Cecil Rhodes

Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

History

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Season 4 –– ! –– with apologies for socially-distanced audio quality. Today's victim was a British colonist and mining magnate who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. An ardent white supremacist – no matter what revisionist historians and the right-wing press claim – he rose from being a sickly child to having a near-complete domination of the world diamond market. Come for the "private secretaries," stay for the Big Hole. Visit our website for t-shirts, an episode archive, and a link to our Patreon. ----more---- SOURCES: Aldrich, Robert. Colonialism and Homosexuality. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2003. Brown, Robin. The Secret Society: Cecil John Rhodes' Plans for a New World Order. London: Penguin Books, 2015. Jourdan, Philip. Cecil Rhodes: His Private Life By His Private Secretary. London: Bodley Head, 1911. Rotberg, Robert I. The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. 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 the first episode of Season 4 of Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated
0:22.3	queers in history.
0:23.5	I'm Ben Miller, a writer, researcher, and member of the board of Berlin's Schfoulis Museum.
0:29.0	And I'm Q Lemmy, an author and writer.
0:32.4	And we are really delighted to be back with you a little bit later than we normally do
0:37.4	our fall seasons,
0:38.3	but you may have noticed that a few things have been happening in the world.
0:41.3	You may also know that we sound a little bit different.
0:44.3	That's because we are doing a corona safe version of our podcast where we are recording
0:50.3	online from our various writerly dens in Berlin and Barcelona.
0:56.1	There are bookshelves behind us.
0:58.1	And so if we sound a little different than normal, that's why.
1:01.7	Socially distanced by 2,000 kilometers.
1:05.3	Socially distanced by 2,000 kilometers, yes.
1:08.2	And actually, I think one of the last things I did before the world went
1:13.2	upside over is go to Barcelona to record season three with you, Hugh, and it just seems like
1:19.2	a different universe that we were all living in. But nonetheless, the evil queens continue.
1:26.9	And I'm sure that the listeners just want us to get to our first subject.
1:32.3	So who are we going to be talking about today?
1:34.2	Today we're going to be talking about Cecil Rhodes.
1:37.6	So Cecil Rhodes, today's subject, died a year after Queen Victoria, almost 120 years ago.
1:43.9	Yet here are a few headlines from the
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