Captain Moonlite

Captain Moonlite

From Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

December 23, 2025 · 53 min · Season 9 · Episode 128

About this episode

This episode explores the life of Andrew George Scott, known as Captain Moonlite, highlighting his complex story of identity and crime in colonial Australia.

Subscribe to Extra Bad Gays on Apple Podcasts or Patreon to support our work, get monthly bonus episodes, and join our community of listeners! Another episode down under: Andrew George Scott is best remembered to history as the enigmatic “Captain Moonlite”, and the story of his short but eventful life is a fascinating tale of personal conscience, colonialism, and criminality. Born in Ireland, he was taken by his family to New Zealand, became a military man, attempted to become a priest, robbed a bank, toured as an inspirational speaker, held up a sheep station, and requested to be buried in the arms of his lover. ----more---- SOURCES: Paul Terry, In Search of Captain Moonlite: Bushranger, Conman, Warrior, Lunatic (Allen & Unwin, 2013) Stephan Williams, The Wantabadgery Bushrangers: A Partial Study (Popinjay Publications, 1991) https://www.themonthly.com.au/november-2015/essays/queer-bushranger https://queergoldfields.au/ 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.

Topics covered

  • history
  • colonialism
  • criminality
  • personal conscience
  • LGBTQ+ history

Keywords

  • Captain Moonlite
  • Andrew George Scott
  • Irish
  • New Zealand
  • military man
  • bank robbery
  • inspirational speaker
  • sheep station
  • lover's burial

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Arpeggia Colorix

Books & works: Extra Bad Gays, In Search of Captain Moonlite: Bushranger, Conman, Warrior, Lunatic, The Wantabadgery Bushrangers: A Partial Study

Places: Ireland, New Zealand

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