16. Lavender Apparitions
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Happy Halloween everybody! As good Halloween gays, Leigh and Gretchen bring you a special, spoopy episode for Halloween. In the first half, they bring tales of gay and lesbian ghosts and lavender apparitions of all kinds, though of the kindly and perhaps a bit cheeky variety rather than bloody or scary. For the second half, they interview Joe Applebaum, one of the producers of Queer Ghost Hunters, a paranormal investigation series on YouTube focused on finding and talking to queer ghosts. So grab your bucket of candy and get ready for some spoopy fun on History is Gay!
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
6:41– Socio-Historic Context: Spiritualism
11:23 – Lavender Apparitions and Queer Ghosts
45:16 – Leigh and Gretchen Plan Their Hauntings
52:23 – Fun Segment: Pop Culture Tie-In
54:47 – How Gay were They?
56:31 – Interview with Joe Applebaum of Queer Ghost Hunters
1:44:47 – Closing and Where to Find us Online
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to History is Gay, a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbies that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history, because history has never been as straight as you think. |
| 0:19.9 | Music Hello, guys, gals, and ghouls. |
| 0:42.5 | I'm Lee. |
| 0:43.9 | Maha, and I am Gretchen. |
| 0:46.6 | And we bring to you today a very special spooppy Halloween episode of history is gay. |
| 0:57.0 | Because we are both Halloween gays. It is our holiday. |
| 1:02.0 | We are out in full force today. We are celebrating Halloween. It is officially |
| 1:08.2 | spooey season, October 1st. Yay. Feel the spoopy in the air. Get yourself |
| 1:15.1 | a black cat. Get on your broomstick. Be a super gay witch, which is just a, it's repetitive. |
| 1:22.5 | Right. I mean, like, all you need to do is say be a witch. And it's like, oh, right, yeah, gay. |
| 1:26.6 | Super gay. Yeah. Yeah, super duper. |
| 1:28.7 | So we're bringing you something a little different this week. |
| 1:31.3 | We are going to be talking about gay paranormal activity. |
| 1:36.6 | Hmm. |
| 1:40.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.3 | So both of us love Halloween, obviously. |
| 1:44.3 | Yes. So we wanted to do something a little bit different. We both have got some... Yeah, so both of us love Halloween, obviously. Yes, yes. |
| 1:44.5 | So we wanted to do something a little bit different. |
| 1:46.8 | We both have got some drinks. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.3 | We both gotten a little bit tipsy. |
| 1:51.6 | Yeah. |
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