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Why oh why are men so obsessed with our penises?

Join us today as we embark on a dick-scented odyssey to answer one of the 21st century's most urgent questions.

• 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians said their gods' divine jizz created the world. 
• The Egyptians agreed, worshipping the power of giant, divine cocks.
• Which is also why they cut their enemies' dicks off after a battle to present to Pharaoh.
• The Greeks then argued for a tiny, cropped penis...which is a lot BETTER for procreation, actually, thank you Aristotle for saying that!
• The Romans made everything about horse cocks and sexual domination. Shocker.
• And the Christians – well, the Christians would prefer you stop talking such FILTH, you disgusting sinner!

It's been a distressingly complex couple of millennia for humanity, full of all this penis pandemonium. We've sent shuttles to the moon, but we still can't figure out our own shafts.

Is the dick really divine? Or is the penis a spiritual problem? Will we ever master our members? Or do we have to accept that our schlongs belong to another side of ourselves?

Join Bash and his brilliant, hilarious guest – author and playwright R. Eric Thomas (https://rericthomas.com) – as they try desperately to answer all these penile questions.

Now, come on in! The water is...human temperature.

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We've got a special treat for you this week, my little Hormones!

Historical Homos is proud to present this episode of the Spirits Podcast, a history and comedy pod devoted to mythology, folklore, and the occult.

Every episode of the Spirits Podcast features co-hosts Julia and Amanda mixing a drink and discovering a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.

They're fun, they're clever, they are effectively our spiritual sister podcast (get it? cuz SPIRITS). So please enjoy this episode and we'll be back in your earholes next week with more OG Historical Homos content!

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Spirits Podcast: "Jewish Lesbian Vampires"

Author Samara Breger is here to reclaim vampires as queer, feminist, and Jewish figures. Let's find out how! 

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of antisemitism, The Holocaust, eugenics, blood, homophobia/lesbophobia, misogyny, stalking, predatory relationships, animal death, sex, and death.

Guest
Samara Breger writes books about women in improbable circumstances falling in love. Before she started writing books, she worked in public radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. She is a proud News and Documentary Emmy loser. If you peek into her work history, you'll find a lot of stuff about sex, reproductive health, and queer people. Her new book, A Long Time Dead, is now available.

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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
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Philippe d’Orléans is back! And it's no more Mr. Nice Queen thanks to his brother, Louis XIV, and his bitchass absolutist ways.

In Part Two of our series on Philippe, this fabulous fuckboi nepo baby pass around party bottom of 17th century France, our hero is getting fed up with playing second fiddle.

Fresh off the suspicious death (aka murder?) of his wife and the return to court of his chaotic boyfriend, the Chevalier de Lorraine, Philippe dives headfirst into the messy latter half of his astonishing life.

A brilliant military strategist, he will win a major victory for France (which Louis just cannot handle) and get himself banned from ever holding a future post in the army.

He will marry his second wife, the fantastically witty Madame Palatine (aka Liselotte of the Rhineland), and try her patience by spending all her money on his conniving boyfriends.

He will also become the second richest man in France after his brother, thanks to inheritances, real estate development (is there anything gayer?), and a private collection of Chinese porcelains that Bash is looking to purchase, if anyone has any leads.

The playboy becomes the player, in other words, though Louis will continue to play him at every turn. And when Philippe's son starts getting passed up for army jobs – things get heated rivalry (but not sexy, just kind of plain rivalry).

In fact, things get so heated rivalry that heads begin to roll...but in the end, Philippe will have the last word.

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Everyone knows about Louis XIV, the Sun King of 17th century France, who built Versailles, slept with every noblewoman in France, and invented men wearing high heels (see, straight people can do the right thing sometimes!).

But did you know his brother, Philippe, was gayer than Christmas?

Raised as the “spare” heir to the French throne, Philippe was never destined to rule, but that didn’t stop him from becoming fabulously rich, politically influential, and very well-acquainted with the rectums of Versailles' male population.

From childhood drag to a 40-year-old relationship with his favourite, the Chevalier de Lorraine, Philippe lived a life that was equal parts power, party, and pig bottom realness.

In Part One of our series on Philippe, we travel back to a France where “homosexuality” didn’t quite exist yet, but sodomy and bisexual libertinism very much did. We unpack Philippe’s early years, the politics of being a royal second son (which Bash understands firsthand), and how Philippe tried to carve out a role for himself in the shadow of the Sun King – all while assembling a harem of triflin' pansies, sorry I mean loving, aristocratic boyfriends*.

