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Jack King , February 20th, 2021 13:20 Bronski Beat s 1984 floor-filler Smalltown Boy has travelled through cinema as a marker as gay cultural subjectivities since 1986 s Parting Glances. Jack King maps the song s onscreen history and its reckoning with the queer tension between love and death A young gay man stands alone on a train platform, caught in the midst of a very on-the-nose downpour. All he has left, aside from the meagre possessions packed into his little bag, is himself. We hear what has brought the eponymous small town boy to this moment, to be stood, drenched, waiting for a train. His story, up to this point, has been of homophobic ostracism, one far from new to the queer imagination, recorded at a time when gays and lesbians were escaping hometown prejudices to the big cities in their droves – a pattern of migration that has stuck into the present. He clutches a one-way ticket.

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