David Bowie Ma Me Gay - The Gay & Lbian Review

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• DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY
• DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC
• ‘DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC’ BY DARRYL W. BULLOCK
• REVIEW: DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY
• DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC AUD CD – CD, JULY 15, 2019
• ALEC DOWNIE'S REVIEWS > DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC
• NJAME'S REVIEWS > DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC
• DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY
• ELLIE MACK'S REVIEWS > DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC
• INTIFYG AND INTIFYG WH THE TH WHE DE: DARRYL BULLOCK’S “DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC”
• RATGS & REVIEWS FORDAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MICDARRYL W. BULLOCK3.59673 RATGS137 REVIEWS5 STARS114 (16%)4 STARS247 (36%)3 STARS247 (36%)2 STARS55 (8%)1 STAR10 (1%)SEARCH REVIEW TEXTFILTERSDISPLAYG 1 - 30 OF 137 REVIEWSNJAME356 REVIEWS33 FOLLOWERSJUNE 1, 2019IN BRIEF: A HISTORY OF THE LAST CENTURY OF LGBT MIC AND MICIANS, WH DIGRSNS TO THE WIR NTEXT OF QUEER HISTORY.THOUGHTS: I AM EPLY NFLICTED ABOUT THIS BOOK. ON THE ONE HAND, ’S AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT, THAT I HAVEN’T SEEN ANYONE TACKLE THE TOPIC AND THERE’S A LOT TO BE LEARNED AND A LOT TO BE SPIRED BY. ON THE OTHER, BULLOCK IS WRG OM AN OLR AND LS THAN CURRENT UNRSTANDG OF SOME QUEER INTI (SEE WARNGS BELOW) AND OUTRIGHT OMS ANY QUEER INTY THAT ISN’T L, G, B, OR T. ON THE THIRD, THE BOOK EQUENTLY GETS BOGGED DOWN TAILS SUCH AS RERD SAL; ASSUM NERD LEVEL KNOWLEDGE BY, SAY, MENTNG GENR WHOUT FG THEM OR ASSUMG YOU KNOW THAT BAND; AND IS JT POORLY EDED ENOUGH THAT N BE HARD TO TRACK WHO’S DOG WHAT TO WHO WHEN.OH, AND IF YOU’RE LOOKG FOR MAJOR INS LIKE BOWIE, MERCURY, AND JOHN, THEY’RE FOOTNOT. I PERSONALLY AM OKAY WH THIS BEE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN BS AND THE BOOK LARGELY EXISTS TO LIFT LSER KNOWN PEOPLE TO THE LIMELIGHT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I WAS DISAPPOTED THAT THEY FEATURED AS LTLE AS THEY DID BEE THEY WERE STILL SPIRATNS AND IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND, WELL, BOWIE IS THE TLE.BULLOCK’S DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF VERG HIS TOPIC, THOUGH. ALL THE QUEER MICIANS I KNEW OF WERE MENTNED, OM BILLY TIPTON TO SISTER ROSETTA THARPE TO K.D. LANG (BUT NOT MIKA, NOW THAT I THK OF ), AND A LOT OF MICIANS I’D NEVER HEARD OF OR NEVER KNEW WERE QUEER ALSO FEATURE. HE ALSO LISTS SONGWRERS AND MIC EXECUTIV AND THE WHOLE GAMUT OF GENR, OM JAZZ TO ROCK TO FOLK TO UNTRY TO RAP TO MILS, AND ALSO MENTNS SONGS WH QUEER NTENT THAT WEREN’T BY QUEER ARTISTS. AFTER A FEW CHAPTERS, I STARTED LOOKG UP SONGS AND MICIANS ON YOUTUBE AND ADDG THEM TO A PLAYLIST THAT I’M STILL WORKG THROUGH A FEW WEEKS LATER. THERE’S SOME PRETTY GOOD MIC OUT THERE.I ALSO LIKED THAT HE TELLS ENOUGH HISTORY OF THE WIR QUEER MUNY, THE MIC DTRY, AND THE WIR CULTURE GENERAL THAT YOU GET NTEXT FOR HOW MIC AND THE WORLD WAS CHANGG. WHEN DID DRAG START AND WHY? WHY DID DIS BEE A GAY THG? HOW DID STONEWALL AND AIDS CHANGE THGS? PL THERE’S DISCSN OF LBIANS AND FEMIST FOLK FTIVALS, OF GLAM ROCK PAIRG GAY FLAMBOYANCE, OF FOTTEN PENNT ALBUMS THAT HAVE BEEN REDISVERED BEE OF THE TER, OF THE UPS AND DOWNS ONE’S ABILY TO BE OUT OVER TIME, OF HOOKG UP WH PEOPLE BARS.AND I APPRECIATE THAT EVEN THOUGH BULLOCK IS VERY ANGLOPHONE-FOCED, HE’S MA AT LEAST SOME EFFORT TO MENTN MICIANS AND MIC OM OUTSI THE ENGLISH-SPEAKG WORLD AND OUTSI EUROPE. THERE’S NOT MUCH, GRANTED, BUT ’S THERE. HE’S ALSO UP ONT ABOUT HOW SOME GENR OR UNTRI ARE SO HOMOPHOBIC THAT YOU N’T GET A SENSE OF THE QUEER MIC HISTORY THERE BEE EVERYONE IS STILL CLOSETED.SO, NTENT-WISE, APART OM THE DUMP PROBLEM, I ENJOYED THIS. I LEARNED A LOT AND THK ’S AN IMPORTANT WDOW TO QUEER HISTORY THAT I’M KD OF BOGGLED HAS ONLY BEEN WRTEN NOW. AS I SAID, THERE’S A LOT TO BE SPIRED BY, A LOT OF PEOPLE BEG QUEER THEIR MIC AND OUT SPE THE REPERCSNS, AND A FE SENSE THAT Y, QUEER PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE AND BETTER, THEY HELPED FOUND WHOLE GENR. I’D CERTALY REC TO MIC LOVERS AND PEOPLE TO QUEER HISTORY, EVEN SPE BULLOCK’S SPORADILLY BLKERED ATTU TOWARDS INTI AND THE OTHER AFOREMENTNED PROBLEMS, FOR THAT REASON—BUT I NNOT REC WHOUT THOSE WARNGS, WHICH ARE ALSO WHY THIS IS NOT A 7.5 OUT OF 10.TO BEAR MD: BULLOCK APPEARS AT TIM TO UNRSTAND BISEXUALY AS AN UNCID, QUTNG, OR HEDGG INTY AND IS FELY OKAY WH MISGENRG AND ADNAMG TRANS MICIANS ONLY TO MENTN PARTWAY THROUGH THE SECTN THAT ACTUALLY THEY ARE A MAN/WOMAN. SIARLY, HE “TRANSSEXUAL”, SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WHO’VE UNRGONE SURGERY ARE MORE TRANS THAN THOSE WHO HAVEN’T, AND F “ASEXUAL” AS GENRLS AND SEXUALLY HARMLS. ON ANOTHER NOTE, BEE THIS IS A HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AND QUEER CULTURE, ANY AND ALL TRMAS THAT THE MUNY HAS FACED APPEAR, RANGG OM SLURS AND HOMOPHOBIC STATEMENTS TO GAY BASHGS AND THE AIDS CRISIS. THERE IS ALSO A CHAPTER THAT PROMENTLY FEATUR TERF MICIANS AND TERF-IENDLY FEMIST SPAC, BUT WHICH ALSO MAK QUIETLY CLEAR THEY’RE HARMFUL AND NOT OKAY.6.5/10HISTORY LGBTQ NON-FICTN ..22 LIKLIKE COMMENTNILE VALENTEAUTHOR 3 BOOKS72 FOLLOWERSJULY 7, 2017LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THIS ARC HAND TO ME ADVANCE AND I HAVE TO SAY 'S THE MOST PREHENSIVE HISTORY OF HOW THE LGBT MUNY HAS SHAPED THE VELOPMENT OF MIC OVER THE LAST CENTURY. I ME TO THIS AS A 70'S AND 80'S MIC AFICNADO WH A EP AND ABIDG LOVE FOR BOWIE, AND LEFT WH A HUGE BREADTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATN FOR SO MUCH MORE. THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE CHAPTERS ON THE NEW YORK AND LONDON PUNK SCENE AND WAS FASCATED TO LEARN OF THE LATE SIXTI/EARLY 70'S FIRST BREAKOUT E OF THE MOOG AND HOW THE LGBT MUNY WAS VOLVED. IT'S AN ABSOLUTE NECSARY PURCHASE FOR ANY MIC LOVER. 12 LIKLIKE COMMENTJOSHUAAUTHOR 2 BOOKS31 FOLLOWERSJANUARY 10, 2018THERE IS A PRONOUNCED LACK OF DAVID BOWIE THIS BOOK, BUT THAT DON'T LSEN THE QUALY OR IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORK. DARRYL W. BULLOCK PTURED ME WH THE TLE, AND WHILE I WAS HOPG TO READ A B ABOUT THE TH WHE DE, THE MAN WHO IS QUICKLY BEG MY PHILOSOPHIL, TELLECTUAL, AND SEXUAL IN, THE BOOK WAS ACTUALLY A FASCATG HISTORY ABOUT QUEER MICIANS STARTG WH THE RISE OF JAZZ THE EARLY 1900S AND ENDG OUR CURRENT PERD.THERE ARE A GREAT MANY WRERS THAT HAVE MA A LIVG WRG ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE OF "REPRENTATN" THE MEDIA, AND SO I WANT TO AVOID THIS REVIEW ANYTHG THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SOUNDBE. DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY IS RELEVANT BEE WR QUEER PEOPLE TO THE CULTURE BY SIMPLY OBSERVG THAT WE WERE HERE, THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, AND THAT OUR SEXUALY IS SOMETHG THAT HAS BEEN RELEVANT TO OUR SUCCS AS ARTISTS. BULLOCK OBSERV NUMERO STANC OF ARTISTS WHO WERE SHOVED BACK TO THE CLOSET BEE OF THE REPRSIVE CULTUR THEY LIVED , AND THE STORY OF GLADYS BENTLY IS ENOUGH TO BRG THE REAR TO TEARS. BUT WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THAT BULLOCK DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EDORIALIZE OR DRAMATIZE TRAGEDY OR SUCCS. BULLOCK'S APPROACH THIS BOOK IS THAT OF A RERD KEEPER.DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY FDS QUEER PERSONALI THROUGH THE HISTORY OF MIC SIMPLY TO OBSERVE THAT THEY WERE THERE AND THAT MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, AND SOMETIM EVEN JT THE MOR CHARACTERS THE LONG HISTORY OF THE MIC DTRI AND GENR WERE QUEER. THIS GO A LONG WAY THEN TO HELPG YOUNG QUEER REARS WHO MAY BE TERTED FDG QUEER INS MIC. IT HELPS REARS, LOVERS OF MIC PERD, WHO MIGHT HAPPEN TO BE QUEER TO APPRECIATE THAT THEY MAY NOT BE SO DIFFERENT SEXUALLY THAN AN ARTIST THEY LOVE.DAVID BOWIE DIDN'T MAKE ME GAY PERSONALLY, BUT AS I'M READG MORE ABOUT THE MAN'S LIFE, AND LISTENG TO MORE OF HIS MIC, I SEE HOW IMPORTANT IS TO HAVE SUCH AN IN, SUCH A HUMAN BEG YOUR LIFE AS AN EXAMPLE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF