On this day 30 years ago Mark Ashton, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, died of an AIDS-related illness. Although I was a member of LGSM I can’t say I really knew Mark very well. So I’m commemorating … Continue reading →
The ‘Pits and Perverts” concert was a benefit gig organised by the London Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners group. No one is quite sure where the title came from: originally thought to derive from a newspaper headline it now … Continue reading →
After leaving upfront gay band Bronski Beat in 1985, Jimmy/Jimi Somerville joined up with classically-trained Richard Coles to form The Communards. Regularly supplemented by other musicians (such as Sarah Jane Morris in the clip below) they produced a series of … Continue reading →
Smalltown Boy tells the tale of a young gay man who packs up and heads for London in response to homophobic violence in his (un-named) home town. It’s supposedly based on the experiences of lead singer Jimmy (Jimi/Jimmi) Somerville, who … Continue reading →
OK, the full title should be “‘Screaming’,from the movie ‘Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts’”, but you try getting that into a readable title! Anyway, ‘Framed Youth’ was produced in 1982 by the London Lesbian and Gay Youth Video … Continue reading →