Filename : /Bronski Beat – The Age Of Consent - (CD, Album, Reissue) - 2018/The Age Of Consent [Remastered] [Expanded Edition] [Disc 1].flac a b c "Smalltown Boy". The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records. British Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 19 December 2013. The inner sleeve of the album has a table listing the minimum age for lawful homosexual relationships between men in each country in Europe, accompanied by the telephone number of a service giving gay legal advice. It was removed from the United States release of the album by MCA Records on the basis of "past sensitivities of several record store chains". [9] Singles [ edit ]

As the sole surviving founding member of Bronski Beat, Jimmy Somerville is the keeper of an important legacy. It was certainly in evidence on The Age Of Consent’s opener, the tempestuous, hyperventilating Why?. Over a pulsing Moroder-esque throb, Somerville gasped as he assumed the role (one well known to him) of the victim of a homophobic assault: “Contempt in your eyes/ As I turn to kiss his lips… Blood on your fist/ Can you tell me why?” SONGWRITER "Donna Summer/Geoffrey Goddard/Giorgio Moroder/Jimmy Somerville With Bronski Beat/Pete Bellotte"By 1984, many European countries had reduced the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16, but it remained at 21 in the United Kingdom, having only been partially decriminalised in 1967. Homosexuality was not ‘legalised’ in Scotland, where Somerville was born, until 1981. The wording of the legislation to decriminalise also included wording that placed restrictions such as making illegal the use of a hotel room for sex. [7] [8] Homosexuality was further stigmatised beyond the restrictions placed on homosexual individuals, and homophobia was a danger to gay individuals. [7] Somerville was on a righteous mission and it helped that he had in his arsenal a unique, ferocious weapon: his fervent contra tenor vocal that could explode into soaring falsetto when a song and its message demanded it. Not everybody loved it but, for better and worse, it became Bronski Beat’s signature note.

a b Steve Bronski: co-founder of Bronski Beat dies aged 61, Laura Snapes, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 The cover featured a prominent pink triangle, reclaimed in the 70s from its horrific Nazi Germany origins, as a symbol of LGBTQ pride and liberation. The number for the Gay Legal Advice Line in Britain was also printed on the album's sleeve. Robinson, Lucy (2007). Gay men and the left in post-war Britain: how the personal got political. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7434-9. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. About 1982 I was still listening to disco. But, above this bar, there was an organisation called Icebreakers, which was a kind of a support group for young gay men and lesbians, and everyone would go to this bar, but it wasn't disco that was being played," Somerville told RN's The Music Show in 2006.

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