What History’s “Bad Gays” Can Tell Us About the Queer Past and Present
Scott W. Stern explores the antiheroes of gay history in Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller’s “Bad Gays: A Homosexual History.”
Scott W. Stern is a lawyer and historian, originally from Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women (2018). His writing has also appeared in the New Republic, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Teen Vogue, Boston Review, and Lapham's Quarterly, as well as half a dozen scholarly journals.
Scott W. Stern explores the antiheroes of gay history in Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller’s “Bad Gays: A Homosexual History.”
Scott Stern reviews Heather Berg’s “Porn Work,” a new study that explores how labor functions — or doesn’t — within the adult film industry.
Scott W. Stern reviews "How to Blow Up a Pipeline," the new book from Andreas Malm.
Scott Stern reviews a new book that unpacks New Orleans’s history of mishandling storm readiness.