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Bad Gays
@badgayspod.bsky.social
a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. in our eighth season.

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Dear gays: if you travel to BCN, please keep your shirt on around Huw's neighbors. We discuss tourism and the Netflix series Boots (come for the homonationalism, stay for the shower scenes) on this month's EXTRA BAD GAYS, available on Apple or Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/extra-...
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
NEW EP/EVIL LESBIAN ALERT: FBI informant Angela Calomiris helped bring down the Communist Party during the red scare. Unfortunately, she also looked great in a suit. Listen and learn about Angela’s life of FBI collaboration, naming names, secrets and lies. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
we…worked on this theory for nine seasons and a book…and…she just…she skeeted it out
in the future every politician will be an extraordinarily evil cis gay or lesbian. it will become a caste
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
NEW EP: Jacob Israël de Haan wrote the first gay Dutch novel, moved to Palestine in the 1920s, turned against Zionism, and was assassinated by the Haganah paramilitary. "What is it I long for," he once asked. "The sanctity of Israel or an Arab male prostitute?" badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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TIL that Denzel Washington's mother owned a hairdressing salon with a drag queen who performed with Dorian Corey.
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
S9E3 just dropped: it's Charles Hitchen, who played both sides of a corrupt, pay-to-play criminal justice system in Georgian England, all while touring through London's infamous "molly houses," back rooms of taverns or gin houses, where queer men could meet and cruise. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Season 9 is here! And it's LITTLE RICHARD, who contained multitudes: a pioneering rock and roll musician, a conservative preacher from the deep South, and a young Black queer man thrown out of his home who became a drag performer under the name Princess LaVonne.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
we were WAY too nice in our episode badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Bad Gays
Season 9
Tuesday, November 4
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thanks to Ellen DeGenerates, otherwise known as Sally Street and Genevieve Norwick, for the jingle for our advice segments on EXTRA BAD GAYS. Subscribe to EXTRA to hear this jingle, and our advice, every month––and send your questions via Patreon or emailbadgays[at]gmail www.patreon.com/c/badgayspod
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We discuss Trump's pardoning of George Santos, an upcoming queer leftist novella you'll probably love, freshly translated into English, and two Gaggony Guncles questions from gay guys in their forties. Cruise carefully, catamites! www.patreon.com/posts/142318...
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Rest In Power, Miss Major. Remember her. Read her: www.versobooks.com/products/278...
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
please enjoy this helpful guide, which makes a lovely companion to our episode about Tom Mitford. also, one of them recorded a kazoo cover of right said fred with maya angelou but we won’t tell you which one til you listen to the episode m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4TL...
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This month on EXTRA, we talk DC Trump gays. Will leopards eat the faces of these employees of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party? Then we take on a listener question about phobic friends. Join our subscriber community, support our work, and hear the full chat: www.patreon.com/posts/extra-...
September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Good history is largely about making educated guesses and showing your work. And always remember: sex changes.
@queerasfact.bsky.social will make their own best pronoun interpretation of the evidence and @badgayspod.bsky.social will sometimes make a different one! It's the TERFy bioessentialism piece of the quoted's strawman post where one 'side' goes wrong. History and gender is rarely so cut and dry.
September 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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on the occasion of his birthday, I am once again recommending everyone listen to the @badgayspod.bsky.social episode on the life of Roger Casement

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Roger Casement
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September 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is where gay guys come from. This is the language they speak.
August 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This month, on EXTRA BAD GAYS, we tackle the Polari Prize and some Gaggony Guncles questions about oversexed transbians and queer literary classics. Subscribe at patreon.com/badgayspod or directly in Apple Podcasts.
August 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
AN ALL NEW SPECIAL EPISODE: It's Coil, the occult experimental electronic music group, with music journalist Hannah Pezzack. Listen wherever fine podcasts are sold. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
August 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
haha what if we dropped a special episode tomorrow and this was your clue
a close up of a green coil spring on a white background
ALT: a close up of a green coil spring on a white background
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August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I would be willing to bet that in many of the jurisdictions where Epstein and Maxwell were reportedly engaged in sex trafficking, law enforcement was getting these trafficking grants and doing these trafficking trainings, for years
August 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims
August 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM