To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – HI GAY! Happy Pride. In hono u r of this year's festivities, we're kicking off the month with one of the more obscure Yesterqueers in the Historical Homos canon. Why? Because we can. Don't like it? You're homophobic. King Edward II was not only a massive F-slur, he was also one of the worst kings in English history. AND YEAH YOU CAN BE BOTH....
Jun 04, 2026•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 9
To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Why are gay men so loud? Science may never know. But history offers some clues. Could it be because we were monks and priests for so long? Could it be that the simple joy of discovering anal makes you want to shout? Or maybe it's because straight people have been telling us to shut up for thousands of years? Actual gay people have reacted to...
May 21, 2026•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 8
It's Trans History Week in the UK, so we're taking you back to one of our first and favourite episodes ever from Season 1. This is the unbelievably wild life story of the Chevalier d'Éon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the French Enlightenment. Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman. She later escaped the French Revolution and lived out her final days in London, writing ...
May 08, 2026•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 7
To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Why oh why are men so obsessed with our penises? Join us today as we embark on a dick-scented odyssey to answer one of the 21st century's most urgent questions. 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians said their gods' divine jizz created the world. The Egyptians agreed, worshipping the power of giant, divine cocks. Which is also why they cut their ...
Apr 23, 2026•1 hr 23 min•Season 5Ep. 6
We've got a special treat for you this week, my little Hormones! Historical Homos is proud to present this episode of the Spirits Podcast, a history and comedy pod devoted to mythology, folklore, and the occult. Every episode of the Spirits Podcast features co-hosts Julia and Amanda mixing a drink and discovering a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits. Th...
Apr 16, 2026•48 min•Season 5Ep. 5
To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Philippe d’Orléans is back! And it's no more Mr. Nice Queen thanks to his brother, Louis XIV, and his bitchass absolutist ways. In Part Two of our series on Philippe, this fabulous fuckboi nepo baby pass around party bottom of 17th century France, our hero is getting fed up with playing second fiddle. Fresh off the suspicious death (aka murder...
Apr 10, 2026•39 min•Season 5Ep. 5
To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Everyone knows about Louis XIV, the Sun King of 17th century France, who built Versailles, slept with every noblewoman in France, and invented men wearing high heels (see, straight people can do the right thing sometimes!). But did you know his brother, Philippe, was gayer than Christmas? Raised as the “spare” heir to the French throne, Philip...
Apr 10, 2026•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 4
To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos * THE ANCIENT ROMANS HAD A GOD OF BIG DICK ENERGY AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. GIRLS AND BOYS, MEET PRIAPUS. 🍆 Remember when the internet decided Pete Davidson had a giant schlong? Well, turns out people have been fantasizing about hung humans since the Ancient Romans. Everyone always complains that the marble statues of antiquity seem to ha...
Mar 19, 2026•43 min•Season 5Ep. 3
To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos When history says "they were just friends," what do we say back? We say: SHUT UP IDIOT HAVE YOU READ THEIR GAY LITTLE DIARIES? Ahem. Sorry. I get so passionate. This week's episode is about two women who lived in a castle together, wrote each other poetry, decorated each other's rooms, said they openly loved and were obsessed with one another i...
Feb 20, 2026•1 hr 24 min•Season 5Ep. 2
To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Disney sells itself as a guardian of childhood innocence and cis-het happy endings. (That's not – I didn't mean – you know what I mean.) So why did so many gay kids grow up flicking their hair back like Ariel in the hotel pool? Or mincing like Scar and shimmying with Ursula's cleavage? Above all, why did every queer child since 1998 stare in th...
Feb 06, 2026•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 1
To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Do all Christians hate gays? Amazingly: no. Despite how annoying we all are. In fact, millions and millions of Christians ARE themselves...very gay. So why is it that we automatically associate Christianity with homophobia? The answer lies in the brief, but fascinating history of gay evangelical activism you'll find in this episode. Before th...
Dec 25, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 30
To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – LEATHER. It's hot, it's taut, it's everything everybody else is not. But when did it become so big in the gay community? My guest today, Race Bannon , leather community activist and co-host of the On Guard podcast, taught me a few things I never knew about leather that I bet you don't either: 1) Leather is all about play: it seems hyper-masc and ...
