Defying Gravity is about the power of choosing and forging your own path, with or without help.
- Associate Professor in Popular Music/Director of Black Studies, University of Nottingham
Whitney Houston’s bisexuality is an important part of her story but – as an expert in queer representation in musicals explains – I Wanna Dance With Somebody doesn’t quite do her sexuality justice.
It may have a diverse cast but it erases the Black and Indigenous people who were there in the room and relegates women to the sidelines.
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