Book references

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=duhGAAAAMAAJ&q=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&dq=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&hl=en&surl=1&safe=active                 Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Volume 2; Volume 4, Marc Stein
"Increasingly, openly gay and lesbian performers speak to audiences without the evasion that heretofore characterized the history of pop songwriting and performance."

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y3FYzMPH2OwC&pg=PA35&dq=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian popular culture by Luca Prono
"After the death of his wife, Bernstein was more open about his homosexuality, but without officially coming out."

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qp52mROzDMYC&pg=RA1-PA163&dq=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Queers in American Popular Culture by Jim Elledge
"African-American and gay clubs has moved into the American heartland and is fast taking over the pop-music business."

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SVF5xQCC7OoC&pg=PA127&dq=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
We Are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music by Ken McLeod.
"If sports constitute a forum where homosexuality has been traditionally discouraged, then popular music is a forum where it has, at least by comparison, been relatively tolerated and at times even celebrated."

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l6sS1cC1Kl4C&pg=PA135&dq=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Striptease culture: Sex, media and the democratization of desire by Brain McNair.
"In doing so they were only the campest product of a popular music industry which, in the 1970s and thereafter, provided a key platform for the mainstreaming of gayness, and male homosexuality in particular."

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=30NDj3_0wmMC&pg=PA99&dq=pop+music+%26+homosexuality&hl=en#v=onepage&q=pop%20music%20%26%20homosexuality&f=false
The British pop dandy: masculinity, popular music and culture By Stan Hawkins
"The passive male homosexual's femininity would be essentialized by his preference for subjects at school, such as music, art, languages and history,13 while in the case of the 'manlier' homosexual, with male-based subject interests,"