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1987. Music: Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield. What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Colin ClewsApril 28, 2014

In 1987 these two huge gay icons came together to give us ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’. As well as marking the Pet Shop Boys continuing climb up the music ladder it was also a significant indicator of … Continue reading →

1984. Music: Pet Shop Boys. West End Girls

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Colin ClewsJanuary 10, 2013

Were they? Weren’t they? Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe remained coy about their sexuality, even with a string of ‘gay-oriented’ songs like Young Offender, It’s a Sin, and their cover of the Village People’s Go West. And … Continue reading →

Gay in the 80s

A personal account of LGBT life in the 1980s in the UK, USA and Australia

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1987. Music: Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield. What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984. Music: Pet Shop Boys. West End Girls