We are used to history books emphasizing heroes, pioneers and martyrs. In an attempt to tell a more wide-ranging story about the history of the queer movement, however, historians Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey focus on anti-heroes. Everyone loves Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for his flawed lover Bosie?
What about those ‘bad gays’ whose less than exemplary lives might just reveal more about the queer emancipation struggle than expected? Drawing on figures such as Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead and gangster Ronny Gray, Bad Gays chronicles the troubled genesis of the LGBTQ movement.
Like the makers of Bad Gays, Tim Devriese and Max De Moor examine the prejudices and clichés about LGBTs in their podcast Scheef Bekeken (A skewed view). One could hardly imagine better hosts for a thought-provoking conversation with Ben Miller about the life stories that turn upside down common concepts about sexual identity.