And in the coming week, some 30 years later , he headlines for a week at London’s Vaudeville Theatre in his own flamboyant, dancing journey through his life as the alter ego Alyssa Edwards.He told me : ‘I had a masculine father, who rode a Harley Davidson : the thought of his son being in dance class was confusing and mind boggling”.
At a time when he had no queer role models on tv he describes himself as “ a boy in a bubble ” , entering fierce competitive dance events . “I was socially awkward .