Ben MillerBen Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin. With Huw Lemmey, he hosts Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History was published by Verso in 2022.
‘I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a group been placed on such a rapid cycle, oppressed in the Fifties, freed in the Sixties, exalted in the Seventies, and wiped out in the Eighties.’ He was describing, as he always did, the generation of gay men of which he was a part.
When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone loses.
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