Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (Verso Books) book Scarlet Tanager is Bernadette Mayer’s

Scarlet Tanager is Bernadette Mayer’s first collection of new work in nearly a decade

and longing

Though a devout Catholic

but practices that could enter the flow of time to live and die like the rest of us

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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (Verso Books) book Scarlet Tanager is Bernadette Mayer’sAn unconventional history of Homosexuality Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs, but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un exemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Part revisionist history, part historical biography