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Bad Gays

Bad Gays

Di: Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
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 A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.comCopyright 2019-. All rights reserved. Mondiale
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  • Prince Felix Yusupov

    Prince Felix Yusupov
    Nov 10 2026

    Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners, including our upcoming quarterly Bad Gays Book Club.

    Meet the cross-dressing heir to one of Imperial Russia's largest fortunes: a dissolute, champagne-quaffing demon twink who decorated palaces with his nobleman boyfriend before that boyfriend tried desperately to sabotage his marriage to one of Russia's greatest beauties. But trouble was afoot: revolution was brewing, and the personal and sexual charisma of the infamous Rasputin captivated the court. And revolution was brewing in Russia...

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    For more on Mike Jeffries, read the sources we used to research this episode:

    Lost Splendor, by Prince Felix Yusupov

    The man who killed Rasputin : Prince Felix Youssoupov and the murder that helped bring down the Russian Empire, by Greg King

    https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2016/12/01/russias-greatest-love-machine-sex-and-rasputin/

    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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    1 ora e 14 min
  • Mike Jeffries

    Mike Jeffries
    Nov 3 2026
    Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners, including our upcoming quarterly Bad Gays Book Club. We start our brand-new season with the story of Mike Jeffries, the Abercrombie & Fitch CEO who turned a bankrupt old-school outdoors brand into a late-90s/early-00s temple of exclusionary “cool."  Surely you remember the ads, or maybe you remember the stores: the pumping music, the blasts of cologne that made your throat close up, the shutters across the front of the store, as if this little corner of a suburban shopping mall was actually an exclusive nightclub.  Or maybe you remember the Bruce Weber-shot soft-porn catalogue, which once featured an essay by (yes! no!) Slavoj Zizek.  Clothes for homophobic bullies were made in marketed from a self-hating gay sensibility: and the story of Mike Jeffries might be the single solitary key to understanding how the aesthetics of the closet became mainstream marketing, how a gay aesthetic was used to sell homophobic masculinity and how that tension crushed employees and turned its visionary into a monster now credibly accused of sexual assault and harassment. ----more---- For more on Mike Jeffries, read the sources we used to research this episode: Netflix: White Hot - The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie and Fitch BBC: World of Secrets - The Abercrombie Guys https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/an-oral-history-of-abercrombie-and-fitch https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-story-behind-fitch-the-homeless https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2012/oct/18/abercrombie-fitch-boss-extraordinary-male-model-demands https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/feature/fashion-photographer-bruce-weber-and-male-models-end-legal-battles-1234907151/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8vmy56yero https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abercrombie-fitch-ceo-corporate-jet-rulebook_n_1980960 https://www.salon.com/2006/01/24/jeffries/ https://www.advocate.com/crime/abercrombie-fitch-mike-jeffries-dementia https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/sep/14/i-constantly-was-saying-no-ex-abercrombie-fitch-boss-accused-of-abuse-at-global-sex-events https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/22/former-abercrombie-ceo-mike-jeffries-arrested-in-sex-trafficking-case.html\ https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-jeffries-partner-is-too-involved-2013-5 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/02/former-abercrombie-fitch-ceo-accused-of-exploiting-young-men-for-sex https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/55905/1/abercrombie-fitch-netflix-documentary-sexual-exploitation-racism-bruce-weber https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-ceo-abercrombie-fitch-and-two-other-individuals-charged-sex-trafficking-and https://archive.ph/JUDyD https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/why-abercrombie-is-losing-its-shirt.html# https://monoskop.org/images/d/db/A_and_F_Quarterly_Back_to_School_2003_The_Sex_Ed_Issue.pdf https://www.complex.com/style/a/emilyl/revisiting-absurd-critical-theory-abercrombies-2003-back-school-catalog https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/19/abercrombie-fitch-netflix-documentary-fashion-discrimination https://archive.ph/HdrvF https://archive.ph/W0YZo https://archive.ph/pAoOR https://www.classaction.org/media/abercrombie-indictment.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/business/interactive/2012/oct/19/abercrombie-fitch-aircraft-standards-manual?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876176611622798500 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/mario-testino-bruce-weber-harassment.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170614225056/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-01-22/the-aging-of-abercrombie-fitch-i58ltcqx 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. Michael Oswell is the voice of Slavoj Zizek.
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    59 min
  • Special Episode: Liza Minnelli's Bad Gays

    Special Episode: Liza Minnelli's Bad Gays
    Jun 27 2026

    Happy pride! Gather around, we've got a story to tell! For Stonewall weekend, a special treat: writer, critic, and journalist Cameron Cook joins Ben to talk about the one and only Liza through the stories of the bad (and good) gays in her life, from her father Vincente Minnelli to her first husband Peter Allen to her diabolical fourth husband David Gest. Liza learned on her (and our) mother Judy Garland's knee how to survive by appealing to gay guys. Gay guys used Judy, then Liza to self-fashion. None of it is particularly healthy, and yet we love it so. Our main source for this episode was Liza's new memoir, Kids, Wait Til You Hear This!, and Cameron's newsletter Cooked, with monthly essays and regular music playlists for pop culture obsessives, can be found here.

    Support our work by subscribing to Extra Bad Gays on Patreon or Apple, and get an extra monthly episode!
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    1 ora
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