
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.”...
GENDER & SEXUALITY
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.