The Secret Public How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream Michael Bird and the throngs of middle-aged

and the throngs of middle-aged women acting like lovesick teenagers

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The Secret Public How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream Michael Bird and the throngs of middle-agedBy: Jon Savage Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2025 Jon Savage, the author of the canonical England's Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In demonstrating that gay and lesbian artists were responsible for many of the greatest cultural breakthroughs in the last half of the twentieth century, he shows that it was their secretly encoded music appealing to a closeted but greatly