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Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com

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Special Episode: Liza Minnelli's Bad Gays

59m · Jun 27, 2026

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Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode 6

1h 01m · Jun 3, 2026

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Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Five

57m · May 27, 2026

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Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Four

1h 09m · May 20, 2026

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Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Three

1h 08m · May 13, 2026

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Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Two

1h 02m · May 6, 2026

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Mandelson: A Homosexual History–Episode One

52m · Apr 29, 2026

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Special Episode: Daniel Dunglas Home

1h 17m · Apr 2, 2026

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TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays February 2026: Mandelson, Gay Mafias, And Liza's Floor Mop

12m · Feb 27, 2026

Tom of Finland

1h 25m · Feb 10, 2026

William Beckford

1h 09m · Feb 3, 2026

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays January 2026: Heated Rivalry

12m · Jan 29, 2026

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E. M. Forster

1h 02m · Dec 30, 2025

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TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays December 2025

8m · Dec 24, 2025

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Captain Moonlite

52m · Dec 23, 2025

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Tracey Wigginton

50m · Dec 16, 2025

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TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays November 2025: Tourism House Down Boots

7m · Dec 4, 2025

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Angela Calomiris

48m · Dec 1, 2025

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Jacob Israël de Haan

46m · Nov 25, 2025

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Charles Hitchen

54m · Nov 18, 2025

Dorian Corey

58m · Nov 11, 2025

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Little Richard

1h 05m · Nov 4, 2025

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TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays October 2025

3m · Oct 29, 2025

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TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays September 2025

12m · Sep 30, 2025

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TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays August 2025

4m · Aug 21, 2025

Special Episode: Coil (with Hannah Pezzack)

59m · Aug 12, 2025

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays July 2025

12m · Jul 31, 2025

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays June 2025, The Second: Touring, Representation, and Gaggony Guncles

12m · Jun 24, 2025

Special Episode: Gavin Arthur (with Maurice Casey)

1h 07m · Jun 10, 2025

Extra Bad Gays June 2025, The First: Weird Vibes Pride, Edmund White, and Bisexual Dilemmas (TRAILER)

16m · Jun 5, 2025

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays - The Sex We Cannot Have

5m · May 7, 2025

Special Episode: Alexander von Humboldt (with Michael Huldt)

1h 18m · Apr 30, 2025

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays Gaggony Guncles

11m · Apr 10, 2025

Jacques de Molay

51m · Mar 11, 2025

TRAILER–Extra Bad Gays February 2025: German Elections and How To Sauna

12m · Feb 28, 2025

Adele Spitzeder

1h 00m · Feb 19, 2025

Anne Lister

1h 07m · Feb 11, 2025

Larry Kramer

1h 10m · Feb 5, 2025

TRAILER - Extra Bad Gays: Extra Bad Gays January 2025: Unity Mitford, Lavender Scares, and Gay Guys With Girlfriends

12m · Jan 31, 2025

Abd Al-Ilah

40m · Jan 29, 2025

Reed Erickson

56m · Jan 20, 2025

Albrecht Muth

52m · Jan 14, 2025

Elisar von Kupffer

1h 05m · Jan 7, 2025

Tom Mitford

1h 05m · Dec 31, 2024

Olive Yang

48m · Dec 24, 2024

Extra Bad Gays December 2024: Luigi Mangione, Folk Hero? (Trailer)

15m · Dec 19, 2024

Extra Bad Gays November 2024: The Transatlantic Anti-Trans Post-Election Backlash (Trailer)

13m · Nov 30, 2024

Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie (with Indigo Dunphy-Smith)

1h 07m · Oct 30, 2024

Extra Bad Gays October 2024: Meet Your New Gaggony Guncles

10m · Oct 28, 2024

Jerome Robbins (with Liz Rosenfeld)

1h 04m · Aug 25, 2024

Extra Bad Gays June 2024: Pride From Stonewall to Subaru (Trailer)

20m · Jul 3, 2024

Christopher Marlowe (with Will Tosh)

1h 16m · Jun 25, 2024

Rotha Lintorn-Orman

51m · Apr 25, 2024

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays April 2024 - Tory Sex Scandals and Capote's Feud

16m · Apr 22, 2024

Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás

41m · Apr 18, 2024

Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah

48m · Apr 9, 2024

Marthe Hanau

44m · Apr 2, 2024

John Whitgift

1h 05m · Mar 19, 2024

James Levine

59m · Mar 12, 2024

Elagabalus

1h 02m · Mar 5, 2024

Ahebi Ugbabe

50m · Feb 27, 2024

Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell

1h 05m · Feb 20, 2024

Karl Lagerfeld

1h 02m · Feb 13, 2024

Simeon Solomon and Sascha Schneider - Live from Podfest Berlin

1h 06m · Dec 25, 2023

Benedetta Carlini

1h 19m · Jun 6, 2023

Tokugawa Iemitsu

56m · May 30, 2023

Dong Xian

49m · May 16, 2023

Tom Driberg

1h 18m · May 9, 2023

Griselda Blanco

52m · May 2, 2023

André Gide

1h 00m · Apr 25, 2023

Mustapha Ben Ismaïl (with Arthur Asseraf)

