From The Blog
14 January 2025
When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone loses.
Ben Miller
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.
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