Whilst it also displayed struggles, as queer and trans people, it greatly demonstrated that being queer does not exempt you from harming others. On July 22, 2017, Australia's The Daily Telegraph reported that several studios had expressed interest in adapting the series into a film. I will say that we lacked a bit of diversity both in race AND gender identities (out of fourteen "Bad Gays," only one is a lesbian, and only one isn't white); however, I think that the authors did do a great job at critiquing these white, gay men and the disgusting actions they took against more marginalized people within the queer community. I think trying to tie it to the project of establishing queerness within white hegemony a la Roderick Ferguson was interesting but not executed that well.

Because, if you're comparing Oscar and Bosie, for example, I think most people would agree that the former was more morally questionable than the latter, or at least the surviving documentation certainly suggests that. The degree of new, revisionist information in Bad Gays could be disorienting to some, but the authors do their best to connect with readers and keep their work engaging: I particularly liked how this otherwise scholarly project makes itself accessible and enjoyable to readers by making use of the distinct linguistic register of urban anglophone gays today, with ample "slay"s and "good on you, queen"s thrown in for effect. You use Bad Gays to describe the antagonists of queer history left out from narratives which focus on heroes.Currently binge-listening the podcast - I mean, episode 1 already references Klaus Theweleit, and the show goes on citing tons of sources, so it's super scholarly, but also evidently relevant and damn interesting. Amusing, disturbing and fascinating, Bad Gays puts centre stage the queers villains and evil twinks in history. For Röhm, his politics and sexuality weren’t at odds; he saw hypermasculine gay men like himself as different from other, more feminine gay men. I've read quite a bit of queer nonfiction; however, most of them have centered queer people in the United States of America. The only way I can explain this book is if you imagine your teacher taking about an upcoming subject that you find really interesting and actually look forward to.

it wasn't really what i expected and i am unsure on how the decision on which gays are "bad" was made - some where like literal nazis while some didn't really. Edgar Hoover, for example, highlights Hoover’s role as an architect of the white supremacist surveillance state. It felt really disconnected, and it didn't do enough to justify its focus on these bad white queers by tracing their ideas and contributions to culture and the conversation to our modern conceptions of queerness, in relation to women, those outside the gender binary, non-white and non-Western queers. You can watch me talk about all the books I read in February as I set up my reading journal here: https://youtu.He is in charge of reforming the Bad Guys as a philanthropist, but secretly uses them as a cover-up to his own criminal plot: mind-controlling other guinea pigs into stealing his own charity donations, but his plan is foiled by Mr. Let’s start with the fact -if this had less graphic descriptions of sex- it would be so bloody perfect as material to be used and taught in schools. And then my third worst gay is Pim Fortuyn, the father of the European New Right who dies in the Netherlands in 2002. there sure were a lot of gays who are either ambiguously bad and only bad read in very modern light. Profile after profile reveals how often these people opted to act in their interests — or against them entirely, in the case of Ernst Röhm — rather than in solidarity with the broader queer community.

All this aside however, Bad Gays can surely boast being one of the most original queer history books of recent years, and something that is sure to garner much conversation and debate.Instead, they turned their backs on the rest of their community in lieu of pursuing assimilation into mainstream middle and upper-class society via marriage equality.

Eaar of Splaarghön - An Ear monster who is presumably the last member of The Underlords and 'master of ceremonies'.Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller confront the shadowy side of queer history, a seamy underworld populated by evil twinks and psychopathic villains. Just like our heroes, villains are complicated – there are hidden aspects of their lives that might explain their actions. They show that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century and that its interpretation has been central to major historical moments of conflict from the ruptures of Weimar Republic to red-baiting in Cold War America. With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and notorious gangster Ronny Gray, we tell the story of how the figure of the white gay man was born, and how he failed. Note the conflation of ‘evil’ and ‘complex’, probably a half-baked attempt to explain what Lawrence of Arabia and Margaret Mead (incidentally the only woman here) have in common in terms of ‘badness’.