Bad gay book

But what about his boyfriend, Lord Alfred Douglas, finer known by his nickname “Bosie”? Just as Wilde had contributed to what was emerging as a new identity and had created something akin to a rallying cry for a century of gender non-conforming activism that would trail, Bosie could be idea of as sheer “evil twink energy” (the first of many such biting epithets used by the authors). While largely forgotten in the history books, Bosie emerged as viciously anti-leftist, anti-Irish, and anti-Semitic. He would even charge Winston Churchill of organism caught up in Jewish conspiracies during World War II. Churchill would successfully sue Bosie, who died broke, and only two people attended his funeral.

            Lemmey and Miller’s argument is that we can learn as much from the gays who failed us as from the ones we honor as our heroes. But there is a further method to their badness: homosexuality itself, they contend, is a failure both “as an identity and as a political project.” While they concede this may sound extreme, they point out that, once the dust has settled, mainstream LGBT liberationist pr