Just as Melissa Ethridge is for us today, the 80’s British pop band Bronski Beat were heros to gay youth.

“At the end of 1984, the trio released an album provocatively titled The Age Of Consent. The inner sleeve listed the varying ages of consent for consensual male homosexual activity in different nations around the world.” - Wikipedia.org

This video for the song “Small Town Boy” tells the story of a boy who falls for a diver, but the diver betrays him to conceal his own homosexuality, beating the boy up in an alley with some friends. The police bring him home and when his parents discover that their son was beaten for being gay, they kick him out of the house. However, he finds out that he can always count on his friends. It is a very familiar story for gay people all over the world, and an important message for everyone. We have to continue to strive to stop this ignorance and prejudice that hurts so many people.

Now, if only Justin Timberlake and Ricky Martin could step out of the closet and take a stand for our people!

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