In 17th century France, as in every period of human history, the only crime was being boring. And Philippe was anything but.

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Produced by Dani Henion
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THE ANCIENT ROMANS HAD A GOD OF BIG DICK ENERGY AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT.
GIRLS AND BOYS, MEET PRIAPUS. 🍆

Remember when the internet decided Pete Davidson had a giant schlong? Well, turns out people have been fantasizing about hung humans since the Ancient Romans.

Everyone always complains that the marble statues of antiquity seem to have surprisingly small penises – was everyone micro back then? What did the size queens do?

But the truth is – the ancient world was full of dicks, big and small. There were dicks on houses, at intersections, in art, and of course, in milady's bedside table.

AND – dicks were actually sacred to the ancients!

From the phallic Herms that warded off evil to Priapus' fertility-granting member, Big Dick Energy was everywhere. Because dicks were a symbol of agricultural power, magical protection, and prosperity.

2,000 years ago, Cock was King.

But it wasn’t all rainbows and dildos. In Greece, big dicks were a joke, a sign of an oversexed – and therefore unrestrained – man. Meanwhile, the Romans took things in a more violent direction (surprise). Which is why they turned the Hung Horny Goat Weed, Priapus, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, into a toxic masculinity fantasy of sexual violence.

This fantasy of priapic domination was unique to the Romans in the ancient world – the Greeks preferred to model self-restraint and wisdom, which of course is the unique jurisdiction of the average-size penis.

But really…let’s be honest.
If a 10-foot marble Hercules walked in with his tiny little “11th toe”?

You’d be so fucking down.

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When history says "they were just friends," what do we say back?

We say: SHUT UP IDIOT HAVE YOU READ THEIR GAY LITTLE DIARIES?

Ahem. Sorry. I get so passionate.

This week's episode is about two women who lived in a castle together, wrote each other poetry, decorated each other's rooms, said they openly loved and were obsessed with one another in diaries and funerary monuments, and, after refusing to marry or have children, spent all their money (which was a lot) on trips to Europe together.

Historians call them "romantic friends." A phrase that I find...hilarious. (Is a "romantic friend" my friend I want to...fuck? And what, sort of, does that mean?)

It's only by diving into the long, storied past of Highland lesbianism that we're going to find out. If anyone holds the secrets to romantic friendship it's Elyza Fraser and Mary Bristow.

So break out the single malts and your snazziest kilt/sporan combo, because the Scottish lesbian water is a pipingly warm human temperature, and it's time to dive in.

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Written and hosted by Bash.
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Produced by Dani Henion.
Guest host: Indigo Dunphy-Smith

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Disney sells itself as a guardian of childhood innocence and cis-het happy endings. (That's not – I didn't mean – you know what I mean.)

So why did so many gay kids grow up flicking their hair back like Ariel in the hotel pool? Or mincing like Scar and shimmying with Ursula's cleavage? Above all, why did every queer child since 1998 stare in the mirror and demand to know: who is that girl, staring "straight," back at me?

We're joined this week by Professor Sean Griffin, who helps Bash unpack over a century of Disney’s weirdly romanticizing, heteronormalizing fairy tales – which we homosexuals have always insisted on making much, much gayer.

We begin with the hornier Mickey Mouse no one ever knew – the 1920s were crazy man! – and then stop over for some surprising episodes in Walt's homophobic 1940s and 1950s regime. Before finally, we go the distance – all the way to the Broadway Renaissance that made Disney fabulous again.

It could have just been an episode about which female villains we'd like to dress up as, but ultimately we are very serious historians. So enjoy the full scoop, my little Hormones.

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Written and hosted by Bash.
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Produced by Dani Henion.
Guest host: Sean Griffin

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Do all Christians hate gays?

Amazingly: no. Despite how annoying we all are.

In fact, millions and millions of Christians ARE themselves...very gay.

So why is it that we automatically associate Christianity with homophobia?

The answer lies in the brief, but fascinating history of gay evangelical activism you'll find in this episode.

Before the gay rights movement, American Christians weren't more homophobic than anyone else. Homophobia was common in America, but it wasn't yet one of the defining features of American Christianity.

But then: a sexy bear of a Pentecostal pastor, Reverend Troy Perry, launched a successful gay church (the MCC) in 1968. And then: a feminist evangelical lesbian wrote a book about how gays were – surprise! – people, too.

