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Thursday, 27 June 2024

There's nothing new under the sun...

As our countdown to Pride on Saturday continues, here's a little reminder to all those benighted yoof who think they've invented "gender fluidity" [whatever that actually means] that people were inverting the sexes a long, long time ago - and singing about it!

And then, there's this classic:


On a related note, the ever-wonderful, uber-camp musical genius that was George Melly had a particular fascination for the filthy innuendo of a genre of music known as "Dirty Blues", and recorded many of those songs - some orginally sung by women - like this Bessie Smith number from 1931:


"It's all just a little bit of history repeating!"