In what was billed as Australia’s most southern Wuthering Heights Day Ever, almost 50 die-hards braved the chilly temperature on Sunday at Surges Bay community centre to pay tribute to their idol.
The temperature did not rise above four degrees Celsius on Surges Bay Oval where the event took place.
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever is a worldwide phenomenon where people of all ages and genders dress head to foot in red and dance merrily in a field (or park) to Kate Bush’s 1978 masterpiece, Wuthering Heights.
The event was scheduled for Hobart but deferred to Surges Bay a fortnight ago.
Geeveston’s Kati Bruton with support from the Surges Bay Community Hall committee and friends organised the day.
“I wasn’t sure how many people would turn out but to get so many is wonderful,” Kati said.
“We had people coming from all over the place and many from Hobart because their event was called off.”
The LGBTQIA+ community adopted the novel Wuthering Heights as an expression of author Emily Brontë’s ambivalence about her sexual identity
“It is seen as both a representation of homosexual energy and an attempt to contain or imprison it for fear of its social unacceptability and perhaps also of its sheer power,” according to Jean Kennard who was Professor Emerita of English, University of New Hampshire, USA.