Things started to change: people's hearts and minds shifted on homosexuality. And that's when the Religious Right first got organised. That's when televangelists and Jerry Falwell and Anita Bryant began to wage a campaign not just against gay evangelical activists, but all gay people.

The modern assumption – that all Christians "hate f*gs" (and anyone else they deem queer) – was born.

So this Christmas, while you're putting on your Sunday best (read: Elf-themed jockstrap), join Bash and his fabulous guest, Professor William Stell, as they explore this little-known corner of Christian homophobia.

William Stell is a professor of American religion and queer history at NYU, and his book, Born Again Queer, will be published in May 2026.

Now get ready to get wet and wild, because the gay evangelical hot tub is open and the water is a pipingly warm...human temperature.
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Episode Credits

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LEATHER. It's hot, it's taut, it's everything everybody else is not.

But when did it become so big in the gay community?

My guest today, Race Bannon, leather community activist and co-host of the On Guard podcast, taught me a few things I never knew about leather that I bet you don't either:

1) Leather is all about play: it seems hyper-masc and dark. But really it's a bunch of beautiful horny people expressing themselves erotically and inventively. In a world where adults are never allowed to play, leather allows all people, queer or not, to explore their true selves.

2) Leather literally saved lives. The leather community was at the vanguard of the AIDS epidemic, providing sex education and support to show gay men in particular how to express desire and intimacy without penetrative/fluid-exchanging sex.

3) Leather is a protest! Leather began because queer men wanted to be seen as masculine - in the 1950s, that was radical. And in the 1980s, The Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, which is now one of the biggest leather festivals in America, launched as an anti-gentrification demonstration uniting queer communities in the SoMa neighbourhood in San Francisco.

Leathermen have much to teach us, in and out of the sack, and you can start by diving into this episode where the water is a deliciously...human temperature.

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Why should anyone care about a queen who lived 400 years ago and did nothing but party, spend money, and sponsor musical theatre?

If I have to answer that question for you, you're in the wrong place.

This week, we cover the fabulously insane world of King Christina of Sweden, the lesbian (?), trans (?), or possibly intersex (?) sovereign who abdicated her Scandi throne to move down South and party with the art-loving, wine-guzzling, loose-moraled Catholics.

My guest, Veronica Buckley, wrote the book on Christina, and has another one coming out on European royals next year. I am obsessed with her.

King Christina was a scandal in her own time: a difficult, frustrating figure, but also a brilliant strategist and profound thinker who wrote, 400 years ago, that the soul has no gender.

Her magnificent ego got her into plenty of trouble, but while she abandoned the crown and burned through all her cash, she never stopped making bold plans for her own life.

Selfish, rich, insane, and living in a Roman palazzo? It's giving White Lotus Season 2 but #MakeItBaroque.

So get ready to dive in, because the Swedish meatball water is a tantalising...human temperature.

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Welcome to the wild and infuriating world of ancient homophobia!

You know how everyone thinks ancient Greece and Rome were queer free-for-alls, where all holes were goals (as long as you were a male, bisexual top) and pederasty was the only acceptable form of same-sex love between men?

Yeah, well that's not quite the full story.

We're thrilled to introduce to the podcast Harry Tanner, the author of The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love. Harry joins us to discuss his fascinating research into the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Christian origins of homophobia.

We cover:

• The story of two gay lovers overthrowing Athens' last tyrant
• Ancient Greece's porn pot industry (Onlyfans, but make it ceramic!)
• The real meaning of Leviticus and the story of Sodom & Gomorrah in the ancient Hebrew Torah
• The surprisingly homophobic writings of small-time philosophers like friggin' PLATO and ARISTOTLE
• And, for our Patreon subscribers, a deeper dive into the STRAIGHT historian who bequeathed us our current, warped view of ancient Greek homosexuality

If you were ever told that homosexuality or queerness is "unnatural," this episode is required listening for you.

Because we show how homophobia, like homosexuality, is simply a social and cultural construction. As Harry Tanner explains, it is a response to political and economic instability. A desire for control. That's the only human thing about it.

Same-sex desire occurs naturally in every society and culture in history. But condemning it only seems to happen when there is profound economic inequality in those societies.

Get ready to dive into this fascinating story of homophobia's ancient history.

The chastity cages are mandatory and the water is a preposterously inviting...human temperature.

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Episode Credits

Written and hosted by Bash

Edited by Alex Toskas

Produced by Dani Henion

Guest: Dr. Harry James Tanner

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