Historical Homos

Sebastian Hendra

The world's only no-fucks-given guide to LGBTQ+ history. Join Bash and his brilliant guests each week as they wrench The Gayest Stories Never Told from history's deepest, darkest closets. Sign up on our website, and follow us on Instagram @historical.homos and TikTok @historicalhomos

  1. 5 DAYS AGO ·  BONUS

    FEED DROP: Spirits Podcast – Jewish Lesbian Vampires

    We've got a special treat for you this week, my little Hormones! Historical Homos is proud to present this episode of the Spirits Podcast, a history and comedy pod devoted to mythology, folklore, and the occult. Every episode of the Spirits Podcast features co-hosts Julia and Amanda mixing a drink and discovering a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits. They're fun, they're clever, they are effectively our spiritual sister podcast (get it? cuz SPIRITS). So please enjoy this episode and we'll be back in your earholes next week with more OG Historical Homos content! *** Spirits Podcast: "Jewish Lesbian Vampires" Author Samara Breger is here to reclaim vampires as queer, feminist, and Jewish figures. Let's find out how!  Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of antisemitism, The Holocaust, eugenics, blood, homophobia/lesbophobia, misogyny, stalking, predatory relationships, animal death, sex, and death. GuestSamara Breger writes books about women in improbable circumstances falling in love. Before she started writing books, she worked in public radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. She is a proud News and Documentary Emmy loser. If you peek into her work history, you'll find a lot of stuff about sex, reproductive health, and queer people. Her new book, A Long Time Dead, is now available. Find Us Online- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com- Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast- Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch- Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast- Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spiritspodcast.com- Twitter: twitter.com/spiritspodcast- Tumblr: spiritspodcast.tumblr.com Cast & Crew- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin- Editor: Bren Frederick- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman- Multitude: multitude.productions ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    48 min

  2. 10 APR

    Philippe, Louis XIV's Brother, Is Gay - PART TWO (feat. Jonathan Spangler)

    To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Philippe d’Orléans is back! And it's no more Mr. Nice Queen thanks to his brother, Louis XIV, and his bitchass absolutist ways. In Part Two of our series on Philippe, this fabulous fuckboi nepo baby pass around party bottom of 17th century France, our hero is getting fed up with playing second fiddle. Fresh off the suspicious death (aka murder?) of his wife and the return to court of his chaotic boyfriend, the Chevalier de Lorraine, Philippe dives headfirst into the messy latter half of his astonishing life. A brilliant military strategist, he will win a major victory for France (which Louis just cannot handle) and get himself banned from ever holding a future post in the army. He will marry his second wife, the fantastically witty Madame Palatine (aka Liselotte of the Rhineland), and try her patience by spending all her money on his conniving boyfriends. He will also become the second richest man in France after his brother, thanks to inheritances, real estate development (is there anything gayer?), and a private collection of Chinese porcelains that Bash is looking to purchase, if anyone has any leads. The playboy becomes the player, in other words, though Louis will continue to play him at every turn. And when Philippe's son starts getting passed up for army jobs – things get heated rivalry (but not sexy, just kind of plain rivalry). In fact, things get so heated rivalry that heads begin to roll...but in the end, Philippe will have the last word. 🎧 Listen on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you pod. Lace cuffs and Ming Dynasty butt plugs (porcelain) sold separately. 📱 Follow Historical Homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and do ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sign up to our newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if you care about gay people, like, at all. ⭐ Most importantly, if you like what you hear, please do leave us a ⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ review. Episode CreditsWritten and hosted by BashEdited by Alex ToskasProduced by Dani HenionGuest: Dr. Jonathan Spangler © Sebastian Hendra 2026 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    39 min

  3. 10 APR

    Philippe, Louis XIV's Brother, Is Gay - PART ONE (feat. Jonathan Spangler)

    To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Everyone knows about Louis XIV, the Sun King of 17th century France, who built Versailles, slept with every noblewoman in France, and invented men wearing high heels (see, straight people can do the right thing sometimes!). But did you know his brother, Philippe, was gayer than Christmas? Raised as the “spare” heir to the French throne, Philippe was never destined to rule, but that didn’t stop him from becoming fabulously rich, politically influential, and very well-acquainted with the rectums of Versailles' male population. From childhood drag to a 40-year-old relationship with his favourite, the Chevalier de Lorraine, Philippe lived a life that was equal parts power, party, and pig bottom realness. In Part One of our series on Philippe, we travel back to a France where “homosexuality” didn’t quite exist yet, but sodomy and bisexual libertinism very much did. We unpack Philippe’s early years, the politics of being a royal second son (which Bash understands firsthand), and how Philippe tried to carve out a role for himself in the shadow of the Sun King – all while assembling a harem of triflin' pansies, sorry I mean loving, aristocratic boyfriends*. In 17th century France, as in every period of human history, the only crime was being boring. And Philippe was anything but. 🎧 Listen now on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you pod. Shepherdess gowns and diamond-studded heels sold separately. 📱 Follow Historical Homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and do ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sign up to our newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if you care about gay people, like, at all. ⭐ Most importantly, if you like what you hear, please do leave us a ⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ review. Episode CreditsWritten and hosted by BashEdited by Alex ToskasProduced by Dani HenionGuest: Dr. Jonathan Spangler © Sebastian Hendra 2026 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    1hr 17min

