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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 13 days ago
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elishanelsonfanacct · 2 years ago
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anne sexton, herman hesse (tr. damion searls), lancelot-graal (c. 1450—55), margaret atwood, thien-di do, huw lemmey, possession, will storr
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godzilla-reads · 9 months ago
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💘 Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
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reds1981 · 2 years ago
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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
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notsoterriblymisanthropic · 2 years ago
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Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
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sigmastolen · 2 years ago
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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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onebluebookworm · 2 years ago
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30 Days of Literary Pride 2023 - June 15
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
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goldenhare · 4 months ago
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queerographies · 1 year ago
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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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alessandroiiidimacedonia · 2 years ago
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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…
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leporinelou · 10 months ago
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kaydensb · 3 months ago
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100% Legally Sourced Media (Google Drive)
Here is a link for a whole bunch of movies, tv shows and more - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15yd2vLoCzlTDknjTgo965gCoAV8S0Emt
below is a list of the things currently on my google drive, I may add more and keep updating this list periodically as things get put on the drive.
Audiobooks and Audio Dramas
Fiction
1984 By George Orwell
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Bleak House By Charles Dickens
Bridgerton Series By Julia Quinn
Chemistry By Rachael Sommers
Daisy Jones and the Six By Taylor Jenkins Reid
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Eve of Man Series By Tom Fletcher & Giovanna Fletcher
Fellow Travelers By Thomas Mallon
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe By Fanny Flagg
Friends of Dorothy By Sandi Toksvig
Gothic Tales By Arthur Conan Doyle
It By Stephen King
Jurassic Park By Michael Crichton
Les Misérables By Victor Hugo
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Me Before You By Jojo Moyes
Neon Roses By Rachel Dawson
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Red, White & Royal Blue By Casey McQuiston
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Should Have Known Better By A J McDine
Stranger in the Woods By Anni Taylor
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Exorcist By William Peter Blatty
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Honey Witch By Sydney J. Shields
The Murder Game By Tom Hindle
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
The Woman in Black By Susan hill
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop By Fannie Flagg
Think Again By Jacqueline Wilson
Torchwood
We Play Games by Sarah A. Denzil
When You Least Expect It By Haley Cass
Non Fiction
A Billion Years My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology By Mike Rinder
All I Know Now By Carrie Hope Fletcher
Apparently There Were Complaints By Sharon Gless
Bad Gays A Homosexual History By Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
Best Foot Forward By Adam Hills
Between the Stops By Sandi Toksvig
Beyond Belief By Jenna Miscavige
Black Mass By Gerrard O’Niell & Dick Lehr
Blown for Good - Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology By Marc Headley
Boy From the Valleys By Luke Evans
Che Guevara By Jon Lee Anderson
Church of Lies By Flora Jessop & Paul T. Brown
