Ben Miller

is a writer & historian living in Berlin. In 2024, he completed a PhD in Global Intellectual History summa cum laude at the Freie Universität. His dissertation, forthcoming as an academic monograph, is a history race and primitivism in the rise of gay liberation.

With Huw Lemmey, he hosts Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history, which has been downloaded nearly two million times; a book based on the show and passionately arguing for a more complex and political queer public history, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, was published by Verso in 2022.

His next book, a biography of the fashion designer Rudi Gernreich that doubles as a history of how the politics of liberation traveled from the European interwar avant-garde to 1960s California, is currently under contract with W. W. Norton.