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The Biggest Sort of Friends: US Gay History 1600-1894
Manage episode 424816012 series 2829806
This week, Melanie settles for a blowie, Cody delivers a merely passable Tijuana hot dog, and we time travel to Colonial America, a Revolutionary War battlefield getting Queer Eyed by a Virgo, a gay shame parade, a Gold Rush-era gay B&B, the chambers of a US president whose attempts at wooing several gentleman have failed, a Civil War hospital, and a romantic streetcar on a stormy night.
Content warnings: brief mention of vomit, homophobic slurs, Native genocide/colonization, execution for homosexuality, whipping, banishment, possible/speculated rape, religious abuse, brief mention of drowning death of child around 22:50, bestiality, death penalty for animals, castration, mutilation, suicide following spouse's death 44:40-45:20, passing mention of necrophilia, incest, and sexual torture. None are discussed in extensive or graphic detail.
196 episodes
Manage episode 424816012 series 2829806
This week, Melanie settles for a blowie, Cody delivers a merely passable Tijuana hot dog, and we time travel to Colonial America, a Revolutionary War battlefield getting Queer Eyed by a Virgo, a gay shame parade, a Gold Rush-era gay B&B, the chambers of a US president whose attempts at wooing several gentleman have failed, a Civil War hospital, and a romantic streetcar on a stormy night.
Content warnings: brief mention of vomit, homophobic slurs, Native genocide/colonization, execution for homosexuality, whipping, banishment, possible/speculated rape, religious abuse, brief mention of drowning death of child around 22:50, bestiality, death penalty for animals, castration, mutilation, suicide following spouse's death 44:40-45:20, passing mention of necrophilia, incest, and sexual torture. None are discussed in extensive or graphic detail.
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