Her name was Tallulah, she lived till she died

As we poured ourselves into the thinning streets of a drizzly Vauxhall in the early hours of Sunday morning last, the sound of ‘Last Dance’ a damp echo in our ears, we took what’s technically known as ‘a moment’ and paused for thought. We’d been dancing to the tunes of the DJ’s DJ, Severino, in Horse Meat Disco’s Lovebox special at Area. It was time for the weekend to begin winding down - the first weekend in six decades, since long before the legalisation of homosexuality, that a certain queer old dame known as Tallulah could be said to be well and truly off the planet. Severino had just dedicated the last song of the last set of Saturday night to him. And a big bunch of queers threw a cheer.

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