The Gay Files

The Gay Files

By David Blanco & Andrew HowatsonComedyHistory
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The Gay Files episodes

  • Case 10: Willem Arondeus

    Did you know that homosexuality has been legal in the Netherlands since 1811?

    Did you know that there was an out gay scene in Amsterdam in the first 30 years of the 20th Century?

    Join us as we take a trip through history to look at the life and times of Willem Arondeus - now recognised for his bravery in Nazi occupied Amsterdam.

     

    17 min
  • Case 7: King Ludwig

    King Ludwig II - also known a the 'Fairy Tale King'  - is most remembered for the castles he ordered built and his adoration of composer Richard Wagner.

    Join us and our wonderful guest Hayden as we take a look at the life of King Ludwig as well as ghost Coca-Cola trucks, accents and erotic poetry.

    26 min
  • Case 6: Lady of the Dunes

    1970s Provincetown was fast becoming a gay mecca. The mysterious finding of an unidentified shakes a nation. Who was the Lady of the Dunes and what is the LGBT connection? 

    33 min
  • Case 5: Ladies of Llangollen

    Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women whose relationship during the late 18th and early 19th century fascinated their contemporaries.

    We take you to North Wales to uncover the story of their lives in the 1700s & 1800s. As well as checking in on Eleanor and Sarah to see where they are in 2018...!

    26 min

About The Gay Files

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The Gay Files will focus on crime, conspiracies, cults and ghosts. Extraordinary true stories involving LGBT people that have shook the world.