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Looking back, looking forwards... In December 1989, Neil Tennant was yet to write the lyrics to the song that he felt, in 2020, remains the Pet Shops best song, Being…

So, right at the end of the year and at the very start of the nineties, I was in a very discursive mood in my diary. Considering all the things…

On Saturday 1st October, I was actually very positive for once, as BMP had approached another photographer in the same vein as Herb Ritts but who was not quite so established,…

By Sunday 18th June, I was just back in London: Back from Ibiza, far too much to say about it, but it'll wait. Up to the Heath with Joe tonight, there…

By the 14th April, I was back from the American trip: (I didn't take a diary for the same reason as before: the dratted customs).   Difficult to write about…

It was remarkable how many gay magazines BMP was finding to place the ads in, quite a few I had never heard of. Suddenly, there were to be quite large…

By the 30th October, I was reminiscing about ex boyfriend's and remembering my relatively relaxed and simple time at Leadale Rd, the final April housing co-op house I had lived in.…

One of the saving graces of working in this area, at the HEA at this time, was that the advertising campaign was not the only area of work being developed…

So it had been, with a natty black briefcase and some trepidation, that I went through the front doors of Hamilton House into the HEA in the first week at its…

At that time I was working a supervisor for the fledgling 'National AIDS Helpline' which had expanded in the previous year to be funded by the DoH and to run…