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Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781004098484
Content:
"Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Part-revisionist history, part-historical biography and based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality and identity through its villains and baddies. From the Emperor Hadrian to notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors excavate the buried history of queer lives. This includes fascist thugs, famous artists, austere puritans and debauched bon viveurs, Imperialists, G-men and architects. Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge the mainstream assumptions of sexual identity. Amusing, disturbing and fascinating, Bad Gays puts centre stage the queers villains and evil twinks in history."
Content:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 28, 2022 Novelist Lemmey ( Unknown Language ) and historian Miller ( The New Queer Photography ) take an intriguing if disjointed look at “the gay people in history who do not flatter us, and whom we cannot make into heroes: the liars, the powerful, the criminal, and the successful.” Their profile subjects include Roman emperor Hadrian, who may have sacrificed his lover Antinous’s life in order to prolong his reign, and Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, who used his success as an openly gay politician to push an anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim agenda before his assassination by an environmental activist in 2002. Sixteenth-century Scottish monarch James VI and 18th-century Prussian ruler Frederick the Great also appear, as do Victorian male prostitute Jack Saul and 1960s British gangster Ronnie Kray. Though the authors make incisive points about “how white male homosexuality, as a political, identitarian, and emancipatory project, has failed,” the individual profiles don’t coalesce into a satisfying narrative, and the criticism of the cis, white, male perspective is belied by the fact the only two examples—American anthropologist Margaret Mead and Japanese writer Yukio Mishima—are neither male nor white. This thought-provoking survey doesn’t quite achieve its larger ambitions."
Language:
English
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