Bad Gays

Bad Gays
Presentation
Hosted by
  • Huw Lemmey
  • Ben Miller
Genre
  • LGBTQ
  • history
  • human interest
  • culture
LanguageEnglish
UpdatesFortnightly
Length45–90 minutes (approximate)
Publication
Original releaseApril 19, 2019 (2019-04-19)
Related
Websitebadgayspod.com

Bad Gays is a queer history podcast about "evil and complicated queers" in history hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller.

About

Each episode of Bad Gays explores the story of a complicated queer person in history.

Lemmy and Miller also wrote a book, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History based on the podcast. It is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook and is published by Verso Books.[1]

Reception

The Advocate listed Bad Gays in its 2023 list of "Five Gloriously Gay Podcasts You Need To Listen To."[2] Bad Gays was also reviewed by Vice Media,[3] Another Magazine,[4] Vox Media,[5] The Washington Post,[6] and The Boar.[7]

Episodes

Season One
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Ernst Röhm March 19, 2019 [8]
2 Lord Alfred Douglas March 26, 2019
3 T. E. Lawrence April 2, 2019
4 James VI and I April 9, 2019
5 Andrew Sullivan April 16, 2019
6 Anthony Blunt April 23, 2019
7 Friedrich Radszuweit April 30, 2019
8 Ronnie Kray May 7, 2019
9 Leopold and Loeb May 14, 2019
10 Roy Cohn May 21, 2019
Bonus Andy Warhol June 24, 2019
Season Two
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Alexander the Great September 24, 2019 [8]
2 Andrew Cunanan October 1, 2019
3 Pietro Aretino October 8, 2019
4 Frederick the Great October 15, 2019
5 Charles George Gordon October 22, 2019
6 Pim Fortuyn October 29, 2019
7 Nicky Crane November 5, 2019
8 The Stonewall Colony November 12, 2019
9 Piers Gaveston November 19, 2019
10 J. Edgar Hoover November 27, 2019
Bonus Victor Barker December 25, 2019
Season Three
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Nikolai Yezhov March 24, 2020 [8]
2 James Buchanan March 31, 2020
3 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh April 7, 2020
4 Barney Frank April 14, 2020
5 Elmyr de Hory April 21, 2020
6 Philip Johnson April 28, 2020
7 Roger Casement May 4, 2020
8 Aileen Wuornos May 11, 2020
9 Morrissey May 19, 2020
10 Lisa Miller May 26, 2020
Bonus Radclyffe Hall July 28, 2020
Bonus John Maynard Keynes September 1, 2020
Season Four
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Cecil Rhodes October 20, 2020 [8]
2 Liberace October 27, 2020
3 Jeremy Thorpe November 3, 2020
4 Benjamin Britten November 10, 2020
5 Carl Van Vechten November 17, 2020
6 Truman Capote November 24, 2020
7 Prince Albert Victor December 1, 2020
8 Gertrude Stein December 8, 2020
9 Camilla Hall December 14, 2020
10 Violette Morris December 22, 2020
Bonus Dennis Cooper February 23, 2021
Bonus Arthur Gary Bishop April 13, 2021
Bonus Pacchierotto (15th century sodomite) August 10, 2021
Season Five
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Francis Bacon December 24, 2021 [8]
2 Joe Carstairs January 4, 2022
3 Ernst vom Rath January 11, 2022
4 Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg January 18, 2022
5 Anne Bonny January 25, 2022
6 Franco Zeffirelli February 1, 2022
7 Freddie Mercury February 8, 2022
8 Cressida Dick February 22, 2022
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10 John Wojtowicz March 1, 2022
11 Jeffrey Dahmer March 15, 2022
Bonus Eugen Sandow June 1, 2022
Bonus Magnus Hirschfeld October 5, 2022
Live Show Jack Saul December 25,
Season Six
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 George Santos March 20, 2023 [8]
2 Julie d'Aubigny March 28, 2023
3 Jorge Horacio Ballvé Piñero April 4, 2023
4 Mustapha Ben Ismaïl April 11, 2023
5 André Gide April 25, 2023
6 Griselda Blanco May 2, 2023
7 Tom Driberg May 9, 2023
8 Dong Xian May 16, 2023
9 Tokugawa Iemitsu May 30, 2023
10 Benedetta Carlini June 6, 2023
Season Seven
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Karl Lagerfeld February 13, 2024 [8]
2 Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell February 20, 2024
3 Ahebi Ugbabe February 27, 2024
4 Elagabalus March 5, 2024
5 James Levine March 12, 2024
6 John Whitgift March 19, 2024
7 Marthe Hanau April 2, 2024
8 Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah April 9, 2024
9 Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás April 18, 2024
10 Rotha Lintorn-Orman April 25, 2024
Bonus Jerome Robbins August 25, 3034
Season Eight
Episode Number Topic Release Date Ref
1 Olive Yang December 23, 2024 [8]
2 Tom Mitford December 30, 2024
3 Elisar von Kupffer January 7, 2025
4 Albrecht Muth January 14, 2025
5 Reed Erickson January 20, 2025
6 Abd al-Ilah January 29, 2025
7 Larry Kramer February 5, 2025
8 Anne Lister February 11, 2025
9 Adele Spitzeder February 19, 2025
10 Jacques de Molay March 11, 2025

References

  1. ^ "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History". Verso Books. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  2. ^ "5 Gloriously Gay Podcasts You Need to Listen To". www.advocate.com. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  3. ^ Segalov, Michael (2019-03-28). "The Podcast Shining a Light On History's 'Bad Gays'". Vice. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  4. ^ Greig, James (June 10, 2022). "Why We Need to Talk About the "Bad Gays" in History Too". AnOther Magazine. Archived from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  5. ^ Williams, Tim Ryan (2019-06-26). "Why we need to get to know the "bad gays" of history". Vox. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  6. ^ Fitzgerald, Tom; Marquez, Lorenzo (May 31, 2022). "In 'Bad Gays,' historical figures are products of their times". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  7. ^ Randell, Matthew (March 18, 2024). "Bad Gays, Good Podcast". The Boar. Archived from the original on August 3, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h "Episodes". Bad Gays. 2024-08-25. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
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