BONUS 0.6. A Gay Poetry Salon with Alexandra Tydings

Happy Valentines’ Day, loves! We’re here today with a special treat bonus episode for you with a very special guest! You may know her from Xena: The Warrior Princess as the patron god of Sappho, the goddess of love, Aphrodite: it’s Alexandra Tydings! You heard her voice briefly in our last episode on Sappho, but we had so much fun talking with Alex about the Poetess, gay feelings, hysteria, and more, that we created a whole episode for it.

Where To Find Alexandra Online

• Check out her website (in progress) at www.alexandratydings.com

• Follow her on instagram at @atydings and on twitter @alextydings!

Until next time, stay queer and stay curious!

16. Lavender Apparitions

Happy Halloween everybody! As good Halloween gays, Leigh and Gretchin bring you a special, spoopy episode for Halloween. In the first half, they bring tales of gay and lesbian ghosts and lavender apparitions of all kinds, though of the kindly and perhaps a bit cheeky variety rather than bloody or scary. A ghostie who pinches bottoms? A long-dead monk who pulls the sheets off of straight couples? How queer! For the second half, they interview Joe Applebaum, one of the producers of Queer Ghost Hunters, a paranormal investigation series on YouTube focused on finding and talking to queer ghosts. So grab your bucket of candy and get ready for some spoopy fun on History is Gay!

Check out Queer Ghost Hunters!

• Queer Ghost Hunters YouTube Channel Have a look at the trailer for their first season:

• Queer Ghost Hunters Facebook

• Queer Ghost Hunters Twitter

• Queer Ghost Hunters Patreon

Check out Joe Applebaum and The Clowder Group!

• The Clowder Group Website

• The Clowder Group on Facebook

• The Clowder Group on Twitter

• The Clowder Group on Youtube

A Closer Look at the Queer Hauntings

The New Inn, Gloucester. site of the Pilgrims Rest Gay monk Ghost! (Source)

Queen’s Theater, Soho, London. site of the Voyeuristic ghost who spies on ushers changing (Source)

GEorge’s Hotel, East Dereham. Site of the Unzipping Ghost. (Source)

Francis Grierson, the Psychic Pianist.

Villa Montezuma, Grierson’s home in San Diego, CA.

Elephant and Castle Pub, Amersham. Site of the bum-pinching ghost. (Source)

If you want to learn more about Queer Hauntings, check out our full list of sources and further reading!

Books and Print Articles:

• Ken Summers, Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts

Until next time, stay queer and stay curious!

12. Let's Have a Kiki with Queer as Fact!

Welcome to our very first extra special collaboration! Joining Leigh and Gretchen this episode are our friends over at Queer as Fact, a queer history podcast from Australia. Our topic of choice? Queer slang! Join us as we discuss lavender linguistics, the history of queer slang in Australian penal colonies, and our favorite slang words, both American and Australian! So brush off your oysters, pitch your tents for camp, sharpen up your Gillette blades, and let’s have a kiki with Queer as Fact!

Queer as Fact Links

• Twitter

• Tumblr

• Facebook

• Website

A Closer Look at the Purple Pamphlet

Cover from the infamous "Purple Pamphlet" attempting to defame the gay community in Florida. It backfired. (Images of the Purple Pamphlet courtesy of Queerty.)

Page one of the full glossary of LGBT terms.

One of the infamous 'pornographic' images that led to the downfall of the purple pamphlet.

If you want to learn more about lavender linguistics and queer slang, check out our full list of sources and further reading below!

Online Articles:

• 20 Lesbian Slang Terms You’ve Never Heard Before

• 51 Gay Slang Phrases You’ve Never Heard Before

• The 64 Best Slang Words For Vagina

• Every Single Slang Word For Penis You Need To Know

• A Personal HIstory of the T Word (and some more general reflections on language and activism) by Julia Serano

• My Adventures Using Tinder as a Trans Woman

• Recently Unearthed 1964 Antigay Pamphlet is the Most Homoerotic Thing Ever

Books and Print Articles:

• A Dic(k)tionary of Gay Slang by H. Max

• Green’s Dictorionary of Slang by Jonathon Green

• The Alyson Almanac by Alyson Publications

Until next time, stay queer and stay curious!