For queer music, the progress is apparent, but relatively slow. With teen movies such as Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) and more recently Love, Simon (2018) and the prevalence of queer representation on screen, gay representation has begun to emerge more and more from the shadows and is starting to share the spotlight within pop culture.
What has drawn me to write this paper is the emergence of queer music (or musical pieces with queer undertones) into the mainstream. As with many minorities that have come to develop their own subcultures the LGBT+ community has fostered its people and has created a thriving literary, musical and overall artistic culture. It has social and political aspects that have led queer folks to create their own subcultures. In writing, or should I say, composing the many facets of queer identity, it is important to note that queer identity is much more than one’s attraction to a sex or another, even though that is what it is usually summed up as. Taylor & Francis, 200 (.)ġThis paper takes a look at queer music and at how music has entered a new wave in which LGBTQ+ people can openly create and expose characters and life situations that are their own. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology.
