📚 Finished reading The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979). An epic book in five parts, covering the mid-1950s, the early and late 1960s, and the early and late 1970s. This period is transformational for gay rights, moving from a hidden and illegal world to one of openly homosexual, bisexual and transgender artists, and is reflected through the stories of the characters in pop. The book finishes just before the 1980s with a foreshadowing of the AIDS epidemic that was to come. An interesting slice of cultural history.