I realise what a brave song that was now.”įor the many young Stranger Things fans discovering the enchanting world of Kate Bush for the first time this week, an abundance of spellbinding music and mesmerising performances await.īush’s vast catalogue of sounds and images can feel almost insurmountable at first, but it is a mountain so worth climbing for any queer pop music aficionado. on the general importance of movie divas to gay male culture. I was scared I’d heard it wrong, and she was mocking but she wasn’t. distributed by Women Make Movies, New York, New York or Video Data Bank, Chicago. “I couldn’t believe she was singing about homosexuality, it felt almost too much. “I was very young when that first came out and I didn’t know what to make of it,” Peter adds. “It blows my mind that she wrote and released such a pro-LGBTQ+ song as a teenager in the 1970s when it was then such a taboo subject,” says Olly.
Later in the track she sings of how she “longs to be with them” because “they know the way to be happy.” “Kashka from Baghdad lives in sin, they say with another man but no one knows who,” Bush sings over a distinct instrumental of piano, strumento da porco and pan pipes.
