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Barry Walters
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Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
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“At his insistence, Bean’s first public performance of the cut was at Jewel’s Catch One, a disco opened by Black lesbian Jewel Thais-Williams that, even today, draws a gay and largely Black audience.”
― Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
― Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
“Soon to become one of the decade’s most televised groups, the Supremes gave suffering a dignified dance beat and trancelike simplicity while focusing on the elation of having loved, not the heartache of being dumped. That’s the Motown way: rising above the pain that makes pleasure more satisfying.”
― Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
― Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
“exhilaration to loneliness. “Planet Earth is blue/And there’s nothing I can do,” he sang. Even as a child, I struggled to accept things as they were. I didn’t know I was gay, just “special.” That isolated me in ways typical of my LGBTQ generation. So before I could name what I was, Bowie represented it.”
― Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
― Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
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