156 episodes

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

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    • 4.9 • 9 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.   
    Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. 
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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

4.9 out of 5
9 Ratings

9 Ratings

DiversiTea ,

Informative, thoughtful and funny

Love, love, LOVE this podcast! Started to listen in late August 2021, and now, in a but less than six months I’ve listened to all the episodes. I’ve learnt a lot about queer people and pieces of media in history, and found many amazing people to relate to (latest: Louisa May Alcott, to my surprise!) As a bisexual ciswoman, I really appreciate how bi-inclusive this podcast is, and I’m happy to learn a lot about trans people and gender issues, too. I love how the hosts acknowledge that gender and sexuality labels of today are not easily applicable to people that lived a long time ago, and/or in different parts of the world. As a polyamorous/relationship anarchist, it’s also delightful to hear about non-normative relationship models that queer people have had.

I listen to podcasts on another app but wanted to give this review, so came to Apple podcasts specifically for that. Greetings and lots of love from snowy Finland (pretty much the other side of the globe, for your Geography with Queer as Fact section 😛)! Keep up the good work, you’re amazing!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💪

Baalist ,

Fabulous, funny, deep and informative podcast

This podcast is just lovely! Come for the through research, stay for the feminist and bi-positive approach. Can't live without it anymore!

Also I have a full-blown internet crush on both Irene and Eli. Oh, my heart...

Peppi from Finland ,

Five stars!

A wonderfully informative and comprehensive podcast hosted by a delightful, funny group of people who know how to do their research!

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