# Bad Gays

Bad Gays is a queer history podcast about "evil and complicated queers" in history hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller.

## About

Each episode of Bad Gays explores the story of a complicated queer person in history.
Lemmy and Miller also wrote a book, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History based on the podcast. It is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook and is published by Verso Books.

## Reception

The Advocate listed Bad Gays in its 2023 list of "Five Gloriously Gay Podcasts You Need To Listen To." Bad Gays was also reviewed by Vice Media, Another Magazine, Vox Media, The Washington Post, and The Boar.

## Episodes

Season One :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Ernst Röhm | March 19, 2019 |
| 2 | Lord Alfred Douglas | March 26, 2019 |
| 3 | T. E. Lawrence | April 2, 2019 |
| 4 | James VI and I | April 9, 2019 |
| 5 | Andrew Sullivan | April 16, 2019 |
| 6 | Anthony Blunt | April 23, 2019 |
| 7 | Friedrich Radszuweit | April 30, 2019 |
| 8 | Ronnie Kray | May 7, 2019 |
| 9 | Leopold and Loeb | May 14, 2019 |
| 10 | Roy Cohn | May 21, 2019 |
| Bonus | Andy Warhol | June 24, 2019 |
Season Two :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Alexander the Great | September 24, 2019 |
| 2 | Andrew Cunanan | October 1, 2019 |
| 3 | Pietro Aretino | October 8, 2019 |
| 4 | Frederick the Great | October 15, 2019 |
| 5 | Charles George Gordon | October 22, 2019 |
| 6 | Pim Fortuyn | October 29, 2019 |
| 7 | Nicky Crane | November 5, 2019 |
| 8 | The Stonewall Colony | November 12, 2019 |
| 9 | Piers Gaveston | November 19, 2019 |
| 10 | J. Edgar Hoover | November 27, 2019 |
| Bonus | Victor Barker | December 25, 2019 |
Season Three :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Nikolai Yezhov | March 24, 2020 |
| 2 | James Buchanan | March 31, 2020 |
| 3 | Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | April 7, 2020 |
| 4 | Barney Frank | April 14, 2020 |
| 5 | Elmyr de Hory | April 21, 2020 |
| 6 | Philip Johnson | April 28, 2020 |
| 7 | Roger Casement | May 4, 2020 |
| 8 | Aileen Wuornos | May 11, 2020 |
| 9 | Morrissey | May 19, 2020 |
| 10 | Lisa Miller | May 26, 2020 |
| Bonus | Radclyffe Hall | July 28, 2020 |
| Bonus | John Maynard Keynes | September 1, 2020 |
Season Four :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Cecil Rhodes | October 20, 2020 |
| 2 | Liberace | October 27, 2020 |
| 3 | Jeremy Thorpe | November 3, 2020 |
| 4 | Benjamin Britten | November 10, 2020 |
| 5 | Carl Van Vechten | November 17, 2020 |
| 6 | Truman Capote | November 24, 2020 |
| 7 | Prince Albert Victor | December 1, 2020 |
| 8 | Gertrude Stein | December 8, 2020 |
| 9 | Camilla Hall | December 14, 2020 |
| 10 | Violette Morris | December 22, 2020 |
| Bonus | Dennis Cooper | February 23, 2021 |
| Bonus | Arthur Gary Bishop | April 13, 2021 |
| Bonus | Pacchierotto (15th century sodomite) | August 10, 2021 |
Season Five :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Francis Bacon | December 24, 2021 |
| 2 | Joe Carstairs | January 4, 2022 |
| 3 | Ernst vom Rath | January 11, 2022 |
| 4 | Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg | January 18, 2022 |
| 5 | Anne Bonny | January 25, 2022 |
| 6 | Franco Zeffirelli | February 1, 2022 |
| 7 | Freddie Mercury | February 8, 2022 |
| 8 | Cressida Dick | February 22, 2022 |
| 9 | Cressida Dick | February 22, 2022 |
| 10 | John Wojtowicz | March 1, 2022 |
| 11 | Jeffrey Dahmer | March 15, 2022 |
| Bonus | Eugen Sandow | June 1, 2022 |
| Bonus | Magnus Hirschfeld | October 5, 2022 |
| Live Show | Jack Saul | December 25, |
Season Six :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | George Santos | March 20, 2023 |
| 2 | Julie d'Aubigny | March 28, 2023 |
| 3 | Jorge Horacio Ballvé Piñero | April 4, 2023 |
| 4 | Mustapha Ben Ismaïl | April 11, 2023 |
| 5 | André Gide | April 25, 2023 |
| 6 | Griselda Blanco | May 2, 2023 |
| 7 | Tom Driberg | May 9, 2023 |
| 8 | Dong Xian | May 16, 2023 |
| 9 | Tokugawa Iemitsu | May 30, 2023 |
| 10 | Benedetta Carlini | June 6, 2023 |
Season Seven :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Karl Lagerfeld | February 13, 2024 |
| 2 | Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell | February 20, 2024 |
| 3 | Ahebi Ugbabe | February 27, 2024 |
| 4 | Elagabalus | March 5, 2024 |
| 5 | James Levine | March 12, 2024 |
| 6 | John Whitgift | March 19, 2024 |
| 7 | Marthe Hanau | April 2, 2024 |
| 8 | Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah | April 9, 2024 |
| 9 | Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás | April 18, 2024 |
| 10 | Rotha Lintorn-Orman | April 25, 2024 |
| Bonus | Jerome Robbins | August 25, 3034 |
Season Eight :
| Episode Number | Topic | Release Date |
| 1 | Olive Yang | December 23, 2024 |
| 2 | Tom Mitford | December 30, 2024 |
| 3 | Elisar von Kupffer | January 7, 2025 |
| 4 | Albrecht Muth | January 14, 2025 |
| 5 | Reed Erickson | January 20, 2025 |
| 6 | Abd al-Ilah | January 29, 2025 |
| 7 | Larry Kramer | February 5, 2025 |
| 8 | Anne Lister | February 11, 2025 |
| 9 | Adele Spitzeder | February 19, 2025 |
| 10 | TBA | TBA |