Join us to celebrate Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, hosts of the eponymous podcast. Author Ben Miller will be joined by writer and professor Grace Lavery.

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs, but the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. Everyone remembers Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those "bad gays" whose un-exemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and notorious gangster Ronny Gray, Bad Gays tells the story of how the figure of the white gay man was born, and how he failed. According to The Washington Post, "'‘Bad Gays' succeeds in its goals in every way, offering an infuriating, thoughtful, deliciously judgmental history of the very worst we had to offer.”

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/s98rt78f