  4. 19 MAR

    Priapus: Ancient Roman God of Big Dick Energy

    To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos * THE ANCIENT ROMANS HAD A GOD OF BIG DICK ENERGY AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT.GIRLS AND BOYS, MEET PRIAPUS. 🍆 Remember when the internet decided Pete Davidson had a giant schlong? Well, turns out people have been fantasizing about hung humans since the Ancient Romans. Everyone always complains that the marble statues of antiquity seem to have surprisingly small penises – was everyone micro back then? What did the size queens do? But the truth is – the ancient world was full of dicks, big and small. There were dicks on houses, at intersections, in art, and of course, in milady's bedside table. AND – dicks were actually sacred to the ancients! From the phallic Herms that warded off evil to Priapus' fertility-granting member, Big Dick Energy was everywhere. Because dicks were a symbol of agricultural power, magical protection, and prosperity. 2,000 years ago, Cock was King. But it wasn’t all rainbows and dildos. In Greece, big dicks were a joke, a sign of an oversexed – and therefore unrestrained – man. Meanwhile, the Romans took things in a more violent direction (surprise). Which is why they turned the Hung Horny Goat Weed, Priapus, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, into a toxic masculinity fantasy of sexual violence. This fantasy of priapic domination was unique to the Romans in the ancient world – the Greeks preferred to model self-restraint and wisdom, which of course is the unique jurisdiction of the average-size penis. But really…let’s be honest.If a 10-foot marble Hercules walked in with his tiny little “11th toe”? You’d be so fucking down. 🎧 Listen now on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you pod. Giant garden gnome dildo sold separately.📱 Follow @historical.homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and sign up to our newsletter at www.historicalhomos.com if you care about gay people, like, at all.⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ reviews are welcome, encouraged, and financially rewarded. (Kidding.) (Maybe.) Episode CreditsWritten and hosted by Bash.Edited by Alex Toskas.Produced by Dani Henion. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    43 min

  5. 20 FEB

    Two Lesbians, 1 Castle: A Tale of Two "Romantic Friends" (feat. Indigo Dunphy-Smith)

    To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos When history says "they were just friends," what do we say back? We say: SHUT UP IDIOT HAVE YOU READ THEIR GAY LITTLE DIARIES? Ahem. Sorry. I get so passionate. This week's episode is about two women who lived in a castle together, wrote each other poetry, decorated each other's rooms, said they openly loved and were obsessed with one another in diaries and funerary monuments, and, after refusing to marry or have children, spent all their money (which was a lot) on trips to Europe together. Historians call them "romantic friends." A phrase that I find...hilarious. (Is a "romantic friend" my friend I want to...fuck? And what, sort of, does that mean?) It's only by diving into the long, storied past of Highland lesbianism that we're going to find out. If anyone holds the secrets to romantic friendship it's Elyza Fraser and Mary Bristow. So break out the single malts and your snazziest kilt/sporan combo, because the Scottish lesbian water is a pipingly warm human temperature, and it's time to dive in. 🎧 Listen now on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you pod. Solid 18-ct gold sporan sold separately.📱 Follow Historical Homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and sign up to our newsletter if you care about gay people, like, at all.⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ reviews are welcome, encouraged, and financially rewarded. (Kidding.) (Maybe.) Episode CreditsWritten and hosted by Bash.Edited by Alex Toskas.Produced by Dani Henion.Guest host: Indigo Dunphy-Smith ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    1hr 24min

  6. 6 FEB

    Evil Queens: The Queer History of Disney (feat. Sean Griffin)

