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A review by diana_blackmoon
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey
2.0
A lot of reviews have commented that this book would be better as a podcast. I don't know why they said it but I know why I agree. This book is a collection of short biographies of mostly men that are "bad". Unfortunately, the separate chapters vary in tone or even in a definition of what is considered bad. There is a lot of nazis. There is also a blackmailer, or a racist anthropology writer. If those essays were separate maybe I would have liked them more, but because it is one book if you write about a nazis that were killing people in a somewhat neutral tone and then use a lot of criticism about someone that wrote an untrue book about POC it feels kind of wierd.
Almost all people mentioned here are men. There is one bisexual woman here.
There were people the author called "not homosexual in the context as we understand it today" but he did not bother to represent one homosexual woman.
To be honest the whole expirience feels pointless as a non-fiction book to read. In one essay the author will show how homosexuals used their oppression as weapon against POC. In other he will write how a British guy fell in love with a Muslim. Then he will proceed to describe that partner as just "the young men the main character fell in love with". He will critique the racism then proceeds to exclude POC from this book. He will critique imperialism and capitalism but does not discuss patriarchy that is harming the lgbtq community.
There are multiple sentences that shocked me of how misogynistic they were. This book is just another non fiction written by a man that has read about intersectionality but as a white able-bodied man cannot really write a compelling piece about it.
Almost all people mentioned here are men. There is one bisexual woman here.
There were people the author called "not homosexual in the context as we understand it today" but he did not bother to represent one homosexual woman.
To be honest the whole expirience feels pointless as a non-fiction book to read. In one essay the author will show how homosexuals used their oppression as weapon against POC. In other he will write how a British guy fell in love with a Muslim. Then he will proceed to describe that partner as just "the young men the main character fell in love with". He will critique the racism then proceeds to exclude POC from this book. He will critique imperialism and capitalism but does not discuss patriarchy that is harming the lgbtq community.
There are multiple sentences that shocked me of how misogynistic they were. This book is just another non fiction written by a man that has read about intersectionality but as a white able-bodied man cannot really write a compelling piece about it.