AMSTERDAM LAUNCH JULY 7! #new BAD GAYS: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller * Published by Verso Books * 368p, €27,50

We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive.

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