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 Queer Stories in Myth

There are (tragically, but maybe not surprisingly) a limited number of queer stories that were recorded and survived to today - there do exist….because of course, queer people have ALWAYS existed. This page is a collection of episodes featuring those tales, with some episodes a collection of a few stories.

Mini Myth: When a Girl Loves a Girl, Ovid's Iphis & Ianthe

Iphis and Ianthe, two girls in ancient Egypt. Women may not be able to be together back then, but the gods can make it happen.

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Mini Myth: When Apollo Met Hyacinthus, A Frisbee Tragedy

the tragic story of Apollo and Hyacinthus.

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Mini Myth: The Olympians Put the B in LGBTQ+, A Pride Compendium

The Olympians were nothing if not (very selectively) progressive. Dionysus, Pan, and Hermaphroditus: LGBTQ icons.

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Mini Myth: All the Best Heroes Have Boyfriends, Heracles & Hylas (Plus More LGBTQ Stories)

Happy Pride! Heracles and Hylas loved each other very much, but as with most gay love stories of Greek mythology... it doesn't end well.

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Plato Says Being Gay is Absolutely Divine… The Symposium (Part 1)

Not only does Plato's Symposium hype up love between men as quite literally godlike, but it also provides us with the absolutely wild idea of Aristophanean soulmates...

 

Conversations: So Are They Cousins Or Not?! The Love of Achilles & Patroclus w/ Charlotte Gregory

Liv speaks with PhD student Charlotte Gregory about all things Achilles and Patroclus, their relationship, and how modern Classical reception depicts their love, cousin or otherwise.

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Dionysus Is Everyone & Everything, Queer Theory with the Queer Classicist Yentl Love

Dionysus is Queer as hell. Liv speaks with Yentl Love of the Queer Classicist all about Dionysus and queer theory. Plus, is Harry Styles today's Dionysus?! (Yes.)

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Conversations: Nonbinary Dionysus, a Look At Euripides' Bacchae with Emma Pauly

Liv speaks with Classicist and dramaturg about nonbinary Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae and the resulting implications for Pentheus (along with queerness in myth and theatre in general!)

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Speak! Radiant Lyre, the Poetess of Lesbos, Sappho (& Other Women of that World)

Sappho was a very real woman, a poet of the island of Lesbos, the "Tenth Muse", and she almost definitely loved men and women. The origin of terms Lesbian and Sapphic, a true icon.

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Conversations: The Sexuality of Sappho and Papyrus Controversy! With Leesa Charlotte of Sweetbitter

Liv speaks with Leesa Charlotte of the Sweetbitter podcast (all about Sappho!), they talk... Sappho, sexuality, and the papyrology scandal you never knew you needed

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