EXAMPL OF WONRFUL, TRAGIC, NTEMPTUO, AND OF URSE, GAY PEOPLE THIS BOOK AND 'S WORTH THE REAR'S TIME TO READ THROUGH THIS WONRFUL CHRONICLE.THE QUEER MUNY'S RECEIVED ANOTHER A LONG LE OF GREAT BOOKS THAT REMDS THE REAR OF ONE IMPORTANT FACT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD PREFER NOT TO HERE: WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE.11 LIKLIKE COMMENTMARK SCHLATTER1,138 REVIEWS10 FOLLOWERSJANUARY 19, 2018OVERALL, I FOUND THIS A VERY DISAPPOTG READ. I THK THE IA OF THE BOOK (TRACG THE FLUENC AND PERFORMERS OF LBGT MIC) IS GREAT, AND THE TRODUCTN --- WH A BIG FOC ON BOWIE'S IMPORTANCE --- MAK AN EXCELLENT SE FOR THE EXPLORATN. I LEARNED A LOT, CLUDG THE FACTS THAT JOHNNY MATHIS AND LLIE GORE WERE GAY, THE EXISTENCE OF CAMP RERDS AND GAY NOVELTY LPS, THE SUPPORT OF AIN AMERIN MUNI THE 1920'S FOR LBGT PERFORMERS, AND THE DIFFERENC BETWEEN THE WOMEN'S MIC MOVEMENT THE US (FOLK-BASED) AND THE UK (PUNK-BASED). THERE'S A TON OF RMATN, MUCH OF BEYOND WHAT THIS STRAIGHT REAR KNEW ABOUT LBGT MIC.HOWEVER, THE ANIZATN IS OFTEN HORRIBLE. THE FIRST CHAPTERS, WHICH FOC ON JT ONE OR TWO PERFORMERS, HAVE A BETTER FOC, BUT LATER CHAPTERS SUFFER OM RMATN OVERLOAD AND NO NARRATIVE STCTURE TO GIVE THE REAR ANY GUIDANCE. A MON PRACTICE BY BULLOCK IS TO SPEND ONE TO TWO PARAGRAPHS ON A SUBJECT, TALK ABOUT THE PERFORMER'S NTRIBUTNS, SAY WHERE THEY ARE NOW, AND THEN REPEAT WH VERY LTLE TRANSN. (YOU N EVEN FD SOME SENTENC WHICH APPEAR TO CHANGE FOC MIDWAY THROUGH.) THERE'S VERY LTLE CLEAR NNECTIVE TISSUE AND AN OVERABUNDANCE OF PERSONALI. THE RULT IS OFTEN NFG AND FEELS SHALLOW. I'M SURE THERE ARE SOME FASCATG STORI AND THEMATIC EXPLORATNS THAT N BE WRTEN ABOUT LGBT MIC, BUT THIS WASN'T FOR ME.NEW_BOOK_AREA OVERDRIVE8 LIK1 MENTLIKE COMMENTKELLY_HUNSAKER_READS ...1,915 REVIEWS46 FOLLOWERSJANUARY 3, 2021ALTHOUGH IS OBV THE THOR R ABOUT HIS TOPIC AND DID TONS OF REARCH THERE WERE SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS WH THIS BOOK. ALSO, THE TLE IS FUNNY, BUT MISLEADG AS THE BOOK IS NOT HUMORO AND BOWIE IS A FOOTNOTE.I WAS SURPRISED, SADNED, TRATED AND ANGERED BY THE THOR'S SEEMG LACK OF UNRSTANDG AND PASSN FOR SO MANY WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQIA+.1. HE CLUD ABSOLUTELY NO RMATN ABOUT ANYONE WHO INTIFIED AS PANSEXUAL, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL, OR ANYTHG OTHER THAN LGBT.2. HIS SCRIPTNS OF THOSE WHO ARE BISEXUAL UNCID, QUTNG, NFED.3. AND TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS ARE MISGENRED, AD-NAMED, AND TREATED AS MORE VALID THEIR TRANSGENR INTY IF THEY HAVE HAD SURGERY.THIS MAN CLAIMS TO BE PART OF THE MUNY, AND TO BE PASSNATE ABOUT THE TOPIC. SO, HE SHOULD REALIZE IS NOW 2021 NOT 1980!LGBTQIA NONFICTN READ--20208 LIK2 MENTSLIKE COMMENTELLIE MACK111 REVIEWS5 FOLLOWERSMARCH 16, 2019THIS BOOK PROMISED SO MUCH ... AND LIVERED SO LTLE. FOR A START 'S SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT "LGBT MIC" WHEN FACT 99 PERCENT OF THE BOOK IS ABOUT GAY MEN, THERE'S ONE CHAPTER ON LBIAN PERFORMERS AND A FEW STTERED MENTNS OF BI SGERS BUT UNLS YOU'RE MALE, GAY, WHE AND CIS YOU'RE CHANC OF BEG THIS BOOK ARE ALMOST ZERO. ON TOP OF THIS, THE THOR, WHO FEELS THE NEED TO MANSPLA GENR DYSPHORIA AND GETS IT WRONG! THEN PROCEEDS TO ADNAME AND MISGENR THE HANDFUL OF TRANS MICIANS HE IGNS TO CLU, OFTEN STATG THAT "HE NOW LIV AS A WOMAN" OR "′ADNAME′ STARTED G {NEW NAME}", SHOWG THAT HE KNOWS NOTHG ABOUT TRANS** PEOPLE AT ALL! THROW SOME SUAL MENTNS OF HIV, RACISM, DOMTIC VLENCE, PHYSIL ABE, RAPE, SELF HARM, SUICI, DG ADDICTN AND MORE HOMOPHOBIC TERMS THAN I'VE EVER SEEN LLECTED ONE PLACE AND YOU START TO WONR IF THE THOR REALLY DO SUPPORT LGBT MICIANS, OR IS JT G THIS BOOK TO MAKE SOME MONEY OUT OF THEIR EXPERIENC. CONCLUDG WH TWO WHOLE CHAPTERS ON 21ST-CENTURY QUEER MIC WHERE HE MAK NO MENTN OF ERA-FG LGBT ARTISTS LIKE TEGAN & SARA, TRACY CHAPMAN, LUCY SPRAGGAN OR AGAST ME AND YOU START TO WONR IF HE KNOWS ANYTHG AT ALL ABOUT LGBT MIC BEE IF SO ISN'T NTAED WH THE 320 TIMEWASTG PAG. 7 LIKLIKE COMMENTJOHN1,107 REVIEWS4 FOLLOWERSFEBARY 1, 2018THE FIRST PART OF THIS BOOK WAS REALLY TERTG AND RMATIVE. I NEVER KNEW THERE WERE SO MANY GLBT ARTISTS OM THE 1920'S-50'S THAT HAD SUCH FLUENCE ON MIC AND THE STGGL THEY WENT THROUGH. I ENJOYED THAT PART THE BT. THE SEND HALF, MOSTLY THE 70'S TO TODAY, WAS KD OF A LETDOWN. MOST OF THE RMATN WAS BASED ON MAGAZE ARTICL OR PREVLY PUBLISHED SOURCE MATERIAL, EVEN THOUGH A LARGE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE DISCSED ARE STILL ALIVE TODAY. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY JT ULDN'T GET TERVIEWS OR IF THEY DIDN'T TRY, BUT I THK THEY MISSED A BIG OPPORTUNY. AND WHAT THEY DID HAVE JT WASN'T NEW RMATN, AT LEAST FOR ME. ADDNALLY, WAS VERY FOCED ON MEN, MORE SO THAT I HAD HOPED. ALL ALL, LEFT ME WANTG.4 LIKLIKE COMMENTALEX305 REVIEWSNOVEMBER 19, 2019THIS BOOK WAS SPECTACULARLY BADLY WRTEN ON BOTH A MICRO AND MACRO LEVEL, AND FAILED TO CREATE ANY PELLG NARRATIVE. WHILE I DID WANT TO FISH TO LEARN ABOUT QUEER MICIANS THE LAST CENTURY (AND BELIEVE ME, BULLOCK HS SEEMGLY ALL OF THEM NFG LEVELS OF TAIL), I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FISH IF I HADN'T NEED SOMETHG TO READ WH ONE EYE AT WORK WHILE STILL PAYG ATTENTN TO EVERYTHG ELSE AROUND ME. NON-FICTN QUEER4 LIKLIKE COMMENTKIRBY R.32 REVIEWSAUGT 29, 2018THIS BOOK IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC. I DON'T THK I'VE EVER SEEN ANOTHER BOOK DITED SPECIFILLY TO THE PLACE OF LGBT+ PEOPLE THE MIC DTRY, BUT NOT ONLY WAS BRILLIANT, AFTER HAVG READ "DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY," WAS OBVLY NECSARY. BULLOCK SCRIB EACH MICIAN ALL OF THEIR OFTEN BTERSWEET GLORY AND PROV TO REPRENT A GOOD NUMBER OF INTI WH HIS ASSORTMENT OF SELECTED PERFORMERS, AND WHILE I WAS AWARE OF A GOOD FEW OF THEM, I AM VERY HAPPY TO SAY THAT I HAD BY NO MEANS HEARD OF THE VAST MAJORY. THIS BOOK IS FELY A FAVORE.FAVOR QUEER3 LIKLIKE COMMENTSTEVE MAXWELL480 REVIEWS8 FOLLOWERSMAY 10, 2023A VERY WELL REARCHED AND RMATIVE BOOK ABOUT LGBT MIC THE PAST 100 YEARS. FROM THE 1910S AND 1920S TO MORN DAY MIC AND THE FLUENCE THAT THE GAY MUNY HAS BEEN THE REERS OF MANY ARTISTS.AAA-LIBRARY D-BOOK FILM-MOVI-TELEVISN-MIC ..2 LIKLIKE COMMENTRIC1,027 REVIEWS115 FOLLOWERSSEPTEMBER 8, 2022I LIKED THIS BOOK, BUT I N’T QUE GIVE MORE THAN THREE STARS. BEE EVEN THOUGH WAS TERTG TO READ ABOUT LGBTQ MICIANS, THREE OF MY ALL TIME FAVOR OF ALL TIME (ELTON JOHN, FREDDIE MERCURY, AND DAVID BOWIE) WERE HARDLY MENTNED. 2022-READG-CHALLENGE2 LIKLIKE COMMENTALEX657 REVIEWS16 FOLLOWERSMARCH 27, 2018EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED OM THIS BOOK, AND EXACTLY THE KD OF BOOK I'VE BEEN SEARCHG FOR OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS. A PREHENSIVE, WELL-WRTEN BUT NOT OVERWHELMG HISTORY OF QUEER MIC AND MICIANS OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS. A WTERN FOC OVERALL, MOSTLY WH THE US/UK/THE OCSNAL ATRALIAN ACT, BUT LIGHTFULLY DO VER ALL THE LETTERS WH LGBT. SOME STUFF I KNEW, A LOT OF STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW! I LOVED READG THIS, WAS GLAD TO TAKE A PY OUT OM THE LIBRARY, AND HOPE TO BUY A PAPER PY MYSELF FOR MY LLECTN SOMETIME SOON.AMIC HISTORY MIC ..2 LIKLIKE COMMENTANNORA65 REVIEWS1 FOLLOWERMARCH 20, 2022INTERTG, TL A B MISLEADG, THE SUB HEADG SHOULD REALLY BE THE TLE, BUT ALL ALL A GOOD READ. SOME PARTS FELT REALLY WELL REARCHED, WHEREAS OTHERS FELT A B SPARCE, BUT OVERALL I LEARNT A LOT OF REALLY OL NEW STUFF.2 LIKLIKE COMMENTCHRISTOPHER JON269 REVIEWS10 FOLLOWERSAUGT 6, 2018WHAT AN CREDIBLE READ , RMATIVE AN TERTG AND UPBEAT WAY, TOTAL PAGE TURNG PARADISE........❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️2 LIKLIKE COMMENTRON68 REVIEWS3 FOLLOWERSJUNE 24, 2022I'M RATG THIS ONE A 3-STAR (5/10). IT HAD SOME TERTG TOPICS AND ON WORTH READG ABOUT BUT THE WRG WAS HARD TO FOLLOW. IT WOULD BE ON ONE SUBJECT AND THEN DO A 360 AND TAKE THGS SOMEWHERE ELSE.AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A PERSONAL ISSUE I HAD WH . I AM NOT GOOD WH NUMBERS AND DAT. I JT GET THEM NFED. THE WRER WAS TALKG ABOUT VAR YEARS ALL OVER THE PLACE. HE WOULD JUMP OM THE 1940S TO THE 1980S TO THE 1930S TO THE 1970'S ALL A SGLE CHAPTER. IT MA THGS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO FOLLOW.CONTUG THAT PERSONAL NOTE, I REALLY WISH HE HAD KEPT THGS LEAR WHEN ME TO THE DAT. MAYBE FOC A CHAPTER ON SAY THE 1930S-1950S AND ANOTHER ON THE 1960S-1980S AND SO FORTH OR ALONG THOSE L. IT ULD HAVE MA THGS EASIER TO FOLLOW, BUT MAYBE THAT'S JT ME.