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- BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
- LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
- BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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- BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
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An unnventnal history of homosexualy for rears of The Deviant's War by Eric Cervi.
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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.
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.
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
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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.
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Lemmey, Huw; Miller, Ben - ISBN 10: 1839763272 - ISBN 13: 9781839763274 - Verso - 2022 - Hardver * bad gay a 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.
Huw and I are both whe male homosexuals; we stand on top of that inty and are implited s succs, failur, exclns, and the vlence ’s done to others on s long march through the stutns. One is the gree to which the whe gay man benefed om and evolved out of European lonizatn of the Global South—ias about lonized people circulated metropolan pals and served as the foundatn for gay activists’ claims about themselv, their histori, and their inti.
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Meanwhile, those gays were often plic the lonial project—some, like Cecil Rhos, were lears of that project—and too many whe gay movements have ignored or actively opprsed queer-of-lor anizg. Another is the whe gay man’s rejectn of femy and genr nonnformy: In tryg to be a “real man, ” he’s often thrown alli unr the b.
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY
MF: The gamb of thkg about “bad gays” is a way to move agast a certa figure of the homosexual as an eternally and ply opprsed inty, which was central to bids for rights on the basis of s rpectabily.