Coming Up for Air By Tom Daley
Dare to Dream By Izzy Judd
David Bowie Made Me Gay - 100 Years of LGBT Music By Darryl W Bullock
Deaf Utopia By Nyle DiMarco
Escaping the Kingdom of God By J. Andrew Robinson
Fathomless Riches By Rev Richard Coles
Freddie Mercury The Definitive Biography By Lesley-Ann Jones
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing By Matthew Perry
From Here to the Great Unknown A Memoir By Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Help I S*xted My Boss By William Hanson & Jordan North
Karma By Boy George
Mama’s Boy By Dustin Lance Black
Notorious by Raphael Rowe
Once upon a Tyne By Ant & Dec
Our Story By Reg and Ron Kray
Over Our Dead Bodies By Todd Harra & Kenneth McKenzie
Rainbow History Class By Hanna McElhinney
Scientology: Abuse at the Top By Amy Scobee
Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed By Chris Ramsey & Rosie Ramsey
The Church of Fear by John Sweeney
The House of My Mother By Shari Franke
The Mayor of Castro Street By Randy Shilts
The Peer and the Gangster By Daniel Smith
The Phantom Prince By Elizabeth Kendall
Under the Banner of Heaven By Jon Krakauer
Under the Bridge By Rebecca Godfrey
Documentaries and Docudramas
A Lion Called Christian
A Very British Sex Scandal
Abused By My Girlfriend
Aids - The Unheard Tapes
Alex Brooker: Disability and Me
Bad Influencer - The Great Insta Con
Bowie - The Man Who Changed The World
Boyzone: No Matter What
Children of the Underground
Dancing for the Devil - The 7M TikTok Cult
Daughters of the Cult
Desperately Seeking Soulmate - Escaping Twin Flames Universe
Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
Dinosaurs - The Final Day with David Attenborough
Dirty Pop - The Boy Band Scam
Driven - The Billy Monger Story
Escaping Polygamy
Escaping Twin Flames
Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender
Frozen Planet
Frozen Planet II
Good Grief with Reverend Richard Coles
Hatton Garden - The Inside Story
Hell Camp - Teen Nightmare
I Am Not A Rapist
I Cut Off His Penis - The Truth Behind The Headlines
Ireland's Mother and Baby Scandal
Killing Patient Zero
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
Lewis Capaldi - How I'm Feeling Now
Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal
Living Every Second: The Kris Hallenga Story
Lord Montagu
Mama's Boy
Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction
Murdaugh Murders - A Southern Scandal
Murder Among the Mormons
My Wife My Abuser - Captured On Camera
Pennywise - The Story of It
Planet Earth
Planet Earth II
Queen - Days Of Our Lives
Sacred Soil - The Piney Woods School Story
Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice
Scientology: Going Clear - The Prison of Belief
Soham: The Murder of Holly & Jessica
Stolen Youth - Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Strike - An Uncivil War
Strike! The Women Who Fought Back
Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface
Surviving Amber Heard
Take Care of Maya
The Bambers : Murder at the Farm
The Boys - The Sherman Brothers' Story
The Exorcist Untold
The Family
The Krays - The Mafia Connection
The Menendez Brothers
The Millennium Dome Heist With Ross Kemp
The Movies That Made Us
The Pembrokeshire Murders - Catching the Gameshow Killer
The Program - Cons, Cults and Kidnapping
The Times of Harvey Milk
Uprising
Waco - American Apocalypse
Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil
Wonders of the World I Can't See
Films
A Haunting in Venice
About a Boy
All of Us Strangers
Bad Tidings
Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Thing
Beetlejuice
Boy Erased
Boys Don’t Cry
But I'm a Cheerleader
Chocolat
City of Lies
Clue
Cool Runnings
Corpse Bride
Dallas Buyers Club
Dawn of the Dead
Death on the Nile
Deck the Halls
Die Hard
Dirty Dancing
Donnie Brasco
Downton Abbey
Edward Scissorhands
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fried Green Tomatoes
From Hell
Gone Girl
Gremlins
Hairspray
Handsome Devil
Heathers
Heathers - The Musical
Home Alone
Hot Fuzz
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
IT
Jaws
Jingle All The Way
Jumanji
Jurassic Park
Kill Your Darlings
Kindergarten Cop
Kinky Boots
Labyrinth
Legally Blonde
Legend
Les Misérables
Les Misérables: The Staged Concert
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Women
Love Actually
Mean Girls
Midsommar
Milk
Minamata
Miracle on 34th Street
Murder on the Orient Express
Murdered for Being Different
Newsies
Oliver!
