
Historical Homos
Season 1
20234 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Toxic Boyfriends of Greek Mythology: Part the First
2023-06-09 · 45m
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.
- E2
Le Chevalier d'Éon: From Russia With Mess... in a Dress
2023-06-16 · 60m
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.
- E3
William Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe: Who's Gayer?
2023-06-23
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.
- E4
V on V: The Very Sapphic Story of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
2023-06-30
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?)
