30 Ibid., p. 65
31 Pryor Convictions And Other Life Sentences, Richard Pryor and Todd Gold (Pantheon Books, New York, 1995), pp. 100-2
32 ‘Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again’, Salamishah Tillet, The New York Times, 19 June 2015
33 ‘In the Macho World of Jazz, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, Francis Davis, The New York Times, 1 September 2002
34 ‘“Dad” to Adopted Sons: Jazz Player Billy Tipton Kept Her Secret to the End’, Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1989
35 Interview with Lesley Gore, Shauna Swartz, afterellen.com, 3 June 2005
Chapter 7 – Camp Records
1 Camp Records, 1964
2 From the original sleeve notes: Sex Is My Business, Fax Record Company, FAXLP-1007, 1960
3 From the original sleeve notes: Nights Of Love In Lesbos, Fax Record Company, FAX-LP 1009, 1962
4 Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century, Alan Sinfield (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1999), p. 271
5 ‘New Talent Flood in UK’, Billboard, 14 December 1974
6 www.queermusicheritage.com/mar2012a.html
7 ‘It’s Show Time as the Australian Ballet Prepares to Stage Robert Helpmann’s The Display’, Valerie Lawson, The Australian, 18 August 2012
8 The Canberra Times, 30 September 1969
9 The Canberra Times, 4 February 1966
10 The Canberra Times, 29 September 1986
11 The Canberra Times, 30 September 1986
12 ‘Peter Allen on Broadway’, William A. Raidy, Syracuse Herald Journal, 10 June 1979
13 Celebrity: The Advocate Interviews, Judy Wieder (ed.) (Advocate Books, 2001), p. 85
14 Earl Wilson, Long Beach Press Telegram, 1 August 1974
15 Who’s Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (eds.) (Routledge, London, 2001), p. 10
16 ‘Peter Allen on Broadway’, William A. Raidy, Syracuse Herald Journal, 10 June 1979
17 ‘Thank You, Peter Allen, for Giving Australia the Permission to be Camp’, Peter Taggart, The Guardian, 21 September 2015
18 Billboard, 14 October 1967
19 ‘I Bet Your Mama Was a Tent-Show Queen’, Carl Wilson, Hazlitt Magazine, 22 April 2013
Chapter 8 – Do You Come Here Often?
1 The John Lennon Encyclopedia, Bill Harry (Virgin Books, 2000), p. 232
2 ‘100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)’, The Wire, September 1998
3 ‘The Man Who Wrote “Telstar”’, Evening Standard, 12 November 1963
4 ‘Joe Meek and Me’, Jake Arnott, Evening Standard, 12 June 2009
5 ‘Joe Meek: Tragic Demise of a Gifted Musical Maverick’, The Daily Express, 7 June 2009
6 Author interview with Robert Duke (a.k.a. Patrick Pink), June 2016
7 ‘Meek by Name, Wild by Nature’, Jon Savage, The Observer, 12 November 2006
8 ‘The Tornados Part Two’, www.robbhuxley.com
9 ‘The Tornados Part Three’, www.robbhuxley.com
10 ‘Joe Meek: Tragic Demise of a Gifted Musical Maverick’, The Daily Express, 7 June 2009
11 ‘The Tornados Part Two’, www.robbhuxley.com
12 John Lennon: The Life, Philip Norman (HarperCollins UK, London, 2009)
13 You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks, Nick Hasted (Omnibus Press, London, 2013)
14 It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Paul Myers (Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2007), p. 134
Chapter 9 – Electronic Sounds
1 ‘Robert Moog, 71, Invented Music Synthesizer’, Stephen Miller, New York Sun, 23 August 2005
2 Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Thom Holmes (Routledge, New York, 2016), p. 270
3 ‘Wendy Carlos Takes her Moog Music to East Side’, Chris Morris, Billboard, 3 October 1998
4 Author interview with Rod Thomas, November 2016
5 ‘Walking With Elephants Star Says Gays are Another “Breed”’, Tris Reid-Smith, Gay Star News, 4 June 2015
6 ‘Skin and Bone’, North Tonawanda Evening News (New York), 14 April 1979
7 Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness, Jack Curtis Dubowsky (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), p. 116
8 David Bowie, quoted in the Sound + Vision CD booklet, 1989
9 ‘People Talk’, Kenneth R. Clark, Jacksonville Courier, 2 April 1979
10 Rolling Stone, 12 May 1979
11 ‘After a Sex Change and Several Eclipses, Wendy Carlos Treads a New Digital Moonscape’, Susan Reed, People, 1 July 1985
Chapter 10 – After Stonewall
1 Quoted in ‘What The A&R Men Want’, Beat Instrumental, 1975