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTSOPHY H1,295 REVIEWS66 FOLLOWERSJUNE 5, 2022I BORROWED THE DBOOK OF THIS OM THE LIBRARY. AFTER ONE SOPORIFIC HOUR, I HAD TO LL A DAY! DARYL BULLOCK IS NOT A VOICE SIGNED FOR D, UNLS HE DID A BOOK ABOUT SOMNIA AND WANTED TO HELP YOU TO SLEEP!I WAS REALLY EXCED ABOUT HEARG ABOUT LGBT MIC BUT THE RMATN WAS PRENTED SUCH A DRY MANNER, MA REALLY BORG! THERE ARE REAMS OF IRRELEVANT TAILS ABOUT VENU AND ARTISTS THAT SEEM PLETELY UNNECSARY, AND NSTANT QUOTG OF PEOPLE! NAH, THIS DIDN'T WORK FOR ME. RETURNED TO THE BORROWBOX APP! DID-NOT-FISH1 LIKELIKE COMMENTALEC DOWNIE256 REVIEWS7 FOLLOWERSJULY 9, 2021IT TOOK ME SO MUCH LONGER TO READ THIS BOOK THAN EXPECTED AS I KEPT GOOGLG AND SEARCHG YOUTUBE AND THEN GOT LOST A WORLD OF MIL GEMS.CRICS OF THIS BOOK WILL SAY DID NOT CLU XY OR Z OR THAT BOWIE'S NAME WAS ED A TRICK BUT THEY ARE MISSG THE POT, THE BOOK IS SIGNED TO TEASE YOU , WHILE MAKG LGBT MIL HISTORY ACCSIBLE AND UNRSTANDABLE, AND THERE ARE ENOUGH SIGN POSTS TO GUI YOU ONWARD TO A WONRFUL AND PELLG JOURNEY OF DISVERY.AT JT OVER 300 PAG THE LENGTH IS PERFECT AS AN TRODUCTN, THE NVERSATNAL STYLE OF THE BOOK MAK FOR EASY READG AND I AM POSIVE WILL BE A LANDMARK TEXT FOR MANY YEARS TO E FOR PEOPLE TERTED NOT JT THE IMPACT OF GAY ARTISTS BUT MIC GENERAL. 2021-TO-READ-LIST ALEC-REMENDS BOWIE-BOOK-CLUB ..1 LIKELIKE COMMENTZOë 105 REVIEWS2 FOLLOWERSMAY 17, 2020FIRST HALF WAS GREAT, REALLY TERTG TO LEARN ABOUT A LOT OF LGBT HISTORY I HAD NO IA ABOUT. HOWEVER SEND HALF WAS A LTLE MORE CHAOTIC AND I FOUND THE ADNAMG/MISGENRG OF TRANS PEOPLE THROUGHOUT A LTLE UNFORTABLE GIVEN S A BOOK ABOUT THEIR INTI AND ART? ALL ALL THOUGH A PRETTY PREHENSIVE BOOK FOR ANYONE TERTED LGBT HISTORY AND THE MIC DTRY.20201 LIKELIKE COMMENTPHIL122 REVIEWS4 FOLLOWERSREADMARCH 3, 2021I APPRECIATE THIS BOOK’S MMENT TO HIGHLIGHTG QUEER MICIANS WHO HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED BY HISTORY BOOKS. THAT SAID, THE FOC ON THIS BOOK WAS WILDLY NSISTENT—EXCEEDGLY GRANULAR BGRAPHI ON SOME SUBJECTS, BUT JT A PARAGRAPH OR TWO DITED TO CRIL MOMENTS LGBTQIA HISTORY. A TRATG READ. READ--20211 LIKELIKE COMMENTWILLIAM KILBY49 REVIEWS2 FOLLOWERSAPRIL 12, 2021EXCELLENT BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF LGBT MICIANS. MANY WELL KNOWN SUCH AS BOY GEE AND MARC ALMOND BUT MANY UNKNOWN,PECIALLY OM THE PAST. I HIGHLY REMEND AND TLY NEED TO LOOK UP MANY OF THE SONGS MENTNED THROUGHOUT. VERY LTLE DISCSN OF BOWIE BUT THERE ARE OTHER BOOKS FOR THAT.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTSAMUEL WHELPLEY162 REVIEWS5 FOLLOWERSMAY 3, 2021SI TED TIENE MENTE CHISMOSA, TE LIBRO PARA TED. CON MUCHAS DIGRN, NOS MUTRA LA VIDA Y LOS TIEMPOS LOS ARTISTAS LGBT L SIGLO XX.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTKATIE ESH180 REVIEWS14 FOLLOWERSJULY 21, 2021I FOUND THE 1900-1950 HISTORY MORE TERTG THAN THE MORE RECENT STORI, BUT I’D LOVE THE THOR’S TAKE ON LIL NAS X.21-READ-HARR LIBRARY1 LIKELIKE COMMENTJEN K146 REVIEWS2 FOLLOWERSJUNE 17, 2023I STOPPED READG WHEN THE THOR REPEATEDLY ADNAMED WENDY CARLOS. THIS BOOK IS VERY BORG AND BADLY WRTEN, AND PROBABLY BT AVOID.LGBT-THEMED LIBRARY-BOOK MOSTLY-BORG ..1 LIKELIKE COMMENTELI58 REVIEWSMARCH 6, 2023REALLY TERTG BOOK BUT DIDN'T DO FOR ME AS MUCH AS I WAS HOPG; WAS A PRETTY PREHENSIVE HISTORY OF LGBT MIC BUT WEIRDLY ENOUGH KD OF SKIMS OVER WHO WE NSIR TO BE INS, AND BARELY TOUCH ON THE MAN FOR WHOM THE BOOK IS NAMED. I DIDN'T HATE BUT WAS KD OF RAMBLG AND AT TIM DISJOTED, ALTHOUGH I FELY LEARNED THGS!1 LIKELIKE COMMENTROSEMARY401 REVIEWSFEBARY 3, 2019THIS IS A HARD BOOK TO REVIEW. THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF THE BOOK ARE REALLY GOOD. I LEARNT A LOT. THE CHAPTERS WHICH VER THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY ARE PARTICULARLY GREAT. HOWEVER WHEN BULLOCK HS THE 80S, THE BOOK STARTS TO GET NFG. HE JUMPS OM ARTIST TO ARTIST AND BACK AND FORTH TIME, RULTG NO REAL SIGHT TO ANY OF THE ARTISTS HE MENTNS.I ALSO NOTICED A FEW, NOT ERRORS EXACTLY, BUT QUOT OR EVENTS TAKEN OUT OF NTEXT AND PRENTED A WAY WHICH REALLY DIDN'T NVEY THE WHOLE STORY OR GAVE THE WRONG IMPRSN. THE STANC WHERE I NOTICED THIS WERE AROUND DISCSNS OF THE BANDS SUE AND QUEEN, BOTH OF WHOM I KNOW QUE A B ABOUT. IT LEFT ME WONRG WHETHER THIS WAS THE SE FOR OTHER ARTISTS DISCSED THAT I KNOW LS ABOUT AS WELL. CULTURAL-MIC-BOOKS1 LIKELIKE COMMENTJOSH WHAN25 REVIEWSJANUARY 18, 2021I REALLY WANTED TO LIKE THIS BOOK BUT I JT ULDN’T. DAVID BOWIE IS BARELY MENTNED, FREDDIE MERCURY GETS MENTNED PASSG MULTIPLE TIM BUT ’S NEVER SUBSTANTIAL. THE THOR DO NOT MAKE THIS AN ENJOYABLE READ BY ANY MEANS BUT MORE A LISTG OF WHAT HE HAS DISVERED AND IS JT PRENTG TO THE REAR, NOT EVEN REMOTELY POLISHED UP. IN SOME WAYS FELT AS THOUGH THIS WAS HIS JOURNAL AND HE WAS EE WRG HIS THOUGHTS AND WE AS REARS WERE MEANT TO JT FOLLOW ALONG.THIS BOOK IS A VERY BORG READ AND I WILL PROBABLY NEVER READ AGA. BUT I DID DISVER SOME NEW SONGS OM MY TIME READG , AND FOR THAT I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE EXPERIENCE ENOUGH TO GIVE 2 STARS STEAD OF 1. 1 LIKELIKE COMMENTDANI PERGOLA90 REVIEWS31 FOLLOWERSDECEMBER 29, 2021THIS BOOK WAS SO SANELY TRATG. IT'S REALLY OL THAT EXISTS, AND CLEARLY A LOT OF REARCH WENT TO . HOWEVER, I FOUND HONTLY DRONG, BORG, POORLY PLANNED, AND REPETIVE. WORST OF ALL, THE THOR DISPLAYS PRETTY NSISTENT SUAL TRANSPHOBIA, TRODUCG TRANS MICIANS AS THEIR ADNAM, MISGENRG THEM WHEN REFERRG TO THEM PRE-TRANSN, AND PROVIDG POORLY EXPLAED FNS OF THGS LIKE DYSPHORIA. THE BOOK REALLY DON'T DISCS DAVID BOWIE SO THE TLE IS KD OF JT A TCHY HOOK. IT'S ALSO NOT AT ALL HUMORO OR APPROACHABLE AS THE TLE SEEMS TO SUGGT - 'S PRETTY DRY MIC HISTORY, RELYG HEAVILY ON PRIMARY SOURCE QUOT. I LEARNED A LOT, BUT READG THIS WAS LIKE PULLG TEETH.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTSHANNON CLEVELAND89 REVIEWS5 FOLLOWERSJULY 5, 2018I TEND NOT TO READ BGRAPHIL NOVELS UNLS THEY REALLY PEAK MY TERT. I’M VERY TERTED LGBTQ MIC/MICIANS SO I HAD TO PICK THIS BOOK UP OM THE LIBRARY. OFF THE BAT, THE TLE IS MISLEADG. THERE WASN’T MUCH DAVID BOWIE THIS BOOK, WHICH WAS VERY DISAPPOTG! DON’T MENTN A CELEBRY THE TLE UNLS THEY ARE A FOL POT! THE BOOK ALSO NSTANTLY HAD PORTNS OF DRAG ON TO THE POT OF BEG BORG. IT FELT LIKE THE THOR JT PIED AND PASTED A LOT OF THIS RMATN AND DIDN’T WRE A WAY TO MAKE FASCATG. WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT A BOOK LIKE THIS. DISAPPOTED, BUT NOT THE WORST BGRAPHIL BOOK I’VE READ.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTREETER138 REVIEWS11 FOLLOWERSAPRIL 9, 2019NOW, THIS WAS A FASCATG READ. MY FAVORE PART WAS ABOUT LAVENR COUNTRY. I ABSOLUTELY HATE UNTRY MIC, BUT NOW KNOWG THAT THERE ARE QUEER UNTRY SGERS TRYG TO WORK AN CREDIBLY NSERVATIVE GENRE, I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO GO OUT THERE AND SUPPORT THEM. IT WAS ALSO TERTG READG ABOUT HOW MANY HISTORIL MICIANS, LIKE TCHAIKOVSKY, WERE GAY AND WHOSE LOVE LIV WERE STRAIGHT WASHED, OR FLAT OUT ERASED. ALTHOUGH, I LOVE TCHAIKOVSKY A WHOLE LOT LS NOW AFTER READG HE EVEN HAD A RELATNSHIP WH HIS NEPHEW. RED FLAGS, HONTLY. I HIGHLY REMEND THIS BOOK, PECIALLY IF YOU'RE TERTED QUEER HISTORY AND CULTURE.QUEER-NONFICTN1 LIKELIKE COMMENTM. MOLONY 58 REVIEWSJULY 6, 2018INFORMATIVE. HOWEVER DUE TO THE SANE LACK OF SENSIVY AROUND LANGUAGE THE THOR ED WH TALKG ABOUT TRANS ARTISTS (NSTANT ADNAMG, BACK AND FORTH PRONOUNS, AND A FEW OF “TRANSGENRED”) I N’T REALLY REMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE WHOUT A GRA OF SALT. JT ANOTHER STANCE OF GAY CIS MEN NOT HAVG A CLUE ABOUT HOW TO TREAT AND RPECT TRANS PEOPLE. ALSO, THIS BOOK READ LIKE A N ON SENTENCE OM HELL. ALSO, DAVID BOWIE STATUTORY RAPED SOMEONE. NOT SO MUCH AS A MENTN OF THAT, ONLY A GLORIFYG TLE SLOT. 1 LIKELIKE COMMENTDISPLAYG 1 - 30 OF 137 REVIEWSSHOW MORE REVIEWSLOADG...
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• ‘DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY’: AN EXPLORATION OF QUEER POP CULTURE

DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY

LGBT micians have shaped the velopment of mic over the last century, wh a sexually progrsive soundtrack the background of the gay muny’s stggle for acceptance. David Bowie Ma Me Gay is the first book to ver the breadth of history of rerd mic by and for the LGBT muny and how those rerds fluenced the evolutn of the mic we listen to Bowie Ma Me Gay unvers the liv of the people who ma the rerds, and offers a lively nter through the srcely documented history of LGBT mic-makers. Bullock discs how gay, lbian, and bisexual performers fluenced Jazz and Blu; exam the almost fotten Pansy Craze the years between the two World Wars (when many LGBT performers were feted by royalty and Hollywood alike); chronicl the dark years after the prsn when gay life was driven ep unrground; celebrat the re-emergence of LGBT performers the post-Stonewall years; and highlights today’s most legendary out-gay pop stars: Elton John, Boy Gee, Freddie Mercury, and Gee Michael.

Pl there’s discsn of lbians and femist folk ftivals, of glam rock pairg gay flamboyance, of fotten pennt albums that have been redisvered bee of the ter, of the ups and downs one’s abily to be out over time, of hookg up wh people I appreciate that even though Bullock is very anglophone-foced, he’s ma at least some effort to mentn micians and mic om outsi the English-speakg world and outsi Europe. He’s also up ont about how some genr or untri are so homophobic that you n’t get a sense of the queer mic history there bee everyone is still, ntent-wise, apart om the dump problem, I enjoyed this.

On another note, bee this is a history of queer people and queer culture, any and all trmas that the muny has faced appear, rangg om slurs and homophobic statements to gay bashgs and the AIDS crisis. David Bowie Ma Me Gay is relevant bee wr queer people to the culture by simply observg that we were here, that we have always been here, and that our sexualy is somethg that has been relevant to our succs as artists.

DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC

Bullock's approach this book is that of a rerd Bowie Ma Me Gay fds queer personali through the history of mic simply to observe that they were there and that many of the most important, and sometim even jt the mor characters the long history of the mic dtri and genr were queer. It helps rears, lovers of mic perd, who might happen to be queer to appreciate that they may not be so different sexually than an artist they Bowie didn't make me gay personally, but as I'm readg more about the man's life, and listeng to more of his mic, I see how important is to have such an in, such a human beg your life as an example.

There are plenty of exampl of wonrful, tragic, ntemptuo, and of urse, gay people this book and 's worth the rear's time to read through this wonrful queer muny's received another a long le of great books that remds the rear of one important fact that so many people would prefer not to here: we've always been here. I learned a lot, cludg the facts that Johnny Mathis and Llie Gore were gay, the existence of Camp Rerds and gay novelty LPs, the support of Ain Amerin muni the 1920's for LBGT performers, and the differenc between the Women's Mic movement the US (folk-based) and the UK (punk-based).

For a start 's supposed to be about "LGBT mic" when fact 99 percent of the book is about gay men, there's one chapter on lbian performers and a few sttered mentns of bi sgers but unls you're male, gay, whe and cis you're chanc of beg this book are almost zero. Throw some sual mentns of HIV, racism, domtic vlence, physil abe, rape, self harm, suici, dg addictn and more homophobic terms than I've ever seen llected one place and you start to wonr if the thor really do support LGBT micians, or is jt g this book to make some money out of their experienc. I don't thk I've ever seen another book dited specifilly to the place of LGBT+ people the mic dtry, but not only was brilliant, after havg read "David Bowie Ma Me Gay, " was obvly necsary.

‘DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC’ BY DARRYL W. BULLOCK

Crics of this book will say did not clu XY or Z or that Bowie's name was ed a trick but they are missg the pot, the book is signed to tease you , while makg LGBT mil history accsible and unrstandable, and there are enough sign posts to gui you onward to a wonrful and pellg journey of jt over 300 pag the length is perfect as an troductn, the nversatnal style of the book mak for easy readg and I am posive will be a landmark text for many years to e for people terted not jt the impact of gay artists but mic general.

It was also tertg readg about how many historil micians, like Tchaikovsky, were gay and whose love liv were straight washed, or flat out erased. If Darryl Bullock had been born at a different time, he might have tled his book “Cole Porter Ma Me Gay” or “Leonard Bernste …” or even “Sam Smh…” But he was born the mid-sixti, and David Bowie is his guy. Perhaps the most personal, and globally applible, appears Chapter 1: “Gay, straight or bisexual: whatever word Bowie chose to fe his sexualy, this particular t was out of the bag—or rather the closet.

He has said that he origally planned that his next book would provi a gay perspective on the procs of rerdg mic, wh an examatn of how mil genr teract and fluence one another. Readg Bullock’s 100-pl-year history, you uld nclu that gay people vented jazz, the blu, and rock & roll, and that we manered Broadway show tun and dis, and had a hand tablishg punk and new wave. And heavy metal dienc monstrated their reads for a new attu when they embraced Life of Agony’s sger, Ma Caputo, the genre’s first openly transgenr star, when she me out 2011—13 years after Judas Prit’s ontman, Rob Halford, referred to himself as “a gay man the metal muny” durg an MTV terview.

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In the cy’s newly legal brothels, gay micians like Tony Jackson—a feme, very young Black piano prodigy and later the poser of the ternatnal h song “Pretty Baby”—began to play the mic that me to be known as “jazz. Through the ensug s, the pattern remas the same: On the g, gay people experiment and create new forms of mic, attractg dienc who are bored wh the mastream and ready for somethg new—particularly, but not only, if the mic ronat wh their own sense of alienatn om the mastream.

The world changed abptly for gay kids durg a 1972 performance of Bowie’s new song “Starman” that was broadst on the Brish TV show Top of the Pops.

’s Michael Stipe did the same thg, and “the rerd pany wasn’t happy and they wanted to put out that I was bi, not gay.

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” The velvet-voiced Johnny Mathis lived a rather private life, which beme much more private after he received ath threats rponse to his revelatn a 1982 Us Weekly terview that “Homosexualy is a way of life I’ve bee acctomed to. Sam Smh, the 25-year-old Brish songwrer and pop star who has won four Grammys and shared a 2016 Osr for bt origal song, asserts, “I am not a gay sger.

