Huw Lemmey on homosexuality, espionage & class in 20th-c. Britain (Rabbles)
Channel: Rabbles of the World
Date: 2021-01-22

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In this video, 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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