What if it's actually your butthole that will lead the revolution? This week, we're getting penetratingly political with writer and podcaster Josh Rivers ( Busy Being Black ), as we explore the radical legacy of Mario Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism . Here's the thing: Capitalism doesn't just steal your time and money—it also reinforces the gender binary, nuclear families, and heterosexual urges (which are totally normal to have!). It turns out Capitalism is extremely tied up in our sex ...
May 29, 2025•52 min•Season 4Ep. 1
We're back my little Hormones! Join Bash and his heavy flow of genius guests this season for another no-fucks-given romp through humanity's Big Gay Past. (We all have one!) Come for the history, stay for the laughs, and if you're lucky, leave with a boner. Please note: Erectile Gift With Purchase (EGWP) not guaranteed. First cum, first served. We'll be penetrating your tight little earholes – with consent – on May 29, 2025. Hit that follow/subscribe button, so you don't miss a thing. Love you......
May 27, 2025•4 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Happy Hole-idays, my little Hormones! For our last episode of the year, we welcome Coco, the Time Traveling Slut, into your tight little earholes to answer some eternally pressing questions: Where do sluts come from? Have gay men always been promiscuous? Have lesbians not? Who were the greatest skanks in history? And why can't women f*ck in peace, for once, generally speaking, like ever? From the original Biblical temptress, (St)Eve, to Julius Caesar, Charles II, and Marie Antoinette, we take yo...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 24
“Being transgender is the least important thing about me. I’m a person. I’m just a perso n” – Conner, 18, college student from Ohio Ever wondered what it’s like to be a trans kid in America today? (Hint: it f*cking sucks.) Groups on the right and their politicians use trans kids as pawns in the political game of vote and media attention. And they love to act like trans kids are an anomaly of modern woke leftists. But actually trans youth have been around for centuries in America. And when you he...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Quit playing with your Lincoln log and listen up , because President Abraham Lincoln is here, he's queer, and we all better get used to it! Lincoln is commonly called the greatest president in American history: but what if he was also frequently in love with men? What if he slept with them in bed for years of his life? What if he had moved to Fire Island, fallen in love with Bowen Yang, and roamed the beaches like a giant gay giraffe? Shaun Peterson is the director, writer, and producer of a pro...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 20
"I live life in the margins of society. And the rules of normal society don't apply in the margins." Welcome to the saucy, scandalous slag-paradise that is Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)! Tamara was a Polish-born aristocrat, bisexual painter, and Art Deco diva who took Paris by storm in the 1920s after escaping the Russian Revolution. She was known for her hunger, a deep yearning to become a great artist and gobble up anything and everyone who stood in her path. (Including her husband! Move out ...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Wait, why are mermaids so gay? It turns out everyone’s favorite sea-gals have been floating around for millennia, from ancient Syrian mer-goddesses to medieval water witches, all the way up to Princess Ariel. But how did these dangerous divas of the deep become the sympathetic heroines we love and cherish today? What is it about mermaids that makes them such magnets for LGBTQ+ symbolism? Join me and Sacha Coward, author of Queer As Folklore , as we unpack the myth, the magic, and the mer- MAN of...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 18
How do you start a renaissance? The one woman who knows - Beyoncé - was unavailable to answer my questions. So instead, we've gone back to 1920s Harlem this week, to figure out the good gay truth. It turns out the Harlem Renaissance was a lot more queer than we learned in school. And half of its greatest luminaries, who represented a major step forward in Black queer history, have been largely forgotten today. Three of them are the focus of this week's episode: Alain LeRoy Locke, Gladys Bentley,...
