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Special Episode: Gavin Arthur (with Maurice Casey)
Join our community of Extra Bad Gays on Patreon or Apple Podcasts for special episodes and more! Have you ever wondered who the sexual link between Edward Carpenter and Allen Ginsburg was? Wonder no more, and meet Gavin Arthur: grandson of US President Chester Allan Arthur, astrologer, sexologist, Irish Republican, sometime Communist, sometime Democrat, Haight-Ashbury hippie rabble-rouser, and chaotic bisexual. Our guide to his life is longtime friend of the show Maurice J. Casey, historian and author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals. This episode is based on research carried out as part of the Gay Norther Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation project at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. If you have a moment, do pack out their survey. more SOURCES: Maurice J. Casey, ‘”I want to be to Ireland what Walt Whitman was to America”: Esotericism and Queer Sexuality in an Irish Social Circle, ss’, History Workshop Journal: ?searchresult=1 Lisa
Bad Gays, superb podcast
The Bad Gays podcast is hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, who argue ‘evil and complicated queers in history’. Each episode is about a particular individual and seems to be structured as a pre-prepared biography followed by more general discussion. Podcasts like this and Do Depart On, and really any podcast that is trying to explore a topic people may not know about, invariably faces the issue that I’m probably just not that interested. I haven’t heard of Ronnie Kray. I haven’t heard of Andrew Sullivan. I haven’t heard of Ernst Röhm. They’re probably fascinating. I wish to know about them. But can I actually transport myself to download and listen to an hour-long conversation about their lives? Absolutely not. So, I chose an episode about a name that was vaguely familiar – Jeffrey Dahmer.
I’m not a big accurate crime fan. I could pretend it’s some moral objection to its life as a genre of entertainment, but really, it’s just not that fascinating to me. Dahmer has very much been in the public zeitgeist over the past limited years, in no small part
Join our collective of Extra Bad Gays on Patreon or Apple Podcasts for special episodes and more! Own you ever wondered who the sexual link between Edward Carpenter and Allen Ginsburg was? Wonder no more, and meet Gavin Arthur: grandson of US President Chester Allan Arthur, astrologer, sexologist, Irish Republican, sometime Communist, sometime Democrat, Haight-Ashbury hippie rabble-rouser, and chaotic bisexual. Our reference to his life is longtime friend of the show Maurice J. Casey, historian and author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals. This episode is based on research carried out as part of the Queer Norther Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation project at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. If you have a moment, accomplish fill out their survey. more SOURCES: Maurice J. Casey, ‘”I want to be to Ireland what Walt Whitman was to America”: Esotericism and Queer Sexuality in an Irish Social Circle, ss’, History Workshop Journal: ?searchresult=1 Lisa Cohen, All We Know: Three Lives, New York, Philip Longo, ‘Between the Sheets: Gavi
Histories of gay men, lesbians, queer and trans people often focus on the heroic, the pioneers who blazed the trail and on whose shoulders present-day queer lives stand. But what about the cast of gay characters who were not so heroic and righteous, whose impact on history was far more ambiguous, or complicated, or out-and-out bad?
That’s the question asked by Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey in their hugely flourishing podcast Bad Gays. Now in its sixth season, the podcast focuses on what its hosts portray as evil and complicated queers in history, with subjects ranging from Emperor Hadrian to Ronnie Kray, from Alexander the Fantastic to Andy Warhol.
Now Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey have taken their exploration to a book: Bad Gays: A Homosexual History. Ben and Huw sat down with History Workshop&#;s Rosa Campbell to consider the project of the book and the podcast &#; what those complicated lives can tell us about the dynamics of queer history and the formation of sexual identities.