156 episodes

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

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    • 5.0 • 7 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.
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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

5.0 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Almostnotahobbit ,

This is so important

In addition to picking awesome topics and presenting them in a very easy to understand manner (for uneducated nincompoops and under qualified gays like me), the presenters are also just downright delightful and fun.

I also need to mention that I listened to this podcast in the company of several cats and they all enjoy it. So the podcast is now officially cat-approved.

Keep up the good work folks!

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