Huw Lemmey on homosexuality, espionage & class

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Rabbles

Alexander Stoffel and Felix del Campo

8 episodes

1 week ago

Rabbles is series of talks with radical thinkers and agitators who are pushing the boundaries of revolutionary queer praxis. The conversations are for anyone who wants to learn more about histories of queer social movements, and their contributions to contemporary socialist and communist politics. It aims to bridge the ever-widening gap between queer scholarly knowledge production within the academy and activist sites. Watch the episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb7ZA9lxji0R5stAcLaqEA

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Huw Lemmey on homosexuality, espionage & class

Rabbles

1 hour 44 minutes 36 seconds

4 years ago

Huw Lemmey on homosexuality, espionage & class

In this episode, Huw Lemmey takes us on a tour through London to explore the twentieth-century world of spies and sex, crime and cruising. He discusses the class composition of British homosexuality, collusion between queers and the state's security apparatus, moral panics around sexuality, anti-communism, and more. Felix and I then have a conversation with him about this mind-bending history.

You can find Huw on Twitter @huwlemmey (https://bit.ly/2YaKzJW), subscribe to his amazing newsletter at https://huw.substack.com/, or listen to his podcast BadGays at https://badgayspod.com/.

🦋 NAVIGATION 🦋

2:30 — Huw's talk
41:50 — The Lavender Scare & the Red Scare
47:43 — The post-war gay and lesbian movement in the US and UK
57:38 — The Lavender Menace
1:01:05 — The class dimension of homosexuality in the post-war era
1:10:05 — Historicizing the post-war construction of homosexuality
1:22:00 — The class dimension of homosexuality today

🦋 FURTHER RESOURCES 🦋

Check out more of Huw's work on gay espionage at https://huw.substack.com/p/the-swallows-nest.

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