Author caught out - Gay lies
Prominent feminist Naomi Wolf has a new book coming out that purports to expose new horrors about the historical criminalization of homosexuality, but her promotional efforts hit a snag this week when an interviewer confronted her with a significant factual error behind the book’s premise. Releasing on June 18 in the United States (and already available in the United Kingdom), Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love purports to detail “how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom” of oppression against consensual homosexual relationships across both England and the United States. This week Wolf sat down for an interview with the BBC’s Matthew Sweet to promote the book, but the conversation took an awkward turn when Sweet explained that her thesis rested on a misunderstanding of a key legal term related to the law in question. Wolf claimed to have reviewed records indicating “several dozen executions” for sodomy despite a popular “misapprehension” that “the la...