But the revolutn was even more far-reachg than that: The most-quoted exchange the play also troduced the agg Broadway dience to the newly sual attu toward homosexualy:.

Drsed and ma up like Diamond Dogs Bowie, Jobriath intified himself as a Te Fairy and is remembered for sayg, “Askg me if I’m homosexual is like askg Jam Brown if he’s black. When the film adaptatn of Hair was released 1979, prervg the exchange between the jail psychiatrist and the long-haired boy who would not kick Mick Jagger out of his bed, a myster immune ficiency was spreadg among gay men.

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The three iends who found the band—Somerville, Steve Bronski, and Larry Stebachek—were turned off by the nocuo msage of most gay bands, and set out to produce mic wh an overtly polil msage. Donovan is not gay, but that song, about two boys huddled together after midnight to keep each other warm a relict buildg, gave me my first ht that boys uld share such experienc. ” Bullock has talogued s of work culmatg Grossman’s 1974 album Caravan Tonight, released by Mercury—the first album alg wh openly gay them om a major label.

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In the plac the book threatens to volve to tirome tail and gossip, wh lists of gay micians and micians mored to be gay—cludg a one-time roommate of Jimi Hendrix. John Lennon is wily believed to have sung, “Baby, you’re a rich fag Jew” the closg of the stud rerdg of the Beatl’ “tribute” to their gay manager Brian Epste.

By 2009, as noted earlier, the B-52s—an all-gay band except for sger-dmmer Cdy Wilson—were performg their h “Love Shack” at the CMT Country Mic Awards Nashville. The angry, venomo solo performance Robson gave at Amnty Internatnal’s Secret Policeman’s Ball fundraiser June 1979 sparked the begng of my gay life. Most of the artists listed are gay or lbian, wh a ltle too much time dited to talkg about how gay/lbian performers were prsured to intifyg as bisexual to be “ls queer”.

DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY

Darryl is the thor of seven books cludg The World’s Worst Rerds (Volum 1 and 2), Florence Foster Jenks: the Life of the World’s Worst Opera Sger (Duckworth-Overlook, 2016), sgled out as ‘lightfully cheerg' by btsellg thor Alexanr McCall Smh the New York Tim, David Bowie Ma Me Gay, the highly-regard history of a century of LGBT pop mic, The Infamo Cherry Sisters: The Worst Act Vville, and the ternatnally-acclaimed The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swgg Sixti, wner of the Penryn Mic Book Prize 2022.

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And 's not for one person to say that they're heterosexual or homosexual or bisexual, bee none of the thgs are real.

The ia of gay and lbian people existg was no surprise to me, but the fact that I had iated a same-genr romance a vioMore.

The histori of the unrground, mp rerdgs were fun, and I didn’t realize that some of my oldi favor like Johnnie Ray were gay. Wrg David Bowie Ma Me Gay gave me the opportuny to immerse myself not only the work of the more obv and open LGBT artists but also a world of ltle known and seldom played mic om the s before crimalisatn.

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Jt three months earlier he had revealed to the Melody Maker’s Michael Watts that ‘I’m gay and I always have been’, and there, on a Thursday night the ont room of more than half of the TV-owng hom Bra, was the proof. Not everyone was que so broad-md: homosexualy was still agast the law, after all, but songs wh tl such as ‘Mascule Women, Feme Men’ and ‘Let’s All Be Fairi’ were all the rage.

The world’s first regular magaze aimed at gay rears, Der Eigene, was first published Berl 1896, and before Hler rose to power the cy was at the centre of LGBT culture. ‘Das Lila Lied’ (‘The Lavenr Song’), wh s repeated rea ‘We are jt different om the others’, was probably the first song to directly reference and celebrate homosexualy. Shane’s almost-h, ‘Any Other Way’ (‘tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay…’) and live album showse the all-too-short reer of one of the most rivetg stage prenc soul mic.

