Doug was someone I met when we were both just hitting the gay scene in our hometown. We were 18 at the time. He had recently moved to the small city I lived in from a smaller town a couple hours away. We bonded instantly and are still best friends today even though I’m on one coast and he’s on the other. He’s my sister and I adore him.
We spent many nights out at the local gay bar. It was called The Park and was a private club. Membership was only $5 but that helped to keep the door secure. This was a small city in Appalachia in the very early 1980s after all and we needed, well at least a sense of, good security. I remember this tune as being one of our favorites. Doug always was and still is a blast to hang out with. My heart fills with joy thinking of the times we cut a rug to this classic.
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon – 1983
Happy Pride Y’all!
Fearsome Beard 
Another wonderful memory, thank you for sharing it.
I’m happy I shared it as after posting I text a link to it to him. We had a moment of joy together from it.
❤️
This video, although billed as ‘official’, is far different from the one we saw at the time – and in subsequent years – though that one, also featuring this ‘Mississippi steamboat’, was rather more joyous than this vid. I only learnt a few years ago that not only were they shot ever so far from Louisiana itself, but actually on the Thames just outside London – most, if not all, of the ‘cast’ also being from London. Oh, “such stuff as dreams are made on!”
Interesting. I was unaware of a different vid from this one. Maybe at the time there were two, one for this side of the pond and one for yours? It’s plausible that while shooting they made two.
I prefer the ‘other’ one, which now doesn’t seem to be available on YouTube. Very strange. It doesn’t have slightly iffy moments like this does.