| Bad Gays |
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| Genre | - LGBTQ
- history
- human interest
- culture
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| Language | English |
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| Updates | Fortnightly |
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| Length | 45–90 minutes (approximate) |
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| Original release | April 19, 2019 (2019-04-19) |
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| Website | badgayspod.com |
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Bad Gays is a queer history podcast about "evil and complicated queers" in history hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller.
About
Each episode of Bad Gays explores the story of a complicated queer person in history.
Lemmy and Miller also wrote a book, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History based on the podcast. It is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook and is published by Verso Books.[1]
Reception
The Advocate listed Bad Gays in its 2023 list of "Five Gloriously Gay Podcasts You Need To Listen To."[2] Bad Gays was also reviewed by Vice Media,[3] Another Magazine,[4] Vox Media,[5] The Washington Post,[6] and The Boar.[7]
Episodes
Season One | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Ernst Röhm | March 19, 2019 | [8] |
| 2 | Lord Alfred Douglas | March 26, 2019 |
| 3 | T. E. Lawrence | April 2, 2019 |
| 4 | James VI and I | April 9, 2019 |
| 5 | Andrew Sullivan | April 16, 2019 |
| 6 | Anthony Blunt | April 23, 2019 |
| 7 | Friedrich Radszuweit | April 30, 2019 |
| 8 | Ronnie Kray | May 7, 2019 |
| 9 | Leopold and Loeb | May 14, 2019 |
| 10 | Roy Cohn | May 21, 2019 |
| Bonus | Andy Warhol | June 24, 2019 |
Season Two | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Alexander the Great | September 24, 2019 | [8] |
| 2 | Andrew Cunanan | October 1, 2019 |
| 3 | Pietro Aretino | October 8, 2019 |
| 4 | Frederick the Great | October 15, 2019 |
| 5 | Charles George Gordon | October 22, 2019 |
| 6 | Pim Fortuyn | October 29, 2019 |
| 7 | Nicky Crane | November 5, 2019 |
| 8 | The Stonewall Colony | November 12, 2019 |
| 9 | Piers Gaveston | November 19, 2019 |
| 10 | J. Edgar Hoover | November 27, 2019 |
| Bonus | Victor Barker | December 25, 2019 |
Season Three | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Nikolai Yezhov | March 24, 2020 | [8] |
| 2 | James Buchanan | March 31, 2020 |
| 3 | Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | April 7, 2020 |
| 4 | Barney Frank | April 14, 2020 |
| 5 | Elmyr de Hory | April 21, 2020 |
| 6 | Philip Johnson | April 28, 2020 |
| 7 | Roger Casement | May 4, 2020 |
| 8 | Aileen Wuornos | May 11, 2020 |
| 9 | Morrissey | May 19, 2020 |
| 10 | Lisa Miller | May 26, 2020 |
| Bonus | Radclyffe Hall | July 28, 2020 |
| Bonus | John Maynard Keynes | September 1, 2020 |
Season Four | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Cecil Rhodes | October 20, 2020 | [8] |
| 2 | Liberace | October 27, 2020 |
| 3 | Jeremy Thorpe | November 3, 2020 |
| 4 | Benjamin Britten | November 10, 2020 |
| 5 | Carl Van Vechten | November 17, 2020 |
| 6 | Truman Capote | November 24, 2020 |
| 7 | Prince Albert Victor | December 1, 2020 |
| 8 | Gertrude Stein | December 8, 2020 |
| 9 | Camilla Hall | December 14, 2020 |
| 10 | Violette Morris | December 22, 2020 |
| Bonus | Dennis Cooper | February 23, 2021 |
| Bonus | Arthur Gary Bishop | April 13, 2021 |
| Bonus | Pacchierotto (15th century sodomite) | August 10, 2021 |
Season Five | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Francis Bacon | December 24, 2021 | [8] |
| 2 | Joe Carstairs | January 4, 2022 |
| 3 | Ernst vom Rath | January 11, 2022 |
| 4 | Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg | January 18, 2022 |
| 5 | Anne Bonny | January 25, 2022 |
| 6 | Franco Zeffirelli | February 1, 2022 |
| 7 | Freddie Mercury | February 8, 2022 |
| 8 | Cressida Dick | February 22, 2022 |
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| 10 | John Wojtowicz | March 1, 2022 |
| 11 | Jeffrey Dahmer | March 15, 2022 |
| Bonus | Eugen Sandow | June 1, 2022 |
| Bonus | Magnus Hirschfeld | October 5, 2022 |
| Live Show | Jack Saul | December 25, |
Season Six | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | George Santos | March 20, 2023 | [8] |
| 2 | Julie d'Aubigny | March 28, 2023 |
| 3 | Jorge Horacio Ballvé Piñero | April 4, 2023 |
| 4 | Mustapha Ben Ismaïl | April 11, 2023 |
| 5 | André Gide | April 25, 2023 |
| 6 | Griselda Blanco | May 2, 2023 |
| 7 | Tom Driberg | May 9, 2023 |
| 8 | Dong Xian | May 16, 2023 |
| 9 | Tokugawa Iemitsu | May 30, 2023 |
| 10 | Benedetta Carlini | June 6, 2023 |
Season Seven | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Karl Lagerfeld | February 13, 2024 | [8] |
| 2 | Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell | February 20, 2024 |
| 3 | Ahebi Ugbabe | February 27, 2024 |
| 4 | Elagabalus | March 5, 2024 |
| 5 | James Levine | March 12, 2024 |
| 6 | John Whitgift | March 19, 2024 |
| 7 | Marthe Hanau | April 2, 2024 |
| 8 | Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah | April 9, 2024 |
| 9 | Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás | April 18, 2024 |
| 10 | Rotha Lintorn-Orman | April 25, 2024 |
| Bonus | Jerome Robbins | August 25, 3034 |
Season Eight | Episode Number | Topic | Release Date | Ref |
| 1 | Olive Yang | December 23, 2024 | [8] |
| 2 | Tom Mitford | December 30, 2024 |
| 3 | Elisar von Kupffer | January 7, 2025 |
| 4 | Albrecht Muth | January 14, 2025 |
| 5 | Reed Erickson | January 20, 2025 |
| 6 | Abd al-Ilah | January 29, 2025 |
| 7 | Larry Kramer | February 5, 2025 |
| 8 | Anne Lister | February 11, 2025 |
| 9 | Adele Spitzeder | February 19, 2025 |
| 10 | Jacques de Molay | March 11, 2025 |
References
- ^ "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History". Verso Books. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
- ^ "5 Gloriously Gay Podcasts You Need to Listen To". www.advocate.com. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ Segalov, Michael (2019-03-28). "The Podcast Shining a Light On History's 'Bad Gays'". Vice. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ Greig, James (June 10, 2022). "Why We Need to Talk About the "Bad Gays" in History Too". AnOther Magazine. Archived from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
- ^ Williams, Tim Ryan (2019-06-26). "Why we need to get to know the "bad gays" of history". Vox. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Tom; Marquez, Lorenzo (May 31, 2022). "In 'Bad Gays,' historical figures are products of their times". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
- ^ Randell, Matthew (March 18, 2024). "Bad Gays, Good Podcast". The Boar. Archived from the original on August 3, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Episodes". Bad Gays. 2024-08-25. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
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