Gay singers Holly Johnson and Boy George have been amongst those to pay tribute to Dame Vivienne Westwood, the punk rock designer, who has passed on at the age of eighty. Westwood played an important role in the pheonomenal success of punk rock as a movement of politics, music and fashion, from 1976. Although radical movements for gay liberation and women’s liberation existed long before punk, the late seventies movement characterised by DIY music and publishing, helped give voice to many young women, and LGBT+ people. For example, a lively scene of self published queer fanzines exists t