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Huw Lemmey

Huw Lemmey is a writer and critic living in Barcelona. He is the author of three novels: Unknown Language, Red Tory and Chubz. He writes the weekly essay series utopian drivel and is the co-host of the podcast Bad Gays

June 2023

  • Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride – podcast

    From 2020: A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that

February 2023

  • Frith Street in London’s Soho in the 1960s.

    ‘A great lost work’: Love, Leda’s candid tale of 1960s gay life is a touching time capsule

    Honest, transgressive and intimate, the only novel by Mark Hyatt shines a light on a repressive era in laying bare the desire, depression and love life of a working-class gay man

July 2020

  • An LGBT parade through New York City on Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day 1971.

    The Audio Long Read
    Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride – podcast

    A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that

June 2020

  • Christopher Street Liberation Day, the first Gay Pride march, in New York City on 28 June 1970.

    The long read
    Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride

    The long read: A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that

October 2018

  • Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Cocktails<br>NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Katy Perry and Rihanna attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Tachman/Getty Images for Vogue)

    Shortcuts
    Camp and camper: the Met Gala reaches for the stars

    Fashion’s favourite ball has just announced its theme for 2019 – and it’s ‘camp’. But how can it top this year, when Rihanna dressed as an archbishop and Katy Perry was an angel?

May 2018

  • Puppet show – or something deeper? Westworld.

    Is Westworld an anti-human fable?

    The show is relentlessly negative in its depiction of humans, who indulge in orgies of violence – what are we to make of the fact that the robots often come across as more compassionate?

March 2018

  • Ricky Martin in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

    Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political

    Ice skaters in S&M gear, models in panto petticoats, Ricky Martin in tighty whities ... we’re in the grip of a camp explosion – and now it has a radical bite

March 2010

  • You told us
    The accidental communist

    Huw Lemmey

    Huw Lemmey: Leftwing party politics is a corpse – but working people are gaining control over their lives through co-operatives

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