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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,...

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.

In the final part of our deep dive into the AIDS crisis, Dany & Claire explore the life and legacy of New York activist Larry Kramer and ACT UP—the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power—and how direct action transformed collective grief into lasting change.

Dany and Claire explore how queer communities became caregivers, researchers, pharmacists, smugglers, lawyers, activists, and even nuns to survive a global plague in an era of political apathy and moral condemnation. This inspiring episode highlights the mutual aid networks that held up a generation.

In part two of this four-part miniseries, Dany and Claire step into the chaotic early 1980s to uncover how doctors like Anthony Fauci unraveled one of the most mysterious medical crises in modern history. From the discovery of retroviruses to the race for treatment, we explore the scientific breakthroughs that transformed HIV/AIDS from an inexplicable killer into a treatable chronic condition.

On a stormy afternoon in 1982, Dany and Claire take an overarching look at the AIDS Crisis of the 1980s and the political environment that created a silent massacre in the first part of this four-part miniseries for HIV Awareness Month.

In the aftermath of World War II, Alan Turing pioneered artificial intelligence and modern biology—only to be persecuted for being gay. Dany and Claire explore his final years, his tragic death, and how his legacy endures as a symbol of queer brilliance and resilience.

Dany and Claire travel to Bletchley Park to uncover how Alan Turing’s genius helped crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma code and invent the blueprint for modern computing—long before the world understood what he was building.

In this episode, Dany and Claire travel to 1930s Paris and Dresden to uncover the story of Lili Elbe — the pioneering transgender woman whose courage and tragedy reshaped the early history of gender-affirming care and forever changed the way we understand identity.

Gender-affirming healthcare isn’t new — it’s ancient. From Hippocrates to hormones, Dany and Claire uncover the long lineage of trans medicine, busting modern myths about puberty blockers, surgeries, and “new” treatments.

In this difficult episode, Dany and Claire spend a long night in Laramie Wyoming to learn about Matthew Shepard and the case that could no longer be ignored.

Claire and Dany are in 1950s California to explore the founders of the early homophile movement: The Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, and the lasting impact they left on the fight for queer liberation.

Still in 1970s San Francisco, Dany and Claire return to the Castro to explore the conclusion of Harvey Milk’s story—from his political victories to his untimely assassination and the legacy that still fuels queer resistance today.

Dany and Claire head to San Francisco's Castro District in the late 70s to learn about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in the US.

Dany and Claire are on set in the early 2000s with special guest Matt Baume to explore the long, winding history of queerness on television — and how representation shaped a movement.

Dany and Claire spend a summer evening in 1969 New York to discuss the Stonewall Uprising, bust some myths, and explore the Gay Liberation Front that came from it.

Dany and Claire travel to New York City, circa 1973 to uncover the story of the short-lived but crucial Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

Dany and Claire travel to ancient Greece to learn about the Poetess Sappho and the legacy she's left behind.

Dany and Claire ride into revolutionary-era Mexico to uncover the remarkable story of Colonel Amelio Robles Ávila — a trans man, military commander, and decorated veteran of the Mexican Revolution.

Dany and Claire spend a rainy evening in 1970s New York City discussing the life, work, and philosophy of groundbreaking queer historian and researcher Leslie Feinberg.

Dany and Claire Revolutionary-era France to explore the stranger-than-fiction story of the Chevalier d'Eon and the legacy of France's most intriguing spy.