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Carlão, a sexist, prejudiced and conservative, buys a wardrobe and every night he leaves the closet to become a true LGBTQIA + member, thanks to a "Fairy Godmother". Mark Bego is a professional writer who has authored 45 books involving rock n' roll and show business, with two New York Times bestsellers, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a Chicago Tribune bestseller.

Never before had gay sexuality been as up-front and in the face of America. The band, perhaps best known for hits like Macho Man and Y. A, sold 50 million albums, earned 45 Gold and Platinum record certificates around the globe, performed in worldwide tours, starred in its own camp classic film, and made the cover of Rolling Stone.

Beginning with their album Macho Man, which debuted on Feb. 27, , and marked the start of the group the way most people remember it, they embraced an unrepentantly gay identity – when that. With Bernardo Alves, Alainstar Aredes, Otávio Augusto, Raphaella Baros. Convert currency.

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. We dive into how images of strength, defiance, and resilience have both shaped and challenged stereotypes about gay masculinity—from historical portrayals to modern media reinterpretations. Condition: Fine. Excellent Condition. Since leaving the band in the early s, Jones has continued a career of stage acting and music performance.

Seller Inventory Scanned Learn more about currency preferences. The Vietnam War was over and America seemed in the midst of a nationwide party. Randy Jones was the original cowboy in The Village People. Publisher: Praeger , Add to basket. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure 7 days a week!

This work will interest pop culture and music enthusiasts, in addition to scholars in gay studies. In Macho Man , readers can travel back with one of the first gay icons in popular music, and a top pop culture biographer, as they describe this complicated process of change.

Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks. The Village People struck a cultural nerve and fueled a craze that had them playing to sold-out crowds at Madison Square Garden. Seller Inventory Contact seller. Seller: suffolkbooks , Center moriches, NY, U.

Condition: Very Good. In these pages, Randy Jones, the original cowboy in the band, takes us inside the time period, the discos, and the new musical style that was in many ways unprecedented in giving a voice to a previously closeted gay culture. Even today, few adults could not at least hum the tunes to Y.

Because of the unique role they played in the United States of the late s, The Village People are able to provide a powerful lens through which to view the emergence and development of gay culture in America. Macho Macho Man: Directed by Pedro Amorim. Condition: new. Assisted by Mark Bego, one of the most popular and prolific pop culture authors working today, Jones shows how the fast-lane rise, fall, and rebirth of this novel band paralleled activities across the last 40 years within the gay culture and gay rights movement.

He debuted his solo act in Trump's Taj Mahal in , and in the fall of released his first solo album in 20 years. Randy Jones ; Mark Bego. Then The Village People appeared on the music scene. According to Willis, the group's lead singer and co-lyricist until he quit in , he was the only straight member of the band and resented assumptions they were a gay group for a gay audience.

The self-proclaimed Me generation was flocking to discotheques, recreational drug use was high, and sexual taboos were being shattered nationwide.