You 36 year old bald headed fag blow me
You don't know me, you're too old
Let go, it's over, nobody listens to techno
-- Eminem "Without Me"
> We can table why Marshall Mathers wrote this . . .
And why exactly can we table this?
> . . . even Sir Elton defended his "Slim Shady" LP for
reasons that can be debated elsewhere.
Sir Elton does not speak for all queers, only himself.
> What I'd like to know is, do you think sexual orientation
is a valid metric for assessing worth, musical or otherwise?
Well, it sure helped me in choosing my husband.
As for music, I found Philip Brett's work on Benjamin Britten (and others) to be incisive and insightful on the issues.
Brian