Nov 27, 2025•57 min•Season 4Ep. 29
To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and mouth ajar 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Why should anyone care about a queen who lived 400 years ago and did nothing but party, spend money, and sponsor musical theatre? If I have to answer that question for you, you're in the wrong place. This week, we cover the fabulously insane world of King Christina of Sweden , the lesbian (?), trans (?), or possibly intersex (?) sovereign who abdi...
Nov 20, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 28
To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon at the link below. Our community awaits you with legs open, heart full, and mouth slightly ajar 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Welcome to the wild and infuriating world of ancient homophobia! You know how everyone thinks ancient Greece and Rome were queer free-for-alls, where all holes were goals (as long as you were a male, bisexual top) and pederasty was the only acceptable form of same-sex love between men? Yeah, well that's n...
Nov 13, 2025•59 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Why is Disney's Hercules one of the greatest LGBTQ+ films ever made? This episode attempts to answer that fraught and necessary question. As you may know, Hercules (1997) is a story about a small-town girl who goes to the big city to discover himself, become famous, land a few sponsorship deals, and build a chosen family in an imperfect world. It's like All About Eve but with much, much better music. (Though Hades and Bette Davis look uncannily alike, I'll admit.) Hercules was the first anatomic...
Nov 06, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Wait, what’s so gay about witches, you ask? First of all — sit down. When I was a young f/hag in the late ’90s, Wicca was having a moment. The Halliwell sisters ruled the WB, Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock were burying men in their back gardens, and I gobbled the GAGathon down with glee. Only later did I realize what made these witchy bitchies so alluring: it wasn’t (just) that they were different — it was that they were powerful . Outsiders who could fight back. Like the X-men...or democratic...
Oct 30, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Remember when you found out you were gay (iconic of you btw) and you thought: "Oh this is fine – I'll just have a regular heterosexual wife, a couple of kids, and a very elaborate sex life on the side." Just me? OK, fine. But the question remains: why do little gay children like me grow up assuming a straight nuclear family is our only option? Has family always been one man, one woman, and a couple of snot-nosed heirs to the milkman? This week, we’re talking to writer and educator Kirsty Loehr ,...
Oct 23, 2025•59 min•Season 4Ep. 24
"Hollywood was swarming with gay people." You know how Pedro Pascal hasn't come out yet? Well: this episode will explain why. Between the 1930s and 1960s, the Hays Code banned “sexual perversion” of all kinds from the silver screen, which (spoiler alert) meant queers. That has bequeathed us a predominantly homophobic industry in Hollywood, even if the stars and culture have always been decidedly – how do you say? – VERY GAY. This week we dive into the queerness of Hollywood’s first Golden Age. W...
Oct 16, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 23
"An important precedent was set: fascist groups will always use you until you're no longer useful to them." Welcome to one of history’s darkest (and dumbest) closets: fascists who are also, annoyingly, gay. From Hitler’s Brownshirt boy toy, Ernst Röhm , to closeted McCarthyists like Roy Cohn , to lesbian “nationalist” hypocrites like Alice Weidel — it seems that the 20th and 21st centuries gave rise not only to modern fascism, but to a couple of queer rightwing nutjobs as well. Join Bash and his...
Oct 09, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 22
What happens when a teen prodigy meets a drunk poet with a pistol in his pocket (the gun kind, not the fun kind)? Answer : extremely gay chaos. This week on Historical Homos , we’re diving into the doomed romance of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine —the most sensationally toxic boyfriends in the history of French poetry. With our guest this week, Robert St. Clair, we’ll unpack: The social revolution of the 19th century : just a fun little reminder of where class warfare was born! Rimbaud and Ver...
Oct 02, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Season 4Ep. 21
We all know James Baldwin the high priest of Civil Rights, but what about Jimmy B, the extremely horny homosexual? JB was a chain-smoking, vodka-swilling romantic who fell hard and often—usually for straight men he could never have. This week, Bash and his bestie guestie, Clark Moore, crack open Baldwin’s chaos: from his Harlem childhood all the way to his retirement villa in the South of France. Along the way we meet the English teachers who found him a pleasure to have in class, revisit the fi...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Season 4Ep. 20
"Make love, take a bath, make love again." That was Frida Kahlo’s motto—and sweetie, she LIVED by it. We all know about Frida’s messy, horny marriage to Diego “Toad Face” Rivera and her revenge fling with Leon Trotsky. But what about the women? The affairs, the crushes, the rumors, the gossip that turned her into Mexico’s most iconic bisexual? This week, we’re serving you a slutty portrait of the artist as she truly was: a fearless, flirtatious rake who let the gossip mills churn while she talli...
