THE resource on the net for the history of GLBT music

September 24, 2012 11:20 AM

Queer Music Heritage is a sprawling website about the history of queer music. You can listen to twelve years' worth of monthly radio shows (link goes to the first year, 2000); take a look at the Queer Music History 101 overview; check out the extensive photo galleries in the female impersonators section; or read through the blog, which features interesting tidbits from gay musical history, like this overview of the Sissy Man Blues.

And a shoutout to the book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. I found Queer Music Heritage by googling some of the songs listed in this book- almost every one of them has a page on this site.

posted by showbiz_liz (3 comments total)

damnit I was supposed to get work done today
posted by The Whelk at 1:05 PM on September 24, 2012

Just last night on Queer Music Heritage I was reading Minette: Recollections of a Part-Time Lady, a scan of the rare memoir of a drag performer. (disclaimer: the creator of the site, JD Doyle, is a friend of mine.)
posted by larrybob at 8:38 PM on September 24, 2012 [1 favorite]

Hey dude! 69!
posted by ostranenie at 8:06 PM on September 26, 2012