2 Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons (Basic Books, New York, 2006), p. 1
3 ‘Homosexual Characters on Centre Stage’, The Canberra Times, 28 August 1974
4 The Advocate, 12 September 1973
5 ‘Albums for Christmas’, Gay News, December 1972
6 ‘Photographer for Roxy Music and Lou Reed Found Living in Semi-Obscurity in South Beach’, Hans Morgenstern, Miami New Times, 11 April 2014
7 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (Grove Press, New York, 1996), p. 4
8 ‘Lou Reed: A Deaf Mute in a Telephone Booth’, Lester Bangs, Let It Rock, November 1973
9 ‘Lou Reed Backtracked from his Implied Bisexuality. But he Didn’t Let me Down’, Tom Robinson, The Independent, 28 October 2013
10 ‘A Family in Peril: Lou Reed’s Sister Sets the Record Straight About his Childhood’, Merrill Reed Weiner, Cuepoint, 13 April 2015
11 ‘Alice From Wonderland’, Everett Henderson, Gay: America’s First Gay Weekly, 11 May 1970
12 ‘Alice – A Fag?’ Spec, August 1974
13 Gay Times 31, 6 September 1973
14 ‘Cassidy: Nothing to Hide’, Gay News 56, 10 October 1974
15 ‘Could It Be Forever?’ David Cassidy, Headline 2012
16 ‘Peter Straker, A Man Of Many Parts’, Gay News 13, 1972
17 Advert, Gay News 77, August 1975
18 steveswindells.wordpress.com
19 ‘David Bowie: A Candid Conversation With the Actor, Rock Singer and Sexual Switch-hitter’, Playboy, September 1976
20 ‘Elton’s Frank Talk: the Lonely Love Life of a Superstar’, Cliff Jahr, Rolling Stone, 7 October 1976
21 Gay News 98, 1 July 1976
22 ‘A Space-Age Minstrel’, Gay News, January 1974
23 Sleeve notes to Something In The Moonlight, written by James Gavin, 2006
24 ‘Steve Grossman Sensitive, Attuned to Gay Experience’, Mara Kelly and Suzanne Thompson, The Mass Media, 25 April 1974
25 ‘Gay Minstrel is Painfully Honest’, Berkeley Barb, 23 May 1974
26 ‘Vibrations Reminisces Various Eras’, Sunday Herald Banner, 2 July 1972
27 ‘By … Jack O’Brien’, Jack O’Brien, Schenectady Gazette, 22 January 1974
28 Billboard, 13 October 1973
29 ‘Disc-cussion’, Sunday Gazette Mail, Charleston, 28 April 1974
30 ‘Records’, Adam Dawson, Telegraph Herald, 5 April 1974
31 ‘Got Tu Go Hustle’, Steven Gaines, New York Magazine, 25 June 1979
32 ‘10 Singer-Songwriter Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s You’ve Never Heard’, Gavin Edwards, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2015
33 ‘Grossman Offers Homosexual Songs’, John Rockwell, New York Times, 7 May 1974
34 Ann Arbor Sun, 6 December 1974
35 ‘Tuning Up’, The Advocate, 12 November 1981
36 ‘Jobriath: Oh! You Pretty Thing’ Johann Hari The Independent, 12 April 2004
37 ‘Jobriath Revisited’, Charles Herschberg, Omega One, 19 January 1979
38 ‘Jobriath: Oh! You Pretty Thing’, Johann Hari The Independent, 12 April 2004
39 Author interview with Blackberri, November 2016
40 Jean-Jacques Rous
seau, French philosopher, 1712-1778: ‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.’
Chapter 11 – Living With Lesbians
1 Author interview with Cris Williamson, December 2016
2 ‘The Bisexuals’, Judy Klemesrud, New York Magazine, 1 April 1974
3 ‘Janis Ian Says Bill Cosby Spread Lesbian Rumors About Her as a Teen’, Anna Silman, Salon.com, 29 July 2015
4 ‘Janis Ian and Patricia Snyder’s Relationship Builds Upon Decades of Social Upheaval’, Amy Sohn, New York Times, 10 September 2015
5 Musica No 2, May 1974
6 F ‘em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Jennifer Baumgardner, Seal Press, 2011, p41
7 ‘20 Rock Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s That You Never Heard’, Gavin Edwards, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2015
8 Author interview with Alix Dobkin, November 2016
9 ‘Obituary’, Bangor Daily News, 30 August 2002
10 ‘Liberation Music, Angry and Proud, Enters Gay Life’, Martin St. John, The Advocate, 11 April 1973
11 ‘Maxine Feldman: Folk Musician, Lesbian Activist’, Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, 2008
12 ‘In Their Own Voices: Oral Histories of Festival Artists’, Bonnie J. Morris, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1998), pp. 53-71
13 Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, Volume 1, Frank Cullen (Routledge, London, 2007), p. 375
14 ‘Maxine Feldman: Folk Musician, Lesbian Activist’, Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, 2008
15 ‘Stepney Sisters Turn on to Women’s Rock’, Marion Fudger, Spare Rib, May 1976
16 ‘Number One with a Star’, Jean Williams, Billboard, 7 May 1977
17 Closeup, Billboard, 15 December 1979
18 Gay Community News (Boston), November 1980
19 Ibid.
20 Author interview with Holly Near, December 2016
21 Gay Community News (Boston), November 1980
22 ‘Canada’s Ferron Wages a “Still Riot”’, Roger Deitz, Billboard, 13 July 1996
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 ‘Out of the Cage: An Interview with Ferron’, Douglas Heselgrave, The Music Box, December 2008
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 ‘Exclusive Interview with Ani DiFranco, the Ultimate Righteous Babe’, Kathleen Bradbury, lavendermagazine.com, 20 September 2012
Chapter 12 – Lavender Country
1 Author interview with Patrick Haggerty, September 2016
2 chrissiedickinson.com/bio.html
3 ‘From Hank to HIV-Positive’, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Kokomo Tribune, 24 June 1994
4 ‘Doug Stevens Interview’, stonewallsociety.com
5 Ibid.
6 ‘k.d. lang Recollection Review’, Chris Roberts, bbc.co.uk, 2010
7 ‘Out and Riding High in Nashville’, Jody Rosen, The New York Times, 24 May 2013
8 Ibid.
9 ‘Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer’, Chely Wright, Huffington Post, 24 June, 2011
10 Ibid.
11 Author interview with Drake Jensen, September 2016
12 ‘Gay Ottawa Teen who Killed Himself was Bullied’, CBC News, 18 October 2011
Chapter 13 – Can’t Stop the Music
1 ‘The Full Monti Rock, and Then Some’, Rick Lax, Las Vegas Weekly, 29 July 2010
2 ‘Village People’, Rolling Stone Magazine, 19 April 1979
3 Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography, Lesley-Ann Jones, Hodder and Stoughton, 2011
4 ‘Elton and Rod Aren’t Feuding’, Madison Wisconsin State Journal, 10 December 1978
5 ‘Poor Image Upsets David Hodo’, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, 12 June 1979
6 ‘Wanted: Macho Men With Mustaches’, Nicole Pasulka, The Believer Magazine, July/August 2013
7 ‘Movies’, William E. Sarmento, Lowell Sun, 7 July 1980
8 ‘Tidbits’, Ironwood Daily Globe, 17 February 1997
9 ‘Celebrity Spotlight’, Walla Walla Union Bulletin, 17 July 2005
10 ‘1981: The Queer in Rock’, Rob Schmieder, Gay Community News (Boston), 23 January 1982
11 ‘The New Improved Sylvester’, Gay News, 12 January 1978
12 Ibid.
13 ‘Disco Music Beats Live When Sylvester Performs’, Colorado Springs Gazette, 15 May 1981
14 ‘Disco Singer Arrested’, Cumberland Sunday Times, 16 March 1980
15 ‘Pipeline – National Pop Scene’, Becky Lynn, Monahans News, 1 May 1980
16 ‘Forum Entertainment’, Billboard, 24 March 1979
17 ‘The New Improved Sylvester’, Gay News, 12 January 1978
18 ‘Divine in Conversation With Paul Tams’, Men In Town, November/December 1987
19 Author interview with John Condon, November 2016
20 Author interview with Guy Blackman, February 2017
21 Author interview with Paul Southwell, November 2016
22 ‘More Than A Miracle’, Gay News 92, 8 April 1976
23 ‘Hollywood’, The Advocate, 4 June 1975
24 Gay News 74, July 1975
25 ‘Disco Action’, Tom Moulton, Billboard, 22 February 1975
26 ‘Happy and Carefree This Way’, Gay News 74, July 1975
27 ‘Come Back to The Disco, Jimmy Somerville’, Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com, February 2015
28 ‘Drag and Glitter-Rock Star Hibiscus Dies’, Gay Community News, New York, 22 May 1982
29 ‘Boy’s 1969 Death Suggests AIDS Invaded US Several Times’, Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 October 1987
30 New York Times, 11 May 1982
31 ‘Gay Community Frowns on Disco Diva Donna Summer’, Jet, 18 September 1989
Chapter 14 – The 1970s: Political and Pink
1 Twitter, 13 May 2011
2 Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, January 1964, p. 7
3 ‘Gay Community Disputes Singer’s Alleged Claims’, Lethbridge Herald, 3 March 1977
4 ‘Homosexual Rights March’, The Canberra Times, 28 June 1977
5 Rebel Rock: The Politics of Popular Music, John Street (Viking, New York, 1986), p. 75
6 London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945 (Barry Miles, Atlantic Books, London, 2010), p. 408
7 ‘Coleherne Gays “Near Riot”’, Gay News, 17 June 1976
8 ‘Police Swoop on Nightspots’, Gay News, July 1975
9 ‘Homosexual Rights March’, The Canberra Times, 28 June 1977
10 ‘Homosexual March’, The Canberra Times, 16 July 1978
11 ‘Mass Arrests at Gay March’, Tharunka, 4 September 1978
12 ‘Queensland Shows its True Colours’, David Alexander, Star Observer Magazine, November 2014
13 ‘Cops Stage Violent Attack on New York Bar’, Gay Community News, 16 October 1982
14 ‘Gang Of 20 Attacks Gay Pub’, Gay News 136, 9 February 1978
15 ‘Coleherne Gays “Near Riot”’, Gay News 97, 17 June 1976
16 ‘White’s Memory of Shootings “Hazy”’, Casa Grande Dispatch, 1 December 1978
17 ‘“Conscience of Gay Movement” Wants Movement Shifted to Courts’, South Mississippi Sun, 3 December 1976
18 ‘San Francisco Gay Community Gains Clout’, Las Cruces Sun News, 5 December 1977
19 ‘Milk Had Recorded Message’, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, 28 November 1978
20 ‘Red Wedge’, Johnny Black, Q, March 1996
21 Richard Coles: My Journey from Pop Star to Celibate Vicar, Patrick Strudwick, The Independent, 13 October 2014
Chapter 15 – The Aggressive Style Punk Rock
1 Interview, Uncut, May 2014, quoted in ‘Bob Mould’s Fears Over ‘Coming Out’”, Daily Express, 28 April 2014
2 ‘What The A&R Men Want’, Beat Instrumental, February 1975
3 ‘Punk: Wot’s In It For Us?’ Keith Howes and Alan Wall, Gay News 136, 9 February 1978
4 Ibid
.
5 ‘Dead Fingers Talk History’, Jeff Parsons, www.punk77.co.uk, December 2005
6 ‘Punk: Wot’s In It For Us’? Keith Howes and Alan Wall, Gay News 136, 9 February 1978
7 Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock, Andrew Earles (Voyageur Press, London, 2010), p. 105
8 ‘Interview by Dale Roy with Robert Deathrage of the Meatshits 2001’, www.canadianassault.com
9 ‘A Growing Number of Pop Musicians are Being Open About Being Gay’, Jim Farber, New York Daily News, 3 October 1991
10 ‘Gary Floyd: Once a Dick, Always a Dick’, Raoul Hernandez, The Austin Chronicle, 12 May 2000
11 ‘Atlantic Dumping’, The Advocate, 17 September 1996
12 Interview, Genre Magazine, September 1995
Chapter 16 – The 1980s: Small Town Boys
1 ‘Seize the Opportunity’, NME, December 1986, pp. 20-7
2 Woman, 8 October 1983
3 ‘Boy George’s Nightmare’, Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 28 August1986
4 ‘Reagan Says Aids Solution Rests With Morals’, George E. Curry, The Chicago Tribune, 2 April 1987
5 ‘Rock Hudson: Victim Of TV Malpractice’, Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times, 2 August 1958
6 ‘Rock Hudson’, People, 23 December 1985
7 ‘If You’ve Got It, Don’t Flaunt It’, Jeremy Jehu, The Stage, 5 December 1985
8 Department of Education and Science circular DES206/86, 6 August 1986
9 Hansard, 6 December 1999
10 Pet Shop Boys: Introspective, Michael Cowton (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1991), p. 26
11 Ibid., p. 35
12 Ibid., p. 41
13 ‘Marc Almond: “I’ve had the Chance to be Subversive in the Mainstream”’, Jude Rogers, The Observer, 23 October 2016
14 Somebody to Love, Richards and Langthorne
15 Paul Strange, Melody Maker, 26 October 1985
16 ‘Erasure Singer Honest About HIV’, Jim Farber, New York Daily News, 14 April 2005
17 ‘Andy Bell in the Public Eye’, Larry Flick, Billboard, 25 June 1944
18 Who’s Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, Aldrich and Wotherspoon (eds.), pp. 78-9
19 ‘Joey Arias talking to Kim Hastreiter’, Paper, 11 January 2016
20 Interview, Maureen McLaughlin and John Beal, Soho Weekly News, 1979
21 ‘Frankie’s Johnson say Have Fun! That’s It, Really’, Judy Cantor, The Daily Herald, 8 July 1985
22 ‘Say It Again, Frankie’, Joe Brown, Washington Post, 4 November 1984
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