156 episodes

Queer history podcast covering content from around the world and throughout time.

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    • 4.8 • 504 Ratings

Queer history podcast covering content from around the world and throughout time.

    Frieda Belinfante

    Frieda Belinfante

    Today's episode is on the Dutch cellist, conductor, and WWII resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante. Join us to hear about Frieda's groundbreaking career as a female conductor, the many women who fell in love with her, and how to forge a 1940s Dutch ID card in excruciating detail.   
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    [Image: Frieda dressed in a men's jacket and tie with a masculine haircut, smoking a cigarette and looking directly at the camera.] 
     

    • 1 hr 32 min
    Franz Nopcsa

    Franz Nopcsa

    Today's episode is on the Hungarian palaeontologist, geologist, spy and ethnographer, Franz Nopcsa. Join us as we discuss dinosaurs, Franz's travels in Albania, and the world's first plane hijacking.
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    [Image: Franz in traditional Albanian dress, 1913]

    • 1 hr 11 min
    Queerness in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

    Queerness in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

    We're back!
    Today's episode covers depictions of queerness throughout the history of tabletop roleplaying games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: The Masquerade and many, many more.
    Join us for a discussion spanning nearly 50 years of D&D and TTRPG history, featuring masochistic clerics, gay vampire gangs and lesbian political satirists.
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    [Image: The front cover of the 1983 Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set]

    • 54 min
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen

    Today's episode is on the English writer Jane Austen. Join us as we discuss whether Jane was queer, on-stage lesbian Mr Darcy, and the evolving queerness of Austen adaptations.
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    [Image: sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra Austen, c.1810 - source.]

    • 1 hr 6 min
    A League of Their Own

    A League of Their Own

    Today's episode covers the 1940s All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and the 2022 television series based on it, A League of Their Own.
    Join us for a discussion featuring shoes deemed "excessively masculine-looking", perhaps too many women named Dottie, and more "close, life-long friends and roommates" than you can shake a stick at.
    Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. 
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    [Image: A cropped version of the poster for the 2022 TV series A League of Their Own, featuring (left to right, top to bottom) Chante Adams as Maxine Chapman, Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance Morgan and D'Arcy Carden as Greta Gill].

    • 45 min
    Interview with Danielle Scrimshaw

    Interview with Danielle Scrimshaw

    In today's episode, Irene and Alice interview historian and author Danielle Scrimshaw about her new book, She and her Pretty Friend. She and her Pretty Friend is the first book of its kind, exploring the history of Australia's queer women. We discuss the queer generation gap, how to navigate changes in queer language and identity as a historian, and the experience of doing research in the spaces between recorded histories.
    Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. 
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    [Image: The cover of Danielle's Book, She and her Pretty Friend. It shows two women on a purple background surrounded by native Australian plants.]

    • 43 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
504 Ratings

504 Ratings

kbuss11 ,

Just the best ever

This is one of my absolute favorite podcasts. I have listened to so many episodes multiple times and my only complaint is that there aren't more episodes (you all are great, please do not feel pressured - I know it takes time to do the level of research that helps makes this podcast so amazing). Thank you for sharing these forgotten or little-known people and stories with everyone!

McDuck1977 ,

Yeah yeah yeah

There’s some good information here, but a sample of the dialog…

Host #1: <says something related to the topic>
Host #2: yeah yeah
Host #3: yeah yeah
Host #1: yeah

Repeat for the next 45-60 minutes; it becomes like nails on a chalkboard

baryonicminority ,

Came for Ann Lister; stayed for everything else

Really loving these episodes! They’re super thoughtful. The perspectives on Priscilla, Queen of the Desert were fabulous, and helped me articulate why, as a closeted and oblivious queer/ace kid, I really appreciated this movie and the stories it told.

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