Alexander the Great

Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

History

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Season 2! The Greek Vice. Our first evil twink! Plutarch! Prophecies of world domination! Conquests of Persia! Pan-hellenism! Whitney Houston? ----more---- SOURCES: Badian, Ernst. Collected Papers on Alexander the Great. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2012. Fox, Robin Lane. Alexander the Great. New York: Penguin, 1973. Plutarch. The Life of Alexander. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/3.html Donate on Patreon. Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the first episode of the second season of Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated
0:21.6	gay men in history.
0:22.6	I'm Ben Miller, a writer and researcher, and a member of the board of the Gay Museum in Berlin.
0:26.6	And I'm Hugh Lemmy, a writer and author.
0:29.6	And we want to thank you so much for the overwhelming response to the first season.
0:34.6	We thought we were making a show for the four other weirdos who cared
0:37.7	about this stuff, and it turns out that there are thousands of us. So that's been really
0:41.7	wonderful to discover, and we're really excited to bring you another season of shows about
0:46.7	evil gay men, complicated gay men, and philosophical dispositions on the nature of badness
0:52.9	itself.
1:01.7	So, I'm going to turn it over to Hugh to introduce our first subject for the season.
1:05.9	Okay, our first subject for this season, I've got a little clue for you.
1:07.6	Oh, God, I don't like mysteries.
1:08.8	Who does this remind you of?
1:13.7	Bittersweet memories.
1:25.5	And I will always love you, and I will always love you.
1:31.3	Obviously, but Whitney wasn't an evil gay man, so I'm a little bit confused.
1:32.8	I didn't know I had such a great voice.
1:33.6	Well.
1:39.2	No, this isn't about Whitney herself, but about another gay icon who fell in love with his bodyguard.
1:41.3	That is Alexander the Great.
1:42.2	Oh, wow.
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