@queerasfact.bsky.social
Queer history podcast with over 150 episodes presenting stories from around the world and throughout time. https://www.queerasfact.com/ Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever good pods are found.
This clip from the 1979 doco Beats of the Heart: Konkombe features Area Scatter, a transfeminine performer who was hugely popular in 1970s Nigeria. She performed around eastern Nigeria, and even appeared on TV. #transhistory
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Colour illustration of Walatta Petros, kneeling while a man shaves her head.
In 1617, Ethiopian noblewoman Walatta Petros left her husband to become nun. This 19th-century illustration shows her having her head shaved - the first step in entering monastic life.
Walatta Petros would found 7 religious communities, working alongside her life partner, fellow nun Eheta Kristos.
Our episode on Megillus features three queer characters from 2nd century Rome, the complexities of discussing transness in the ancient world, and a whole host of
mythological examples of ways to be queer!
queerasfact.podbean.com/e/megillus/
‘Neptune Frost’ is a queer 2021 Rwandan/American sci-fi musical. We chat cyberpunk fashion choices, technomagical gender transitions, and some of the worst pigeon acting you’ve ever seen.
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Our episode on the gender non-conforming Japanese artist Okuhara Seiko explores gender in the Meiji era, an 1860s coming-out party, and getting a doctor's certificate to cut your hair!
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We’re taking our regular break over August, but don’t forget there’s a backlog of 177 Queer as Fact podcast episodes to keep you entertained! Here’s just a few we recommend you check out while we prepare the next batch coming in September...
#queerhistory #lgbthistory
I LOVE this podcast, the scholarship is super solid and the chemistry between the hosts is wonderful. Give it a listen.
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Platter with two cheeses, tomatoes, quince paste and olive bread
Getting ready for the fortnightly Queer as Fact working bee 🧀🏳️🌈
(I swear we have more bread, we just got overexcited and ate the slices we'd put out)
'Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignity in Native America' by Gregory D Smithers
Just got back from a trip to Canada, saw plenty of rainbows for pride, and picked up 'Reclaiming Two-Spirits' by Gregory D Smithers. Very excited to dive into this book and learn more about Two-Spirit history to bring to the podcast!
26.07.2025 01:52 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is my favorite podcast, all the hosts are a font of interesting stories and information about queer history. A recent favorite episode taught me so much about the Haitian Revolution and the possibly-genderfluid "prophetess" who led an uprising.
18.07.2025 04:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This podcast got me hooked on my first listening (The Maidens of Pompeii), and I've devoured every one of their episodes since then.
They are an example of thorough, academic, transparent, nuanced queer history. I love it!
I have enjoyed and learned something from every episode
Listen to Queer as Fact to be as cool as me
Listen Here: queerasfact.podbean.com
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Podbean screenshot showing "2M" downloads, with the mouse hovering over it showing that actually all time downloads are at 1,999,899.
We're so close to 2 million downloads!
If you've ever considered recommending Queer as Fact to a friend, downloading an old episode that you thought you might be interested in or even want to re-listen to an old favourite - NOW IS THE TIME.
#queer #lgbt #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq #gay #lesbian #trans
New Podcast Episode: Maximilien Robespierre, on top of a painting of Robespierre with Queer as Fact logo and rainbow soundwave in the background.
HE'S HERE
After a monster recording, editing for days and technical difficulties in the upload, Queer as Fact is proud to present our episode on French revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre, whose apparent lack of sexuality has been a point of discussion for scholars ever since his death.
Join us as we try to find the real man behind more than two hundred years of conflicting propaganda, explore methods of approaching history on the asexual spectrum, and add to the pantheon of Queer As Fact historical pets.
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#queer #queerhistory #robespierre #france
New Podcast Episode: Maximilien Robespierre, on top of a painting of Robespierre with Queer as Fact logo and rainbow soundwave in the background.
HE'S HERE
After a monster recording, editing for days and technical difficulties in the upload, Queer as Fact is proud to present our episode on French revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre, whose apparent lack of sexuality has been a point of discussion for scholars ever since his death.
Simply love to have technical issues with an episode upload... 😭
For the 107 people who downloaded our Robespierre episode in the last few minutes - sorry it's missing the last 30 minutes!
We'll have a full version of the episode up later today once we figure out what the problem was.
A pair of glasses with green tinted lenses.
New episode of Queer as Fact coming Tuesday!
Brace yourself friends, this is our longest episode EVER, coming in well over TWO HOURS (yes this was editing hell).
If you didn't listen to the end of our previous episode on Romaine-la-Prophétesse, here's a hint as to the topic...
The Old Guard 2 came out???
I haven't heard amazing things, but I'm still excited for more queer genre fiction - and if you'd like to hear why, we did an entire episode on the first movie and its refreshingly upfront gay representation.
Link below!
#theoldguard2 #movies #charlizetheron #queer
And if that isn’t enough Pride content for you, we’ve also got two podcast episodes - one on the historical story behind the movie, and one on the film itself - for you to learn more.
Links below!
This documentary was the starting point for making Pride, and if you’ve seen Pride you’ll recognise a lot of things straight from the film, from individuals to lines of dialogue to some of the movie’s iconic outfits.
It’s only 20 minutes long so check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJh...
If you loved the movie Pride you absolutely have to check out this doco. It was put together by the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group in 1986 and tells the story of the 1984-85 miners strike and the work LGSM did with the miners of Dulais during that time.
That's it for this thread, but we have more than 170 episodes covering even more times and places - with our next episode coming later this month!
So next time someone tells you queer people didn't exist before the internet or that we are a uniquely Western phenomenon - point them this way! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
2004 CE, The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands: Gay activists found the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands as a protest against the homophobic policies of the Australian government.
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1944-1946 CE, Antarctica: Trans lichenologist Elke Mackenzie takes part in Operation Tabarin, undertaking botanical research in Antarctica.
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1886 CE, Washington, USA: Two-spirit lhamana We’wha visits Washington as a representative of the Zuni people, meeting US President Grover Cleveland, and demonstrating both masculine and feminine aspects of Zuni culture.
queerasfact.podbean.com/e/wewha/