RATGS & REVIEWS FORDAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY: 100 YEARS OF LGBT MICDARRYL W. BULLOCK3.59673 RATGS137 REVIEWS5 STARS114 (16%)4 STARS247 (36%)3 STARS247 (36%)2 STARS55 (8%)1 STAR10 (1%)SEARCH REVIEW TEXTFILTERSDISPLAYG 1 - 30 OF 137 REVIEWSNJAME356 REVIEWS33 FOLLOWERSJUNE 1, 2019IN BRIEF: A HISTORY OF THE LAST CENTURY OF LGBT MIC AND MICIANS, WH DIGRSNS TO THE WIR NTEXT OF QUEER HISTORY.THOUGHTS: I AM EPLY NFLICTED ABOUT THIS BOOK. ON THE ONE HAND, ’S AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT, THAT I HAVEN’T SEEN ANYONE TACKLE THE TOPIC AND THERE’S A LOT TO BE LEARNED AND A LOT TO BE SPIRED BY. ON THE OTHER, BULLOCK IS WRG OM AN OLR AND LS THAN CURRENT UNRSTANDG OF SOME QUEER INTI (SEE WARNGS BELOW) AND OUTRIGHT OMS ANY QUEER INTY THAT ISN’T L, G, B, OR T. ON THE THIRD, THE BOOK EQUENTLY GETS BOGGED DOWN TAILS SUCH AS RERD SAL; ASSUM NERD LEVEL KNOWLEDGE BY, SAY, MENTNG GENR WHOUT FG THEM OR ASSUMG YOU KNOW THAT BAND; AND IS JT POORLY EDED ENOUGH THAT N BE HARD TO TRACK WHO’S DOG WHAT TO WHO WHEN.OH, AND IF YOU’RE LOOKG FOR MAJOR INS LIKE BOWIE, MERCURY, AND JOHN, THEY’RE FOOTNOT. I PERSONALLY AM OKAY WH THIS BEE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN BS AND THE BOOK LARGELY EXISTS TO LIFT LSER KNOWN PEOPLE TO THE LIMELIGHT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I WAS DISAPPOTED THAT THEY FEATURED AS LTLE AS THEY DID BEE THEY WERE STILL SPIRATNS AND IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND, WELL, BOWIE IS THE TLE.BULLOCK’S DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF VERG HIS TOPIC, THOUGH. ALL THE QUEER MICIANS I KNEW OF WERE MENTNED, OM BILLY TIPTON TO SISTER ROSETTA THARPE TO K.D. LANG (BUT NOT MIKA, NOW THAT I THK OF ), AND A LOT OF MICIANS I’D NEVER HEARD OF OR NEVER KNEW WERE QUEER ALSO FEATURE. HE ALSO LISTS SONGWRERS AND MIC EXECUTIV AND THE WHOLE GAMUT OF GENR, OM JAZZ TO ROCK TO FOLK TO UNTRY TO RAP TO MILS, AND ALSO MENTNS SONGS WH QUEER NTENT THAT WEREN’T BY QUEER ARTISTS. AFTER A FEW CHAPTERS, I STARTED LOOKG UP SONGS AND MICIANS ON YOUTUBE AND ADDG THEM TO A PLAYLIST THAT I’M STILL WORKG THROUGH A FEW WEEKS LATER. THERE’S SOME PRETTY GOOD MIC OUT THERE.I ALSO LIKED THAT HE TELLS ENOUGH HISTORY OF THE WIR QUEER MUNY, THE MIC DTRY, AND THE WIR CULTURE GENERAL THAT YOU GET NTEXT FOR HOW MIC AND THE WORLD WAS CHANGG. WHEN DID DRAG START AND WHY? WHY DID DIS BEE A GAY THG? HOW DID STONEWALL AND AIDS CHANGE THGS? PL THERE’S DISCSN OF LBIANS AND FEMIST FOLK FTIVALS, OF GLAM ROCK PAIRG GAY FLAMBOYANCE, OF FOTTEN PENNT ALBUMS THAT HAVE BEEN REDISVERED BEE OF THE TER, OF THE UPS AND DOWNS ONE’S ABILY TO BE OUT OVER TIME, OF HOOKG UP WH PEOPLE BARS.AND I APPRECIATE THAT EVEN THOUGH BULLOCK IS VERY ANGLOPHONE-FOCED, HE’S MA AT LEAST SOME EFFORT TO MENTN MICIANS AND MIC OM OUTSI THE ENGLISH-SPEAKG WORLD AND OUTSI EUROPE. THERE’S NOT MUCH, GRANTED, BUT ’S THERE. HE’S ALSO UP ONT ABOUT HOW SOME GENR OR UNTRI ARE SO HOMOPHOBIC THAT YOU N’T GET A SENSE OF THE QUEER MIC HISTORY THERE BEE EVERYONE IS STILL CLOSETED.SO, NTENT-WISE, APART OM THE DUMP PROBLEM, I ENJOYED THIS. I LEARNED A LOT AND THK ’S AN IMPORTANT WDOW TO QUEER HISTORY THAT I’M KD OF BOGGLED HAS ONLY BEEN WRTEN NOW. AS I SAID, THERE’S A LOT TO BE SPIRED BY, A LOT OF PEOPLE BEG QUEER THEIR MIC AND OUT SPE THE REPERCSNS, AND A FE SENSE THAT Y, QUEER PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE AND BETTER, THEY HELPED FOUND WHOLE GENR. I’D CERTALY REC TO MIC LOVERS AND PEOPLE TO QUEER HISTORY, EVEN SPE BULLOCK’S SPORADILLY BLKERED ATTU TOWARDS INTI AND THE OTHER AFOREMENTNED PROBLEMS, FOR THAT REASON—BUT I NNOT REC WHOUT THOSE WARNGS, WHICH ARE ALSO WHY THIS IS NOT A 7.5 OUT OF 10.TO BEAR MD: BULLOCK APPEARS AT TIM TO UNRSTAND BISEXUALY AS AN UNCID, QUTNG, OR HEDGG INTY AND IS FELY OKAY WH MISGENRG AND ADNAMG TRANS MICIANS ONLY TO MENTN PARTWAY THROUGH THE SECTN THAT ACTUALLY THEY ARE A MAN/WOMAN. SIARLY, HE “TRANSSEXUAL”, SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WHO’VE UNRGONE SURGERY ARE MORE TRANS THAN THOSE WHO HAVEN’T, AND F “ASEXUAL” AS GENRLS AND SEXUALLY HARMLS. ON ANOTHER NOTE, BEE THIS IS A HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE AND QUEER CULTURE, ANY AND ALL TRMAS THAT THE MUNY HAS FACED APPEAR, RANGG OM SLURS AND HOMOPHOBIC STATEMENTS TO GAY BASHGS AND THE AIDS CRISIS. THERE IS ALSO A CHAPTER THAT PROMENTLY FEATUR TERF MICIANS AND TERF-IENDLY FEMIST SPAC, BUT WHICH ALSO MAK QUIETLY CLEAR THEY’RE HARMFUL AND NOT OKAY.6.5/10HISTORY LGBTQ NON-FICTN ..22 LIKLIKE COMMENTNILE VALENTEAUTHOR 3 BOOKS72 FOLLOWERSJULY 7, 2017LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THIS ARC HAND TO ME ADVANCE AND I HAVE TO SAY 'S THE MOST PREHENSIVE HISTORY OF HOW THE LGBT MUNY HAS SHAPED THE VELOPMENT OF MIC OVER THE LAST CENTURY. I ME TO THIS AS A 70'S AND 80'S MIC AFICNADO WH A EP AND ABIDG LOVE FOR BOWIE, AND LEFT WH A HUGE BREADTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATN FOR SO MUCH MORE. THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE CHAPTERS ON THE NEW YORK AND LONDON PUNK SCENE AND WAS FASCATED TO LEARN OF THE LATE SIXTI/EARLY 70'S FIRST BREAKOUT E OF THE MOOG AND HOW THE LGBT MUNY WAS VOLVED. IT'S AN ABSOLUTE NECSARY PURCHASE FOR ANY MIC LOVER. 12 LIKLIKE COMMENTJOSHUAAUTHOR 2 BOOKS31 FOLLOWERSJANUARY 10, 2018THERE IS A PRONOUNCED LACK OF DAVID BOWIE THIS BOOK, BUT THAT DON'T LSEN THE QUALY OR IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORK. DARRYL W. BULLOCK PTURED ME WH THE TLE, AND WHILE I WAS HOPG TO READ A B ABOUT THE TH WHE DE, THE MAN WHO IS QUICKLY BEG MY PHILOSOPHIL, TELLECTUAL, AND SEXUAL IN, THE BOOK WAS ACTUALLY A FASCATG HISTORY ABOUT QUEER MICIANS STARTG WH THE RISE OF JAZZ THE EARLY 1900S AND ENDG OUR CURRENT PERD.THERE ARE A GREAT MANY WRERS THAT HAVE MA A LIVG WRG ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE OF "REPRENTATN" THE MEDIA, AND SO I WANT TO AVOID THIS REVIEW ANYTHG THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SOUNDBE. DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY IS RELEVANT BEE WR QUEER PEOPLE TO THE CULTURE BY SIMPLY OBSERVG THAT WE WERE HERE, THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, AND THAT OUR SEXUALY IS SOMETHG THAT HAS BEEN RELEVANT TO OUR SUCCS AS ARTISTS. BULLOCK OBSERV NUMERO STANC OF ARTISTS WHO WERE SHOVED BACK TO THE CLOSET BEE OF THE REPRSIVE CULTUR THEY LIVED , AND THE STORY OF GLADYS BENTLY IS ENOUGH TO BRG THE REAR TO TEARS. BUT WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THAT BULLOCK DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EDORIALIZE OR DRAMATIZE TRAGEDY OR SUCCS. BULLOCK'S APPROACH THIS BOOK IS THAT OF A RERD KEEPER.DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY FDS QUEER PERSONALI THROUGH THE HISTORY OF MIC SIMPLY TO OBSERVE THAT THEY WERE THERE AND THAT MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, AND SOMETIM EVEN JT THE MOR CHARACTERS THE LONG HISTORY OF THE MIC DTRI AND GENR WERE QUEER. THIS GO A LONG WAY THEN TO HELPG YOUNG QUEER REARS WHO MAY BE TERTED FDG QUEER INS MIC. IT HELPS REARS, LOVERS OF MIC PERD, WHO MIGHT HAPPEN TO BE QUEER TO APPRECIATE THAT THEY MAY NOT BE SO DIFFERENT SEXUALLY THAN AN ARTIST THEY LOVE.DAVID BOWIE DIDN'T MAKE ME GAY PERSONALLY, BUT AS I'M READG MORE ABOUT THE MAN'S LIFE, AND LISTENG TO MORE OF HIS MIC, I SEE HOW IMPORTANT IS TO HAVE SUCH AN IN, SUCH A HUMAN BEG YOUR LIFE AS AN EXAMPLE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF EXAMPL OF WONRFUL, TRAGIC, NTEMPTUO, AND OF URSE, GAY PEOPLE THIS BOOK AND 'S WORTH THE REAR'S TIME TO READ THROUGH THIS WONRFUL CHRONICLE.THE QUEER MUNY'S RECEIVED ANOTHER A LONG LE OF GREAT BOOKS THAT REMDS THE REAR OF ONE IMPORTANT FACT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD PREFER NOT TO HERE: WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE.11 LIKLIKE COMMENTMARK SCHLATTER1,138 REVIEWS10 FOLLOWERSJANUARY 19, 2018OVERALL, I FOUND THIS A VERY DISAPPOTG READ. I THK THE IA OF THE BOOK (TRACG THE FLUENC AND PERFORMERS OF LBGT MIC) IS GREAT, AND THE TRODUCTN --- WH A BIG FOC ON BOWIE'S IMPORTANCE --- MAK AN EXCELLENT SE FOR THE EXPLORATN. I LEARNED A LOT, CLUDG THE FACTS THAT JOHNNY MATHIS AND LLIE GORE WERE GAY, THE EXISTENCE OF CAMP RERDS AND GAY NOVELTY LPS, THE SUPPORT OF AIN AMERIN MUNI THE 1920'S FOR LBGT PERFORMERS, AND THE DIFFERENC BETWEEN THE WOMEN'S MIC MOVEMENT THE US (FOLK-BASED) AND THE UK (PUNK-BASED). THERE'S A TON OF RMATN, MUCH OF BEYOND WHAT THIS STRAIGHT REAR KNEW ABOUT LBGT MIC.HOWEVER, THE ANIZATN IS OFTEN HORRIBLE. THE FIRST CHAPTERS, WHICH FOC ON JT ONE OR TWO PERFORMERS, HAVE A BETTER FOC, BUT LATER CHAPTERS SUFFER OM RMATN OVERLOAD AND NO NARRATIVE STCTURE TO GIVE THE REAR ANY GUIDANCE. A MON PRACTICE BY BULLOCK IS TO SPEND ONE TO TWO PARAGRAPHS ON A SUBJECT, TALK ABOUT THE PERFORMER'S NTRIBUTNS, SAY WHERE THEY ARE NOW, AND THEN REPEAT WH VERY LTLE TRANSN. (YOU N EVEN FD SOME SENTENC WHICH APPEAR TO CHANGE FOC MIDWAY THROUGH.) THERE'S VERY LTLE CLEAR NNECTIVE TISSUE AND AN OVERABUNDANCE OF PERSONALI. THE RULT IS OFTEN NFG AND FEELS SHALLOW. I'M SURE THERE ARE SOME FASCATG STORI AND THEMATIC EXPLORATNS THAT N BE WRTEN ABOUT LGBT MIC, BUT THIS WASN'T FOR ME.NEW_BOOK_AREA OVERDRIVE8 LIK1 MENTLIKE COMMENTKELLY_HUNSAKER_READS ...1,915 REVIEWS46 FOLLOWERSJANUARY 3, 2021ALTHOUGH IS OBV THE THOR R ABOUT HIS TOPIC AND DID TONS OF REARCH THERE WERE SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS WH THIS BOOK. ALSO, THE TLE IS FUNNY, BUT MISLEADG AS THE BOOK IS NOT HUMORO AND BOWIE IS A FOOTNOTE.I WAS SURPRISED, SADNED, TRATED AND ANGERED BY THE THOR'S SEEMG LACK OF UNRSTANDG AND PASSN FOR SO MANY WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQIA+.1. HE CLUD ABSOLUTELY NO RMATN ABOUT ANYONE WHO INTIFIED AS PANSEXUAL, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL, OR ANYTHG OTHER THAN LGBT.2. HIS SCRIPTNS OF THOSE WHO ARE BISEXUAL UNCID, QUTNG, NFED.3. AND TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS ARE MISGENRED, AD-NAMED, AND TREATED AS MORE VALID THEIR TRANSGENR INTY IF THEY HAVE HAD SURGERY.THIS MAN CLAIMS TO BE PART OF THE MUNY, AND TO BE PASSNATE ABOUT THE TOPIC. SO, HE SHOULD REALIZE IS NOW 2021 NOT 1980!LGBTQIA NONFICTN READ--20208 LIK2 MENTSLIKE COMMENTELLIE MACK111 REVIEWS5 FOLLOWERSMARCH 16, 2019THIS BOOK PROMISED SO MUCH ... AND LIVERED SO LTLE. FOR A START 'S SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT "LGBT MIC" WHEN FACT 99 PERCENT OF THE BOOK IS ABOUT GAY MEN, THERE'S ONE CHAPTER ON LBIAN PERFORMERS AND A FEW STTERED MENTNS OF BI SGERS BUT UNLS YOU'RE MALE, GAY, WHE AND CIS YOU'RE CHANC OF BEG THIS BOOK ARE ALMOST ZERO. ON TOP OF THIS, THE THOR, WHO FEELS THE NEED TO MANSPLA GENR DYSPHORIA AND GETS IT WRONG! THEN PROCEEDS TO ADNAME AND MISGENR THE HANDFUL OF TRANS MICIANS HE IGNS TO CLU, OFTEN STATG THAT "HE NOW LIV AS A WOMAN" OR "′ADNAME′ STARTED G {NEW NAME}", SHOWG THAT HE KNOWS NOTHG ABOUT TRANS** PEOPLE AT ALL! THROW SOME SUAL MENTNS OF HIV, RACISM, DOMTIC VLENCE, PHYSIL ABE, RAPE, SELF HARM, SUICI, DG ADDICTN AND MORE HOMOPHOBIC TERMS THAN I'VE EVER SEEN LLECTED ONE PLACE AND YOU START TO WONR IF THE THOR REALLY DO SUPPORT LGBT MICIANS, OR IS JT G THIS BOOK TO MAKE SOME MONEY OUT OF THEIR EXPERIENC. CONCLUDG WH TWO WHOLE CHAPTERS ON 21ST-CENTURY QUEER MIC WHERE HE MAK NO MENTN OF ERA-FG LGBT ARTISTS LIKE TEGAN & SARA, TRACY CHAPMAN, LUCY SPRAGGAN OR AGAST ME AND YOU START TO WONR IF HE KNOWS ANYTHG AT ALL ABOUT LGBT MIC BEE IF SO ISN'T NTAED WH THE 320 TIMEWASTG PAG. 7 LIKLIKE COMMENTJOHN1,107 REVIEWS4 FOLLOWERSFEBARY 1, 2018THE FIRST PART OF THIS BOOK WAS REALLY TERTG AND RMATIVE. I NEVER KNEW THERE WERE SO MANY GLBT ARTISTS OM THE 1920'S-50'S THAT HAD SUCH FLUENCE ON MIC AND THE STGGL THEY WENT THROUGH. I ENJOYED THAT PART THE BT. THE SEND HALF, MOSTLY THE 70'S TO TODAY, WAS KD OF A LETDOWN. MOST OF THE RMATN WAS BASED ON MAGAZE ARTICL OR PREVLY PUBLISHED SOURCE MATERIAL, EVEN THOUGH A LARGE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE DISCSED ARE STILL ALIVE TODAY. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY JT ULDN'T GET TERVIEWS OR IF THEY DIDN'T TRY, BUT I THK THEY MISSED A BIG OPPORTUNY. AND WHAT THEY DID HAVE JT WASN'T NEW RMATN, AT LEAST FOR ME. ADDNALLY, WAS VERY FOCED ON MEN, MORE SO THAT I HAD HOPED. ALL ALL, LEFT ME WANTG.4 LIKLIKE COMMENTALEX305 REVIEWSNOVEMBER 19, 2019THIS BOOK WAS SPECTACULARLY BADLY WRTEN ON BOTH A MICRO AND MACRO LEVEL, AND FAILED TO CREATE ANY PELLG NARRATIVE. WHILE I DID WANT TO FISH TO LEARN ABOUT QUEER MICIANS THE LAST CENTURY (AND BELIEVE ME, BULLOCK HS SEEMGLY ALL OF THEM NFG LEVELS OF TAIL), I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FISH IF I HADN'T NEED SOMETHG TO READ WH ONE EYE AT WORK WHILE STILL PAYG ATTENTN TO EVERYTHG ELSE AROUND ME. NON-FICTN QUEER4 LIKLIKE COMMENTKIRBY R.32 REVIEWSAUGT 29, 2018THIS BOOK IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC. I DON'T THK I'VE EVER SEEN ANOTHER BOOK DITED SPECIFILLY TO THE PLACE OF LGBT+ PEOPLE THE MIC DTRY, BUT NOT ONLY WAS BRILLIANT, AFTER HAVG READ "DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY," WAS OBVLY NECSARY. BULLOCK SCRIB EACH MICIAN ALL OF THEIR OFTEN BTERSWEET GLORY AND PROV TO REPRENT A GOOD NUMBER OF INTI WH HIS ASSORTMENT OF SELECTED PERFORMERS, AND WHILE I WAS AWARE OF A GOOD FEW OF THEM, I AM VERY HAPPY TO SAY THAT I HAD BY NO MEANS HEARD OF THE VAST MAJORY. THIS BOOK IS FELY A FAVORE.FAVOR QUEER3 LIKLIKE COMMENTSTEVE MAXWELL480 REVIEWS8 FOLLOWERSMAY 10, 2023A VERY WELL REARCHED AND RMATIVE BOOK ABOUT LGBT MIC THE PAST 100 YEARS. FROM THE 1910S AND 1920S TO MORN DAY MIC AND THE FLUENCE THAT THE GAY MUNY HAS BEEN THE REERS OF MANY ARTISTS.AAA-LIBRARY D-BOOK FILM-MOVI-TELEVISN-MIC ..2 LIKLIKE COMMENTRIC1,027 REVIEWS115 FOLLOWERSSEPTEMBER 8, 2022I LIKED THIS BOOK, BUT I N’T QUE GIVE MORE THAN THREE STARS. BEE EVEN THOUGH WAS TERTG TO READ ABOUT LGBTQ MICIANS, THREE OF MY ALL TIME FAVOR OF ALL TIME (ELTON JOHN, FREDDIE MERCURY, AND DAVID BOWIE) WERE HARDLY MENTNED. 2022-READG-CHALLENGE2 LIKLIKE COMMENTALEX657 REVIEWS16 FOLLOWERSMARCH 27, 2018EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED OM THIS BOOK, AND EXACTLY THE KD OF BOOK I'VE BEEN SEARCHG FOR OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS. A PREHENSIVE, WELL-WRTEN BUT NOT OVERWHELMG HISTORY OF QUEER MIC AND MICIANS OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS. A WTERN FOC OVERALL, MOSTLY WH THE US/UK/THE OCSNAL ATRALIAN ACT, BUT LIGHTFULLY DO VER ALL THE LETTERS WH LGBT. SOME STUFF I KNEW, A LOT OF STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW! I LOVED READG THIS, WAS GLAD TO TAKE A PY OUT OM THE LIBRARY, AND HOPE TO BUY A PAPER PY MYSELF FOR MY LLECTN SOMETIME SOON.AMIC HISTORY MIC ..2 LIKLIKE COMMENTANNORA65 REVIEWS1 FOLLOWERMARCH 20, 2022INTERTG, TL A B MISLEADG, THE SUB HEADG SHOULD REALLY BE THE TLE, BUT ALL ALL A GOOD READ. SOME PARTS FELT REALLY WELL REARCHED, WHEREAS OTHERS FELT A B SPARCE, BUT OVERALL I LEARNT A LOT OF REALLY OL NEW STUFF.2 LIKLIKE COMMENTCHRISTOPHER JON269 REVIEWS10 FOLLOWERSAUGT 6, 2018WHAT AN CREDIBLE READ , RMATIVE AN TERTG AND UPBEAT WAY, TOTAL PAGE TURNG PARADISE........❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️2 LIKLIKE COMMENTRON68 REVIEWS3 FOLLOWERSJUNE 24, 2022I'M RATG THIS ONE A 3-STAR (5/10). IT HAD SOME TERTG TOPICS AND ON WORTH READG ABOUT BUT THE WRG WAS HARD TO FOLLOW. IT WOULD BE ON ONE SUBJECT AND THEN DO A 360 AND TAKE THGS SOMEWHERE ELSE.AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A PERSONAL ISSUE I HAD WH . I AM NOT GOOD WH NUMBERS AND DAT. I JT GET THEM NFED. THE WRER WAS TALKG ABOUT VAR YEARS ALL OVER THE PLACE. HE WOULD JUMP OM THE 1940S TO THE 1980S TO THE 1930S TO THE 1970'S ALL A SGLE CHAPTER. IT MA THGS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO FOLLOW.CONTUG THAT PERSONAL NOTE, I REALLY WISH HE HAD KEPT THGS LEAR WHEN ME TO THE DAT. MAYBE FOC A CHAPTER ON SAY THE 1930S-1950S AND ANOTHER ON THE 1960S-1980S AND SO FORTH OR ALONG THOSE L. IT ULD HAVE MA THGS EASIER TO FOLLOW, BUT MAYBE THAT'S JT ME.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTSOPHY H1,295 REVIEWS66 FOLLOWERSJUNE 5, 2022I BORROWED THE DBOOK OF THIS OM THE LIBRARY. AFTER ONE SOPORIFIC HOUR, I HAD TO LL A DAY! DARYL BULLOCK IS NOT A VOICE SIGNED FOR D, UNLS HE DID A BOOK ABOUT SOMNIA AND WANTED TO HELP YOU TO SLEEP!I WAS REALLY EXCED ABOUT HEARG ABOUT LGBT MIC BUT THE RMATN WAS PRENTED SUCH A DRY MANNER, MA REALLY BORG! THERE ARE REAMS OF IRRELEVANT TAILS ABOUT VENU AND ARTISTS THAT SEEM PLETELY UNNECSARY, AND NSTANT QUOTG OF PEOPLE! NAH, THIS DIDN'T WORK FOR ME. RETURNED TO THE BORROWBOX APP! DID-NOT-FISH1 LIKELIKE COMMENTALEC DOWNIE256 REVIEWS7 FOLLOWERSJULY 9, 2021IT TOOK ME SO MUCH LONGER TO READ THIS BOOK THAN EXPECTED AS I KEPT GOOGLG AND SEARCHG YOUTUBE AND THEN GOT LOST A WORLD OF MIL GEMS.CRICS OF THIS BOOK WILL SAY DID NOT CLU XY OR Z OR THAT BOWIE'S NAME WAS ED A TRICK BUT THEY ARE MISSG THE POT, THE BOOK IS SIGNED TO TEASE YOU , WHILE MAKG LGBT MIL HISTORY ACCSIBLE AND UNRSTANDABLE, AND THERE ARE ENOUGH SIGN POSTS TO GUI YOU ONWARD TO A WONRFUL AND PELLG JOURNEY OF DISVERY.AT JT OVER 300 PAG THE LENGTH IS PERFECT AS AN TRODUCTN, THE NVERSATNAL STYLE OF THE BOOK MAK FOR EASY READG AND I AM POSIVE WILL BE A LANDMARK TEXT FOR MANY YEARS TO E FOR PEOPLE TERTED NOT JT THE IMPACT OF GAY ARTISTS BUT MIC GENERAL. 2021-TO-READ-LIST ALEC-REMENDS BOWIE-BOOK-CLUB ..1 LIKELIKE COMMENTZOë 105 REVIEWS2 FOLLOWERSMAY 17, 2020FIRST HALF WAS GREAT, REALLY TERTG TO LEARN ABOUT A LOT OF LGBT HISTORY I HAD NO IA ABOUT. HOWEVER SEND HALF WAS A LTLE MORE CHAOTIC AND I FOUND THE ADNAMG/MISGENRG OF TRANS PEOPLE THROUGHOUT A LTLE UNFORTABLE GIVEN S A BOOK ABOUT THEIR INTI AND ART? ALL ALL THOUGH A PRETTY PREHENSIVE BOOK FOR ANYONE TERTED LGBT HISTORY AND THE MIC DTRY.20201 LIKELIKE COMMENTPHIL122 REVIEWS4 FOLLOWERSREADMARCH 3, 2021I APPRECIATE THIS BOOK’S MMENT TO HIGHLIGHTG QUEER MICIANS WHO HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED BY HISTORY BOOKS. THAT SAID, THE FOC ON THIS BOOK WAS WILDLY NSISTENT—EXCEEDGLY GRANULAR BGRAPHI ON SOME SUBJECTS, BUT JT A PARAGRAPH OR TWO DITED TO CRIL MOMENTS LGBTQIA HISTORY. A TRATG READ. READ--20211 LIKELIKE COMMENTWILLIAM KILBY49 REVIEWS2 FOLLOWERSAPRIL 12, 2021EXCELLENT BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF LGBT MICIANS. MANY WELL KNOWN SUCH AS BOY GEE AND MARC ALMOND BUT MANY UNKNOWN,PECIALLY OM THE PAST. I HIGHLY REMEND AND TLY NEED TO LOOK UP MANY OF THE SONGS MENTNED THROUGHOUT. VERY LTLE DISCSN OF BOWIE BUT THERE ARE OTHER BOOKS FOR THAT.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTSAMUEL WHELPLEY162 REVIEWS5 FOLLOWERSMAY 3, 2021SI TED TIENE MENTE CHISMOSA, TE LIBRO PARA TED. CON MUCHAS DIGRN, NOS MUTRA LA VIDA Y LOS TIEMPOS LOS ARTISTAS LGBT L SIGLO XX.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTKATIE ESH180 REVIEWS14 FOLLOWERSJULY 21, 2021I FOUND THE 1900-1950 HISTORY MORE TERTG THAN THE MORE RECENT STORI, BUT I’D LOVE THE THOR’S TAKE ON LIL NAS X.21-READ-HARR LIBRARY1 LIKELIKE COMMENTJEN K146 REVIEWS2 FOLLOWERSJUNE 17, 2023I STOPPED READG WHEN THE THOR REPEATEDLY ADNAMED WENDY CARLOS. THIS BOOK IS VERY BORG AND BADLY WRTEN, AND PROBABLY BT AVOID.LGBT-THEMED LIBRARY-BOOK MOSTLY-BORG ..1 LIKELIKE COMMENTELI58 REVIEWSMARCH 6, 2023REALLY TERTG BOOK BUT DIDN'T DO FOR ME AS MUCH AS I WAS HOPG; WAS A PRETTY PREHENSIVE HISTORY OF LGBT MIC BUT WEIRDLY ENOUGH KD OF SKIMS OVER WHO WE NSIR TO BE INS, AND BARELY TOUCH ON THE MAN FOR WHOM THE BOOK IS NAMED. I DIDN'T HATE BUT WAS KD OF RAMBLG AND AT TIM DISJOTED, ALTHOUGH I FELY LEARNED THGS!1 LIKELIKE COMMENTROSEMARY401 REVIEWSFEBARY 3, 2019THIS IS A HARD BOOK TO REVIEW. THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF THE BOOK ARE REALLY GOOD. I LEARNT A LOT. THE CHAPTERS WHICH VER THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY ARE PARTICULARLY GREAT. HOWEVER WHEN BULLOCK HS THE 80S, THE BOOK STARTS TO GET NFG. HE JUMPS OM ARTIST TO ARTIST AND BACK AND FORTH TIME, RULTG NO REAL SIGHT TO ANY OF THE ARTISTS HE MENTNS.I ALSO NOTICED A FEW, NOT ERRORS EXACTLY, BUT QUOT OR EVENTS TAKEN OUT OF NTEXT AND PRENTED A WAY WHICH REALLY DIDN'T NVEY THE WHOLE STORY OR GAVE THE WRONG IMPRSN. THE STANC WHERE I NOTICED THIS WERE AROUND DISCSNS OF THE BANDS SUE AND QUEEN, BOTH OF WHOM I KNOW QUE A B ABOUT. IT LEFT ME WONRG WHETHER THIS WAS THE SE FOR OTHER ARTISTS DISCSED THAT I KNOW LS ABOUT AS WELL. CULTURAL-MIC-BOOKS1 LIKELIKE COMMENTJOSH WHAN25 REVIEWSJANUARY 18, 2021I REALLY WANTED TO LIKE THIS BOOK BUT I JT ULDN’T. DAVID BOWIE IS BARELY MENTNED, FREDDIE MERCURY GETS MENTNED PASSG MULTIPLE TIM BUT ’S NEVER SUBSTANTIAL. THE THOR DO NOT MAKE THIS AN ENJOYABLE READ BY ANY MEANS BUT MORE A LISTG OF WHAT HE HAS DISVERED AND IS JT PRENTG TO THE REAR, NOT EVEN REMOTELY POLISHED UP. IN SOME WAYS FELT AS THOUGH THIS WAS HIS JOURNAL AND HE WAS EE WRG HIS THOUGHTS AND WE AS REARS WERE MEANT TO JT FOLLOW ALONG.THIS BOOK IS A VERY BORG READ AND I WILL PROBABLY NEVER READ AGA. BUT I DID DISVER SOME NEW SONGS OM MY TIME READG , AND FOR THAT I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE EXPERIENCE ENOUGH TO GIVE 2 STARS STEAD OF 1. 1 LIKELIKE COMMENTDANI PERGOLA90 REVIEWS31 FOLLOWERSDECEMBER 29, 2021THIS BOOK WAS SO SANELY TRATG. IT'S REALLY OL THAT EXISTS, AND CLEARLY A LOT OF REARCH WENT TO . HOWEVER, I FOUND HONTLY DRONG, BORG, POORLY PLANNED, AND REPETIVE. WORST OF ALL, THE THOR DISPLAYS PRETTY NSISTENT SUAL TRANSPHOBIA, TRODUCG TRANS MICIANS AS THEIR ADNAM, MISGENRG THEM WHEN REFERRG TO THEM PRE-TRANSN, AND PROVIDG POORLY EXPLAED FNS OF THGS LIKE DYSPHORIA. THE BOOK REALLY DON'T DISCS DAVID BOWIE SO THE TLE IS KD OF JT A TCHY HOOK. IT'S ALSO NOT AT ALL HUMORO OR APPROACHABLE AS THE TLE SEEMS TO SUGGT - 'S PRETTY DRY MIC HISTORY, RELYG HEAVILY ON PRIMARY SOURCE QUOT. I LEARNED A LOT, BUT READG THIS WAS LIKE PULLG TEETH.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTSHANNON CLEVELAND89 REVIEWS5 FOLLOWERSJULY 5, 2018I TEND NOT TO READ BGRAPHIL NOVELS UNLS THEY REALLY PEAK MY TERT. I’M VERY TERTED LGBTQ MIC/MICIANS SO I HAD TO PICK THIS BOOK UP OM THE LIBRARY. OFF THE BAT, THE TLE IS MISLEADG. THERE WASN’T MUCH DAVID BOWIE THIS BOOK, WHICH WAS VERY DISAPPOTG! DON’T MENTN A CELEBRY THE TLE UNLS THEY ARE A FOL POT! THE BOOK ALSO NSTANTLY HAD PORTNS OF DRAG ON TO THE POT OF BEG BORG. IT FELT LIKE THE THOR JT PIED AND PASTED A LOT OF THIS RMATN AND DIDN’T WRE A WAY TO MAKE FASCATG. WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT A BOOK LIKE THIS. DISAPPOTED, BUT NOT THE WORST BGRAPHIL BOOK I’VE READ.1 LIKELIKE COMMENTREETER138 REVIEWS11 FOLLOWERSAPRIL 9, 2019NOW, THIS WAS A FASCATG READ. MY FAVORE PART WAS ABOUT LAVENR COUNTRY. I ABSOLUTELY HATE UNTRY MIC, BUT NOW KNOWG THAT THERE ARE QUEER UNTRY SGERS TRYG TO WORK AN CREDIBLY NSERVATIVE GENRE, I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO GO OUT THERE AND SUPPORT THEM. IT WAS ALSO TERTG READG ABOUT HOW MANY HISTORIL MICIANS, LIKE TCHAIKOVSKY, WERE GAY AND WHOSE LOVE LIV WERE STRAIGHT WASHED, OR FLAT OUT ERASED. ALTHOUGH, I LOVE TCHAIKOVSKY A WHOLE LOT LS NOW AFTER READG HE EVEN HAD A RELATNSHIP WH HIS NEPHEW. RED FLAGS, HONTLY. I HIGHLY REMEND THIS BOOK, PECIALLY IF YOU'RE TERTED QUEER HISTORY AND CULTURE.QUEER-NONFICTN1 LIKELIKE COMMENTM. MOLONY 58 REVIEWSJULY 6, 2018INFORMATIVE. HOWEVER DUE TO THE SANE LACK OF SENSIVY AROUND LANGUAGE THE THOR ED WH TALKG ABOUT TRANS ARTISTS (NSTANT ADNAMG, BACK AND FORTH PRONOUNS, AND A FEW OF “TRANSGENRED”) I N’T REALLY REMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE WHOUT A GRA OF SALT. JT ANOTHER STANCE OF GAY CIS MEN NOT HAVG A CLUE ABOUT HOW TO TREAT AND RPECT TRANS PEOPLE. ALSO, THIS BOOK READ LIKE A N ON SENTENCE OM HELL. ALSO, DAVID BOWIE STATUTORY RAPED SOMEONE. NOT SO MUCH AS A MENTN OF THAT, ONLY A GLORIFYG TLE SLOT. 1 LIKELIKE COMMENTDISPLAYG 1 - 30 OF 137 REVIEWSSHOW MORE REVIEWSLOADG...

