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Here’s a list of all our episodes by continent, and then by country. Hopefully this will help people find specific topics they’re interested in, and also help us try and increase the diversity of what we talk about. I will link this on our main page and try and keep it updated as we go along. Enjoy!
This list doesn’t include our Queer as Fiction episodes on queer media, which can be found here.
You can also find our episodes organised by time period.
Africa
Queer Women in Medieval Arab Literature
Angola (formerly Ndongo, Matamba, Kongo, and other nations)
Njinga of Ndongo (1582-1663, monarch)
Tanzania (formerly Zanzibar and Tanganyika)
Freddie Mercury (1946-1991, the frontman of rock band, Queen. Freddie was born in Zanizbar to Indian parents and lived there as a young child and again briefly as a teenager)
South Africa
Simon Nkoli (1959-1998, activist)
Asia
Queer Women in Medieval Arab Literature
China
Queer Love in Early Chinese History
Wú Zǎo (c.1799-1862, poet and playwright)
Golden Orchid Societies (19th-20th century communities of women rejecting traditional marriage)
Yoshiko Kawashima (1907-1948 Chinese-Japanese public figure and spy)
India
Michael Dillon (1915-1962, first trans man to undergo a phalloplasty. Michael was born in the UK and spent the last years of his life studying Buddhist traditions in India)
Freddie Mercury (1946-1991, the frontman of rock band, Queen. Freddie was born in Zanzibar to Indian parents, and then spent much of his childhood in India.)
Iran
Maryam Khatoon Molkara (1950-2012, trans activist)
Israel
Yona Wallach (1944-1985, poet)
Japan
Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973, author)
Yoshiko Kawashima (1907-1948 Chinese-Japanese public figure and spy)
Pakistan
Shah Hussayn (1538-1599, poet)
Australia and Oceania
Australia
Queer as Fact meets History is Gay (a conversation about queer slang in Australia and the USA)
Captain Moonlite parts oneandtwo (1845-1880, bushranger)
William Dobell (1889-1970, artist)
Lesbia Harford (1891-1927, poet and activist)
Alice Anderson (1897-1926, owner of Australia’s first all-female garage)
The Birth of Queer Film in Australia
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (begun 1978)
Hawai’i
Kapaemahu (monument to four māhūhealers)
Europe
Albania
Albanian sworn virgins (a traditional custom that allowed someone assigned female at birth to assume a male gender role by taking a vow of chastity)
Finland
Tove Jansson (1914-2001, author and artist)
France
Julie D’Aubigny (c.1670-1707, opera singer and duellist)
Chevalière d’Éon (1728-1810, spy and diplomat)
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899, artist)
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962, publisher and bookseller)
Josephine Baker (1906-1975, singer, actress, civil rights activist and spy)
Germany (including Prussia)
Frederick the Great (1712-1786, monarch and general)
Baron von Steuben (1730-1794, Inspector General of the US Army)
Gad Beck (1923-2012, activist, WWII resistance member, and Holocaust survivor)
Greece
Achilles and Patroclus (figures from Greek myth)
Ireland
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, poet and playwright)
Italy (including Ancient Rome)
The Warren Cup (ancient Roman cup depicting male-male sex)
Male Sexuality in Ancient Rome
Julius Caesar(c.100BCE-44BCE)
Nero (37CE-68CE, Roman emperor)
Sexuality in Pompeii(79CE)
Netherlands
Willem Arondeus (1894-1943, artist and WWII resistance member)
Poland
Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950, ballet dancer and choreographer)
Russia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky part 1andpart 2 (1840-1893, composer)
Sofya Parnok (1885-1933, poet)
Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950, ballet dancer and choreographer)
Spain
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936, playwright and poet)
Sweden
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, monarch)
Did Swedish people call in gay to work?
UK
Edward II (1284-1327, king of England)
Horace Walpole (1717-1797, antiquarian and man of letters)
Anne Listerandfollow-up Christmas special (1791-1840, landowner and diarist)
Mary Shelley (1797-1851, author)
Fanny Park and Stella Boulton (1846-1881, 1847-1904, English transfeminine people tried for homosexuality)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, poet and playwright)
The Warren Cup (ancient Roman cup depicting male-male sex, brought to Britain by collector Ned Warren in the early 20th century)
The Secret Sex Spreadsheets of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946, economist)
Did Queen Victoria believe in lesbians?
Michael Dillon (1915-1962, first trans man to undergo a phalloplasty)
Roberta Cowell (1918-2011, WWII fighter pilot, race-car driver and trans pioneer)
Freddie Mercury (1946-1991, the frontman of rock band, Queen)
The Vatican
Pope Joan (c.9th century CE)
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689, monarch)
North America
Crow (Apsáalooke)
Osh-Tisch (1854-1929, warrior, craftsperson, and two-spirit batée)
Zuni (A:shiwi)
We’wha (c.1849-1896, craftsperson, ambassador, and two-spirit lhamana)
USA
Queer as Fact meets History is Gay (a conversation about queer slang in Australia and the USA)
Kapaemahu (Hawai’ian monument to four māhūhealers)
Baron von Steuben (1730-1794, Inspector General of the US Army)
Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake (1777-1851, 1784-1868, lived as a married couple)
Osh-Tisch (1854-1929, Crow warrior, craftsperson, and two-spirit batée)
We’wha (c.1849-1896, Zuni craftsperson, ambassador, and two-spirit lhamana)
Harry Allen (1882-1922, trans man)
Ma Rainey (1886-1939, blues singer)
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962, publisher and bookseller)
Ruth Ellis (1899-2000, lesbian centenarian)
Henrietta Bingham (1901-1968, jazz-age socialite)
Josephine Baker (1906-1975, singer, actress, civil rights activist and spy)
Gladys Bentley (1907-1960, blues performer)
Samuel Steward (1909-1993, professor of English, tattoo artist and sex researcher)
Pauli Murray parts oneandtwo (1910-1985, lawyer, civil rights activist, priest and poet)
Billy Tipton (1914-1989, jazz musician)
Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973, gospel singer)
Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014, drag performer and bouncer)
Harvey Milk (1930-1978, San Francisco politician)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992, activist and writer)
Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992, drag queen and activist)
Sally Ride (1951-2012, astronaut)
Stonewall (1969 New York riots)
Shelly’s Leg (1970s Seattle gay club)
Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag (first flown 1975)
Friends of Dorothy (gay men in the 1980s US Navy)
Central and South America
Costa Rica
Chavela Vargas (1919-2012, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer)
Mexico
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954, artist)
Chavela Vargas (1919-2012, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer)
Peru
Moche sex pots (erotic ceramics from the 2nd to 8th centuries CE)
