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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
by Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey
I did originally DNF this but picked it back up because I'm renovating a house and need stuff to listen to. The introduction was promising but I found the next few chapters bland, the content a complete mismatch to what is promised by title and intro, and a lack of consistency in what seemed to be the authors' main argument. The final few chapters did really pick up and I found them much more interesting though.
Obviously historical preservation bias is difficult to research around, but you cannot use the lives of upper class and aristocratic white men to describe homosexual culture, especially when the author's argument has an element of "homosexuality wasn't an identity, a lot of gay sex was used for political power". I would have been much more interested in learning about the common people.
And also lowkey, Lawrence of Arabia pretty much outright said he's asexual, but this book never mentions that word in favour of just calling him gay.
Overall i think this is a book to pick and choose specific chapters that interest you.
Obviously historical preservation bias is difficult to research around, but you cannot use the lives of upper class and aristocratic white men to describe homosexual culture, especially when the author's argument has an element of "homosexuality wasn't an identity, a lot of gay sex was used for political power". I would have been much more interested in learning about the common people.
And also lowkey, Lawrence of Arabia pretty much outright said he's asexual, but this book never mentions that word in favour of just calling him gay.
Overall i think this is a book to pick and choose specific chapters that interest you.