Historical Homos

Season 1

2023 · 4 episodes · 1h 45m in all

Episodes

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   1. Toxic Boyfriends of Greek Mythology: Part the First

   9 Jun 2023 · 45 min

   Buckle up for one of the most infamous - and lesser-known - gay couples in Greek mythology: Zeus and Ganymede, originators of the divine Daddy-Twink dichotomy. We'll discover what these myths tell us about ancient Greek homosexuality IRL, and how they provided much-needed PR for the complex reality between mortal sheets.

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   2. Le Chevalier d'Éon: From Russia With Mess... in a Dress

   16 Jun 2023 · 60 min

   The unbelievably wild and weird life story of the Chevalier d'Éon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the Enlightenment. Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman.

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   3. William Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe: Who's Gayer?

   23 Jun 2023

   William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe: brilliant dramatists and...bisexuals? We unpack the rumors, the hearsay and the straight-up gay poems that suggest these titans of English literature were also really, really, ridiculously (good-looking) gay.

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   4. V on V: The Very Sapphic Story of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

   30 Jun 2023

   A review of the life and loves of Virginia Woolf. We dive deep into her affair with Vita Sackville-West, leading London lesbian of her day, and relive the parties thrown by the Bloomsbury Set, a group of young Modernists who continued the British tradition of plumbing the nation's bottomless depths of homosexuality. (Or should we say bottom-full?)