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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

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Bad Gays succeeds in its goals in every way, offering an infuriating, thoughtful, deliciously judgmental history of the very worst we had to offer. Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Washington Post i enjoyed the gay little history lesson. it wasn't really what i expected and i am unsure on how the decision on which gays are "bad" was made - some where like literal nazis while some didn't really... do much. Was Boas perfect? No. Was the anthology done by him and others flawed? Of course. But the very tools he developed to study other cultures were also used to show the flaws in his work and develop new ways (clearly it has escaped the author's notice that a definition of any scientific theory is that it is disprovable). But Boas and Mead were dedicated to finding the truth. That they failed in many ways is true but that doesn't make a person bad.

What's worse is that these writers are jerks that think they are qualified to make moral judgments on others, such as saying things like "the mostly good gay Larry Mitchell." Whose objective scale are they using for what's good and bad, and can we place the authors in the bad column for thinking they have a right to make such judgments?The politics of power and privilege are frequent themes in Bad Gays. Profile after profile reveals how often these people opted to act in their interests — or against them entirely, in the case of Ernst Röhm — rather than in solidarity with the broader queer community. Röhm, a close friend of Adolf Hitler, was one of the co-founders of the Nazi’s infamous SA troops. The Nazis, along with being fascists and white supremacists, were also known for being violently homophobic. It is not always so easy, especially when subjects are marked by whiteness and other forms of power and privilege, to neatly separate the good from the bad, the right from the wrong. The answer, though, is not to simply stan our heroes and shush up about their flaws and faults; rather, it’s to understand how people have made and been made by history, how and why they have failed, and how and why we might succeed. Though this book primarily focussed on the tales of white, queer males; it’s mostly from an aspect of looking at how their actions had severe consequences for others like the trans, BIPOC and other queer communities. Or how situations like the aids epidemic were catered to healing the rich white elite.

A principle of understanding our status as gay people both within our culture and within wider society is this: we are not just the protagonists, but also products of history." The above principle guides the work of authors and podcasters Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller in this new and wildly liberatory work of queer historiography which seeks to reveal new insights on LGBTQ history, sexuality, and identity through fourteen hitherto buried examples of homosexual evil and brutishness through the ages. Indeed, while "Be Gay, Do Crimes" may be a catchphrase easily uttered today on social media, there is a deeper relationship between queerness (which has been considered a form of villainy for a large part of history, and continues to be seen as such in several places), criminality, and political power. This book manages to systematically highlight these links while also challenging mainstream assumptions about structures of power and about sexual identity and deviance. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Librarians Group is the official group for requesting additions or updates to the catalog, including:Kroll, Justin (March 9, 2018). "Etan Cohen and DreamWorks Animation Developing 'Bad Guys' Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on December 20, 2019 . Retrieved December 13, 2019. I am aware that this book is based on a popular podcast, but therein lies its greatest weakness. The individual chapters are entertaining enough, if not offering anything new that even a casual student of gay history is likely to not already know. The heart of the book is in the above statement, and the authors seem to do a lot of unsuccessful shoehorning to come up with a unifying hypothesis.

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