A review by zephy55
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock

Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.

It's great that this book exists. It is a wildly ambitious project to do justice to 100 years of LGBT music, so maybe this relatively short book was doomed to fail my expectations. I was hoping for a more focused review, perhaps on key artists the author felt were important and digging deep into their lives, time and place. However, this book jumps around way too much and makes confusing choices with no justification. Ex. Josephine Baker is only briefly mentioned in a mid length paragraph in a chapter allegedly about London but actually about LGBT artists in several major cities of Europe but after we've spent several pages bouncing back and forth between (to me) lesser known (to a modern audience) artists. Entire books could be written about any person mentioned in this book but the author fail  to give any person or topic or time or place any breathing room to the point it reads like a well sourced listsicle. Anyway, not for me. Also, a published book shouldn't have this many noticeable typos. Also, also, sometimes on the same page the author will refer to someone as their first name, last name or nickname with no consistency which is annoying.