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The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend


Sweet documentary about Sean DeLear, of LA punk band Glue, who never landed a major record deal but was famous among celebrities

Even aged 14 years old, living with his Christian parents in a conservative suburb of Los Angeles, DeLear was proudly, joyfully gay, though this was before the terror of Aids. A friend says the reason they didn’t might have something to do with having a black man in drag as lead singer, and tells the story of a Glue video being pulled from MTV by an executive. And celebrities loved him: when he walked into the women’s toilets at Kate Moss’s 21st birthday party, a gaggle of supermodels swarmed him, cooing over his dress.

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