Oct 17, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 19
“I wake up cold, I who Prospered through dreams of heat Wake to their residue, Sweat, and a clinging sheet.” (The Man with Night Sweats , Thom Gunn, 1992) Never heard of Thom Gunn? Me neither! That's because straight people want to destroy us. Thom was one of the great poets of the 20th century, up there with Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. But he's scarcely remembered in the 21st century, because he was: gay. (end of list) Join us as we explore Thom's leather-harnessed and LSD-fueled life as a po...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 18
"'Cosmus is a great big cinaedus. He keeps his legs apart and sucks d!ck.' ... I believe that's almost a direct paraphrase." – Professor Tom Sapsford, quoting Ancient Roman graffiti about my biological ancestors Kinaidos (or cinaedus in Latin) was the Ancient Greek word for a depraved, unmanly man who liked to get railed. (LIKE MEEEEE.) Since then, the kinaidos has been used and abused by scholars of classical antiquity for centuries. (LIKE MEEEEE.) Some say he never existed and is more akin to ...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 24 min
“Who knows how many holes actually started wars in Japan…I’m sure many.” – Dylan Adler , Japanese-Jewish comedian to the stars! Join us this week on a rip-roaring ride through Japan's hole-tighteningly gay history. From Buddhist pederasts to sissy samurais and beyond, we explore the kimonos, the scroll paintings, and yes, the hemorrhoidal humor that sustained Japanese homosexuality for over 1,000 years. My guest and I will also – because everyone keeps asking! – give you a full run-down on how t...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 11 min
I've been talking about gay men for FAR too many episodes recently, so please enjoy this summer repeat of one of my favorite episodes ever from Season 1, with my former co-host Donal Brophy. Virginia Woolf is the more famous author today, but back in the 1920s and 30s, it was her lover and socialite-best-friend (God I need one of those), Vita Sackville-West, who was the celebrity. Virginia and Vita fell in love quickly, and throughout their long friendship – THEY WERE ROOMMATES – they wrote inte...
Aug 22, 2024•58 min
Is it toxic for a Roman emperor to steal a child from his home, give him all the riches of the world, groom him, and then maybe ask him to kill himself so that he can live? That is what we seek to uncover. The Emperor Hadrian (AD 76 - 138) was one of the not-too-f*cked-up emperors. He liked soldiering but not war, astrology, being gay, hunting, and doing architecture. Trust me, there were a lot worse before him. But how are we to understand the notorious tale of his beloved Antinous, whom he whi...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Get in b*tch, we're having an Ancient Greek kiki! We're back, baby! Join us as we navigate the wine-dark and wine-soaked symposia of Ancient Greece, to discover what exactly was so gay about these all-male drinking parties. (Hint: a lot.) We cover ancient party planning, gay glassware, reclining etiquette, drunken flirting, and all the subtle arts of homosexual entertaining you need to host a horny soirée 2,500 years ago. My guest Cosima Carnegie is a champion of the Classics in life and on soci...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Historical Homos is celebrating its one year anniversary! Like any Mother worth her salt, I forgot my child was turning 1 last month. It's been one year of Historical Homos, and there have been so many milestones, amazing episodes, dramas, traumas, small wins, and long mental health breaks that it feels like my baby child should be shipping off to college TOMORROW. That said – I am thrilled to share we added lots of new subscribers last month and I am even more thrilled to welcome them – you – t...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min
For more from Historical Homos, you can join our cult at www.historicalhomos.com and follow us on Instagram and TikTok . If you like what you hear, please leave us a five star rating on Apple or Spotify. Do it. Yeahhhhhh just like that. This episode was written and researched by Bash, hosted by Bash, and edited by Alex Toskas. Guest host: Andrew Lear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr 32 min
"There are a particular gang of sodomitical wretches in this town..." Did you ever wonder why British men are always just a little...you know...? Well, in truth, it's because 300 years ago they invented being a "gentleman" (gay) who doesn't work (GAY) and just wants nicer things (GAY GAY GAY!). But round about the same time the British invented being British – a.k.a. the early 18th century – London was also home to the aforementioned "gang" of gay men who challenged traditional notions of mascul...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 35 min
"All male, all-whale orgies"...need I say more? We're back with another extra special episode for Pride Month 2024! And this one is a DOOZY, my little Hormones. First of all, let me just say..."You know you're gay right?" That's my impression of me talking to every living animal on this good, green Earth. Because it turns out animals have been gay for millennia (stop copying me, guys!), and human animals have known about it forever. Not least my new best friends, Laine and Owen, who are the host...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 31 min
"Gay didn't always exist, but 'bottom' kind of did!" How did people douche back in the day? Did they have lube? And how'd they find other gays to get off with? In a turn of events that will shock absolutely no one, history is FULL of queer men doing the deed. We boinked, we douched, we lubed, we bathed, and we cruised – long before today's modern luxuries, like running water...or Gun Oil. Join me and my fabulous guest, Alex Hall, creator of The Bottom's Digest , on this magical tour of history's...
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 43 min
"And what we have to get into our heads, although it is difficult, is that [the] glamour of love, odd as it may sound, is just as much present between two homosexuals as it is between a man and a woman." - Lord Brabazon of Tara, House of Lords, December 1957 What was it like to be a (practicing) gay man in London after the Second World War? I thought you'd never ask... The short answer: not great! But like everything in life, it wasn't all doom and gloom OR butterflies and rainbows. It was a dan...
May 30, 2024•1 hr 30 min
PERIOD PIECE is back! Lucy returns, with her flow in tow, for another historical film that I mansplain to her because education 👏 never 👏 stops. This month, we're digging into MAESTRO , Bradley Cooper's biopic about the glorious, complicated, and very gay star conductor of the 20th century: Leonard Bernstein. Lenny was so much more than Gigi Hadid's boyfriend shows us. His life was full of fame and cocaine and fabulous people, yes, but he also struggled with his identity and image as a father,...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 29 min
"Saint Sebastian is really just a Bored Office Twink." – R. Eric Thomas (April 2024) Welcome to the wildly erotic, superheroic world of Saint Sebastian, who was initially martyred as a rugged Roman soldier before he blossomed into the lithe, Lana-Del-Rey-loving twink we cherish today. Scientists now know it was the extremely gay Italian Renaissance that decided Saint Sebastian should ALWAYS be painted with skimpy loincloths and penetrative arrows, leaving 80% of any canvas to be devoted entirely...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 25 min
"And it is well-known that the King of England f*cks the Duke of Buckingham." – Theophile de Viau (1628) If you've been watching Mary & George on STARZ, then you must be desperate to know how much of it is true. And the answer, my curious queers, is: a lot! George Villiers, the scheming twink who dominated King James I's court, was hot and 100% DTF. He won titles, land, and money for himself by sacrificing these gay virtues at the altar of the king's pleasure. But who was George the man? Was...
May 01, 2024•52 min
Long live Queen James I of England! James, as our guest Guy Branum notes this week, was always a little “dyke-y”. Obsessed with love and relationships, she ruled Scotland and England entirely from her heart – and through her loins. James was known above all for promoting his male favourites to intolerable positions of power and wealth. The rest of the court loathed these scheming twinks. But George Villiers, the most successful of them all, was particularly devastating to James’ credibility. Tun...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Welcome to our queer book club! Here's your cat and gluten-free martini, please have a seat. This week we're discussing Virginia Woolf's suicide (it's my Roman Empire), giant red leather dildos, and the realization that sex between women may be the greatest threat to masculinity in 10,000 years. You'll find it all and more, you greedy guts, in our hilarious and fascinating interview with Kirsty Loehr , the author and queer historian behind A Short History of Queer Women . Kirsty's 2,500-year rom...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Historical Homos is back! This week we cover George Sand, who was, get this, a woman! And a writer! And queer! George wrote over 70 novels and plays between 1804 and 1876, during which she witnessed the rise and fall of SEVEN political regimes in France. When she wasn't busy writing about women's oppression and worker's rights, she was actively rubbing shoulders (and genitals) with Paris' liberal media elite. And she did it all traipsing around in men's clothes, bedding a hot actress named Marie...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 28 min
While Lucy is off gallivanting in Europe this week, spreading hetero cheer to the needy, we invited our dear friend, Rachel Joravsky , to talk about a fascinating, but oft-overlooked group: Ancient. Jewish. Lesbians. Rachel is a TV writer, comedian, activist, educator, and self-acclaimed power Jewess, so naturally we took a gay look together at The Book of Ruth (shout out to all the Ketuvim) to discuss what could possibly be so gay about two women living together and raising a baby on their farm...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to PERIOD PIECE , our new monthly feature where Lucy is on her period and Bash makes her watch a historical film. Because education 👏 never 👏 stops. This week, we're reviewing an old favorite called "The Favourite" (God, I'm a poet). Starring Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, and Emma Stone, this sultry romp follows an alleged love triangle that rocked 18th century England. It's the story of Queen Anne, last royal of the Stuart line, and the rugmunching rivalry of her court favorites: Sarah...
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Where the F do gendered bathrooms come from? To literally no one’s surprise, public bathrooms only became available to people who are not cis men a couple hundred years ago. Because guess what? If you can't pee in public, you can't BE in public for very long. The lack of public restrooms for women in particular has been a central and often-overlooked foundation of the patriarchy, which demands that women stay at home. But people (read: conservatives) have also used the public restroom to attack ...
Nov 20, 2023•49 min
Wilkommen, bienvenue! Actually just bienvenue. Because yes, we are once again plunging you into another insufferably French episode, where Bash and Lucy compete for the "Best Francophone" Award no one offered. This week, we examine the life, luxuries, and labial exploits of Françoise Raucourt , one of 18th century Paris' most iconic lesbian actresses. La Raucourt catapulted to fame at the age of 16, and stayed in the public eye plus ou moins for the next 40 years. Renowned for her lavish spendin...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 2 min
