| Contents |
Pet Shop Boys, naturally -- Burying Benjamin Britten -- A minute's noise for John Cage -- Mannish-acting women, women-acting men -- And his mother called him Bill -- Miles in the sky -- Two live ones: Gary and Graham -- Exhuming Elvis -- Girls together outrageously -- Walk like a woman, talk like a man -- Dire Straights: Ziggy, Iggy, Marc, Lou -- The winter of '79 revisited -- Oh, Patti -- Nightclubbing -- Sisters doing it for themselves -- Like Boy George never happened -- Queer noises -- Is Madonna queer? |
| Abstract |
Many more gays have been active at the forefront of the music business in the 20th century than official histories, critical works (and sometimes the individuals themselves) have been willing to acknowledge. Furthermore, much lesbian and gay criticism has also paid scant attention to the impact of homosexuality on key areas - blues, jazz, classical, avant garde, folk, ethnic music - due partly to the inaccessibility of information on key players and partly to the perceived unfashionability of some of those genres to the gay media. |
