33. Besotted with Beefcake: A MichelangelHO Story
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of History is Gay, Leigh and guest host and art museum professional nerd Amanda Helton discuss Michelangelo Buonarroti. THE Michelangelo. And we'll get into all the juicy deets you didn't learn in art history class-- full of stories of broken noses, the gay art of forgery, big ol' artist egos, and attempts to answer the question, "what even is a titty"? Buckle up for the extremely gay Italian Renaissance, everyone!
Our wonderful guest host for this episode, Amanda Helton, can be found at www.amandahelton.com or on Instagram at oryxbesia.
Outline
00:00 – Introduction
5:36 – Main Topic: Michelangelo: Besotted with Beefcake
6:34 – Socio-Historical Context
15:14 – Who were they? Bio Time.
48:43 – Why do we think they're gay?
1:22:25 – Main Takeaways and Final Conclusions
1:28:56 – How Gay were They?|
1:34:06 – 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 |
| 0:05.8 | queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbies that have always been there in the unexplored |
| 0:10.2 | corners of history, because history has never been as straight as you think. Hello, everyone. |
| 0:33.1 | Thank you for tuning in to History is Gay this time around. |
| 0:38.4 | And as always, I'm Lee. |
| 0:41.4 | Hello. |
| 0:42.4 | I bet you're getting really sick of my voice being the only one up in the introduction here. |
| 0:47.5 | Thank you, everyone, for your patience in this episode. |
| 0:51.2 | Things have been a little rough. |
| 0:53.0 | The pandemic has been hard. So this is our, |
| 0:57.1 | this is our November episode. Just pretend that we like put out a spooky Halloween episode in |
| 1:03.5 | your brain. Today I have a wonderful guest host who is a friend of, friend of the pod, |
| 1:09.3 | and friend of the podcast host and friend in real life, |
| 1:13.0 | uh, I would like to introduce everyone to my wonderful friend Amanda Hilton, who will be here |
| 1:19.4 | to talk with me today about Michelangelo because she's all artsy-fartsy and works at an |
| 1:27.0 | artsy-fartsy museum. Uh, and you know how I love artsy-fartsy and works at an artsy-fartsy museum. |
| 1:28.8 | And you know how I love artsy-fartsy museum friends here. |
| 1:33.1 | So hi, Amanda. |
| 1:34.4 | Hello. |
| 1:35.9 | Hi. |
| 1:36.8 | What an introduction. |
| 1:38.4 | Thank you for that introduction. |
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