    To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Disney sells itself as a guardian of childhood innocence and cis-het happy endings. (That's not – I didn't mean – you know what I mean.) So why did so many gay kids grow up flicking their hair back like Ariel in the hotel pool? Or mincing like Scar and shimmying with Ursula's cleavage? Above all, why did every queer child since 1998 stare in the mirror and demand to know: who is that girl, staring "straight," back at me? We're joined this week by Professor Sean Griffin, who helps Bash unpack over a century of Disney’s weirdly romanticizing, heteronormalizing fairy tales – which we homosexuals have always insisted on making much, much gayer. We begin with the hornier Mickey Mouse no one ever knew – the 1920s were crazy man! – and then stop over for some surprising episodes in Walt's homophobic 1940s and 1950s regime. Before finally, we go the distance – all the way to the Broadway Renaissance that made Disney fabulous again. It could have just been an episode about which female villains we'd like to dress up as, but ultimately we are very serious historians. So enjoy the full scoop, my little Hormones. 🎧 Listen now on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you pod. $2000 mermaid tail sold separately.📱 Follow Historical Homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and sign up to our newsletter if you care about gay people, like, at all.⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ reviews are welcome, encouraged, and financially rewarded. (Kidding.) (Maybe.) Episode CreditsWritten and hosted by Bash.Edited by Alex Toskas.Produced by Dani Henion.Guest host: Sean Griffin ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    1hr 10min

  7. 25/12/2025

    Born Again Queer: A History of Gay Evangelicals (feat. William Stell)

    To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Do all Christians hate gays? Amazingly: no. Despite how annoying we all are. In fact, millions and millions of Christians ARE themselves...very gay. So why is it that we automatically associate Christianity with homophobia? The answer lies in the brief, but fascinating history of gay evangelical activism you'll find in this episode. Before the gay rights movement, American Christians weren't more homophobic than anyone else. Homophobia was common in America, but it wasn't yet one of the defining features of American Christianity. But then: a sexy bear of a Pentecostal pastor, Reverend Troy Perry, launched a successful gay church (the MCC) in 1968. And then: a feminist evangelical lesbian wrote a book about how gays were – surprise! – people, too. Things started to change: people's hearts and minds shifted on homosexuality. And that's when the Religious Right first got organised. That's when televangelists and Jerry Falwell and Anita Bryant began to wage a campaign not just against gay evangelical activists, but all gay people. The modern assumption – that all Christians "hate f*gs" (and anyone else they deem queer) – was born. So this Christmas, while you're putting on your Sunday best (read: Elf-themed jockstrap), join Bash and his fabulous guest, Professor William Stell, as they explore this little-known corner of Christian homophobia. William Stell is a professor of American religion and queer history at NYU, and his book, Born Again Queer, will be published in May 2026. Now get ready to get wet and wild, because the gay evangelical hot tub is open and the water is a pipingly warm...human temperature.– 🤑 Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠, if you have the means and/or the madness to do so. 📱 Follow Historical Homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sign up to our monthly ⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if you care about gay people, like, at all. ✍️ Most importantly, if you like what you hear, please leave us a ⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ review. – Episode Credits Written and hosted by Bash Edited by Alex Toskas Produced by Dani Henion Guest: William StellCopyright Sebastian Hendra 2025 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    1hr 18min

  8. 27/11/2025

    Leather: A Queer History (feat. Race Bannon)

    To access the full version of this episode, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos–LEATHER. It's hot, it's taut, it's everything everybody else is not. But when did it become so big in the gay community? My guest today, Race Bannon, leather community activist and co-host of the On Guard podcast, taught me a few things I never knew about leather that I bet you don't either: 1) Leather is all about play: it seems hyper-masc and dark. But really it's a bunch of beautiful horny people expressing themselves erotically and inventively. In a world where adults are never allowed to play, leather allows all people, queer or not, to explore their true selves. 2) Leather literally saved lives. The leather community was at the vanguard of the AIDS epidemic, providing sex education and support to show gay men in particular how to express desire and intimacy without penetrative/fluid-exchanging sex. 3) Leather is a protest! Leather began because queer men wanted to be seen as masculine - in the 1950s, that was radical. And in the 1980s, The Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, which is now one of the biggest leather festivals in America, launched as an anti-gentrification demonstration uniting queer communities in the SoMa neighbourhood in San Francisco. Leathermen have much to teach us, in and out of the sack, and you can start by diving into this episode where the water is a deliciously...human temperature. – 🤑 Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠, if you have the means and the madness to do so. 📱 Follow Historical Homos on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sign up to our monthly ⁠newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if you care about gay people, like, at all. ✍️ Most importantly, if you like what you hear, please leave us a ⭐ FIVE STAR ONLY ⭐ review. – Episode Credits Written and hosted by Bash Edited by Alex Toskas Produced by Dani Henion Guest: Race Bannon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

    57 min
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The world's only no-fucks-given guide to LGBTQ+ history. Join Bash and his brilliant guests each week as they wrench The Gayest Stories Never Told from history's deepest, darkest closets. Sign up on our website, and follow us on Instagram @historical.homos and TikTok @historicalhomos

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  • Creator
    Sebastian Hendra
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    79
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sebastian Hendra
  • Show Website
    Historical Homos
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