Sep 18, 2025•38 min•Season 4Ep. 19
"Love was the foundation of everything for Frida. This bisexuality, this eroticism was fundamental to her character." She’s on your ex-girlfriend’s tote bag, your niece’s notebook, and probably a few questionable dorm-room tapestries. But behind the unibrow is a Frida Kahlo you don’t know: a bisexual, communist, pain-embracing rascal who painted from her gut and fucked whomstsoever she pleased. This week, we’re peeling back the kitsch to get at the real Frida, with filmmaker Carla Gutierrez , di...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Powdered wigs. Satin breeches. Candlelit salons. And of course: sodomy . This week we’re swanning back into Georgian England (1714–1837), a century of empire, cholera, imperialism, and very flouncy coats – but also one of the gayest domestic revolutions in history. With special guest Dr. Anthony Delaney (author of Queer Georgians , out today!), we explore the LGBTQIA+ pioneers who didn’t just hook up in parks or "molly houses," but built full-fledged homes, lives, and legacies together. Inside t...
Sep 04, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 17
The Dark Ages: Rome has fallen, the Church won't shut the fuck up, there's a killer plague for every season, and everyone else is dying of BOREDOM. Right? WRONG. Western Europe may have been a shitshow for much of what we ridiculously call the "Dark Ages," but the rest of the world had its act together. Specifically: Baghdad around the 800s AD. At the height of the Golden Age of Islam. They had libraries, they had mathematics, and...they had lesbian sex scientists. This week we’re taking a tanta...
Aug 30, 2025•36 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Welcome to The Hanky Code, aka Grindr for Boomers. Following on from our cruise through history last week, we've delved deeper into the notorious handkerchief code. The code was a form of flagging, which used different coloured bandanas to signal sexual / kink preferences. In this bonus Quickie episode, Bash unpacks the extremely colourful history of flagging—from gay Gold Rush cowboys to scrappy leather entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Along the way, we learn: How a 1923 law in New York basicall...
Aug 21, 2025•35 min•Season 15Ep. 15
You know the feeling: when you lock eyes and the look lingers just a little too long. His hand brushes over his fly. And boom! A small smile confirms it: You're about to be cruising, my king! And all it took was a public park, centuries of sexual shame, and a little bit of courage to get you there... Now it's no surprise that the elegant and much-envied act of Fucking in Public has been around for thousands of years. But how did the "radical pastime" of modern-day cruising develop? Why did men s...
Aug 14, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 14Ep. 14
He fiddled while Rome burned. He married two men. He may even have kicked his pregnant wife to death. But he ALSO invented animal pelt kink, so could he have been THAT BAD?! This week, Bash is joined by classicist and queer historian, Professor Andrew Lear, to discuss the scandalous, salacious, and slanderous life of Emperor Nero — Ancient Rome’s most notorious bisexual bad boy. From castrating (and marrying) his wife’s male doppelgänger to "mauling" strangers’ crotches in animal pelts, the stor...
Aug 07, 2025•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 13
🏴☠️ Before there was BRAT, there were Butt Pirates. 🏴☠️ This week we're hoisting our slutty sails – that's what I call my underpants – to plunder the treacherous homosexual deep, with pirate historian and author Dr. Rebecca Simon ( Pirate Queens ; The Pirate’s Code ) to answer the age-old question: Why are men on a ship always kinda gay? First of all, when we say "pirate," we mean the real 17th- and 18th-century swashbucklers who sailed the high seas. This is not Johnny Depp in eyeliner, but...
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Leonardo da Vinci? More like Leonardo da Fist Me . We've all heard of the man behind the Mona Lisa. But did you know he was also one of Florence's sodomitical sweethearts? In this episode, we pull back the vajazzled curtain on Leonardo da Vinci to reveal a homo neither tormented nor repressed, suffering dramatically for his art, but a messy, charismatic, and brilliant dilettante obsessed with the world. More than anything, Leonardo cared about curiosity. He was fascinated more by the world than ...
Jul 24, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 11
