num_pages: 336
description: Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And everyone, finally, was welcome--to come as themselves. This is not a fairy tale. This was real, mighty real, and disco-sensation Sylvester was the piper.Yale-trained sociologist Joshua Gamson uses Sylvester's life to lead us through the story of the 1970s, when a generation took off its shame. Celebrity, sociology, and music history mingle in this endlessly entertaining story of a singer who embodied the freedom, spirit, and flamboyance of a golden moment in American culture.
language: English
title: The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
titlecomplete: The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
genres: History, Queer, Biography, Memoir, Music, LGBT, Biography Memoir, Gender, Gay, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 281
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Biography
publisher: Picador