The first collection of gay and lesbian work in music and musicology, 'Queering The Pitch' shows how music and its pleasureability are often shaped by our notions of sexuality and sexual identity. Barricade Books, 1997. A breathtaking, revealing overview of gay people making music and shaping culture.
Chapters cover composers, male singers, female singers, British singers and dancer-choreographers.
All musical genres and time periods, from Tchaikovsky to k.d. and more. While love is the overwhelmingly favorite topic in popular song, this love is inevitably between man and woman. Many of the greatest and most celebrated composers and performers have been gay or lesbian, yet this fact has most often been denied. Stanford University Press, 1996. An encyclopaedia of gay and lesbian recordings.