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💘 Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

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‘When people see behaviours, modes of existence, ways of being that are subject to repression or hatred, the imperative becomes to make them identities, and then demand that such behaviours are normalised. Perhaps we can […] make them credible, legible to the norm, feasible, and therefore deserving of rights. It doesn’t work: white American male homosexuality has been swept up in the new moral panic along with all the other queers. Resisting normalisation isn’t an issue of posing as radical, of wanting to be edgy. It’s about acknowledging the fact that, as Davey Davis says “normalcy does not exist without the abnormal.”

Perhaps we are not normal. Perhaps normal is no good. Perhaps normal is the thing that made us abnormal to begin with. I hope to become better at welcoming my abnormality, and in the process accepting and loving the abnormality of others. It’s no easy task: as I wrote last year, when I discussed disgust, in our society “...abjection - to be the object of revulsion - is to be unworthy of love. This is not just something preached from the homophobe’s pulpit, either, but is a belief that underpins a society constructed, at root, on the reproduced image, the once printed and now pixelated image. We live under the tyranny of the image. Disgust is to be erased, sanitised, purified, ejected. Only the immediately and crudely attractive, only the beautiful, is capable of being loved.” We don’t need to normalise anything: we need to reckon with our love of the norm’

- Huw Lemmey, Normalyze This

[1000rh]

Homosexuality is not an ever-fixéd mark; it’s a contingent identity, something developed through a slow accrual of meaning over the centuries. Within it are still the remnants of sin, its half-life still slowly poisoning gays millennia on, and sickness, and crime. There are remnants of a heritage of rebellion, of throwing established norms into anarchy, but also of order, of the relentless policing of the self, and of the behaviour of other queers. The history of homosexuality is a long history of failure – failure to understand ourselves, failure to understand how we relate to society, and the failures of racism and exclusion. It is also a history of dead ends; of movements like the Uranians or the masculinists, trying to find new ways to express same-sex desire. It is not just an issue of shifting language, from ‘sodomite’ to ‘urning’, from ‘invert’ to ‘queer’: the changing words emerge out of a recognition that what it means to be gay has shifted, and new words are needed to understand it.

– Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays (2022)

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[2023|007] Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (2022) written by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

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Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

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in my latest attempt to actually finish the bad gays book, i am giving the audiobook a try and it's fucking weird as all hell bc as much as i can hear ben and huw's spoken inflections in my mind whilst reading, it's even more obvious when i'm listening, except the audiobook reader is a different guy entirely so now i'm mentally superimposing the accents and conversational (okay, often somewhat rehearsed) speech patterns of the podcast hosts onto this very trained- and cultured-sounding reader who has yet a third accent and it's enough of a mindfuck to completely distract me from the actual text

so like

not super successful thus far

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30 Days of Literary Pride 2023 - June 15

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

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All moments were within this one. Everything is of itself, in itself, its own self, its itsness: the holiest mystery of all. 

Hildegard von Bingen, Huw Lemmey - Unknown Language

“It’s what you’ve always” “suspected” “It’s nothing but” “what you’ve always known,” “always been” “For you’ve always” “been being”

Alice Notley - The Descent of Alette

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[Lingua Ignota][Ildegarda di Bingen][Huw Lemmey]

Nel XII secolo Ildegarda di Bingen aveva già visto tutto – le fiamme divampare in ogni dove, l’atmosfera diventare rovente, i mari innalzarsi, la peste infuriare – traducendo poi le sue visioni in una Lingua Ignota in cui profezia e afasia, visione e aberrazione, diventano indistinguibili. Ed è con questa voce che Huw Lemmey – uno degli autori più importanti nel panorama radicale e LGBTQIA+…

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Publication day of the Italian edition of "Bad Gays" by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller

Good day everyone, I’m Elena from Italy and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- Alexander the Great and Hellenism. Today is the publication day of the Italian edition of a book that I won’t buy it and read the article to know why: Bad Gays. Crudeli e spietati: una storia omosessuale by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller Il Saggiatore Translator: Goffredo Polizzi Bad Gays raccoglie le…

[1000rh]

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 the products of history. Not only do our rights come from prior political struggles that were full of faults and fault lines, but everything about what we conceive of gay to mean is also the product of centuries of accretions of meanings, roles, and experiences. […] We do not get to choose who we are but we do get to choose how, and with whom, we dance: what queerness, what faggotry, what transness, what gender trouble and abolition will be for us and with us and to us. The past is still with us; the revolutions of the queer future beckon.

– Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays (2022)

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Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

DNF

Subtitled "A Homosexual History".

An ARC obtained from Martin County Library System's monthly Book Swap in November 2022, with a scheduled release date of May 31, 2022.

The authors explore individuals in history who are believed to be gay and are usually ignored and/or overlooked in books on historical LGBTQ figures. They refer to them as "bad", although I beg to differ with their apparent definition of that term. Complicated, without a doubt. And some are definitely not what society would call "good", but such terms change over the decades and centuries.

Winner of the Goodreads 2022 Choice Award for the Non-Fiction category. (Which I voted for, damn it, before I read it!)

This should've been a slam dunk of a read for me, considering the subject matter and different selection of people chosen. Sadly I struggled almost from the start, beginning with the Introduction. I think part of the issue, at least for me, was how the two authors' styles didn't mesh. At times the narrative was dry and scholarly. Then the tone would suddenly shift to near irreverence just a paragraph later. It frankly gave me reader's whiplash.

I've been struggling with this since December 14 and finally gave up about a third of the way in.

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Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History