The worst gays are the ones whose alliance with positions of structural power goes so far that it leads them to be literal Nazis. I’m not using the word ‘gaslight’ in this interview. The worst ones call you back and gaslight you and then… No, the worst gays call me back like it’s 1972. In your mind, who is the worst kind of gay?
Your “bad gays” are criminals, sociopaths, failures, menaces to society. You use Bad Gays to describe the antagonists of queer history left out from narratives which focus on heroes.
Next to the rainbow awning and framed portraits of Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, we chatted about the failure of homosexuality as an institution, the sinister side to Berlin’s so-called greatest queer hero, and the scariest gay living today: Pete Buttigieg. On an almost-warm evening in mid-May, I met Berlin-based Ben Miller at Romeo und Romeo in Schöneberg (his co-writer Huw Lemmey lives in Barcelona).
