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Love in a Void: Romance and Fear in the Songs of New Wave’s Romeo Void
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Love in a Void: Romance and Fear in the Songs of New Wave’s Romeo Void

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 / 14 June 2022

San Francisco’s new wave band Romeo Void exists in a curious interstice between the social context of the early ‘80s while being wholly prescient of our era of #MeToo.

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E.T. Was Gay
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E.T. Was Gay

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 / 18 February 2016

Steven Spielberg’s most child-friendly blockbuster, E.T., primed a generation to be more accepting of homosexuality.