehog” and a “malignant Dwarf”, but also as charming, courteous, and, most importantly “a good party man,” a man who held the position of the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs - the head of the NKVD during Stalin’s Great Purge - Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov. https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/category/season3 monthly 0.5 https://badgayspod.com/episode-archive/category/Season+4 monthly 0.5 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