Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, hosts of a popular podst, take a look at history through the lens of problematic gay figur.
Contents:
- IN ‘BAD GAYS,’ HISTORIL FIGUR ARE PRODUCTS OF THEIR TIM
- BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
- BAD GAYS: BEN MILLER ON QUEER HISTORY’S GREATT ANTAGONISTS
IN ‘BAD GAYS,’ HISTORIL FIGUR ARE PRODUCTS OF THEIR TIM
* bad gay book *
They suggt an answer “Bad Gays, ” a ntextual history based on the popular podst of the same name, about “the gay people history who do not flatter , and whom we nnot make to hero: the liars, the powerful, the crimal, and the succsful. ”At a time when a nservative Supreme Court is signalg s willgns to revis qutns of privacy and self-termatn long nsired settled, and the rights of LGBTQ people to live their liv eely rema an open bate, a book tellg the stori of some of the worst gays history might seem ill-timed.
“The history of homosexualy is a long history of failure, ” they wre.
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
”The tle “Bad Gays” is a b of a misnomer, however. The are the stori of gay and queer people who did terrible thgs and held terrible views, but the bulk of the histori are ls about “evil” gays and more about gays who reacted to the world around them, sometim shockg ways, sometim stctive ways, but que often the only ways that ma sense to them, given the tim.
BAD GAYS: BEN MILLER ON QUEER HISTORY’S GREATT ANTAGONISTS
This approach is pecially helpful amg the liv and choic of people like Frerick the Great and notor Italian Renaissance satirist and blackmailer Pietro Areto, well before the ia of gayns as an inty existed.