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LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
Prosecuted for his homosexualy, Turg died 1952 of cyani poisong, wh a half-eaten apple found bi his body. 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.