Slightly off thread but, did you see the 'top ten electro pop' programme this weekend?
Apart from being transported back to my early teenaged years (on thread! on thread!!) I thought one of the most interesting things about it was the stuff about the gay element. Bronski Beat were apparantly the first openly gay band. The Pet Shop Boys weren't openly gay - but couldn't we tell? It's blindingly obvious to me now that Vince Clarke is gay but I don't remember it even crossing my mind at the time. What was wrong with us? Or maybe it was that I was only 13 and as yet an innocent
