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Contents:
- BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
- LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
- GAY IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR BAD
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
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LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary liv reveal more than we might expect?
Based on the hugely popular podst seri, Bad Gays subverts the notn of gay ins and queer hero and asks what we n learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexualy and inty through s villas and baddi. Hadrian * Areto * Jam I and VI * Frerick the Great * Jack Sl * Roger Casement * Lawrence of Arabia * The Bad Gays of Weimar * Margaret Mead * J. They show that homosexualy self was an ia that emerged the neteenth century and that s terpretatn has been central to major historil moments of nflict om the ptur of Weimar Republic to red-bag Cold War Ameri.
Bad Gays is a passnate argument for rethkg gay polics beyond qutns of inty and the search for solidary across boundari.
GAY IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR BAD
Q&AOctober 26, 2022Learng From the “Bad Gays” of HistoryA nversatn wh Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller about queer crooks, villas, and anti-heros, and what we might learn om the sister si of gay polics. Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller’s popular podst and now book, Bad Gays, tak a slightly arch approach to liver a rrective to the domant narrative of heroic queers perfectg liberal society. In each of their refully rearched chapters, they adopt one or more of the tular “bad gays” as an opportuny for a plited discsn of certa unsavory characters who neverthels left cisive marks on the shape of ntemporary sexual and genr inti, or whose experience provis a eful reference pot agast which to measure their change.
The “bad gay” is a venerable slur, gleefully ployed agast Nazis or other figur of evil to distance their acts om implicly straight nocence by the further charge of sexual viance or, better, self-hatred. Recently, I rrpond wh Lemmey and Miller to learn more about their approach to what they ll “homosexual history. Max Fox: One of the bolr premis the book is your claim that the project of homosexualy was a failure.
Ben Miller: The quote is that the book “vtigat the failure of whe male homosexualy as an inty and a polil project. ” Whe male homosexualy is one of the most succsful polil projects of the 20th century terms of s abily to achieve civil rights and state regnn rerd time.