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Bad Gays

Bad Gays

By: Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
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 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.comCopyright 2019-. All rights reserved. World
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  • Special Episode: Gavin Arthur (with Maurice Casey)

    Special Episode: Gavin Arthur (with Maurice Casey)
    Jun 10 2025
    Join our community of Extra Bad Gays on Patreon or Apple Podcasts for special episodes and more! Have you ever wondered who the sexual link between Edward Carpenter and Allen Ginsburg was? Wonder no more, and meet Gavin Arthur: grandson of US President Chester Allan Arthur, astrologer, sexologist, Irish Republican, sometime Communist, sometime Democrat, Haight-Ashbury hippie rabble-rouser, and chaotic bisexual. Our guide to his life is longtime friend of the show Maurice J. Casey, historian and author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals. This episode is based on research carried out as part of the Queer Norther Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation project at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. If you have a moment, do fill out their survey. ----more---- SOURCES: Maurice J. Casey, ‘”I want to be to Ireland what Walt Whitman was to America”: Esotericism and Queer Sexuality in an Irish Social Circle, 1890s-1920s’, History Workshop Journal: https://academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbaf004/8096618?searchresult=1 Lisa Cohen, All We Know: Three Lives, New York, 2012 Philip Longo, ‘Between the Sheets: Gavin Arthur’s Sexual Circulation’, in The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, ed. Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander, London, 2022, pp. 140–7 Martin Murray, ‘Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter, Gavin Arthur and the Circle of Sex’, Walt Whitman Quarterly 22: 3, 2005, pp. 194–8: https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/wwqr/pdf/anc.00943.pdf The 1930 film starring Gavin Arthur and Charlotte Arthur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_(1930_film) Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Extra Bad Gays June 2025, The First: Weird Vibes Pride, Edmund White, and Bisexual Dilemmas (TRAILER)

    Extra Bad Gays June 2025, The First: Weird Vibes Pride, Edmund White, and Bisexual Dilemmas (TRAILER)
    Jun 5 2025

    This is just a trailer! For the full episode, join our community of Extra Bad Gays on Patreon or Apple Podcasts.

    Weird Vibes Pride Month, nefarious nellies! What is this Pride Month's vibe? Who is its target audience? We're confused. How do we build power as queer movements hollowed out by corporate sponsorship appear to crumble? Then, we mourn the late, great Edmund White before turning to our now-standard Gaggony Guncles segment, in which a listener writes in with an exciting bisexual dilemma.
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    17 mins
  • Come See Us Live!

    Come See Us Live!
    May 27 2025

    We're coming to a city near you! Berlin on June 7, Sheffield June 20, and Bath June 22!

    Tickets and info: badgayspod.com/live
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    1 min
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Because of my life circumstances I listen a lots of different podcasts and I kind of binged this one. About the title: the creators are gay so it is not an anti LGBTQIA podcast. It is about choosing dividing historical figures and investigate on what role their gender identity played in their life. The hosts Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller do an extensive research often using the sources from the person who they investigate on. The episodes build on the biography which prepared by one of them while the other host reacts to it. I really like that they never move out the person from the historical context, they explain why these historical figures are bad and how they dealed with their gender identity in their eras. They end up with colorful, interesting and intellectual conversations which make me think days later on the topics. This podcast definitely changed my opinion on how to look at history.

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