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Queer history podcast covering a variety of content from around the world and throughout time. Episodes released 1st and 15th of every month.

Fortnightly queer history podcast covering a variety of content from around the world and throughout time.

09/01/2026

This 1st-century BCE grave relief shows two women, Fonteia Eleusis and Fonteia Helena, clasping their right hands - a traditional Roman symbol of marriage.
Putting together an episode on q***r women in ancient Rome had been a goal of mine ever since we started this podcast way back in 2017. There’s so little scholarship on q***r women compared to q***r men, so I was so excited to discover these two women!
You can hear their story and more in our podcast: https://q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/relationships-between-women-in-ancient-rome/
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08/01/2026

Settling in for a nice evening of finding out why quiche is gay...
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07/01/2026

- today is the birthday of q***r bushranger Andrew George Scott, subject of the first ever episode of our podcast!
George's bushranging career began with a crime he always denied - a bank robbery by a cloaked, masked man who signed his name “Captain Moonlite”. George was eventually hanged for his crimes, and he is buried alongside his fellow bushranger James Nesbitt, with whom he was, in his words “united by every tie which could bind human friendship …one in hopes, one in heart and soul…”

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06/01/2026

By now we all know about 19th-century le***an Anne Lister and the code she used to record her diaries, but have you heard of Hildegard of Bingen?
12th century nun Hildegard of Bingen (also likely q***r), invented Litterae Ignotae, her very own alphabet designed for writing in her own constructed language, Lingua Ignota.
Check out our podcast to learn more about her: https://q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/hildegard-of-bingen/

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05/01/2026

Happy birthday Sherlock Holmes!
Despite never being mentioned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, January 6th is traditionally celebrated as the birthday of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. It was at Holmes' birthday celebration in 1941 that author Rex Stout gave a speech titled 'Watson Was a Woman', arguing that the only possible way to understand the relationship between Holmes and Watson was as husband and wife.
This is just one of the q***r readings of Sherlock Holmes we discovered while digging into these famous stories. Check out our podcast to find out more: https://q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/sherlock-holmes/

04/01/2026

Almost 3000 years ago, the Iliad told the story of the Greek heroes Achilles and Patroclus in the Trojan war. Ever since, people have been debating how to interpret their relationship.
The Iliad itself leaves the question open – showing an incredibly close, impassioned relationship, remaining ambiguous as to whether it is platonic, romantic, sexual, or some mix of the three.
In his 4th-century BCE Symposium, Plato has his characters debate not whether the two men were lovers – which they take as given - but which was the older, penetrative partner, and which was the younger one – in modern terms, who was the top, and who was the bottom.

We dived into the question ourselves in our podcast on the pair! https://q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/achilles-and-patroclus/

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03/01/2026

Black le***an writer and activist Audre Lorde and her partner and fellow activist Gloria Joseph. Audre and Gloria lived together in Gloria’s home of St Croix in the Carribean until Audre’s death in 1992. The last thing Audre wrote was a note reading “Gloria, I love you.”
Check out our podcast to learn more about Audre: q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/audre-lorde-1594730943/

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03/01/2026

Happy birthday to bisexual heiress and newspaper executive Henrietta Bingham, born in 1901!
Henrietta was known for being the life of the party, on one memorable occasion playing the saxophone while standing on top of a piano. She mixed in q***r circles, and was friends with the famous British Bloomsbury group. Her lovers included world-number-one tennis player Helen Jacobs, and the artist Carrington, who painted this n**e portrait of her.
Check out our podcast on Henrietta: https://q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/henrietta-bingham/

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01/01/2026

Welcoming the new year with a new podcast episode! Today we're discussing the 1988 Korean intersex le***an film Sa Bangji.

Join us as we learn about the real 15th-century woman behind the film's main character, discover how 1980s government policy inadvertently led to the creation of a q***r movie, and admire some historical hats.

https://q***rasfact.podbean.com/e/sa-bangji-1988/

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15/12/2025

New episode out! Today we're talking about the ancient Italian ice-mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman. Join us to learn about the world's oldest pants, the ethics of archaeology, and and whether there really was s***m in Ötzi's a**s.
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01/12/2025

We really enjoyed watching and talking about Touzani's 'The Blue Caftan' this week for our podcast. It is such a moving and beautiful film that doesn't shy away from the complexity of navigating q***r life in Morocco, but at the same time celebrates q***r love and acceptance. Definitely worth checking out!

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28/11/2025

We had a lovely time last weekend visiting the ! Picked up a bunch of q***r books (possible future podcast episodes?) at , and also saw an exhibition by the artist Andrew Goodman. Andrew's work explores different worlds with different modes of gender, sexuality and reproduction, and it's inspired by current QAF fave Ursula K Le Guin, who we talked about recently! We love to see the way q***r art and storytelling can come together across decades and formats to create a conversation about the many ways to be q***r.

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