27. Fucking Superb, You Funky Little Lesbian
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
At long last, hosts Gretchen and Leigh are going back to the beginning, to the OG lesbian: Sappho herself. Despite the dearth of information about her life and history, your hosts still find plenty to say about Sappho, her poetry, her legacy, and all the debate that's circled around her for years. Find out what Leigh and Gretchen think about the many questions about Sappho and listen to fragmentary poetry filled with queer longing and other relatable feels like fire burning beneath flesh, wind crashing through mountain oaks, and…celery.
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
4:57 – Main Topic: The OG Lesbian Sappho
5:08 – Socio-Historical Context
13:02 – Who were they? Bio Time.
23:42 – Sappho's Poetry
56:12 – Fun Segment: Word of the Week
1:16:40 – Why do we think they're gay?
1:30:12 – How Gay were They?
1:33:48 – 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. |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah. My name is Gretchen. |
| 0:34.6 | And I'm Lee. |
| 0:40.3 | And in this episode, we are going, we are taking it way back and talking about the OG lesbian. I love that meme. |
| 0:42.3 | I know. |
| 0:43.3 | I know. It's great. |
| 0:45.3 | Yes. We're finally talking about Sappho. |
| 0:49.3 | How many years did it take like three years into this podcast and we're finally talking about Sappho? |
| 0:55.9 | It's a good way to start 2020, right? New Year. Beginning of things. Beginning of gay. |
| 1:03.5 | Not really beginning of gay, but the OG lesbian with a capital L. |
| 1:08.8 | From Lesbos. From Lesbos. Which is a real place. |
| 1:12.2 | Yes. |
| 1:12.9 | Hence the name of our episode, because we couldn't pass up using the meme for something like this. |
| 1:19.0 | Fucking superb, you funky little lesbian. |
| 1:22.9 | Yes. |
| 1:23.8 | Because she's a lesbian from Lesbos. |
| 1:27.1 | It makes me happy. |
| 1:29.1 | So I guess this is, spoilers for how gay was she? |
| 1:33.8 | Pretty gay. |
| 1:35.1 | Wow. |
| 1:36.1 | Pretty gay. |
| 1:37.2 | I mean, regardless of how gay she was, she's still a lesbian, so. |
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