Writing

The new minister replacing Fowler, John Moore was not in fact to have a particularly auspicious period at the Department of Health and Social Security. Up until that time he…

Sacrifice, originally Elton John (1989) As Cleancut got on with the business of producing films: a video for a London Health Authority.. called 'So you think you know about AIDS…

It was soon a case of being back into the 'London routine'. On Saturday 15th April, 1989 I was writing: 'Stoned at the LA last night. Went there after my…

Understanding & learning to love new musical form, why I had a love of musicals, Letting yourself be open as a person to the new and different in your life..…

By 1988, Margaret Hilda Thatcher had been the leader of the Conservative Party for thirteen years and the British Prime Minister for eight of those years. She seemed, in many…

There are many examples throughout the music world's culture in the sixties and early seventies of people, famous, infamous and unknown who were gay, who did not dare to come…

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy You were the one that they'd talk about around town as they put you down And as hard as they would try…

Things were at least developing more positively in other areas , especially politically in London. The mid eighties was quite a strange time here. Although Maggie and her Tridents (a…

Development of the gay counter culture At the same time, as a still spartan network of gay clubs were developing, the effects of the radicalised liberation movement of gay men…

My life took an unexpected turn after living for about eighteen months at the Regina, when my boss Bill Richardson, the superintendent at Kew, asked if I would come and live…