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“You had a backcloth of pop music that was absolutely full of gay people, even megastars like Freddie Mercury and Elton John, but most of them were living some sort of closeted existence,” Flynn says. It took at least a decade for the era to be recognised as a golden age of gay pop, because it didn’t make itself explicit at the time. “Of course, it would transpire many years later that there were more gay artists than the public were led to believe.”
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“At the time we were just three gay guys who started a band – we didn’t feel like part of any particular movement,” says Steve Bronski. (The number for the London Gay Switchboard was etched into the runout groove.) A remastered version of their debut album Age of Consent arrived this month. Synth-pop group Bronski Beat’s debut single, Smalltown Boy, about a gay man leaving his homophobic home town, charted globally in 1984.
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“There were stars in the 80s who were completely transparent about their sexuality from the start, and whose gayness was absolutely integral to their music.” Come the 80s though, acts such as Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood became “the gay heroes of the decade”, says Paul Flynn, author of Good As You: 30 Years of Gay Britain. Queer male pop artists were previously few and far between: Little Richard’s lyrics about anal sex were cut from Tutti Frutti, and it only took Bowie’s arm draped over the shoulder of Mick Ronson on Top of the Pops in 1972 to send middle England reeling. The winds of the gay liberation movement had been blowing strong for a decade: queer black men such as Sylvester had been at the heart of disco and the children of Bowie were coming of age just as MTV, a new medium that valued the high-energy visuals of queer nightclubs, was launched. The 80s was a perfect storm of male queerness for many reasons.