HeyJaredQueer History of Religion
This podcast explores the queer histories of world religious traditions through the lens of storytelling. We focus on narratives, myths, and biographies of influential LGBTQ+ figures throughout the past and present to explore the intersections of religion, gender, and sexuality.
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Kalonymus ben Kalonymus: Trans Jewish Philosopher in Medieval France (opens the original)
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In 1322, a celebrated Provençal rabbi and translator named Kalonymus ben Kalonymus tucked a startling confession into the middle of a satirical ethics treatise: a passage imagining, in vivid and sorrowful detail, the life he might have lived had he been born a woman. Known in his own time as "Maestro Calo" for his prolific translations of Galen, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Averroes into Hebrew, Kalonymus is remembered today for something else entirely — a "Prayer for Transformation" that trans Jewish r
Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum: The Ancient Egyptian Tomb That Might Show History's First Same-Sex Couple (opens the original)
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Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum: The Ancient Egyptian Tomb That Might Show History's First Same-Sex Couple In 1964, archaeologists broke into a hillside at Saqqara and found something Old Kingdom Egypt almost never produced: a single tomb built for two men, covered wall to wall with scenes of them embracing, holding hands, and standing nose to nose in poses Egyptian art usually reserved for husbands and wives. This episode digs into the four-thousand-year-old mystery of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, tw
Issan Dorsey: Queer Bodhisattva of San Francisco (opens the original)
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Issan Dorsey was an American Zen Buddhist teacher, drag performer, and AIDS activist whose life spanned some of the most significant social and religious transformations of twentieth-century San Francisco. Born Tommy Dorsey Jr. in 1933 in Santa Barbara, California, he grew up in a large Catholic family and showed an early passion for performance, studying dance and piano before briefly serving in the U.S. Navy. Discharged because of his homosexuality during the Korean War, Dorsey settled in San
Two Names, One Grave: The Love Story of Madho Lal Hussain (opens the original)
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Shah Hussain was a 16th-century Sufi Muslim poet and saint from Lahore, in the Punjab region of the Mughal Empire. Born in 1539, Hussain came of age during the reign of the emperor Akbar, whose court became famous for its patronage of poetry, music, religious dialogue, and Sufi traditions. After years devoted to prayer and religious study, Hussain embraced a more unconventional spiritual path characterized by dancing, poetry, wine, and public challenges to religious orthodoxy. He became one of t
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