Philadelphia
Pirates of the Caribbean
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Prayers For Bobby
Pride
Pride and Prejudice
Red, White and Royal Blue
Rent
Scarface
Scream
Scrooged
Secret Window
Shaun of the Dead
Sister Act
Sleepy Hollow
Star Wars
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Addams Family
The Amityville Horror
The Blair Witch Project
The Conjuring
The Craft
The Crow
The Exorcist
The Greatest Showman
The imitation Game
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Santa Clause
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sixth Sense
The Sound of Music
The Tourist
The Woman in Black
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Little Lady
Titanic
Transcendence
Twister
Uncle Buck
Unicorns
West Side Story
What We Did on Our Holiday
White Christmas
Zola
Stand Up Comedy
Adam Hills
Chris McCausland
Chris Ramsey
Daniel Howell
Daniel Sloss
Dara O'Briain
Ed Byrne
Fern Brady
Greg Davies
John Bishop
Rhod Gilbert
Sarah Millican
Sean Lock
TV Shows
90210
Agatha All Along
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Being Human
Bridgerton
Celebrity Race Across the World
Criminal Minds
Cuckoo
Daisy Jones and the Six
Deadwater Fell
Desperate Housewives
Doctor Who
Downton Abbey
Eyewitness
Fellow Travelers
Fire Country
Good Omens
Good Trouble
Heartstopper
I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!
Interview with the Vampire
It's A Sin
Killing Eve
Looking
Mary & George
Midnight Mass
Missing You
My Family
My Wife and Kids
Nevermind the Buzzcocks
QI 
Queer as Folk
Shameless
Sky Med
Sleepy Hollow
Switched at Birth
Taskmaster
The Alienist
The Artful Dodger
The Clearing
The Couple Next Door
The Fosters
The Haunting of Bly Manor
The Haunting of Hill House
The Jetty
The Midnight Club
The Misinvestigations of Romesh Ranganathan
The Pembrokeshire Murders
The Perfect Couple
The Society
The Stranger
The Unofficial Science Of…
The Watcher
Torchwood
Under the Banner of Heaven
Under the Bridge
Virgin River
WandaVision
White House Farm
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1000rh · 6 months ago
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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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notsoterriblymisanthropic · 2 years ago
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featherquillpen · 1 year ago
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Five Favorite Books I Read in 2023
In order of when I read them.
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow and David Graeber
An amazing non-fiction book about the diversity of human societies across time and space, using interpretations of archaeological evidence to fill in what we previously didn't know about prehistory. This book absolutely blew my mind.
Bad Gays by Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey
I had already been a fan of the podcast Bad Gays for years, and it was great to dive deep on some more evil and complicated queer people from history in this book.
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
If you follow me you know that I love utopian science fiction. This book is a great example. It's a first contact scenario set in a future in which we figure out how to adapt to and mitigate climate change.
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
A stunning debut by Blackgoose. This book is a scathing deconstruction of the "impoverished teenager is whisked away to magic school" trope, centered on an indigenous girl who is forced to attend a colonizer-run boarding school for dragon riders.
Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
A heroic fantasy Iliad fanfiction in which Achilles is a trans woman. Deane's colorful vision of a fantastical ancient world is well-researched with tons of really cool speculative elements added in. The trans feels are so real with this book.
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gold-hand · 2 months ago
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Get To Know Me Game
Thank you so much (belatedly) for the tag @mllekurtz!!
last song: Sinéad O'Connor's cover of All Apologies.
favorite color: Not to steal @mllekurtz's answer, but also a deep dark emerald green!
last book: Finished was Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, but I've just started Prophet by Helen McDonald and Sin Blaché.
last movie: Queer - it was both bizarre and wonderfully horny, and made me ugly cry so hard that I had to go to the bathroom in the cinema to try and pull myself together before we could leave.
last tv show: I never really watch TV shows because I am too twitchy, but I devoured Interview With The Vampire and am vibrating angrily waiting for a crumb about series 3.
sweet/spicy/savory: THIS IS SO HARD probably savoury - I would eat sea salt and black pepper kettle chips until I explode.
last thing i searched for online: Kahlil Gibran, who is a Lebanese-American writer/poet who I know nothing about but he wrote some very beautiful lines and I would like to read more!
current obsession: I have completely regressed and have been devouring Dorian Pavus/The Iron Bull on AO3. I'm in the trenches with my feelings over here.
looking forward to: I don't do new year's resolutions as such BUT I said I wanted to say yes to more things in 2025 because I am a cliché - my first 'yes' was to @glittermobboss to finally finally visit her and go to a festival!
Very gentle no pressure tag for @blacktofade, @glittermobboss and @velsim if any of you would like!!
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