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Why are gay men so loud?

Science may never know. But history offers some clues.

Could it be because we were monks and priests for so long?
Could it be that the simple joy of discovering anal makes you want to shout?
Or maybe it's because straight people have been telling us to shut up for thousands of years?

Actual gay people have reacted to straight society's shushing in a number of ways. Many retreated into themselves and hid their desires. But a select few refused to silence themselves.

Ernest "Stella" Boulton and Frederick "Fanny" Park were two heroines of this kind.

While most Victorian British men kept busy colonising the East and procreating with their stiff-lipped wives, Fanny & Stella took to the streets, stage, and sheets to live their loud, gay lives.

They wore silk dresses some nights, tight-fitting suits on others; they wore rouge and wigs; they pearl-powdered their bottoms for their gentlemen sex guests, as every lady did, and they kept a bottle of chloroform on the nightstand to get shy punters in the mood (a trick of the working girl's trade).

They were STARS, baby! Of Victorian London's "sizzling underbelly," its increasingly visible queer subculture full of rent boys, pimps, "Mary-Anns," drag queens, and boring old gays like you and me.

Fanny & Stella were eventually arrested on a Big Night Out, and later tried in the highest court in the land. Their crime? Interestingly, this time it wasn't sodomy or buggery, but a "conspiracy" to commit the "unnatural vices." Such was their fame in Britain at the time that the real threat the authorities saw in these flouncy young fops was their ability to "turn" the rest of society.

Our guest this week wrote the book on Fanny & Stella, and as a self-professed 150-year-old queen, has all the Victorian goss we could possibly guzzle.

So get ready to come on in! The cholera water is an absolutely singular...human temperature.

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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash
Edited by Alex Toskas
Produced by Dani Henion
Guest: Neil McKenna

© Sebastian Hendra 2026

It's Trans History Week in the UK, so we're taking you back to one of our first and favourite episodes ever from Season 1.

This is the unbelievably wild life story of the Chevalier d'Éon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the French Enlightenment.

Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman. She later escaped the French Revolution and lived out her final days in London, writing her memoirs (CHIC) and fighting master swordsmen on stage – in a dress! – for extra cash.

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This episode was researched and written by Bash.
Originally hosted by Donal Brophy and Bash.
Executive Produced by Zachary Quinto.
Edited by Alex Toskas.

And check out all the trans history your heart can take at https://www.transhistoryweek.com/

TRANS HISTORY IS HUMAN HISTORY, HONEY.

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Why oh why are men so obsessed with our penises?

Join us today as we embark on a dick-scented odyssey to answer one of the 21st century's most urgent questions.

• 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians said their gods' divine jizz created the world.
• The Egyptians agreed, worshipping the power of giant, divine cocks.
• Which is also why they cut their enemies' dicks off after a battle to present to Pharaoh.
• The Greeks then argued for a tiny, cropped penis...which is a lot BETTER for procreation, actually, thank you Aristotle for saying that!
• The Romans made everything about horse cocks and sexual domination. Shocker.
• And the Christians – well, the Christians would prefer you stop talking such FILTH, you disgusting sinner!

It's been a distressingly complex couple of millennia for humanity, full of all this penis pandemonium. We've sent shuttles to the moon, but we still can't figure out our own shafts.

Is the dick really divine? Or is the penis a spiritual problem? Will we ever master our members? Or do we have to accept that our schlongs belong to another side of ourselves?

Join Bash and his brilliant, hilarious guest – author and playwright R. Eric Thomas (https://rericthomas.com) – as they try desperately to answer all these penile questions.

Now, come on in! The water is...human temperature.

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Episode Credits
Written and hosted by Bash
Edited by Alex Toskas
Produced by Dani Henion
Guest: R. Eric Thomas

© Sebastian Hendra 2026