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313: How Disco Defined Gay Life Today – Frank DeCaro

Jan 24, 202548 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Disco! For most gay men of a certain age - like those of you who listen to 40 Plus: Gay Men, Gay Talk - Disco represented so much of our lives then and now. It was the age of freedom, fun, pushing the "extremes" and also the age of loss due the HIV/AIDS epidemic.


In his newly released book, Author Frank DeCaro, takes us on a frolicking, entertaining, yet serious tribute to the overlooked art form of disco, which has never been given its proper due, nor taken its true place in the historic struggle for LGBTQ+, gender, and racial equality.


Key lessons you'll learn:


  • How Disco became a movement towards more LGBTQ+ rights


  • Gain a glimpse into some of the stories in the Disco era that shaped us as gay men today


  • Discover how Disco can still teach us so many thing about our present day struggls as LGBTQ+ individuals


About Frank


Frank DeCaro’s work has appeared in myriad publications including the New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Vogue, and the Advocate. He is also the author of Rizzoli’s Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business. on their journey.

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