Bad Gays

By: Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
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  • A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com
    Copyright 2019-. All rights reserved.
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  • Tom Mitford

    Tom Mitford
    Dec 31 2024

    Today's episode profiles a very bad bisexual: the lawyer, soldier and society favourite, Tom Mitford. But the idea of featuring Tom is partly a ruse. This will be not just a profile of Tom himself, but of his whole family, and especially his six siblings, the famed Mitford Sisters, whose intense, often conflicting relationships have become something of an obsession for English culture - and not always a very healthy one. They embody so much about the English elite: eccentric, vicious, often listless and desperately sad. We also promise to you, as has become a theme of the podcast, some DBNs - Disturbingly British Names. And an indescribable cover of Right Said Fred by Jessica Mitford and Dr. Maya Angelou, on both voice and kazoo.

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    SOURCES:

    Lovell, Mary S. The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family. New edition. Abacus, 2002. Mitford, Jessica. Hons and Rebels. New York Review Books Classics. New York: New York Review Books, 2004. Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. First Edition. New York: Vintage, 2010.

    Mitford, Nancy. Love in a Cold Climate. 1st edition. Vintage, 2010. Mosley, Charlotte, ed. The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters. UK ed. edition. Fourth Estate, 2012.

    Thompson, Laura. The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters. St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

    Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Olive Yang

    Olive Yang
    Dec 24 2024

    From almost the first season of the show, we’ve been tantalised by stories of the Burmese gangster Olive Yang. Now, to open season 8, we have their story: Olive was a lesbian — or possibly transmasculine — gangster born royal in 1927 British colonial Burma, who when first married off to a man threw a pot of their own urine at him to prevent the marriage from being consummated. They ran away from polite society, dated actresses, ran opium, were involved with the CIA, and helped negotiate settlements between ethnic groups.

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    SOURCES:

    Paluch, Gabrielle. The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023. Scott, James C., ed. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner

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

    Extra Bad Gays December 2024: Luigi Mangione, Folk Hero? (Trailer)
    Dec 19 2024
    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.
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    15 mins

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This podcast is a hidden gem

Because of my life circumstances I listen a lots of different podcasts and I kind of binged this one. About the title: the creators are gay so it is not an anti LGBTQIA podcast. It is about choosing dividing historical figures and investigate on what role their gender identity played in their life. The hosts Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller do an extensive research often using the sources from the person who they investigate on. The episodes build on the biography which prepared by one of them while the other host reacts to it. I really like that they never move out the person from the historical context, they explain why these historical figures are bad and how they dealed with their gender identity in their eras. They end up with colorful, interesting and intellectual conversations which make me think days later on the topics. This podcast definitely changed my opinion on how to look at history.

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