Just taught this history in class yesterday — thanks for sharing this resource!

Disco was coopted by masses from Blk/brwn queer folks after shifting both aesthetic & technological approaches to pop music making, then it received homophonic/anti-black backlash https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😡" title="Pouting face" aria-label="Emoji: Pouting face"> typical. https://twitter.com/NewBlackMan/status/1199345096786755584">https://twitter.com/NewBlackM...

I should say I taught it and it was also presented on beautifully by a very sharp (Blk/Queer) undergrad student https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙌🏿" title="Person raising both hands in celebration (dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person raising both hands in celebration (dark skin tone)"> who discusses Gillian Frank’s “Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash against Disco”: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/224099 ">https://muse.jhu.edu/article/2...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzke5/disco-demolition-night-was-a-disgrace-and-celebrating-it-is-worse">https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

*homophobic. In a music-related tweet, that’s a confusing mistake lol.