Historical Homos

Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were big stars in their own day, and hundred years later they've got BIOPICS on Netflix and HBO. This is what bisexuality can do for you! Join us as we dig into the lives, songs, and loves of these two remarkable Black women. Renowned for their musical talent and big personalities, Ma and Bessie became the first record stars of 1920s America. The Great Depression ruined everything as usual – selfish! – but not before Ma and Bessie had their fill of bathtub gin, husbands, cold cash, and yes, chorus-girl-pu$$y.

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This episode of Historical Homos is hosted by Bash and Donal Brophy, written and researched by Bash, and edited by Alex Toskas.

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Hatshepsut was one of the more successful pharaohs of New Kingdom Egypt, mostly because she was hell-bent on being known as a he. In an era when ruling was synonymous with penis-having, Hatsephsut created multiple propaganda campaigns to cast herself in the role of divine male ruler. And yet, despite the many breastless and bearded statues she commissioned, Hattie retained many feminine aspects of her royal personality. What does it all mean? Who was this #boygirlboss of Ancient Egypt? And can we all get a promotion by changing our pronouns? (The answer is yes.)

This episode of Historical Homos was hosted and written by Bash, executive produced by Zachary Quinto, and edited by Alex Toskas.

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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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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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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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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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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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The unbelievably wild and weird life story of the Chevalier d'Éon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the French Enlightenment. Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman.

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

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Buckle up for one of the most infamous – and lesser-known – gay couples in Greek mythology: Zeus and Ganymede, originators of the divine Daddy-Twink dichotomy. We'll discover what these myths tell us about ancient Greek homosexuality IRL, and how they provided much-needed PR for the complex reality between mortals' sheets.

Hosted by Bash and Donal Brophy. Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto.

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