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“Groove is in the Heart” — Always
Oh, how I love Lady Miss Kier and Deee-Lite. I can remember SO many wonderful days (and nights) spent dancing to their music. I always remember feeling so happy to listening to them, and the fashion was absolutely sublime. There was a real feeling of inclusiveness in their work.
And while I wasn’t a “club kid” in NYC back in the day, I could always definitely appreciate the ethos of those times. Halycon days, I think.
Since June is National Pride Month, I wanted to write about how important it is to me to add my voice to this beautiful chorus of diversity and acceptance. Of course, right now in the US, there is so much hatred and cruelty for anyone (or anything) considered to be “different” and I’ve never understood that. I mean, as the saying goes: “Normal is boring” and it is.
To me, at least, anyway…there’s a wonderful memoir by one of my very favorite authors, Jeanette Winterson, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” that I highly recommend. This book resonates with me for many reasons, but at the heart of it all, is discovering, loving and accepting who you are. And although I am not a full fledged “Trekkie” there is a part of me who will always lust after Jean Luc Picard aka Sir Patrick Stewart and on “The Next Generation” there was such a wonderful and vast array of different characters who embodied different traits (how…
