THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
A DIFFERENT SET OF JAWS
“ROCKY HORROR made me queer. Well, kinda… ROCKY HORROR gave me the courage to be queer. My friends and I watched THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW an inordinate number of times on VHS at sleepovers and slumber parties throughout the mid to late 1980s. Not so much a bible, more of a route map to our emerging queerdom. As we were young, it wasn’t easy to see midnight screenings in London, but clad in our PJs, and singing whilst under the powerful influence of booze stolen from the back of parents’ drinks cabinets, the show shaped our outlook on life and how we were determined to live it. Coming of age in a turbulent decade, the queer cacophony of ROCKY HORROR — on stage and screen, on VHS, vinyl, and cassette — was an essential part of my survival strategy. I owe it so much.”
TOKEN HOMO
