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The Coast Is Queer Festival, Brighton

  • Attenborough Centre Gardner Center Road Brighton, England, BN1 United Kingdom (map)

Why do we remember our queer heroes better than we remember our queer villains? And why is it sometimes so hard to tell the difference? Join the thousands of Bad Gays enthusiasts as podcasters Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller answer these knotty questions and share the lowdown on some of the most amusing, disturbing and fascinating queer villains in history.

Huw Lemmey is a novelist, artist and critic living in Barcelona. He is the author of three novels: Unknown LanguageRed Tory, and Chubz. He has written for the GuardianFriezeTribune, the Architectural ReviewNew Humanist, the White Review, and L’Uomo Vogue, among others.

Ben Miller is a writer and researcher living in Berlin, where he is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität. He has written for the New York TimesLiterary HubLos Angeles Review of BooksTin House, and Radical History Review, and is the author of The New Queer Photography. Since 2018 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Schwules Museum, one of the world’s largest independent queer museums and archives.

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