Bad Gays
Age band: 18+
Looky Rating System: Violence 2/5, Love & Romance 5/5, Mental Health 1/5, Language 2/5, Substance Use 1/5, Fear / Horror 0/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 5/5.
Description
These “very funny-deep dives into the lives of the most dastardly queer people in history” offer a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond identity (Vogue). What can we learn from the homosexual villains, failures, and baddies of our past? We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and...