As Stranger Thgs reviv tert Kate Bh, we look at her Co Waterford fay, and other lks to Ireland that clud a memorable chat to Gay Byrne 1978
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THE ENDURG, MYSTIL QUEER APPEAL OF KATE BH: FROM PNEERG ALLY TO ETERNAL GAY IN
It was like meetg a great iend that you know will be your life forever, ” Olly Waldron, a 23-year-old gay male DJ and Kate Bh superfan, tells PkNews. Kate Bh wrote a gay love song the 70s.
Although Bh’s pop hs like “Wutherg Heights”, “Babooshka”, and “Runng Up That Hill” have lighted dancefloors gay bars around the world for s, most super fans will agree that the gayt moment the sger’s reer is undoubtedly the song “Kashka From Baghdad” om her 1978 sophomore album Lnheart. This typilly peculiar song tells the story of a woman watchg a gay uple livg the hoe oppose her who only e out at night as they fear persecutn.
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“I uldn’t believe she was sgg about homosexualy, felt almost too much.
For an artist famed for her reclivens she had a particular penchant for appearg on children’s televisn the first part of her reer, cludg performg her paean to a cloistered gay uple Kashka om Baghdad on Ask Aspel 1978. Bh has rerd seven ver versns total, not untg her tak on tradnal folk songs: Elton John’s Rocket Man and Candle the Wd, Lord of the Reedy River by Donovan, Ary Barroso’s Brazil, Marv Gaye’s Sexual Healg, Roy Harper’s Another Day, Gershw’s The Man I Love.