The podcast has some genuinely left-of-field choices, such as Morrissey, Cecil Rhodes, Benjamin Britten and Cressida Dick. By doing this, Lemmey and Miller subvert the typical way queer history and politics are usually talked about; this book is about villains, not heroes. Entries like those that discuss the English implemented, enslavement of people en masse in the Congo. Bad Gays is a welcome corrective to the shallow version of gay history as an uncomplicated narrative of heroic struggles by heroic gays.

i also sometimes felt like the structure of the history lesson was all over the place and we were jumping from a random point to another and it was hard to follow.

You can watch me talk about all the books I read in February as I set up my reading journal here: https://youtu. It's simply a gimmick used to sell books and push an agenda--filtering the stories of a few unknown or long-forgotten people through the lens of the modern LGBT movement. By turns uncomfortable, outrageous and hilarious, this book, taken from the podcast of the same name, was one of my unputdownables of 2022. Of course the truth was she was blind to the very lively and open manifestations of homosexuality in the cultures she studied. That was when sexologists and early gay rights campaigners first coined the term “homosexual”, and began to conceive of homosexual and heterosexual as innate sexual identities.

One of them is from Germany and the other is from Spain, but they're both speaking and writing in English, so, hey. There needed to be more connecting threads between chapters and to the point of the book as a whole. Underlord Shaård/Dickie – One of Splaarghön's minions who rules a universe full of sharp blades and broken glass.

It is not always so easy, especially when subjects are marked by whiteness and other forms of power and privilege, to neatly separate the good from the bad, the right from the wrong. The way he used the figure of the colonised ‘primitive’ was indicative of the types of white identity formation we discuss here. The authors argue for a dismantling of oppressive structures, rather than mere “representation” within them – a philosophy similar to the gay liberation movements of the 1970s. This is particularly true in their dismissive and condemnatory references to Mead's mentor the anthropologist Franz Boas.