Historical Homos - Season 1

Historical Homos - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesJun 9, 2023 - Jun 30, 2023

Episodes

Toxic Boyfriends of Greek Mythology: Part the First
Season 1Episode 160 min

Toxic Boyfriends of Greek Mythology: Part the First

Buckle up for one of the most infamous - and lesser-known - gay couples in Greek mythology: Zeus and Ganymede, originators of the divine Daddy-Twink dichotomy. We'll discover what these myths tell us about ancient Greek homosexuality IRL, and how they provided much-needed PR for the complex reality between mortal sheets.
Jun 9, 2023
Le Chevalier d'Éon: From Russia With Mess... in a Dress
Season 1Episode 260 min

Le Chevalier d'Éon: From Russia With Mess... in a Dress

The unbelievably wild and weird life story of the Chevalier d'Éon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the Enlightenment. Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman.
Jun 16, 2023
William Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe: Who's Gayer?
Season 1Episode 360 min

William Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe: Who's Gayer?

William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe: brilliant dramatists and...bisexuals? We unpack the rumors, the hearsay and the straight-up gay poems that suggest these titans of English literature were also really, really, ridiculously (good-looking) gay.
Jun 23, 2023
V on V: The Very Sapphic Story of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Season 1Episode 460 min

V on V: The Very Sapphic Story of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

A review of the life and loves of Virginia Woolf. We dive deep into her affair with Vita Sackville-West, leading London lesbian of her day, and relive the parties thrown by the Bloomsbury Set, a group of young Modernists who continued the British tradition of plumbing the nation's bottomless depths of homosexuality. (Or should we say bottom-full?)
Jun 30, 2023

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