Bad Gays

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Mike Jeffries (The Abercrombie CEO)

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Nov 3
58 min

Special Episode: Liza Minnelli's Bad Gays

Happy pride! Gather around, we've got a story to tell! For Stonewall weekend, a special treat: writer, critic, and journalist Cameron Cook joins Ben to talk about the one

Jun 27
59 min

Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode 6

The final episode of our saga: Mandelson's fall from grace in the aftermath of Keir Starmer's election first as leader of the Labour Party and then as one of Britain's mo

Jun 3
1 h 01 min

Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Five

Today we are reaching the next to last chapter––for now!––of the Mandelson story. Listen to the sixth and final episode now by subscribing to Extra Bad Gays on Patreon.

May 27
57 min

Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Four

Peter Mandelson has been the definitive comeback kid of British politics, and it’s impossible to ever rule out his return. Listen to Episode Five right now and get Extra

May 20
1 h 09 min

Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Three

This week, on Mandelson: A Homosexual History, we cover the 1992 UK election and the birth of New Labour. Subscribe on Patreon to support our work and stay a week ahead

May 13
1 h 08 min

Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Two

Subscribe on Patreon to hear Episode Three now, get our monthly Extra Bad Gays episodes, and stay a week ahead on the miniseries. Last week we looked at Mandelson’s earl

May 6
1 h 02 min

Mandelson: A Homosexual History–Episode One

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Apr 29
52 min

Special Episode: Daniel Dunglas Home

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Apr 2
1 h 17 min

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

THIS IS A TRAILER! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE OR PATREON TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE We have heard your pleas. The news has made them even more urgent. We're going to do a whole m

Feb 27
12 min

Tom of Finland

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Feb 10
1 h 25 min

William Beckford

William Beckford, who was born not in Bath but in London in 1760, is someone for whom property, in every sense of the word, was the defining factor in his life. He was a

Feb 3
1 h 09 min

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays January 2026: Heated Rivalry

This trailer is just a preview–for the full episode, click here to subscribe on Patreon, or subscribe directly through Apple Podcasts. We heard you, we see you, we're he

Jan 29
12 min

E. M. Forster

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Dec 30 2025
1 h 02 min

TRAILER: Extra Bad Gays December 2025

It's never too late to give the gift of Bad Gays this holiday season: invite a friend or loved one into our community at https://www.patreon.com/badgayspod/gift This mon

Dec 24 2025
8 min

Captain Moonlite

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Dec 23 2025
52 min

Tracey Wigginton

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Dec 16 2025
50 min

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

With apologies for the delay, it's your episode of Extra Bad Gays for November of this year. We start by breaking down Ben's fight with a gay underwear brand, Huw's writi

Dec 4 2025
7 min

Angela Calomiris

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Dec 1 2025
48 min

Jacob Israël de Haan

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Nov 25 2025
46 min

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What listeners say

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The hosts provide in-depth analysis and context to the people they cover. I always learn something new.

debbiegwen · Jan 2025

A great example of a history pod that is fun and sometimes funny without losing depth and critical edge on the intersection of messy human lives with ethics and politics. This professional historian approves!

EK_B55 · Mar 2024

The hosts strike a great balance of history narrative and personal editorializing. I greatly enjoy that they don’t over sensationalize and mention the limitations of assigning a sexual identity to figures that lived before such concepts. That and their easy conversation with each other makes all of the episodes a fun and interesting listen.

M3atcat · Dec 2023

A fascinating and engaging program with knowledgeable and thoughtful hosts. It’s given me new perspective and opened and changed my mind on many historical events and social issues.

JJM3 · May 2023

I gave this a couple months, and just couldn't get into it. The sound quality tends to be problematic for me. I don't have the best hearing and the speed and quietness with which Huw speaks caused me to actually stop listening to one episode in the middle. I am still at the beginning of season 2, and looking on ahead, I have to wonder if every famous gay person is "bad"? Maybe it's the nature of fame? In any case, after a few listens I had to quit this.

Simkha · Sep 2023

I only listened to the Andrew Sullivan episode. Perhaps the others are different, but the hosts foundational argument seemed to be that being gay (or at least a good gay) is not a physiological fact about the gender direction of someone’s attractions, but rather a quasi-religious political identity. To be a real queer person you must assimilate to a worldview native to the farthest left corners of the political spectrum. Gay people who continue to hold even mild conservative or religious views are heretics and blasphemers and a threat to the awokened creeds of what looks more like a queer religion everyday. The hosts are so certain that skeptics of their beliefs are bigoted and evil that they cannot conceive of how elitist and marginalizing their own advocacy is. Like fish, they swim in echo-chambered waters and don’t know they are wet. I wonder if either of them know what it is to grow up gay in conservative or religious communities? How much more disadvantaged these gay people already are, and how many of them maintain cultural ties and worldviews adjacent to the views they were brought up in. These gay folks are not happy representatives of pluralism in the queer community to the hosts, but unbelievers to be converted or else weeds to be pulled out. They were fundamentally incurious about why Sullivan’s arguments could be so persuasive, writing off the near unanimous agreement he was able to achieve as obviously homophobic. Gay people like Sullivan, who embrace monogamy, marriage, pro-life policies, or the centrality of family and child-rearing to a healthy society, are not welcome. They aren’t even really gay. This is just a new kind of homophobia. It’s another effort to force gay people to conform to an oppressive shame enforced standard.

Nathan98az · Jun 2023

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