An in-depth analysis of how LGBT artists have influenced music trends.
From jazz and blues to glam, punk, and pop, the history of music is full of LGTBIQ+ names that have not always received their rightful place. David Bowie me hizo gay is a rigorous, accessible, and passionate essay that covers a century of musical creation from the queer experience.
Darryl W. Bullock talks about artists like Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holiday, Little Richard, and Freddie Mercury; the Pansy Craze during the interwar period, drag nights in the 1930s, Weimar Republic Berlin, Paris, London, and New York as epicenters of bohemia and resistance. Also about the impact of Nazism, Hollywood censorship, the explosion after Stonewall, the death of David Bowie, and everything that happened in between.
