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Bad Gays

A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com

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J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

The other polestar of human evil. "Justice is incidental to law and order." Johnny and Clyde.  ----more---- SOURCES: J... Read more

27 Nov 2019

58mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 3: Lawrence of Arabia

Episode 3: Lawrence of Arabia

We take a look at the fascinating life of T. E. Lawrence: poet, archaeologist, sadomasochist, and agent of Arab self-det... Read more

2 Apr 2019

40mins

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Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Season 2! The Greek Vice. Our first evil twink! Plutarch! Prophecies of world domination! Conquests of Persia! Pan-helle... Read more

24 Sep 2019

42mins

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Episode 4: James VI and I

Episode 4: James VI and I

If you liked Yiorgos Lanthinos' court psychodrama The Favourite, you'll love this exploration of the complicated life of... Read more

9 Apr 2019

38mins

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Episode 5: Andrew Sullivan

Episode 5: Andrew Sullivan

It's Andrew Sullivan: the gay catholic conservative journalist, supporter of race science, inventor of gay marriage, and... Read more

16 Apr 2019

41mins

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James Buchanan

James Buchanan

The United States of America's first gay – and worst – President. This bumbling slaveholder collaborated with the Confed... Read more

31 Mar 2020

1hr 4mins

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Episode 10: Roy Cohn

Episode 10: Roy Cohn

The Polestar Of Human Evil.  Stay tuned to this feed for Season 2 coming late summer/early fall; and special episodes fe... Read more

21 May 2019

37mins

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Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great

Enlightenment monarch! Composer of hundreds of flute concertos. Emerged from the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire" to c... Read more

15 Oct 2019

42mins

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Nicky Crane

Nicky Crane

A young white London lad driven by a passion for extreme violence and racial hatred, who climbed pretty easily through t... Read more

5 Nov 2019

1hr 2mins

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Special Episode: Andy Warhol (with Sholem Krishtalka)

Special Episode: Andy Warhol (with Sholem Krishtalka)

For the first of our very special interview episodes, we welcome the artist and writer Sholem Krishtalka to talk about A... Read more

24 Jun 2019

49mins

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Iowa Caucuses Special: Pete Buttigieg

Iowa Caucuses Special: Pete Buttigieg

With special guests Mac Folkes and Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire), Ben explores the life story, politics, and cultural phe... Read more

29 Jan 2020

1hr 33mins

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Gordon of Khartoum

Gordon of Khartoum

A colonialist and conqueror, upholder of ideals of English masculinity, and religious fanatic; possessed of a powerful d... Read more

22 Oct 2019

1hr

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Andrew Cunanan

Andrew Cunanan

"The man who shot Versace." Vague intimations of homosexuality as a form of bloody death. A pure expression of the poiso... Read more

1 Oct 2019

44mins

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Episode 8: Ronnie Kray

Episode 8: Ronnie Kray

He was a a thug, a bully, and a murderer who made himself a British popular hero. He was a friend of Judy Garland and Fr... Read more

7 May 2019

37mins

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Episode 6: Sir Antony Blunt

Episode 6: Sir Antony Blunt

Cambridge-educated art historian, Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, expert in French baroque art – and soviet spy? We prof... Read more

23 Apr 2019

43mins

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Piers Gaveston

Piers Gaveston

The namesake of the secret dining society at Oxford where David Cameron may or may not have committed unspeakable acts w... Read more

19 Nov 2019

46mins

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The Stonewall Colony

The Stonewall Colony

What happens when a political analysis that comes out of the politics of alliance ends up departing from alliance: in ot... Read more

12 Nov 2019

55mins

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Episode 7: Friedrich Radszuweit

Episode 7: Friedrich Radszuweit

Born in 1876,Weimar-era gay publisher and activist Friedrich Radszuweit joined public gay life in 1923, when he founded ... Read more

30 Apr 2019

42mins

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Episode 9: Leopold and Loeb

Episode 9: Leopold and Loeb

They were young, rich, and in love in the Jazz Age – until they killed their neighbor just to prove they could get away ... Read more

14 May 2019

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Pim Fortuyn

Pim Fortuyn

The fairy godmother of the new European far-right. A vile racist named "The Greatest Dutchman of All Time" in a 2004 TV ... Read more

29 Oct 2019

48mins

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