ABSTRACT
A er the essay was nished and submitted, there followed a long struggle with the editors of Grove, which Philip Brett documented in his essay “Doing it in Grove,” which appeared in February 2002 in the B.B.C. Music Magazine as “A Matter of Pride: Can We Talk About Gay Music?” e entire process, Brett noted, “was like having teeth pulled.” Areas targeted for cuts or change included musicians’ names, popular music topics, the role of women in music, and our acknowledgement of various colleagues who had read and commented on the essay or contributed to it, for it was truly an amalgam of the work of a community. A er its appearance in Grove 2001, with the title “Gay and Lesbian Music,” the original, unexpurgated essay was restored in the Spring 2001 Newsletter of the Gay and Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society, and translated into Portuguese and Spanish for online publication by Carlos Palombini.
