PositiveForeword Reviews... refrains from stopping at the obvious answers to the complications it raises. When writing about people like Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover, who have been subject to extensive research already, or Philip Johnson, the architect whose Glass House is an obvious metaphor for contemporaneous queer existence, Bad Gays manages to bring something new to the table by insisting on focusing not on how a certain identity can coexist with its evil antithesis of oppressive actions, but rather on how queer sensibilities interweave with power relations and the choices people make regarding their power. That is the thesis at the core of the book. To understand the \'bad gays\' of history is to understand how to choose a contemporary queer movement that stands as all-inclusive and in solidarity with its counterparts ... an account of historical privileges and marginalizations, as well as a theory of queerness for the future.
