Episodes
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Yona Wallach
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
We are back from our hiatus with an episode on the bisexual Israeli poet, Yona Wallach. Join us as we visit Tel Aviv's 1960s gay scene, learn about gender in Hebrew, and read some of Yona's most controversial poetry.
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Oscar Wilde: Part 2
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Monday Oct 15, 2018
This is the second part of our two-part episode on Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde! We're talking about the latter half of Oscar's life, including the wittiest comedy in the English language, the tumultuous relationship between Oscar and Alfred Douglas, and Oscar's trial and imprisonment.
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Oscar Wilde: Part 1
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
It's time for our much-anticipated episode on Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde! Today we're covering the first half of Oscar's life, from his birth in 1854 to the publication of his homoerotic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1891. Tune in to hear about his rise to notoriety, his scandalous fashion choices, and whether he and Walt Whitman ever had sex.
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Moche Sex Pots
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Today's episode is on the erotic pottery of the Moche people of 1st to 7th century Peru. Tune in for skeleton sex, dragging bad scholarship, and the possibility of a third gender in ancient Peru.
[Image source: Janusz Z. Wołoszyn and Katarzyna Piwowar's "Sodomites, Siamese Twins, and Scholars: Same-Sex Relationships in Moche Art" in American Anthropologist, Vol. 117, No. 2 (2015), p.288]
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Wú Zǎo
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Today's episode is on the 19th-century Chinese poet and playwright Wú Zǎo. We'll be reading queer love poetry, talking about gender, and discussing the relatable experience of drinking wine while reading sad books.
[Image: text from Wú Zǎo's play Qiáo Yǐng]
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Billy Tipton
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Today's episode is on Billy Tipton, well-known jazz player and transgender man. Tune in for a man who could play the piano and the saxophone simultaneously, a nude portrait featuring an erupting volcano, and more dogs than you could possibly wish for!
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
The Color Purple (1982)
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
Today's Queer as Fiction episode is on the famous 1982 epistolary novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple. Join us for a discussion about intersectionality, what qualifies as good representation and the critical reaction to the novel since its publication.
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
William Dobell
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018
What does it take for a painting to ruin a friendship, initiate a court case, and change the Australian art world forever? Tune in to this episode on the Australian artist William Dobell and his controversial win of the 1943 Archibald Prize for portraiture to find out!
(Image: William Dobell, Self Portrait, 1932.)
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
Queer as Fact meets History is Gay
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
This week we have our first ever collaborative episode, where we meet with our fellow queer history podcast History is Gay to compare queer slang in Australia and the USA. Join us as we talk about lavender linguistics, Gilette blades, and our favourite ways to say we're queer.
You can find History is Gay on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter, and check out more of their episodes on their website, or wherever you find your podcasts.
Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
Federico García Lorca
Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
In this episode, we're talking about the early-20th-century Spanish poet and playwright, Federico García Lorca. Join us as we discuss Federico's relationship with Salvador Dalí, 19-year-old Jesus Christ's fights with his parents, and the mystery surrounding Federico's death.