Historical Homos

For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with open arms (and legs) 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Have you, like me, ever been kind of disgusted and disappointed by how obsessed ancient gays seem to be with "boys"? They won't shut up about it. Ancient Greeks and Romans who were "homosexual" in their sexual tastes seem to have had the hots exclu...

For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with open arms (and legs) 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – When you hear the name Emily Dickinson, what comes to mind? A pale little recluse in a white dress? Genius by way of virginity? A woman so pure she barely had a body at all?! Well, grab that image by its lace collar and toss it out with last night'...

For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with open arms (and legs) 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Honey, I'm sure you've heard of the Kamasutra. But did you know it's not just a sex manual for hipster white couples who are ready to graduate to doggy? This episode goes past the schoolboy giggles the Kamasutra typically provokes to investigate wh...

For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with open arms (and legs) 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – ROCK. HUDSON. The name itself kind of gives your fanny the flutters, doesn't it? Although, if you haven't heard of Rock, you would be forgiven, as he's one of those mid-20th century celebrities who's been almost entirely forgotten today. But back i...

For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with open arms (and legs) 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Josephine Baker (1906 - 1968) is one of the most alluring, inspiring, and charismatic figures we have ever covered on this podcast. Her career spanned decades and continents, and on THE Continent, she was the highest paid Black entertainer for most...

Well aren't you a lucky little piggy. This bonus episode is now available to all listeners! Be warned: this will rarely happen again, so if you want to get the full-hog raw-dog Historical Homos experience, please consider subscribing to the Patreon . Our community awaits you with open arms (and legs). – HELLO MY LITTLE HORMONES! Saw the Odyssey. Have some thoughts. As a recovering classicist and p...

"What if the gayest thing about me is how annoying I am?" – Michelangelo, unverified – For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – OK we all know Michelangelo. The David. The Sistine Chapel. Blah blah blah. But did you know he was also 100% a homosexual, according to basically every sou...

For early access to episodes and bonus content, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – HAVE YOU HEARD OF FASHION? HAVE YOU HEARD OF LESBIANS? Well then, this might be the episode for you. Now, we all know lesbians can chop wood and bring order to almost any situation – that is why they are so highly paid, and why I, personally,...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – 2,500 years ago, two gay guys and an extremely toxic third inadvertently gave birth to Greek democracy. Yes, my proud brethren, long before anyone threw the first brick, we stabbed the first tyrant. In typical straight fashion, over the cours...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – HI GAY! Happy Pride. In hono u r of this year's festivities, we're kicking off the month with one of the more obscure Yesterqueers in the Historical Homos canon. Why? Because we can. Don't like it? You're homophobic. King Edward II was not on...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Why are gay men so loud? Science may never know. But history offers some clues. Could it be because we were monks and priests for so long? Could it be that the simple joy of discovering anal makes you want to shout? Or maybe it's because stra...

It's Trans History Week in the UK, so we're taking you back to one of our first and favourite episodes ever from Season 1. This is the unbelievably wild 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 cen...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Why oh why are men so obsessed with our penises? Join us today as we embark on a dick-scented odyssey to answer one of the 21st century's most urgent questions. 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians said their gods' divine jizz created the world. ...

We've got a special treat for you this week, my little Hormones! Historical Homos is proud to present this episode of the Spirits Podcast, a history and comedy pod devoted to mythology, folklore, and the occult. Every episode of the Spirits Podcast features co-hosts Julia and Amanda mixing a drink and discovering a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Philippe d’Orléans is back! And it's no more Mr. Nice Queen thanks to his brother, Louis XIV, and his bitchass absolutist ways. In Part Two of our series on Philippe, this fabulous fuckboi nepo baby pass around party bottom of 17th century Franc...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Everyone knows about Louis XIV, the Sun King of 17th century France, who built Versailles, slept with every noblewoman in France, and invented men wearing high heels (see, straight people can do the right thing sometimes!). But did you know his...

To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos * THE ANCIENT ROMANS HAD A GOD OF BIG DICK ENERGY AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. GIRLS AND BOYS, MEET PRIAPUS. 🍆 Remember when the internet decided Pete Davidson had a giant schlong? Well, turns out people have been fantasizing about hung human...

To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos When history says "they were just friends," what do we say back? We say: SHUT UP IDIOT HAVE YOU READ THEIR GAY LITTLE DIARIES? Ahem. Sorry. I get so passionate. This week's episode is about two women who lived in a castle together, wrote each ot...

To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon .  Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Disney sells itself as a guardian of childhood innocence and cis-het happy endings. (That's not – I didn't mean – you know what I mean.) So why did so many gay kids grow up flicking their hair back like Ariel in the hotel pool? Or mincing like S...

To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Do all Christians hate gays? Amazingly: no. Despite how annoying we all are. In fact, millions and millions of Christians ARE themselves...very gay. So why is it that we automatically associate Christianity with homophobia? The answer lies in t...

To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – LEATHER. It's hot, it's taut, it's everything everybody else is not. But when did it become so big in the gay community? My guest today, Race Bannon , leather community activist and co-host of the On Guard podcast, taught me a few things I never kn...

To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and mouth ajar 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Why should anyone care about a queen who lived 400 years ago and did nothing but party, spend money, and sponsor musical theatre? If I have to answer that question for you, you're in the wrong place. This week, we cover the fabulously insane world o...

To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon at the link below. Our community awaits you with legs open, heart full, and mouth slightly ajar 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Welcome to the wild and infuriating world of ancient homophobia! You know how everyone thinks ancient Greece and Rome were queer free-for-alls, where all holes were goals (as long as you were a male, bisexu...

Why is Disney's Hercules one of the greatest LGBTQ+ films ever made? This episode attempts to answer that fraught and necessary question. As you may know, Hercules (1997) is a story about a small-town girl who goes to the big city to discover himself, become famous, land a few sponsorship deals, and build a chosen family in an imperfect world. It's like All About Eve but with much, much better mus...

Wait, what’s so gay about witches, you ask? First of all — sit down. When I was a young f/hag in the late ’90s, Wicca was having a moment. The Halliwell sisters ruled the WB, Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock were burying men in their back gardens, and I gobbled the GAGathon down with glee. Only later did I realize what made these witchy bitchies so alluring: it wasn’t (just) that they were differe...