Name: Bad Gays: Talk and reading with the authors Ben Miller & Huw Lemmey
Start: 2022-10-07 18:00:00
End: 2022-10-07 20:00:00
Location: The Karaoke Hole

Why do we remember our queer heroes better than we remember our queer villains? You heard all about the good, palatable homosexuals in history Its time to revise that history. With thousands of monthly listeners, Bad Gays is a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Now those evil twinks can live on your bookshelves!

Pumping Velvet and the Karaoke Hole are thrilled to celebrate the publication of Huw Lemmey and Ben Millers Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by hosting a discussion with the authors. Join us for an evening that promises to be as amusing, disturbing, and fascinating as all queer villains and evil twinks in history.

The talk will be followed by an afterparty at Dalston Superstore featuring a special guest DJ from Berlin, Abena, Kiss Me Again, Sofie K & Pumping Velvet DJs. 10 combo ticket get you entry to the talk and afterparty with queue jump!

Doors open at 6.00pm and the event will begin at 7.00pm. Please have your tickets with you. Huw, and Ben will be available to sign copies of their book afterwards. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

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