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Queer as Fact
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Queer history podcast with over 150 episodes presenting stories from around the world and throughout time.

https://www.queerasfact.com/

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever good pods are found.
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Today is #IntersexDayofRemembrance - and this is the Italian-British intersex sculptor, Fiore de Henriquez... (1/6)
Fiore staring at a sculpture she is working on. She has short dark hair, and intense dark eyes.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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We're taking a break from podcasting over November so we want to hear from you! What queer books are you enjoying at the moment? Bonus points for queer history!
Stack of books featuring 'The Works of Oscar Wilde', 'After the Siren' by Darcy Green, 'Reclaiming Two-Spirits' by Gregory D. Smithers, 'Bad Gays' by Huw Lemmy and Ben Miller, and 'Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects'
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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As we wrap up #AceWeek, I cannot recommend enough that you check out the work of historian @luciellaes.bsky.social.

Luciella’s digital exhibition 'Nonlimerent // Monosexual' is an aro-ace history aro-ace from ancient Mesopotamian to the modern day!

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Nonlimerent // Monosexual: Digital Edition by luciellaes
An Aromantic and Asexual History
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October 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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It's been a while, but we are getting on top of replying to the letters we've received in the mail. Thank you all for your wonderful words, artwork and souvenirs!
If you want to write to us, you can reach us at PO Box 2240 Brighton Nth, VIC 3186, Australia. We'll do our best to reply!
Photo of stationary, including letter paper with a rainbow in the top corner, a sheet of unicorn stickers, and a letter with a cute hedgehog sticker sealing it closed.
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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"It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow."
Genly Ai, 'The Left Hand of Darkness' by Ursula K. Le Guin
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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New Episode! Today we discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's incredible 1969 science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness.

Join us to hear about ambisexual beings who defy gender norms, the sexist man who comes to love them and a sexually charged journey across a glacier.

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). A cover of the novel featuring a galaxy vista and two people walking in the snow, shaped to resemble a yin-yang symbol. The Queer as Fact logo is at the bottom of the image.
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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We hope you're excited for tomorrow's episode on Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness - I mean we hope you're excited for every episode we put out but this one is over TWO HOURS (2nd in length only to Robespierre!) so brace yourself.

Some relevant emojis:

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October 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Happy #InternationalLesbianDay to all the lesbians out there! Hope you're having a wonderful day. Here's a thread of a few historic lesbian stories (not necessarily stories about lesbians, but definitely stories that have a place in the history of wlw) to brighten your day. #lesbianhistory
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Absolutely incredible find at the op shop today! I can't
believe we just happened to come across these while
Jasmine is working on a Star Trek episode - if only
research were always this easy.
#startrek #fandomhistory
Stack of 1970s Star Trek books featuring 'Meaning in Star Trek'; 'I am not Spock'; copies of 'The Best of Trek' and others
October 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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The weather in Melbourne is very bad today so I have settled in for a cosy afternoon of preparing for our next podcast episode.
#TheLeftHandOfDarkness #UrsulaKLeGuin
Photo of a cup of coffee and Ursula K Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness'
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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New episode! Today's episode is on the a Daoist god of homosexuality, Tu'er Shen. We talk about homosexuality in 18th century China, secret gay statues, and a present-day queer religious space!

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New podcast episode: Tu'er Shen. The image contains a stylised rainbow soundwave, a cute cartoon image of Tu'er shen, a man in historical dress with rabbit ears winking at the camera, and the Queer As Fact rainbow Q logo
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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New episode! Today's episode is on the a Daoist god of homosexuality, Tu'er Shen. We talk about homosexuality in 18th century China, secret gay statues, and a present-day queer religious space!

