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A review by lexcro
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darrylw Bullock
2.5
Honestly, this book reads like the first draft got published. It has numerous grammatical errors (I know it's almost unavoidable for it to be imperfect, but there were more than a few errors). "Brain Eno" was one of my favorite mistakes. How did no one catch that? At least it was entertaining.
The paragraphs were long, jumbled, and had way too much information, a lot of it unnecessary or out of place, in my opinion. I got whiplash from trying to piece together what was trying to be said in many of them.
This brings me to my biggest complaint: the deadnaming of trans artists. With some artists, Bullock introduced them by their chosen name and referred to them with correct pronouns, but other artists he used their deadnames and incorrect pronouns until the very end of that particular artist's section. It felt really disrespectful, and he seemed to acknowledge their identity as an afterthought, which is extremely disappointing for an LGBT(QIA+) book.
The paragraphs were long, jumbled, and had way too much information, a lot of it unnecessary or out of place, in my opinion. I got whiplash from trying to piece together what was trying to be said in many of them.
This brings me to my biggest complaint: the deadnaming of trans artists. With some artists, Bullock introduced them by their chosen name and referred to them with correct pronouns, but other artists he used their deadnames and incorrect pronouns until the very end of that particular artist's section. It felt really disrespectful, and he seemed to acknowledge their identity as an afterthought, which is extremely disappointing for an LGBT(QIA+) book.