Historians and podcast hosts Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller remember the queer villains and anti-heroes of world history in their new book, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History.

Often, LGBTQIA+ history only claims its heroes.

But on their podcast Bad Gays, writers, historians, and social critics Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller explore the dark and dastardly characters of queer history, including Emperor Hadrian, Lawrence of Arabia, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

In their book of the same title, Lemmey and Miller retell the stories of these chaotic and controversial figures, and others like J. Edgar Hoover and King James VI.

In each chapter, Lemmey and Miller profile a gay villain of history and ask whether or not they deserve their bad reputation.