queerasfact.podbean.com/e/tuer-shen/
New podcast episode: Tu'er Shen. The image contains a stylised rainbow soundwave, a cute cartoon image of Tu'er shen, a man in historical dress with rabbit ears winking at the camera, and the Queer As Fact rainbow Q logo
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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It's not queer history, but... we had a great time today at the Pride Centre watching the AFL grand final with friends (yes we admit it we are sports gays) - and I also picked up a copy of @darcygreenwrites.bsky.social 'After the Siren'! Super excited to read this queer footy romance.
Hand holding Darcy Green's queer footy romance novel 'After the Siren', in front of a screen playing the AFL grand final
September 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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"It was worth a wound–it was worth many wounds–to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask."
-Dr John Watson in 'The Three Garridebs'
We’ve been musing about how 19th-century readers would have interpreted the relationship between Holmes and Watson. What do you reckon?
September 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Happy #bisexualawarenessweek! In 8th century Iraq, Abu Nuwas wrote love poetry to both men and women. This wasn’t unusual - the idea that someone could be attracted to multiple genders was widely acknowledged at the time! #bihistory #biweek
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Happy #bisexualawarenessweek! Did you know that the 14th century Middle English poem ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ features Sir Gawain exchanging kisses with both Lord Bertilak de Hautdesert and his wife?
Check out our podcast if you'd like to know more: queerasfact.podbean.com/e/sir-gawain...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Queer as Fact
Queer as Fiction is back, and greener than ever, as we discuss the 14th century poem, recently adapted into a film by David Lowery starring Dev Patel, commonly referred to as Sir Gawain and the Green ...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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What a happy coincidence that it's the start of #bisexualawarenessweek and #FiestasPatrias today - the perfect day to celebrate the bi Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo!

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Frida Kahlo: Part 1 | Queer as Fact
Today's long-awaited episode is on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Join us for the first of two episodes on Frida, while we discuss pyrotechnic pranks, the first of many self-portraits, and the compli...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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New episode out! Today's episode is on Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic consulting detective! Join us as we talk about aromanticism, turn-of-the-century masculinity,and whether Watson is, in fact, a woman.
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#sherlockholmes #queerhistory
New podcast episode: Sherlock Holmes Sydney Paget illustration of Holmes and Watson sitting in comfy chairs
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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This week we journeyed into the 1962 'Circle of Sex', published by sexologist Gavin Arthur. Gavin used 12 archetypes to explain the range of human sexuality. Here's the full list if you're curious about 1960s sexology - the text is from Michael R Meyer's The Astrology of Relationship (1976).
Circle divided into twelve segements, with a yin-yang symbol in the centre. The circle is split along two axes - one divides it as penis/clitoris - the other highlights the centre of the penis half as 'most yang' and the centre of the clitoris half as 'most yin'. Each segment has a name such as 'Sappho' or 'Caesar'.
September 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I'm struggling with the internal conflict between wanting to enjoy the spring weather, and wanting to actually be able to see my screen when I'm editing... (Sherlock Holmes episode coming to you soon!)
Photo taken in a garden. You can see a laptop on someone's lap, with audacity open, and their ugg-boots propped up on a garden chair. Beside them is a floral teacupt.
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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We had a great time last night chatting about Sherlock Holmes, aromanticism, masculinity, and whether Watson is, in fact, a woman. Very excited to bring this to you this episode on the 15th!
Table with red tablecloth, laptop, microphone, teacup, and copy of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes
September 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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We're back! Today we're discussing the 1960s Circle of Sex and its eccentric creator Gavin Arthur. Join us to hear about sex à la Walt Whitman, whether you're a Sappho or a Club Woman, and if there is a faint possibility that the Circle is a tiny bit flawed.
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The Circle of Sex, a diagram of a circle cut into twelve segments, with a Yin-Yang symbol at the centre. Each segment has a label such as 'Hyperheterogenic - Don Juan' or '3/4 homogenic - Lesbian'
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
queerasfact.bsky.social
We're back! Today we're discussing the 1960s Circle of Sex and its eccentric creator Gavin Arthur. Join us to hear about sex à la Walt Whitman, whether you're a Sappho or a Club Woman, and if there is a faint possibility that the Circle is a tiny bit flawed.
queerasfact.podbean.com/e/gavin-arth...
The Circle of Sex, a diagram of a circle cut into twelve segments, with a Yin-Yang symbol at the centre. Each segment has a label such as 'Hyperheterogenic - Don Juan' or '3/4 homogenic - Lesbian'
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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“…a person without sensuality … the author has the courage to admit to this category.”

Teacher, diabetes clinician and sexuality researcher Emma Trosse wrote these words in 1897, becoming one of our earliest examples of someone self-identifying as what we would today call #asexual!
#asexualhistory
Black-and-white photograph of Emma Trosse
May 3, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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This clip from the 1979 doco Beats of the Heart: Konkombe features Area Scatter, a transfeminine performer who was hugely popular in 1970s Nigeria. She performed around eastern Nigeria, and even appeared on TV. #transhistory
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Konkombe: Nigerian music
YouTube video by TV Multiversity
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March 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM