Historical Homos

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Who Is The Motherf*cking Supreme (Court)? Jul 28, 2023

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Bash and Donal are back together again! This week we're leaving behind ancient sugar daddies to look at some of the gayest moments in the Supreme Court's history. From antisodomy laws to gay marriage – and now state-sanctioned discrimination, oh my! – the Court has had a long and bizarre history of interfering with LGBTQ+ rights. But all is not lost. The motherf*cking Supremes work in mysterious, not always terrible ways. (Sometimes they even actually do their jobs!) It's our responsibility to know what they're up to and what has changed over the past 60 years of queer liberation. Plus, we sound really hot and smart in this episode.

Historical Homos is hosted by Bash and Donal Brophy, written by Bash, edited by Alex Toskas, and executive produced by Zachary Quinto.

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Was Joan of Arc Nonbinary? (Or Just A Virgin) Jul 14, 2023

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Joan of Arc has an impressive CV: French it girl, saint, military genius (kind of?), 15th century celebrity (chic!), burned at the stake (careful, c'est chaud!), and potentially...nonbinary? Bash returns to his altar boy days to unravel the never-not-compelling, extremely unbelievable story of Joan, the Maiden of Orléans. As always, we disagree with almost everything everyone's ever said, and find an annoying way of positioning our opinion as fact, because that's what it is. #Trump2024. In summary: if you care about medieval white women AT ALL, click play.

Written and Hosted by Bash

Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto

Edited by Alex Toskas

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Do Ask, Do Tell: An Army of Ancient Greek Boyfriends Jul 07, 2023

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An ancient Greek army of...boyfriends?! You may have heard tell of it somewhere in your gay little zines and Tik Toks, but do you know the full story?

Join Bash for a bonus episode as he dives *deep* into the Sacred Band of Thebes – if only, sigh – an ancient Greek military experiment that led one city-state to total domination over her apparently-not-gay-enough neighbors. That is, until their utter annihilation at the hands of a notorious, warmongering, bisexual megalomaniac (guess who!).

Written and hosted by Bash. Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto. Edited by Alex Toskas.

P.S. Sorry about the terrible audio quality on this one. Mama will fix it for next time.

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Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West Invent the Lesbian Love Letter Jun 30, 2023

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A review of the life and loves of Virginia Woolf through her sauciest letters. 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?)

Written by Bash. Hosted by Bash and Donal Brophy. Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto. Edited by Alex Toskas.

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Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe: Who's Gayer? Jun 23, 2023

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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-loo– ahem, sorry, gay*.

Written by Bash. Hosted by Bash and Donal Brophy. Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto. Edited by Alex Toskas.

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