Tim Anderson

“Blessed are the libraries, record stores, bookstores, concert halls, discos, psychotherapy offices, and other sacred queer spaces.”
― Barry Walters, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000

“While writing this book, I watched plenty of Drag Race to remind myself what life is like for pop’s young queer audience, especially for those who diverge from all norms, whether they are sexual, gender, or racial. It’s these kids who capture what it means to be LGBTQ, because they’re the queerest: the ones who’ll never fit into corporatized compromises of mainstream gay culture. They’re the most artistic and least inhibited, which enables them to tell all our stories, no matter what hue we occupy on the gay and racial rainbow. We don’t recognize the universality of this multiplicity as we should.”
― Barry Walters, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000

“Having been on a veritable cinematic tear after his much-publicized release from a two-year Army hitch, Presley was in Florida to film no less than his fifth postservice flick in a mere fifteen months, this one to be called Follow That Dream.”
― Kent Hartman, Goodnight, L.A.: The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock -- The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios

“Over the course of several years, Billboard’s club music charts underwent multiple name changes that downplayed the word “Disco,” starting with its March 27, 1982, issue and ending in its September 19, 1987, issue, when the word dropped out of its “Dance” music chart titles entirely. Therefore, “Disco” in these listings refers to songs that entered Billboard’s Disco chart before March 27, 1982, and “Dance” refers to what followed.”
― Barry Walters, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000