Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

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The historical perspective is fascinating, and the bits of salty gay humor sprinkled throughout liven the proceedings considerably. Booklist Succeeds in radically rethinking queer history... Bad Gays is ultimately an act of love-most criticism is, after all-and this is made clear in how compellingly Lemmey and Miller write about their vision for the future. Eleni Vlahiotis, PopMatters A CG sequel short based on the film, The Bad Guys in Maraschino Ruby, was announced in the Blu-ray and Digital release with a story made and directed by head of the story Nelson Yokota, and produced by Angie Howard while executive produced by Pierre Perifel, Damon Ross, Rebecca Huntley, and Michael Vollman. Start the series and plan a family movie night, so your reader can watch the books come to life in the hilarious movie adaptation, The Bad Guys.

All those things together form our dissatisfaction with homosexuality, but when we say that, we don’t mean being a faggot. Because I’m a faggot. I mean homosexuality as it is currently institutionalised. As a social-historical institution.

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Kroll, Justin (March 9, 2018). "Etan Cohen and DreamWorks Animation Developing 'Bad Guys' Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on December 20, 2019 . Retrieved December 13, 2019. In examining the lives of these notorious 'bad gays,' the authors examine the ways queerness has been perceived throughout history, and gives modern-day LGBTQ+ people an opportunity to see what the possibilities are going forward. (Also, everyone loves a villain origin story, so who can resist?!) David Vogel, Buzzfeed It is not always so easy, especially when subjects are marked by whiteness and other forms of power and privilege, to neatly separate the good from the bad, the right from the wrong. The answer, though, is not to simply stan our heroes and shush up about their flaws and faults; rather, it’s to understand how people have made and been made by history, how and why they have failed, and how and why we might succeed. I am aware that this book is based on a popular podcast, but therein lies its greatest weakness. The individual chapters are entertaining enough, if not offering anything new that even a casual student of gay history is likely to not already know. The heart of the book is in the above statement, and the authors seem to do a lot of unsuccessful shoehorning to come up with a unifying hypothesis. On July 22, 2017, Australia's The Daily Telegraph reported that several studios had expressed interest in adapting the series into a film. [1] In March 2018, Variety reported that DreamWorks Animation would develop a film based on the book series, with Etan Cohen writing the screenplay. [2] [3] [4] The following year, in October, it was reported that the film would be directed by Pierre Perifel in his feature directorial debut. [5] The film was described as having "a similar twist on the heist genre that Shrek did on fairy tales, and what Kung Fu Panda did for the kung fu genre". [5] The crew worked remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]

Bad Gays is yet another book that is being severely misunderstood on Goodreads. I don't know whether people didn't read the introduction of the book before they wrote their review but some of the things that people are saying are making me mad. At the beginning of the book the authors clearly define what they mean by "bad" and they explain why they lump in dictators with people who are just kind of "bad". Why point that out as a flaw in the book? They also explain why there is such little representations of queer women or non-white people as they try to establish the failure of queerness as a socio-political project centred around white male hegemony so the critique of the book not being diverse is also weird to me.Bad Gays succeeds in its goals in every way, offering an infuriating, thoughtful, deliciously judgmental history of the very worst we had to offer.” - The Washington Post You also write: “Maybe it is time that homosexuality itself dies, that we find new and more functional and more appropriate configurations for our politics and desires”. What might these new configurations look like? Overall, I enjoyed learning about the selected figures and found the commentary on the development of both our understanding and societal treatment of members of the LGBQIA+ community quite interesting. I do, however, believe that this book didn't quite live up to the premise nor its potential. I had just finished a book about Jeffrey Dahmer, probably the epitome of a ‘bad gay’, but curiously he is not included here. That points to a fundamental problem. With a title like ‘Bad Gays’, you’d expect a juicy rundown of a rogues’ gallery of horrible people who just happened to be gay. Well, yes and no. The problem is with that second part of the title, ‘A Homosexual History’.

I liked the audiobook, but just know going in that it wasn't proofed properly, there are a couple sections where multiple takes of the same line were left in. Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge the mainstream assumptions of sexual identity. They show that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century and that its interpretation has been central to major historical moments of conflict from the ruptures of Weimar Republic to red-baiting in Cold War America. and this aside from describing the ascent of Robert Carr, a 'favourite' of James V's who amassed considerable influence: a b c D'Alessandro, Anthony (October 7, 2019). "DreamWorks Animation & Universal To Release 'Spirit Riding Free' & 'The Bad Guys' In 2021". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019 . Retrieved December 13, 2019. Lemmey and Miller gratifyingly believe in the intelligence of their readers. They don’t shy away from academic language and concepts, which bogs the book down in some places with an over-abundance of dry, rapid-fire facts and dates. Despite this, Bad Gays remains largely readable thanks to the tongue-in-cheek queer humor and comedic asides peppered throughout. This doesn’t lessen the severity of its content, as Lemmey and Miller never lose sight of who they are profiling. From colonizers to racists to fascists, not a single individual is let off the hook for problematic — or downright harmful— behaviour. Every person explored is held to account for their actions in a satisfying way.You use Bad Gays to describe the antagonists of queer history left out from narratives which focus on heroes. Your “bad gays” are criminals, sociopaths, failures, menaces to society. In your mind, who is the worst kind of gay? There is value to the argument that the leaders of the so-called ‘gay movement’ “were often not working-class or people of colour, but instead members of the emerging bourgeoisie who sought to assign positive values to their sexual acts within the prevailing value systems of their time.” Yes, Stonewall was a protest by marginalised drag queens. If you look at progress since that tipping point, especially regarding the treatment of trans people, the path has not always been on the straight and narrow. And the resurgence of right wing attitudes and general extremism and intolerance globally is of huge concern.



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