1h 02m · Apr 11, 2023

Jorge Horacio Ballvé Piñero

1h 06m · Apr 4, 2023

Julie D’Aubigny

53m · Mar 28, 2023

George Santos

1h 01m · Mar 20, 2023

Jack Saul LIVE! at Foyles in London with Shon Faye

1h 26m · Dec 25, 2022

Magnus Hirschfeld (with Laurie Marhoefer)

1h 10m · Oct 5, 2022

US Tour!

3m · Jun 8, 2022

Eugen Sandow (with Ruby Hann)

1h 29m · Jun 1, 2022

Our UK Tour! (US Coming Soon)

4m · May 19, 2022

Jeffrey Dahmer

1h 04m · Mar 15, 2022

John Wojtowicz

1h 11m · Mar 1, 2022

Cressida Dick (Part Two)

1h 13m · Feb 22, 2022

Cressida Dick (Part One)

58m · Feb 15, 2022

Freddie Mercury

1h 20m · Feb 8, 2022

Franco Zeffirelli

1h 21m · Feb 1, 2022

Anne Bonny

1h 08m · Jan 25, 2022

Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg

59m · Jan 18, 2022

Ernst vom Rath

57m · Jan 11, 2022

Joe Carstairs

1h 03m · Jan 4, 2022

Francis Bacon

1h 13m · Dec 24, 2021

Pacchierotto and Florentine Sodomites (with Max Fox)

1h 32m · Aug 10, 2021

Arthur Gary Bishop (with David Eichert)

55m · Apr 13, 2021

Dennis Cooper (with Diarmuid Hester)

1h 22m · Feb 23, 2021

Violette Morris

1h 05m · Dec 22, 2020

Camilla Hall

56m · Dec 14, 2020

Gertrude Stein

51m · Dec 8, 2020

Prince Albert Victor

1h 00m · Dec 1, 2020

Truman Capote

1h 15m · Nov 24, 2020

Carl Van Vechten

57m · Nov 17, 2020

Benjamin Britten

1h 20m · Nov 10, 2020

Jeremy Thorpe

1h 12m · Nov 3, 2020

Liberace

1h 22m · Oct 27, 2020

Cecil Rhodes

1h 09m · Oct 20, 2020

Special Episode: John Maynard Keynes (with Richard Power Sayeed)

1h 54m · Sep 1, 2020

Radclyffe Hall

1h 17m · Jul 28, 2020

Lisa Miller

51m · May 26, 2020

Morrissey

52m · May 19, 2020

Aileen Wuornos

52m · May 12, 2020

Roger Casement

1h 00m · May 5, 2020

Philip Johnson

45m · Apr 28, 2020

Elmyr de Hory

44m · Apr 21, 2020

Barney Frank

1h 00m · Apr 14, 2020

Lord Castlereagh

49m · Apr 7, 2020

James Buchanan

1h 04m · Mar 31, 2020

Nikolai Yezhov

53m · Mar 24, 2020

Iowa Caucuses Special: Pete Buttigieg

1h 33m · Jan 29, 2020

Christmas Special: Colonel Victor Barker

1h 04m · Dec 25, 2019

J. Edgar Hoover

58m · Nov 27, 2019

Piers Gaveston

46m · Nov 19, 2019

The Stonewall Colony

55m · Nov 12, 2019

Nicky Crane

1h 02m · Nov 5, 2019

Pim Fortuyn

48m · Oct 29, 2019

Gordon of Khartoum

1h 00m · Oct 22, 2019

Frederick the Great

42m · Oct 15, 2019

Pietro Aretino

43m · Oct 8, 2019

Andrew Cunanan

44m · Oct 1, 2019

Alexander the Great

42m · Sep 24, 2019

Special Episode: Andy Warhol (with Sholem Krishtalka)

49m · Jun 24, 2019

Episode 10: Roy Cohn

37m · May 21, 2019

Episode 9: Leopold and Loeb

50m · May 14, 2019

Episode 8: Ronnie Kray

37m · May 7, 2019

Episode 7: Friedrich Radszuweit

42m · Apr 30, 2019

Episode 6: Sir Antony Blunt

43m · Apr 23, 2019

Episode 5: Andrew Sullivan

41m · Apr 16, 2019

Episode 4: James VI and I

38m · Apr 9, 2019

Episode 3: Lawrence of Arabia

40m · Apr 2, 2019

Episode 2: Bosie

42m · Mar 26, 2019

Episode 1: Ernst Röhm

37m · Mar 19, 2019

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