Back cover synopsis for 117BPM: Beats, bashings, and HIV dementia - Now you're one of us. It is the year NOW. Wearing Spanish boots and floppy shirts and calling themselves the gauchos, four young men in gay self-denial travel through the dark side of Sydney's sub-culture of the occult; searching for the unprotected sex of the 1960s and 70s. Historically askew 117BPM is titled after the speed at which 80s disco diva Laura Branigan's Self Control plays - one hundred and seventeen beats per minute. The four gauchos discover their daily lives are motivated by invisible forces and are intertwined...
Back cover synopsis for 117BPM: Beats, bashings, and HIV dementia - Now you're one of us. It is the year NOW. Wearing Spanish boots and floppy shirts ...