{ once in a lifetime }

"Yet, then -as now- the myth prevailed that there was only ever one mainstream. We were only too happy to know that our audience existed and to hoe the row in peace."

Derek (Isaac Julien, 2008)

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Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime
1980
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+ Going Out +

[Derek Jarman] 'There was a whole social and other aspect of going out and meeting people in clubs, which a lot of people at the time thought were wrong, but were actually the bedrock of many people meeting, and collective activity.
If it hadn't been for gay clubs and things, it wouldn't have been possible to organise the response that's been organised to the Aids crisis.
It was necessary because they gave, for the first time, a feeling that there were more people.'

Derek (Isaac Julien, 2008)

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Pet Shop Boys ... Somewhere
Directed by Annie Griffin, 1997

+ Let's Remember +

"How do you get to love oneself if everything you've been told about you is negative?
It takes a longtime.
The sexuality was very important, because obviously when I grew up in the early '60s everything to do with one's own sexuality was taboo.
It was before I was 22 that I even dared to even talk to a friend of mine about it.
People forget that
People forget that

People forget that"

Derek (Isaac Julien, 2008)

Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe
It's A Sin (Derek Jarman, 1987)