Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey Shatter '90s Nostalgia in 'Plainclothes'

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No matter what the theme parties tell us, the 1990s weren’t all Saved By the Bell fashions, boom-boxes, Nintendo cartridges, and twirling corded telephones. Coming of age during that decade as a gay kid in particular was fraught with a tension all its own. On the one hand, we were finally starting to see ourselves reflected in the world, in media, and realizing we might not be as totally alone as we felt. Keep in mind this was before the internet—growing up in a minuscule farm town in upstate New York, I didn’t even meet another person who identified as gay until I was 17 years old. Think of that endless stretch of years, that tumult of teenage hormones alrea

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