![]() It would take a long time to deal with those feelings of shame, guilt and fear. AIDS had arrived and, to me, gay sex equalled death. "As a closeted gay at an all boys Catholic high school, I did my best to bloke it up and try to fit in," Mac tells Double J. It was a massively important moment for a young Paul Mac. We felt the boldness of that conviction instantly in singer Jimmy Somerville's pensive eyes and anguished cry that opens the debut album's mammoth hit single and its video for 'Smalltown Boy', a song that became a rallying call globally for anyone coming to terms with their sexual identities. "What else can we say? We don't want to hide anything because to hide something implies it's wrong. ![]() ![]() "We've always been the kind of people who are very honest about our sexuality," the band's Larry Steinbachek told Countdown in 1984. What these boys next door had in spades was a fiery spirit of rebellion, thorough sincerity as LGBT advocates, and their own proudly, openly homosexuality identities. There wasn't a bouffed hairdo, handlebar mo or even the faintest hint of eyeliner amongst these three fresh faced lads. Politics may have been staunchly conservative in the early-'80s, but there were huge social and cultural shifts happening in the UK.įrom the dolled up, sly winking Boy George, to the in-your-face debauchery of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, there was no shortage of acts flirting with gender lines and sexuality.īut if you were a kid from the suburbs and looking for something more relatable, you couldn't go past Bronski Beat.
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