The first chords of It’s a Sin fall heavy, a church organ in pop drag. Derek Jarman filmed the video for the chart-topping track in 1987, already living with the knowledge of his HIV diagnosis and later, the development of AIDS. He filled the frame with ruins, candles, fragments of architecture. Not allegory, just what was left around him — broken stone, wood, flame. As Chris McCormack points out, “Jarman’s visions arrive as ballast against the punitive responses by the state and the media towards queer lives.” Thatcher’s England was legislating queerness into silence: Section 28, passed the following year, made it illegal for schools and councils to “promote homosexuality.” Teachers could not acknowledge their students’ lives; libraries were stripped of books. The song, with Jarman’s imagery, was about the material reality of living under a law that rendered existence as unspeakable: