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Is this really a good, representative slice of history?
Well, no. But that's because it seems to define "gay pop music" in terms of "gay people mak[ing] pop music", as the topic abstract has it. I can't help feeling that a better approach to any such history would be to look at the way in which various groups, subcultures or communities have adopted songs, artists or genres as their own. So for starters, I think it would be fascinating to examine to relationship between what I'd hazard a guess at being the mainstream (mostly male) gay scene, and shiny disco-influence pop - boy and girl bands, singing love songs that are specifically heterosexual in content at least half the time, and often very squeaky clean. What's going on there? Why does it seem to be quite such a universal constant, recognised by the community in question, the bands and their management (either clandestinely or otherwise), and even their detractors (I see/hear homophobic insults directed at boy bands and bands like Steps more often than any other genre)? |
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