About Face - My First Suit

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About Face - My First Suit

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"I do hope your pimples don't let you down on the big night." Fourteen-year old Steve (Conrad Crawte) is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to his first school dance. Meanwhile everywhere he looks, images of men are taking control of his imagination. In Stewart Main's comical coming of age tale Steve escapes his parents' good wishes, to discover his true desires. They aren't what his no-nonsense father had...

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Video

Date created

1985

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rite of passage / coming of age / teenagers / puberty / gay / homosexuality / family / divorce / parents / male identity / fashion / advertising / smoking / clothing suit / menswear / philip peacocke / gil hanly / seperation / seperated parents / divorce saga / children of divorce / broken families / school dance / shopping / suit / fantasy / sexual fantasy / school boy / 1960s / 60s / queer / lgbtqi+ / gay men / gay man / sexuality / soviet people support vietnam / patricia bartlett / 1980s / eighties / 1985 / mt roskill war memorial hall / imagination / the kinks / mount roskill war memorial hall

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