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Glitter Up the Dark Is Required Reading for Queer Music Fans

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Pitchfork Book Club highlights today’s best new music books. Growing up queer requires a unique set of survival skills. You learn to pick up on subtle social cues, whether from potential tormentors, suspicious adults, or other queer people.

You figure out you’re the other before you even know what that means, usually from a stray comment about your gait, your speaking voice, your interests.

You’re put into a box before you come of age, with a host of expectations and judgments that disabuse you of the ability to craft an identity for yourself.

For many of us denied that experience, art becomes a lifeboat. Music, with its intimate ability to bridge the gap between artist and listener, leaves a lot of room to dream into.

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