‘Do You Come Here Often is notable for the e of polari, or gay slang, the first time that an omi polone had been so bold on a pop sgle. One of the many lightful nsequenc of wrg a book like David Bowie Ma Me Gay was the opportuny to talk to artists crimally ignored by the mastream but who rved out their own reers regardls. Now his early 70s, Patrick Haggerty seems an unlikely mil trendsetter, yet Lavenr Country was a tly groundbreakg release: the very first out-gay untry album.

The songs Patrick wrote for Lavenr Country are filled wh both humour and ep emotn, and are both a nmnatn of the jtic perpetrated on the LGBT muny and a proud celebratn of gay inty. Three years before the Village People brought gay dis to the mastream, Valento’s ‘I Was Born This Way’ was beg advertised as ‘the first gay dis sgle’.

DAVID BOWIE MA ME GAY : 100 YEARS OF LGBT MIC

Wh s chos ‘I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay’, the sgle was a h diss the US and Bra, but failed to chart on eher si of the Atlantic and Charl Valento Harris soon went back to his full-time reer as a dancer and actor. To get personal for a mute ‘Glad to be Gay’ was my g out song, specifilly the versn Tom Robson performed solo at the Secret Policeman’s Ball fundraiser for Amnty Internatnal June 1979.

Mart and Tom helped nvce Amnty to cludg gay rights s fn of human rights… and all of should be grateful to them for that. The tw threat of AIDS and Clse 28 drove many of to hi our sexualy, and several teachers left the profsn after they were banned om ‘promotg’ homosexualy. The Pulse attack, the adlit cint of vlence agast LGBT people Uned Stat history, relled the 1999 attack on London’s Admiral Dunn, one of Soho’s longt-tablished gay pubs, where a nail bomb killed three people and wound around 70.

‘DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY’: AN EXPLORATION OF QUEER POP CULTURE

Bullock is the thor of David Bowie Ma Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Mic, published on September 7 by Duckworth Overlook. This is bee Bullock don’t want to tell the story of how Bowie — someone wh a plited relatnship to queer subcultur, who would 1993 e out as a “closet heterosexual” and face accatns of cultural appropriatn — “ma him gay, ” asi om a broad acknowledgment of the importance of celebri g out publicly. Why is Bowie — whe male androgyno space alien, g out time and aga to the prs, as gay, as bisexual, as refg sexual and genr nformy — Bullock’s emblem for queer fluence popular mic?

It would also be unfair to flt Bullock for not beg as clive as he uld’ve been; certaly Sylvter Ma Me Gay or Dty Sprgfield Ma Me Gay would’ve been very different books than the one unr discsn here. Of urse, as I’ve allud to already, David Bowie may have ma Bullock et al gay, but over the span of a multi- reer, dienc were troduced to a variety of nfiguratns of genr and sexualy through Bowie’s numero performg personas and, jt as importantly, his public statements terviews.