2. Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

20.03.2024
62 min.
Thomas tells us about a lesser-known queer uprising that happened in 1966 at an all night diner in San Francisco, California.

3. The UpStairs Lounge Arson Attack

17.04.2024
69 min.
Megan tells the heart-wrenching story of the fire of a neighborhood bar in 1973 that ripped through the local LBGTQIA2S+ community, and became the catalyst for the gay rights movement in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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4. Libertine Smut

23.05.2024
78 min.
Thomas takes us through the world of 17th and 18th century smut…which curiously features a wealth of lesbian pornography.

5. Queer Ancient Egypt

19.06.2024
76 min.
Fresh from their travels in Egypt, Megan talks to us about queer aspects of ancient Egypt that prove that queer folx have been around for quite a long time…despite attempts to water down and suppress expressions of queer longing by some homophobic historians and archeologists.

6. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Research

29.07.2024
90 min.
Thomas tells us about pioneering German sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Research during the height of the Weimar Republic and through to its destruction by the Nazis.

7. The Ladies of Llangollen

29.07.2024
110 min.
Megan shares the story of Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831) – known as the Ladies of Llangollen: an intrepid Irish lesbian couple who eloped to Wales to live their truth…and to invent lesbogothcottagecore. Because #lesbiansinventedeverything

8. The Death and Life of Robert Eads

30.12.2024
69 min.
In this episode, Thomas tells the infuriating saga of the withholding of medical care – or rather, murder – of trans man, Robert Eads.

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9. Marcel Moore & Claude Cahun: Surrealist Antifa Revolutionaries!

24.01.2025
79 min.
Megan shares the story of artists, activist antifa couple: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Here’s hoping that in these dark, despotic times, their story of courage and radical activism can inspire us moving forward.

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10. The Public Universal Friend

19.02.2025
98 min.
Thomas tells us about young Quaker woman, Jemima Wilkinson, who after a grave illness was reborn as a genderless, spiritual being: the Public Universal Friend.

11. Leopold & Loeb, Part 1

11.03.2025
105 min.
In this three part series, Megan shares the story of notorious 1920’s thrill killer couple: Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Part One looks into the childhoods and backgrounds of Leopold and Loeb, as well as the events leading up to what would become known as the “crime of the century.”
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12. Leopold & Loeb, Part 2

8.04.2025
67 min.
In this three part series, Megan shares the story of notorious 1920’s thrill killer couple: Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
In Part Two, Megan and Thomas discuss the bonkers trial for what would become known as the “crime of the century.”
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13. Leopold & Loeb, Part 3

19.05.2025
84 min.
In this three part series, Megan shares the story of notorious 1920’s thrill killer couple: Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
In Part Three, Megan and Thomas discus the lives of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in prison, and beyond.
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14. Ewan Forbes

24.06.2025
2 hours and 29 min.
Did you know that many of the rules against transgender people changing their gender or sex markers derive from an infamous legal battle involving a trans Scottish nobleman, Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, general practitioner and expert in Scottish heritage? Learn all about one of the most significant court cases in contemporary transgender history.
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15. Blood Sisters

24.07.2025
109 min.
In this episode, Megan shares the stories of lesbian action during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as her own experience growing up in the shadow of AIDS.
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16. Two-Spirit Identities

20.08.2025
111 min.
In this episode, Thomas discusses the history and complexity of Two-Spirit identities.

17. Queer Kansas City

25.09.2025
119 min.
In this episode, Megan shares the secret-not-so-secret queer history of their hometown, Kansas City. Whether on the Missouri or the Kansas side, you might be quite surprised at just how much queer history can be found in this mid-size Midwestern city in what a lot of people consider a “flyover state.”

18. Bog Bodies

22.10.2025
113 min.
In this episode, Thomas talks about the discovery, investigation, and historiography of the “Weerdinge Couple” bog bodies.

19. The Pansy Craze

20.11.2025
84 min.
In this episode, Megan talks about The Pansy Craze – a period of increased LGBT visibility in popular culture from the late 1920s until the mid-1930s, that came to end following the Great Depression, The Hays Code, and the rise of World War Two. During the ‘craze,’ drag queens, drag kings, masculine women and femme queer men – known as “pansy performers” – experienced a surge in underground popularity especially in US cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

20. Colonel Barker

17.12.2025
1 hr. 52 min.
In this episode, Thomas takes us through the life and times of convicted swindler, Victor Barker. From his time in Holloway Prison to the sideshows of Blackpool and beyond, Barker insisted on maintaining a male identity throughout his adult life despite often being described as a cross-dresser. This early-twentieth century trans-man was not an admirable character, but he was definitely an interesting one.

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