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To create the future, you have to imagine the future. You have to take that potential and extend its possibilities – sonically, mechanically, literally – through time. Jude Rogers speaks to co-producer Pete Bellotte and a host of famous fans about one of the all time great singles
In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author
Remembering what it was like to grow up in the shadow of AIDS, Luke Turner argues that Russell T Davies' moving drama It's A Sin provides an overdue opportunity for society to recognise its complicity in the crisis, as well as similar injustices today
Taking a holy trinity of Patrick Cowley's sex journals, Roy Garrett's poetry and Maxx Mann's forthcoming reissue, Max Shand explores the joy and tragedy of the queer American underground, from 70s exuberance to the 80s AIDS crisis
On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites