Dirk Stewen: Featuring Gay Goth Scene

"I am in love with Gay Goth Scene – The Hidden Cameras singer/songwriter Joel Gibb and artist Paul P's queer zine. In a humorous way, it reminds me of my youth in an industrial small town in Germany, feeling doomed, surrounded by Nazis old and new, expecting a short life in a soon to be destroyed environment. Pretty gothic. Then and now. In those days it helped me to listen to The Sisters of Mercy and Christian Death, to dress up, and then transplanting myself to a big city, coming out of the closet, going out, finding my own family. There where options.

"With the zine, the two artists tried: “purporting to the world a fully formed underground or riotous gang that never really quite existed outside the lives of its makers – though through self-publishing their scenes were eventually willed into existence“. Well, for now I want more Gay Goth pleasures and things I admire in my life, so I’ve asked them for permission to spice up my new show with the zine pages." – Dirk Stewen, March 2017