Historical Homos

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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, feel subservient to them. #GayRights
And yet, despite their near-total domination of the world order (and my life), fashion is not one of the accomplishments we typically associate with our lesbian overlords.
This is bigoted and historically wrong, because many lesbian women helped invent Fashion.
Some of the most notorious lesbian and bisexual women over the last 500 years were known for their bold fashion choices, from King Christina's equestrian menswear to Anne Lister's combinations of lace bonnets and lordly overcoats. (If one is going to extract coal from one's land, one must serve cunt!)
In the last two centuries, in particular, lesbians got even more experimental. The Sapphic revival in the Victorian Era brought Grecian fabrics to prewar England and France, while the Post-WWI Gender Revolution brought monocles and tailored suits to Berlin, Paris, and Harlem.
These advances in sartorial lesbian technology didn't just allow women to experiment with fashion. They allowed lesbians to do what they do best: find one another, fall in love, move in together, break up, and then fall in love with each other's exes.
AND THEY LOOKED FIERCE WHILE THEY DID IT.
Join Bash and his lesbian fashionista expert guest this week, Eleanor Medhurst, as they uncover and recover the story of what lesbians wore and why we're still talking about it today.
Florals for spring may be groundbreaking – but lesbian fashion has always been herstory-making. (I'll workshop it...)

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Episode Credits

Written and hosted by Bash
Edited by Alex Toskas
Produced by Dani Henion
Guest: Eleanor Medhurst
© Sebastian Hendra 2026

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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 course of two millennia, the straight world forgot about our sacrifice.
But that stops NOW.
Harmodius & Aristogeiton are little known to us modern queers, but in antiquity they were notorious. The Ladies Liberty of the ancient world.
But were they actually gay lovers? Did their boy-on-boy love usher in the world's first radical democracy? Can one top and one bottom really change the world?
The answers await in the warm, milky hot tub that is queer history – so come on in, the water is...human temperature.
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Episode Credits

Written and hosted by Bash
Edited by Alex Toskas
Produced by Dani Henion
Guest: Harry Tanner
© Sebastian Hendra 2026

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HI GAY! Happy Pride.
In honour 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 only a massive F-slur, he was also one of the worst kings in English history. AND YEAH YOU CAN BE BOTH. THAT IS EQUALITY.
Join Bash and his brilliant host, Kit Heyam, who wrote the book on Edward II and is a bestselling author of trans history, to uncover the truth of Edward's very gay ways.
Why was he obsessed with fitness and DIY projects? Who was he shtupping at court? And how should one allocate wealth and privilege to the nobility when hot people technically deserve them more?
All will be revealed inside the queer cauldron, so take your filthy peasant slippers off and get ready to dive in. The water is...human temperature.
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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash
Edited by Alex Toskas
Produced by Dani Henion
Guest: Kit Heyam
© Sebastian Hendra 2026

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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 straight people have been telling us to shut up for thousands of years?
Actual gay people have reacted to straight society's shushing in a number of ways. Many retreated into themselves and hid their desires. But a select few refused to silence themselves.
Ernest "Stella" Boulton and Frederick "Fanny" Park were two heroines of this kind.
While most Victorian British men kept busy colonising the East and procreating with their stiff-lipped wives, Fanny & Stella took to the streets, stage, and sheets to live their loud, gay lives.
They wore silk dresses some nights, tight-fitting suits on others; they wore rouge and wigs; they pearl-powdered their bottoms for their gentlemen sex guests, as every lady did, and they kept a bottle of chloroform on the nightstand to get shy punters in the mood (a trick of the working girl's trade).
They were STARS, baby! Of Victorian London's "sizzling underbelly," its increasingly visible queer subculture full of rent boys, pimps, "Mary-Anns," drag queens, and boring old gays like you and me.
Fanny & Stella were eventually arrested on a Big Night Out, and later tried in the highest court in the land. Their crime? Interestingly, this time it wasn't sodomy or buggery, but a "conspiracy" to commit the "unnatural vices." Such was their fame in Britain at the time that the real threat the authorities saw in these flouncy young fops was their ability to "turn" the rest of society.
Our guest this week wrote the book on Fanny & Stella, and as a self-professed 150-year-old queen, has all the Victorian goss we could possibly guzzle.

So get ready to come on in! The cholera water is an absolutely singular...human temperature.

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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash
Edited by Alex Toskas
Produced by Dani Henion
Guest: Neil McKenna
© Sebastian Hendra 2026

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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 century woman. She later escaped the French Revolution and lived out her final days in London, writing her memoirs (CHIC) and fighting master swordsmen on stage – in a dress! – for extra cash.
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This episode was researched and written by Bash.
Originally hosted by Donal Brophy and Bash.
Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto.
Edited by Alex Toskas.

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