Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact.

I'm Hamish.

I'm Alice.

I'm Eli.

And by our powers combined in a sort of Voltron formation, we are Queer as Fact.

We are a loosely fortnightly queer history podcast.

And each episode, one of us will present a person, a place, a thing, or a topic from queer history, discuss it in depth, and then probably laugh about a bunch. This week we're talking about the sex life of John Maynard Keynes, the notable English economist from 1901 to 1915.

Before we begin, our very first queerest fact correction. Hooray!

Except not really hooray, because I mispronounce somebody's name like a million times.

I call Keynes' wife Lydia Lopovo, Lydia Lopovka, which is not her name at all, and I do it every

time I say her name.

So every time you hear the words Lydia Lopovka, you should mentally substitute it with Lydia Lopova and then also probably my embarrassed face. And with that on with

the show. Some content warnings for this episode. We speak about sex from beginning to end, which

may be an advertisement. And there's also one mention of a suicide that may not be a suicide and may

in fact be a murder by the Russian government.

If that's not your thing, we have plenty of other material that I'm sure you'll love.

We've compiled a companion piece to this episode where we've included some information and

photos to help you get a grip on just who exactly was putting what in whom throughout

this time period. For those of you not familiar with Keynes, his name is spelled K-E-Y-N-E-S, which sounds like

Keynes, and that means that we're going to mispronounce it at least once in this episode. The rest of

his name is John Maynard Keynes, except nobody called him John except for his mother. He was called,

for most of his life, Maynard. Oh. Yeah, which I never knew.

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