Personally, I don't care what the original glammers got up to - although I was tickled by the T-shirt the stylish and ironic Horie-San, from the Kahimi Karie live band, was wearing onstage during our concerts in Japan: a photo of David Bowie with the slogan 'I Fucked Mick Jagger'. I don't care whether it's true or not. What matters to me is that it's exciting, shocking, and resonates with the myths. The spirit of songs like 'Width Of A Circle' and 'Time' was defiantly homosexual.
I'm not gay, but I've always thought that homosexuality must give you a real headstart if you want to become a really great curator, a person with a truly exceptional style-vision. Homosexuals, who, like the left-handed, are born with their heads wired differently, learn to take nothing on trust. Since the media so rarely represents them as they see themselves, they become adept at making transgressive readings, secret interpretations coloured by their own very different fantasy needs. Gays are unlikely to see art and entertainment as mere distractions on the way to life's ultimate purpose, heterosexual reproduction, and much more likely to see these
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