LGBTQ history often foc on the hero. The creators of the Bad Gays podst expla their missn to fill the gaps.
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WHY WE NEED TO GET TO KNOW THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
That’s the ia behd the new podst Bad Gays om wrers Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey. Bad Gays, focg on the “evil and plited gay men history, ” tri to tell some of the stori that get left out.
And “bad” n be as slippery a term as “gay” for Bad Gays’ subjects. Bad Gays’ first episo ncerns a ls well-known figure: Nazi lear Ernst Röhm, “the world’s first openly gay polician. ” The show later turns to perhaps the first publisher of gay, lbian, and transgenr magaz — who tried to appease the Nazis.
Listeners also hear about a very different si of Andrew Sullivan, the ntemporary wrer who helped popularize the nservative se for gay marriage and ntu to argue agast perceived radilism the LGBTQ muny. An actual spy stggl wh layers of ncealed inty, and the season ends wh a fixture of the McCarthy era and Donald Tmp mentor, Roy Cohn, who aids a wch hunt agast imaged gay spi the US ernment. (Bad Gays labels him the “Poltar of Human Evil.