Queer as Fact

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

Episodes

Total: 174

Simon Nkoli

2021/6/1

Happy Pride! We're starting off our Pride content by talking about the South African activist Simon

Maryam Khatoon Molkara

2021/4/15

Today we're talking about the life of trans activist Maryam Khatoon Molkara. Join us to hear about T

Join Irene and Alice in this bonus episode for an interview with Roland Betancourt Professor of Art

Today's episode of Queer as Fiction takes us back...to the future! Join us for a brief, light-hearte

Frida Kahlo: Part 2

2021/3/23

Today we're bringing you part 2 of our discussion on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Join us as we f

Frida Kahlo: Part 1

2021/3/14

Today's long-awaited episode is on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Join us for the first of two epis

Sexuality in Pompeii

2021/2/28

Today we're looking at sexuality in Pompeii through the lens of the so called "Two Maidens", found e

Welcome back to our two-part mini-series on the 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovs

Today's episode is the first of our two-part series on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 19th century Russia

The Boys in the Band

2021/1/14

It's back to back episodes featuring recent Netflix films as we discuss Mart Crowley's 1968 play, tw

Ma Rainey

2020/12/31

Happy New Year! 2021's first Queer as Fact is on the Mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey. We'll be talkin

Today's episode is on the 1985 slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. Join us a

Yoshiko Kawashima

2020/11/30

Welcome to the first episode of Queer As Fact season 6! Today’s episode is on Yoshiko Kawashima, a q

In today's bonus episode, Alice and Irene interview author emily m danforth, the author of queer YA

100th Episode: Q&A

2020/11/12

To celebrate 100 episodes of Queer as Fact, we asked our listeners to submit questions, and now we h

Paris is Burning

2020/10/14

Welcome to the final episode for Season 5, where we are discussing Jennie Livingston's 1990 document

Kapaemahu

2020/10/1

In today's episode, we discuss Kapaemahu, a Hawai'ian sacred site commemorating four non-binary indi

Roberta Cowell

2020/9/14

Today's episode is on transgender pioneer, Roberta Cowell. We'll be covering everything from her car

Gladys Bentley

2020/9/1

Today's episode is on American blues singer Gladys Bentley. Join us for our first venture into the H

Today's Queer as Fiction episode is a follow-up to our episode from earlier this season talking abou