📚 Finished reading Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit by Richard Coles. An interesting cultural memoir, from the perspective of a young gay man who comes to London and falls into a short but explosive pop career. The memoir is honest; he comes across as super self-involved but also very self-aware. I had no idea about the link between the striking miners and the gay community in the early 1980s, and how much of a role it played in progressing LGBT matters in the UK. It was completely shocking to read how Coles lied to his friends about being HIV positive at the height of the AIDS epidemic. It’s difficult to understand, but also difficult for me to judge him too harshly from my perspective in 2025.