28. Anne Lister Goes to TGIFemslash
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Gretchen and Leigh's annual episode hosted live at TGIFemslash! This is the con where it all began, and what better way to celebrate our origins than with the 'first modern lesbian', Anne Lister! Join us as we learn more about her life, her loves, and her extensive diaries that she used to record her sexual escapades, and you can even play along with the games we hosted live at TGI!
Outline
0:00 – Introduction
6:11 – Main Topic: Anne Lister
6:37 – Who were they? Bio Time
12:43 – Why do we think they're gay?
25:37 – Fun Segment: Dialogue or Diary?
31:39 – Words of the Week: So You Want to Be a 19th Century Lesbian?
45:39 – How Gay were They?
46:26 – Closing
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, lovely listeners, welcome to the intro for this latest episode of History is Gay. |
| 0:10.1 | It's Lee saying hi, just with a couple of announcements for you before we dive into this live episode from TGIFM slash last month. |
| 0:20.0 | First of all, I just wanted to say that I hope everyone is doing okay out there with all |
| 0:25.5 | of the coronavirus stuff. |
| 0:27.8 | I know that we're all facing a lot of potential isolation. |
| 0:32.7 | Please be sure to continue being in community with people online and doing what you can to keep your spirits |
| 0:41.3 | up and keep yourself safe and healthy. Go ahead and listen to a whole bunch of other |
| 0:46.8 | wonderful queer podcasts and use that to take up your time. You know, talk with us on Twitter. |
| 0:53.1 | We're happy to have really interesting |
| 0:55.6 | conversations. We want to make sure that we bring people together during this time, as well as |
| 1:03.1 | be a source of comfort for you. In terms of fun announcements, though, we've got some really cool things that you can |
| 1:12.4 | check out while you may potentially be quarantined. One is we have some new merch coming to the |
| 1:20.0 | store. We have two new awesome t-shirts designed by Hafsa Mijinawa, who is the person who |
| 1:27.2 | did our amazing logo way, way back when we |
| 1:30.4 | started this podcast, we are really excited to be finally putting them up on our web store. We've |
| 1:36.7 | got a shirt that says, Liberte, egalite, fraternity, homosexuality, hearkening back to our |
| 1:43.7 | episode on Magnus Hirschfeld. |
| 1:46.2 | It's one that we're really proud of. |
| 1:47.7 | If you are a musicals fan and you like Les Mis, you will particularly like this one. |
| 1:52.8 | And then we also have another amazing design that says, |
| 1:56.3 | We're all queer here with a Cheshire Cat smile. |
| 1:59.8 | And so I really, really hope that you get an opportunity |
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