Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (feat. Kit Heyam and Marty Davies)
Heads up! This is the episode where we solve gender.Famously a "construct," it turns out Mx. Gender has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.This podcast is only 70 minutes long so we're sti...
14 Juli 20251h 14min
Was Marie Antoinette A Lesbian? (feat. Eleanor Herman)
She was young, she was hot, and she was hated. But did she eat pu$$y?Marie Antoinette was many things: a teen bride, a fashion icon, and according to Sofia Coppola, a big fan of The Strokes (I knew I ...
10 Juli 202556min
Gay Marriage Was The Gayest Love Story Ever Told (feat. Jeremy Atherton Lin)
Once upon a time—aka the 90s, when I bravely decided to be born—gay marriage was the only thing we queers could talk about. But why? Why were we so hell-bent on getting married? And how did the fight ...
2 Juli 20251h 8min
Tchaikovsky Comes Out To Mother Russia (feat. Simon Morrison)
Imagine a world where you're Russian, gay, and happy about it.No this is not propaganda from the ultra-secret "Pinko" department of the Kremlin (they def have one of those).This is the very real story...
26 Juni 20251h 23min
A Queer History of Food (feat. Rachel Cleves)
What's so gay about food? (Besides the fact that you use your mouth for it.)The answer, OF COURSE, lies in 18th century France.In fact, food's sexy origins go even further back, all the way to the anc...
19 Juni 20251h 5min
Toxic Boyfriends of Greek Mythology: Part II (feat. Liv Albert)
Why do bottoms always die in Greek mythology?If you're a fan of Greek myth, you know the gods love to act like humans: they love, they fuck, they fight...they throw dinner parties.But they also love t...
12 Juni 20251h 10min
Eleanor Rykener: Trans Sex Worker of Medieval London? (feat. Dr. Mireille Pardon)
The year is 1395. The city: London. The crime: an "unmentionable, ignominious vice" commonly known as sodomy.And the perp? A rascally, resourceful enigma named John Rykener, who enters the court recor...
5 Juni 20251h 2min
The Future of Queer Communism (feat. Eman Abdelhadi)
What comes after the collapse of capitalism? Mass famine? Global war? Environmental destruction? Oh wait, all of that's already happening!It seems like, as a species, we're at a bit of a breaking poin...
3 Juni 202554min
