26. A Royal Troublemaker in King Kristina of Sweden
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to winter! Join Leigh and guest host V Silverman as they dive into the fascinating history of King Kristina of Sweden. A probably nonbinary, most likely asexual, definitely biromantic monarch of 17th century Sweden, Kristina was known for their aesthetic tastes, insatiable hunger for knowledge, and absolutely atrocious spending habits. Obviously this episode has all the queer kingly content your heart could desire, but did you know it also has: Coffin Time With Daddy (Deceased), dramatic French executions of Italian noblemen by Swedish royalty, BFFing with Bernini, no fewer than 4 bids for a throne (not all the same one), and how to kidnap your favorite philosopher? Get ready for the incredible story of the jam-packed life of Kristina of Sweden on this episode of History is Gay!
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
5:22 – Main topic: King Kristina of Sweden
7:45 – Socio-Historical Context: 17th Century Europe
11:38 – Who Were They? Bio Time
39:10 – Why do we think they're gay?
1:13:08 – Fun Segment: Pop Culture Tie-In
1:15:35 – How Gay were They?
1:17:02 – 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 |
| 0:05.9 | queer ladies, gents, and gentle endies that have always been there in the unexplored |
| 0:10.2 | corners of history, because history has never been as straight as you think. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. Hello, folks, welcome back. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm Lee, and I have a very special co-host today. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, I'm V. |
| 0:40.5 | Hi, V. |
| 0:41.5 | Just the letter. |
| 0:43.1 | Literally just the letter. |
| 0:44.1 | Like share. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | Just non-binary share. |
| 0:48.6 | Non-binary share. |
| 0:49.2 | That's me. |
| 0:49.8 | Yes. |
| 0:55.4 | V is a wonderful friend who you already know through their amazing artwork. |
| 0:58.7 | They have created some beautiful artwork for us. |
| 1:02.9 | All of our geographic queer's gear, they are responsible for it. |
| 1:10.5 | And it is now your duty now that they are on this show to convince them to do what I've been urging them to do for months and months and months, |
| 1:29.4 | which is make me a quagmire queer shirt. You can't make me do it. Please. You can't. I know that it's hard to draw a swamp, but I believe in you. Okay, no, but okay, so the thing is, yes, it's hard to draw a swamp. It's harder to pick what kind of swamp to draw, though. Like, when you think beach, beach is easy. It looks like a beach. |
| 1:34.6 | There's sand and there's waves. You know what a beach looks like. Underwater? Yeah. Okay. There's water. |
| 1:40.8 | There's seaweed and there's also sand. Lots of sand in these cases. With the swamp, there are so many different kinds. You don't understand. I studied ecology. |
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