Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
Bad Gays
EXTRA BAD GAYS

A subscriber-only show discussing queer culture.

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A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? What can we learn by focusing on the dark side of queer history?

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Extra Bad Gays December 2024: Luigi Mangione, Folk Hero? (Trailer)

    available with easy shipping to both sides of the Atlantic.   On this month's episode of Extra Bad Gays, we discuss Luigi Mangione, who has now been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City earlier this month. How do some assassins become folk heroes? Why is there such a groundswell of support for Mangione? Is it just because he's really hot? (He's really hot.) For the full story, and the charming Gaggony Guncles segment that concludes the show, subscribe on Apple or Patreon.

    15 min
  2. Extra Bad Gays December 2024: Luigi Mangione, Folk Hero?

    3 DAYS AGO • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Extra Bad Gays December 2024: Luigi Mangione, Folk Hero?

    On this month's episode of Extra Bad Gays, we discuss Luigi Mangione, who has now been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City earlier this month. How do some assassins become folk heroes? Why is there such a groundswell of support for Mangione? Is it just because he's really hot? (He's really hot.) Then, your gaggony guncles discuss a listener question about repairing self-confidence after a hookup gone bad.

    52 min
  3. Extra Bad Gays November 2024: The Transatlantic Anti-Trans Post-Election Backlash (Trailer)

    30 NOV

    Extra Bad Gays November 2024: The Transatlantic Anti-Trans Post-Election Backlash (Trailer)

    Our new merch–evil twink energy socks, camo hats, and more–is now available with easy shipping to both sides of the Atlantic.   In the wake of Donald Trump's dismaying reelection to the Presidency, the most cynical consultants and commenters on both sides of the Atlantic have decided it's trans people who are to blame. We break down how ascending through the media breaks your brain––and the differences between US and UK center-left transphobia. For the full story, and the charming Gaggony Guncles segment that concludes the show, subscribe on Apple or Patreon.

    14 min
  4. Extra Bad Gays November 2024: The Transatlantic Post-Election Anti-Trans Backlash

    28 NOV • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Extra Bad Gays November 2024: The Transatlantic Post-Election Anti-Trans Backlash

    In the wake of Donald Trump's dismaying reelection to the Presidency, the most cynical consultants and commenters on both sides of the Atlantic have decided it's trans people who are to blame. We break down how ascending through the media breaks your brain––and the differences between US and UK center-left transphobia. And then, it's time for A Jarring Change Of Tone, with a delightful question from a listener as part of our monthly Gaggony Guncles segment about making playlists for your many lovers and the messiness and heartbreak of gay (and trans) sex.

    55 min

  5. 30 OCT

    Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie (with Indigo Dunphy-Smith)

    Today's special guest is the researcher and museum worker Indigo Dunphy-Smith, who is bringing her expertise to the case of Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie, two Edinburghian school teachers who found themselves embroiled in a sex scandal and court case in the early years of the 19th century. Their legal woes followed accusations by a pupil about sapphic goings-on at their small private school, and raised issues regarding attitudes to sex, race and colonialism in late Georgian era Scotland. Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays, our monthly subscriber-only show for conversations about contemporary queer culture and advice segments from your favorite Gagony Guncles. ----more----   SOURCES:   Clerk, John, The notorious Drumsheugh Case of 1810: Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie v. Lady Cumming Gordon of Altyre, The Signet Library, Roughead Collection R343.1 H865 Singh, Frances B, Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming, NED-New edition, Boydell & Brewer, 2020 Rupp, Leila J, Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women, Beacon Press, 2009 Donoghue, Emma, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668–1801, HarperCollins, 1993 Faderman, Lillian, Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired “The Children’s Hour”, Columbia University Press, 1983 Faderman, Lillian, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present, William Morrow & Co, 1981 National Records of Scotland, Burgh Register of Sasines for Edinburgh B22/4/31   Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrienn, distributed under a Creative Commons license. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.

    1h 7m

  6. 28 OCT

    Extra Bad Gays October 2024: Meet Your New Gaggony Guncles

    Say hello to your new agony uncles: or is that Gaggony Guncles? A gay guy wonders if he's having enough sex! People ask about moving to Berlin. A freshly out transmasc wonders: am I becoming an evil twink? For the full story, subscribe to EXTRA BAD GAYS directly in Apple Podcasts or on Patreon.

    10 min
  7. Extra Bad Gays October 2024: Meet Your New Gaggony Guncles

    26 OCT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Extra Bad Gays October 2024: Meet Your New Gaggony Guncles

    Say hello to your new agony uncles: or is that Gaggony Guncles? After previewing Season 8 of the main-feed show for EXTRA subscribers, memorializing the late and dearly departed writer Gary Indiana, and discussing our trip to see Taylor Mac's new four-hour queer history musical spectacular BARK OF MILLIONS, we turn to your questions. A gay guy wonders if he's having enough sex! People ask about moving to Berlin. A freshly out transmasc wonders: am I becoming an evil twink? Listen in and send your questions to emailbadgays@gmail.com.

    42 min
  8. Extra Bad Gays August 2024: What's Going On Over At GLAAD?

    3 SEPT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Extra Bad Gays August 2024: What's Going On Over At GLAAD?

    Apologies for the delay: for your August episode (a few days late but a September episode will also come this month!) we discuss recent reporting that revealed lavish executive spending on salaries and expenses at the US-based nonprofit LGBT organization GLAAD. We discuss the CEO's up to $1.3 million annual compensation package and Davos skiing trips, the development of the US-American nonprofit-industrial complex, and growing tensions inside the kind of centrist US-American liberalism that nonprofit-oriented gay organizations embody.

    41 min
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A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? What can we learn by focusing on the dark side of queer history?

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  • Creator
    Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    107
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2019-. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Bad Gays
  • Provider
    Benjamin Miller

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