Bad Gays
@badgayspod
a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. in our eighth season. listen at badgayspod.com or wherever you find podcasts subscribe to our monthly chat and advice show at
On this episode, we discuss the Gen Z sex recession–one needs a room of one's own to get fisted, as Virginia Woolf might have written––and then take a question from a listener upset about a friend's decision to prioritize a couple over friendship. www.patreon.com/badgayspod/p...
Happy Pride! Our present: a brand new special episode about the one and only Liza Minnelli, told through the stories of the bad gays in her life. Special guest @todayisok.bsky.social joins Ben for a conversation about the gay Kwisatz Haderach. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
The final episode of Mandelson: A Homosexual History is now out. This could be you. Listen now: badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
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ARE YOU READY TO GO TO THE DOME? It's Episode Four of Mandelson: A Homosexual History: and we're looking at Peter's status as the definitive comeback kid of British politics, and why it’s impossible to ever rule out his return. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
Episode 3 of Mandelson: A Homosexual History is now available. New Labour: New Life For Britain––Because Britain Deserves Better. Cool Brittania. Mysteriously financed homes in Notting Hill. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
huw coming out of his well to shame peter mandelson (jean-leon gerome, 2026) stay a week ahead of Mandelson: A Homosexual History by subscribing at patreon.com/badgayspod
As always, you can stay an episode ahead by subscribing on Patreon or Apple Podcasts, and listen to Episode 3 now. www.patreon.com/posts/157508...
Our new miniseries is out now. They call him the Prince of Darkness. Peter Mandelson's decades-long political career is a skeleton key to everything that's gone wrong in Western politics in the last forty years.
It's not an April fool! An all-new special episode, about Daniel Dunglas Home, who always knew he wasn't like the other boys. Not because he was gay, but because, while they were out on the sports field playing rugby, he was communicating with the dead. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
Closing out our season with a banger: it's Tom of Finland. No introductions necessary. Live from Helsinki. Sit back, relax, and enjoy: badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
We did it. We talked about Heated Rivalry. For subscribers only, on our Patreon. Come for our take on hockey fujoshi, stay for Gaggony Guncles questions about loving repressed Englishmen and politer terms for f*g h*g - fruit fly, perhaps? www.patreon.com/posts/extra-...
NEW EPISODE: E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s most successful novelists. Raised so prudishly he went to Oxford without understanding where babies come from, Italy — & later India — represented paradises of liberation in comparison to the cramped English bourgeoisie. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
Thanks to @newyorker.com for naming us a top podcast for the holiday season!
Dear gays: if you travel to BCN, please keep your shirt on around Huw's neighbors. We discuss tourism and the Netflix series Boots (come for the homonationalism, stay for the shower scenes) on this month's EXTRA BAD GAYS, available on Apple or Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/extra-...
NEW EP/EVIL LESBIAN ALERT: FBI informant Angela Calomiris helped bring down the Communist Party during the red scare. Unfortunately, she also looked great in a suit. Listen and learn about Angela’s life of FBI collaboration, naming names, secrets and lies. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
NEW EP: Jacob Israël de Haan wrote the first gay Dutch novel, moved to Palestine in the 1920s, turned against Zionism, and was assassinated by the Haganah paramilitary. "What is it I long for," he once asked. "The sanctity of Israel or an Arab male prostitute?" badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
S9E3 just dropped: it's Charles Hitchen, who played both sides of a corrupt, pay-to-play criminal justice system in Georgian England, all while touring through London's infamous "molly houses," back rooms of taverns or gin houses, where queer men could meet and cruise. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
Season 9 is here! And it's LITTLE RICHARD, who contained multitudes: a pioneering rock and roll musician, a conservative preacher from the deep South, and a young Black queer man thrown out of his home who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
Thanks to Ellen DeGenerates, otherwise known as Sally Street and Genevieve Norwick, for the jingle for our advice segments on EXTRA BAD GAYS. Subscribe to EXTRA to hear this jingle, and our advice, every month––and send your questions via Patreon or emailbadgays[at]gmail www.patreon.com/c/badgayspod
