Why was disco culturally important?

According to the book What If We Are Wrong About That, disco was the first place gay culture went mainstream (quoting from memory). read more

According to the book What If We Are Wrong About That, disco was the first place gay culture went mainstream (quoting from memory). If it turns out that gay rights are / were one of the most important things we remember about this time in history, then we can point to disco as the place where it happened. read more

The rise of Disco in the 1970s had an enormous cultural impact on the American audience. It was the music they heard on the radio, the music they danced to. It affected fashion. read more

But they adopted a wholly different aesthetic from the counterculture, because an important part of feeling special is being different — in this case different from the hippies. A core element of the new disco scene was sophistication. read more