LGBTQ history often foc on the hero. The creators of the Bad Gays podst expla their missn to fill the gaps.
Contents:
- WHY WE NEED TO GET TO KNOW THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
- RSELL TOVEY: HE MAY BE PROUD BUT IS THE ‘WORST GAY EVER’ ACTUALLY SORRY?
WHY WE NEED TO GET TO KNOW THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
* worst gay ever *
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.
RSELL TOVEY: HE MAY BE PROUD BUT IS THE ‘WORST GAY EVER’ ACTUALLY SORRY?
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. Each of the subjects be totally fascatg through Bad Gays’ lens; the rigoro rearch and eye for tellg tails evoke the feelg of unravelg a mystery. It’s also pretty funny — each episo ends wh realy TV-style snap judgments of “bad gay or not bad gay?