Joe Bracco, born May 2, 1960 on Long Island NY, is but one of the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of bright talents lost to AIDS; he passed away March 3, 1991 in NYC. I did not have the pleasure of attending any of his performances; [read more]
FAMILY OF LOVERS: Celebrating the Music of Romanovsky & Phillips (Who are Romanovsky & Phillips?) I envision an album (available as a CD and through streaming services) of covers of R&P (and Ron Romanovsky’s solo) songs recorded by a mix of well-established and very new [read more]
When Ms Ian asked for volunteers to share her writing, I jumped at the opportunity. My respect for their work is deep; my young queer self identified with the songs of Ms Ian almost as much as Romanovsky & Phillips – and regular visitors to [read more]
After reading my blog post Queer Progress (measured by Romanovsky & Phillips music), one of my “straight, but not narrow” friends asked if there were any R&P songs that weren’t “all gay” that they might relate to. First of all, I would like to think [read more]
Another mash-up post; see also My Father, Martin and Gene from 2012. What was going to be just a review of a new CD took a turn; my mind is like that. Ms Ian’s catalogue has long been a favourite, and all her songs are [read more]
Some thoughts on the progress we have (or haven’t) made as queer folk, at least here in North America, measured by the Romanovsky & Phillips music catalog. With something like 50 songs on the still-available R&P titles, and dozens more on Ron’s solo albums, there [read more]
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