He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

It was fantastic for me as a manager, for the staff, for the players, the supporters, the club, it was really a very, very good day for us.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

There are still some people out there who think that the gay community is a magical world, a masculine world, full of love, and kindness, and friendship. And it could still be...if only en masse they didn't keep chasing people with rusty axes who dare threaten to shatter their illusions.