We're Back, Baby! New episode drops tomorrow, October 1!

Hello, queerlings! Welcome back to History is Gay! First off, I
just want to say I’m so sorry for the unexpected hiatus and
disappearance! Significant life events in early 2024 threw wrench
after wrench into my plans and my ability to focus on the show,
and I made the difficult decision in early June to announce an
official hiatus to the patreon supporters with plans to return in
the fall, but never sent anything out to the wider listenership,
so I imagine you all felt left hanging, and I apologize for the
radio silence! If you want to read more to get a better sense of
the reasons for the hiatus, that Patreon post from June is public
and accessible by everyone, which you can read here.


All that being said, we are back! I’m so happy to share with you
that we’ll be returning to your podfeeds tomorrow, October 1,
with an episode which has been a very long time coming, where
guest-host Aubree Calvin and I start a deep dive into all your
favorite classic children’s book authors who, turns out, are
queer! We had so many folks we wanted to get into that it’s
expanded into a 2-3 part episode, so we’ve got more coming your
way soon to close out 2024, including Maurice Sendak, James
Marshall, Louise Fitzhugh, and more!


I also wanted to announce that going into 2025, we’ll be bringing
some changes to the format and structure of the show, in an aim
to make it more sustainable for us to produce and freshen things
up a bit! We haven’t figured out exactly what it will look like
yet, but it will likely involve switching to a seasonal format
with a set number of episodes followed by a break, and having our
usual research deep-dive format be only one type of episode,
alternating with things like learning from other queer historians
and interviewing queer historymakers. More detail and information
is on another publicly available Patreon post, linked here.


I hope you’ll follow along with this new phase of History is Gay,
and support us in exploring new ways to keep the show going, and
let us know what you think! But for now, we’ll see you tomorrow
with episode 47!