Historical Homos

The unbelievably wild and weird life story of the Chevalier dÉon: transgender spy, soldier, and sleuth of the Enlightenment. Assigned male at birth, Charles eventually transitioned to become Charlotte, before discovering the humiliating constraints of life as an 18th century woman.

A review of the life and loves of Virginia Woolf. We dive deep into her affair with Vita Sackville-West, leading London lesbian of her day, and relive the parties thrown by the Bloomsbury Set, a group of young Modernists who continued the British tradition of plumbing the nations bottomless depths of homosexuality. (Or should we say bottom-full?)