Bad Gays
Episodes
Barney Frank
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the "complicated" side of "evil and complicated" that makes up our show's motto, we present the story of the gravely-voiced Congressman who blazed ...
Lord Castlereagh
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Anglo-Irish aristocrat, politician and statesman Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry: better known, like Bjork or Madonna, by his mononym ...
James Buchanan
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United States of America's first gay – and worst – President. This bumbling slaveholder collaborated with the Confederacy, promoted the racist...
Nikolai Yezhov
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A man variously known as the “Iron Hedgehog” and a “malignant Dwarf”, but also as charming, courteous, and, most importantly “a good party ...
Iowa Caucuses Special: Pete Buttigieg
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With special guests Mac Folkes and Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire), Ben explores the life story, politics, and cultural phenomenon of Pete Buttigieg. Fro...
Christmas Special: Colonel Victor Barker
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For a special episode, Huw is joined the writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques to discuss Colonel Victor Barker. As a military nurse, ambulance dri...
J. Edgar Hoover
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The other polestar of human evil. "Justice is incidental to law and order." Johnny and Clyde. ----more---- SOURCES: Johnson, David K. The Lavend...
Piers Gaveston
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The namesake of the secret dining society at Oxford where David Cameron may or may not have committed unspeakable acts with a pig. Perhaps you’ll ha...
The Stonewall Colony
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a political analysis that comes out of the politics of alliance ends up departing from alliance: in other words, when people think t...
Nicky Crane
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A young white London lad driven by a passion for extreme violence and racial hatred, who climbed pretty easily through the ranks of a small fascist pa...
Pim Fortuyn
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The fairy godmother of the new European far-right. A vile racist named "The Greatest Dutchman of All Time" in a 2004 TV poll. A lens into how a parti...
Gordon of Khartoum
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A colonialist and conqueror, upholder of ideals of English masculinity, and religious fanatic; possessed of a powerful death wish. “Yes, that is fle...
Frederick the Great
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Enlightenment monarch! Composer of hundreds of flute concertos. Emerged from the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire" to conquer vast swaths of Europ...
Pietro Aretino
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A vituperative satirist who made kings tremble. Also, he wrote this: My fingers are but stragglers at the rear, Who go a-foraging for what they find;...
Andrew Cunanan
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The man who shot Versace." Vague intimations of homosexuality as a form of bloody death. A pure expression of the poisonous narcissism of American ce...
Alexander the Great
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2! The Greek Vice. Our first evil twink! Plutarch! Prophecies of world domination! Conquests of Persia! Pan-hellenism! Whitney Houston? ----mor...
Special Episode: Andy Warhol (with Sholem Krishtalka)
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the first of our very special interview episodes, we welcome the artist and writer Sholem Krishtalka to talk about Andy Warhol. How did a shy, fey...
Teaser: Season 2 and Special Guests
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to your support, Season 2 is incoming. And stay tuned for special guests in the weeks to come...
Episode 10: Roy Cohn
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Polestar Of Human Evil. Stay tuned to this feed for Season 2 coming late summer/early fall; and special episodes featuring interviews and other ...
Episode 9: Leopold and Loeb
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
They were young, rich, and in love in the Jazz Age – until they killed their neighbor just to prove they could get away with it. Hitchcock's Rope i...
Episode 8: Ronnie Kray
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
He was a a thug, a bully, and a murderer who made himself a British popular hero. He was a friend of Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, and he once said...
Episode 7: Friedrich Radszuweit
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Born in 1876,Weimar-era gay publisher and activist Friedrich Radszuweit joined public gay life in 1923, when he founded the Bund für Menschenrecht (...
Episode 6: Sir Antony Blunt
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cambridge-educated art historian, Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, expert in French baroque art – and soviet spy? We profile Sir Antony Blunt, an art...
Episode 5: Andrew Sullivan
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's Andrew Sullivan: the gay catholic conservative journalist, supporter of race science, inventor of gay marriage, and self-appointed arbiter of the...
Episode 4: James VI and I
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you liked Yiorgos Lanthinos' court psychodrama The Favourite, you'll love this exploration of the complicated life of James VI and I – a king wh...
Episode 3: Lawrence of Arabia
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We take a look at the fascinating life of T. E. Lawrence: poet, archaeologist, sadomasochist, and agent of Arab self-determination and British colonia...
Episode 2: Bosie
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We profile Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, the beautiful and dissolute poet, publisher, and lover of Oscar Wilde–who helped bring Wilde to ruin, became a...
Episode 1: Ernst Röhm
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the life and ideology of Ernst Röhm, the world's first openly gay politician: and a Nazi. ----more---- Sources and further reading: ...