Though the title of the “Queen of Disco” is commonly associated with legends like Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer, one of the first to truly reign supreme within this genre was Sylvester. Known for ...

A new collection of disco numbers, Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits, showcases the career of Sylvester. Music critic Milo Miles argues that... Sylvester: 'Mighty Real' Disco Star Deserves A Modern ...

Eight minutes into the recent documentary Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester, Broadway star Billy Porter clearly articulates the singular significance of Sylvester, San Francisco’s ...

Possessing a powerful, unforgettable falsetto, Sylvester is a disco and LGBTQI+ icon — best known for classic singles “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” and “Dance (Disco Heat)” — whose life was was cut ...

Sylvester in March-1979 at the SF War Memorial Opera House – Photo: Phil Bray READ THIS STORY IN THE MAGAZINE Much of the world met Sylvester in the late ’70s as the unapologetically androgynous, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A funky beat. Disco balls spin, glinting in the light. A scantily clad dancer rocks her hips with abandon. She ...

“He was about as outrageous as styrofoam! “When I charged into his room at the Holiday Inn, he was lying on the couch, kvetching about exhaustion, a backache, and his root canal session like a bored ...

San Francisco disco legend Sylvester will be celebrated at the annual Go Bang! party, hosted this year at the Stud bar. Sylvester was a singer-songwriter and performer who helped shape the San ...

A scene from "Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical." Pictured (L to R): DeAnne Stewart, Rahmel McDade, Anastacia McCleskey, Anthony Wayne as Sylvester, and Jacqueline B. Arnold. Photo by Joan ...

Unapologetically gay disco pioneer Sylvester was one of the many LGBTQ artists whose lives were cut short by the AIDS epidemic in the ’80s while the Republican-led government willfully ignored the ...

What a man he was. Born in 1947, Sylvester James first had sex in 1955, but he never claimed he’d been abused. “One of the choir leaders turned me out,” was how he put it. Three years later his mother ...