0.6. A Gay Poetry Salon with Alexandra Tydings
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | We've always been here every single year |
| 0:07.0 | From ancient gays right up to today's see history is queer |
| 0:14.0 | Some think it's a new way |
| 0:18.0 | But we've got something to say. |
| 0:22.8 | History is very, very, very, very, very gay. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello, lovely listeners. |
| 0:32.9 | We're bringing you a fun Valentine's Day treat today, featuring Aphrodite herself in the form of our conversation last month with actress, playwright, and queer history nerd, Alexandra Tidings on Sappho, gay yearning, and other shenanigans. |
| 0:49.4 | We had such a fun and expansive chat that we just couldn't fit it into the main episode. |
| 0:55.6 | So please enjoy this bonus while we are off at TGIFM slash. |
| 1:02.1 | We got to talking so quickly and into some great stuff right away. |
| 1:05.7 | So we're just going to drop you right on into the conversation. |
| 1:09.0 | And we hope you enjoy it and check out more of |
| 1:12.3 | Alex's work and we will see you for our next episode soon. Enjoy. Now we just we just have a |
| 1:23.4 | lovely conversation between all. Yes. About the OG. Yeah, the OG lesbian. |
| 1:31.5 | I still find it really hilarious that we're three years into this podcast. |
| 1:37.1 | And we're just now doing Zepo. |
| 1:39.7 | Well, because, I mean, she's, because she's the OG lesbian, right? |
| 1:46.0 | But then she's also, I mean, I would say she probably almost entirely only exists in our imagination. |
| 1:54.4 | Right? |
| 1:55.0 | Because we only have like these little fragments and one poem. |
| 1:58.6 | And at some point, somebody suggested she was a man. Yes. Right? At some point, |
| 2:03.1 | somebody suggested these were really like odes about men. What? And I loved your interpretation of the |
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