Unearthing the Hidden Beats: How LGBTQ Music Revolutionized Culture from 1969 to 2000
Each of the chapters is a jewel box of history and joy unto its own. Readers can engage with Walters as music fans, and can come away fascinated with his perspective on such a wide array of artists. Beyond that, however, is Walters’ sweeping scope of queer history, viewed through his musical lens. As someone alive for nearly all of Mighty Real’s scope, I cherished the opportunity to not only reexamine my memories of the songs that I knew spoke directly to my experience as a baby gay boy (I felt my first adoration of television men like Bill Bixby when I was five and watching reruns of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father). Songs I either purchased as 45s or, after college, on CDs, like Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” Elton John’s “Daniel” (the name, incidentally, I chose for the protagonist of my first memoir’s fictionalized (and wisely unpublished) 1996 predecessor, In So Many Words), Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” Alicia Bridges’ “I Love The Nightlife,” and Prince’s “Controversy.”
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