David Bowie Didn’t Make Me Gay
<p>A friend recently gave me a Barnes & Noble gift certificate. Perusing the bookshelves, I chose <em>David Bowie Made Me Gay, </em>whose author Darryl W. Bullock gave a nice testimonial quote to my 2022 book about how Record Store Day led to vinyl being the most improbable technological comeback of the 21st century<em>.</em></p>
<p>From its title, I thought Darryl’s book was another Bowie biography passed off as memoir. But the subtitle — <em>100 Years of LGBTQ Music</em> — revealed that it’s more of a reference book, similar to Victor Russo’s <em>The Celluloid Close</em>t, a study of homosexuality in movies first published in 1982. Even though I wasn’t gay and never sexually attracted to men, I bought Russo’s book out of curiosity when it was published, since I studied sociology and film theory in college. By my late 20s, my friends included several gay men with whom I shared mutual interests such as music, not sexual attraction.</p>
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