Assigned to review Pet Shop Boys ’ debut album Please in the summer of 1986 for the Village Voice , journalist Barry Walters heard resonances unusual for the times. “The choice of font, the song subjects, everything about them spoke of queerness,” Walters said in an interview. “I thought, well, it would be unfair to talk about them as possibly being queer without being honest myself. So I came out. Maybe that’s tactical. I think that’s just, again, my heart leading my head.” Mighty Real: A