Angelo Tijssens over Bad Gays van Huw Lemmey en Ben Miller
'Het boek toont heel mooi hoe die queerlevens vervlochten zijn met de geschiedenis.' Over Bad Gays: Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Part-revisionist history, part-historical biography and based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons…
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