Fanny & Stella: The Victorian Drag Queens Who Shocked England (feat. Neil McKenna)

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Why are gay men so loud?

Science may never know. But history offers some clues.

Could it be because we were monks and priests for so long?

Could it be that the simple joy of discovering anal makes you want to shout?

Or maybe it's because straight people have been telling us to shut up for thousands of years?

Actual gay people have reacted to straight society's shushing in a number of ways. Many retreated into themselves and hid their desires. But a select few refused to silence themselves.

Ernest "Stella" Boulton and Frederick "Fanny" Park were two heroines of this kind.

While most Victorian British men kept busy colonising the East and procreating with their stiff-lipped wives, Fanny & Stella took to the streets, stage, and sheets to live their loud, gay lives.