#also shoutout to the youtube channel robert plant's plantations host of robert's many on-stage chatty tangents among which the gay ones.

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Where can I read about all the gay shit that happened between the led zeppelin guys please I’m dying I need to know everything right now

okay so the thing about gay led zeppelin lore is that it is basically a pyramid scheme you need to get into it via word of mouth because to my knowledge there's not a compendium of robert plant faggotry or anything unfortunately. however have some resources under the cut 👀

in the houses of the holy by susan fast is a super interesting essay about led zeppelin's music and makes a lot of compelling points wrt the queerness of their performances, but obviously that's not an account of actual gay shit that they did off stage.

OH of course there's the infamous 1975 lisa robinson article for creem source of many an iconic moment in in gay zep herstory and also the even more infamous 1975 cameron crowe interview for rolling stone which has a bit less gay shit but is very iconic because of who cameron crowe is.

you could probably do well with reading a biography — i haven't yet bothered reading richard cole's or stephen davis's because they are by most reliable accounts full of shit, but i did really like trampled under foot by barney hoskyns, which is lowkey as gay as it could get in a book where the actual members of zep are interviewed.

other than that there's just SO many miscellaneous bits and bobs of lore floating around (one of my favourite ones is the week-long trip to dominica the two of them took alone to visit jimmy's friend and beat poet royston ellis) that you just sort of acquire as you get deeper into it lmao. honestly this is going to sound insane but one of the easiest ways to acquire gay zep lore is to read fanfiction because i swear these authors are actual unpaid historians. there's been several times that i have read a fic and been like oh that was so creative and then found out it was 99% based on historical record (with the 1% being anal sex) down to jimmy having an aquarium when he was in art school or whatever the fuck. i would absolutely love to give you some fic recs if you dm me!