Unearthing the Hidden Beats: How LGBTQ Music Revolutionized Culture from 1969 to 2000
Reviewed by Brian Watson
There’s an evolutionary advantage to categorization and compartmentalization. Sabre-tooth tiger? Bad. Ripe fruit? Good. At this point in my life, however, I’ve concluded that binaries, like good and bad, boy and girl, gay and straight, are actually spectra, or, abandoning linearity altogether, conceptual galaxies. Even so, I take delight when authors work to expand on the rainbow of queerness, and Barry Walter’s Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000 (Viking; May 2026) is one such expansive work.
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