Anne Bonny

Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

History

4.6 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Are you ready to have your timbers shivered and your mainbrace spliced? Today’s subject is a mysterious one, a historical figure whose life and reputation are confused by propaganda, romance and mythology: the Irish pirate Anne Bonny. We'll use her story to discuss gender, race, and class in the Golden Age of Piracy. Visit www.badgayspod.com for an episode archive, a link to pre-order our book, and more information about the show. ----more---- SOURCES: B. R. Burg, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (New York: New York University Press, 1995) David Cordingly, Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women: An Untold Maritime History (Random House, 2001) Philip Gosse, The History of Piracy (Mineola: Dover Publications, 2012) Charles Johnson and David Cordingly, A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press, 2010) Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn, Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1997) Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Second edition (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013) Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011) Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2013) Marcus Rediker, Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail (Verso Books, 2014) 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, everybody, and welcome to Season 5 Episode 5 of Badgays, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history.
0:22.6	My name is Ben Miller.
0:23.6	I'm a writer, researcher, and member of the board of the Shulis Museum in Berlin.
0:27.6	And my name is Hugh Lemmy.
0:28.6	I'm a writer and author.
0:30.6	And last week we talked about a gay conspiracy at the heights of the German imperial court. What are we talking about this week,
0:39.8	Hugh? Well, Ben, are you ready to have your timbers shivered and your main brace spliced?
0:45.6	Because today we're talking about the Irish pirate, Anne Bonnie. Today's subject, I guess, is
0:51.9	she's a mysterious one. She's a historical figure, without any doubt,
0:56.2	but someone whose life and reputation is very,
1:00.3	so much entwined with a world whose true nature is confused by the propaganda of the time,
1:06.0	by romance, by mythology.
1:08.2	And so teasing out the truth from the fabrication,
1:10.6	both by her enemies and then later by her
1:12.7	supporters, is quite complicated.
1:16.1	But there is some stuff we do know.
1:18.2	I mean, Anne lived a criminal life.
1:20.2	So as such, there are some very firm facts about her life that are recorded in trials
1:23.6	and testimony.
1:25.3	But there is also, by its very nature, a lot of confusion.
1:28.3	So I've tried my best to tease out what is probable and supported by evidence from what
1:33.9	is fantasy and fiction.
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