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Vampires are pretty gay. But have they always been? In this episode, Dany and Claire trace the vampire from plague-era folklore to the seductive aristocrat of the 19th century, and ask why the monster picked up its queer charge when it did.

In this episode, Dany has collected 6 short stories from across history and around the world to share with everyone.

Dany and Claire head to Munich, 1867 to explore the impact on early queer liberation by two men, each named Karl, who had two very different approaches to the question of gay legality during the era of German reunification.

On a quiet October night in 1776, a young woman dies of typhus. What they do next is fascinating. In this episode, Dany and Claire go back 250 years to the founding of the US to meet the enigmatic Public Universal Friend.

For this Pride month special episode, Dany and Claire park the time machine at home for some yearly maintenance and take a look back at some of their favorite episodes over the past year. Join them as they discuss what they liked, what they'd do differently, and what they're looking forward to in the future.

In 1886, a Zuni lhamana named We'wha shook hands with President Grover Cleveland, performed a sacred solstice ceremony on the National Mall, and charmed Washington society for six months — and not one person in that city had the vocabulary to understand who they were actually meeting. Dany and Claire explore the life of the most famous lhamana in history, the Zuni philosophy of balance and gender, and what it means that our culture still struggles to hold identities that other cultures have honored for centuries.

BREAKING NEWS: The IOC has restricted transgender athletes from future competition, citing a longstanding crisis of fairness. To explore how deep this crisis goes, we explore an exhaustive list of all openly transgender Olympians.

Dany and Claire spend some time in the Washington D.C. of the 1950s and take a long, hard look at the Cold War’s other social panic: The Lavender Scare.

It's the 90's, baby! And the queer community is evolving thanks to a little thing called "The Internet." Join Dany and Claire in a corner internet cafe as they learn all about the (queer) history of the internet and why the modern queer community wouldn't exist without it.

It’s festival season in Medieval Europe, and for the first episode of season 2, Dany and Claire take a moment to see how queerness and class struggle are inherently linked. Because history shows that when hierarchies get restrictive, gender gets weird.