Queer History
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Sacha Coward joined me on the podcast to discuss queer history. We talked about Luisa Casati, Queen Anne, the Gay Liberation Front, and other stories of non-heteronormative relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. It's the start of another week. It's exciting. |
| 0:05.7 | We got lots going on this week as the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings this week. We've got a bunch |
| 0:09.4 | of medieval history podcasts and TV shows on the channel coming out. You're including a big |
| 0:16.1 | original documentary on the Battle of Hastings involving some of the best historians currently |
| 0:21.6 | working in the field. This podcast about something completely different. This is the excellent |
| 0:26.5 | Sasha Coward. He's a queer historian. He's a broadcast, he works museums, he does tours of |
| 0:32.4 | queer history around London and he's an absolute legend. He's coming on the podcast because it's |
| 0:36.3 | the 50th anniversary of G.L.F which was the four runner of Pride as you will hear. I went to |
| 0:42.0 | about queer history. History hit TV is having one of its insane, autumnal sales because this week |
| 0:48.8 | is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. So because of that we've launched our huge new |
| 0:52.7 | documentary, our original content on that Battle of Hastings. The tumultuous year of 1066. |
| 0:57.6 | You can see that. Lots of other 11th century content. If you get a history hit.tv. It's like the |
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| 1:11.2 | months. There's one pound euro or dollar for each of those three months. So you're deep into 2021 |
| 1:16.4 | and you're only paying a dollar a month. Crazy. So head over there and check it out. |
| 1:27.3 | Sasha thanks so much for coming on the podcast. It's delightful to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.2 | You should probably tell us what queer history is. For a lot of people that might sound a little |
| 1:34.8 | bit threatening or a little bit alien. And I guess I might as well pre-fix us by saying I'm going |
| 1:39.1 | to use the word queer a lot. Some people feel a bit uncomfortable with that word and I completely |
| 1:43.7 | understand why a lot of people who are part of the lesbian gay bisexual transgender community |
| 1:48.0 | also feel uncomfortable with that word. So I grew up in the word queer was kind of an insult |
| 1:53.5 | as well as an identity. So it was kind of reclaiming something which was used as a negative |
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