It was great when it all began... I’ve been a real Rocky fan for decades. Rocky Horror, that is!
Although I’ve been a loud and proud Rocky Horror enthusiast for decades — it was great when it all began — as a teenager, I had to hide my mesh-and-lace love for the cult film because, well, I lived in Oklahoma. Back then, its ribald tribute to the sci-fi flicks of the ’50s and the gay-subculture explosion of the ’70s was absolutely verboten — not only in my household, but among my friends, too.
As a teen who loved all those non-mainstream things in a non-mainstream way, it was hard to express those somewhat criminal desires when all the guys around you were cranking sub-standard Metallica cassettes, wearing “wife-beaters,” and downing PBRs with their unemployed stepfathers.