Historical Homos
5 Episodes
'Historical Homos' is the world's only no-fucks-given guide to LGBTQ+ history. From Stonewall to Hadrian's Wall, the Dekkoo-original series 'Historical Homos' celebrates the Greatest Queers of Yesteryear through humor, history, and a healthy dash of pop culture. Welcome to the gayest stories never told.
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Historical Homos - E1 - "Toxic Boyfriends of Greek Mythology: Part the First"
Episode 1
Buckle up for one of the most infamous gay couples in Greek mythology: Zeus and Ganymede, originators of the divine Daddy-Twink dichotomy. We'll discover what these myths tell us about ancient Greek homosexuality IRL, and how they provided much-needed PR for the complex reality between mortal she...
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Historical Homos - E2 - "Le Chevalier d’Éon: From Russia with Mess...in a Dress"
Episode 2
The unbelievably wild and weird life story of the Chevalier d'Éon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the Enlightenment. Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman.
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Historical Homos - E3 - "Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe: Who’s Gayer?"
Episode 3
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe: brilliant dramatists and...bisexuals? We unpack the rumors, the hearsay and the straight-up gay poems that suggest these titans of English literature were also really, really, ridiculously gay.
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Historical Homos - E4 - "Virginia & Vita Invent the Lesbian Love Letter"
Episode 4
A review of the life and loves of Virginia Woolf. We dive deep into her affair with Vita Sackville-West, leading London lesbian of her day, and relive the parties thrown by the Bloomsbury Set, a group of young Modernists who continued the British tradition of plumbing the nation's bottomless dept...
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Dekkoo In Depth: Historical Homos interview with Donal Brophy and Emrhys Cooper