Episode dedicated to the "Einstein of Sex," the great Magnus Hirschfeld, the German Jewish homosexual doctor pursued relentlessly by the Nazis for advocating for the rights of homosexuals and women and for his studies on human sexuality. His legacy, which continues the research of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, extends to this day, making him a fundamental figure in the history of LGBTI community rights and human rights. Fortunately, he was able to escape Germany and died in France.

The playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bsbRkcZJLHS1pTbGritsE?si=V3xp_S3sTNmfSFE83r9bJg

Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs was the first LGBTQ+ activist as we know it today, determined to pave the way for the rest of us, in his time and in the future, and to convince everyone that our nature wasn't a perversion. He clashed with everyone, and he was treated poorly, but nobody is a prophet in their homeland. Therefore, he ended his days in Italy, respected and recognized. His was the first Pride; let's never forget that.

The music, from Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other contemporaries, is on this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Ggp6uWdoD4fniGmZkn8EB?si=JHzgc2QPQJSaERt15LyC9Q

Sir Isaac Newton did not have the best childhood in the world, nor the best love life, but he laid the foundations for scientific thought and also developed infinitesimal calculus, something that is of no use to philologists and historians but is to the rest of humanity. So, thank you, Newton, for calculus and for having been one of us.

The playlist for this episode's music is on Spotify, as always, at this link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1n23nYDkXMhxdJIrIol6ye?si=bCrta87sSXOyTU_MZCa7iw

King of Prussia, with a father who was a monster and ordered the execution of Frederick's love in a cruel and horrible manner. An enlightened monarch and very close to Voltaire, despite the tricks the French philosopher played on him! Oh, and he was also a composer and flutist, as well as an admirer of J.S. Bach!

This week's playlist, as always, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5raF7QxaVXFOJackMMb5nb?si=CS526ccIQ7itNvAYyTLQUg

Today's episode is especially musical, as the ballet scores Tchaikovsky wrote couldn't be more renowned: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker... and a quite intense life, filled with homosexual romances and testimonies documented in his letters and diaries, even though his biographers in his homeland, Russia, insist on denying the evidence.

This week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7wdD8FhiE5jaLq2BCGAQCJ?si=5uUWmed9TN6c-adm0ZePZw

In this episode, our sixth one, we discuss the most famous comedic actor of the Spanish Golden Age, the witty Cosme Pérez, better known as Juan Rana. Such an exceptional actor and even better comedian that even kings boasted of having him at their service, which is why he was spared from the Inquisition taking care of him due to the heinous sin he practiced, that is, for being homosexual.

The playlist with the music from this episode is as follows: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6D0RaZ4hUE9RrFLjfNuc8x?si=0at_pr9tTLesQ7DCj1My5w

Fifth episode, dedicated to the one they called Doña Paquita and Paquito Natillas, among other things, grandson of Charles V and king consort due to his marriage to Queen Isabel II. A homosexual by birth and cuckold by profession, he ended up exiled in Paris but in loving company, and not of the queen, but of Antonio Meneses, Chief of the Royal House for whatever was needed.

Today's music playlist is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5TuSMTUzOu7q7OfmK9oCVq?si=1YqWdDq0SZmYROM_sfitcA

Fourth episode of our lost, forgotten, or closeted homosexuals, today dedicated to the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, creator of tenebrism and whose life also had lights and shadows everywhere, not just the artistic, but also the personal. He died too young and, despite that, probably did not leave a pretty corpse.

This week's playlist can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MncnvN51meCQwD1fAEztK?si=8M6W4YGnTnOoiywv-pFB4Q

Third episode of our series dedicated to homosexuals lost in history. Today, one of the most important figures in world literature, the Bard of Avon, as Shakespeare is known by his compatriots, and, to the dismay of his scholars, it seems that the boy wasn't so heterosexual after all and that, when it comes to bedroom entanglements, those in his works paled in comparison.

The playlist with the music used today can be found on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/38u0BKFwjuDV1J3GxvNizA?si=UI77Cx7TRIKmZbe89z4BkA

Second episode of our great counterparts, this time dedicated to Michelangelo, the very famous Italian Renaissance artist who has suffered the heterosexual whitewashing of his figure until, oh, surprise someone began to research the life of the painter and his writings... A fantasy.

The playlist of the music used on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zrEqGQIPOu5f7pITyaXTv?si=a__UHmWkTGOFymX6LzuSsA