Bad Gays

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Episode 2: Bosie Mar 26, 2019

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We profile Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, the beautiful and dissolute poet, publisher, and lover of Oscar Wilde–who helped bring Wilde to ruin, became an antisemite, and generally personifies the term "evil twink energy."

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Sources and further reading:

Frank Harris: Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand

Douglas Murray: Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

Episode 1: Ernst Röhm Mar 19, 2019

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A discussion of the life and ideology of Ernst Röhm, the world's first openly gay politician: and a Nazi. ----more----

Sources and further reading:

Eleanor Hancock: "Only the Real, the True, the Masculine Held Its Value: Ernst Röhm, Masculinity, and Male Homosexuality." Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 8, No. 4 (Apr., 1998), pp. 616-641.

Laurie Marhoeffer: "Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History." Notches Blog, June 19, 2018. http://notchesblog.com/2018/06/19/queer-fascism-and-the-end-of-gay-history/

Laurie Marhoeffer: Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis. University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Boaz Neumann: "The Phenomenology of the German People's Body (Volkskörper) and the Extermination of the Jewish Body." New German Critique No. 106 (Winter, 2009), pp. 149-181.

Spartacus Educational: Ernst Röhm. https://spartacus-educational.com/GERroehm.html/