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My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.

Boy George

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
BOY GEORGE

Four Unwelcome Years
You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
BOY GEORGE

Bit Little More Routine
The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
BOY GEORGE

Animation Care Crowds Night Obsession
I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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Around Country Famous More Pop Someone Taboo
Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
BOY GEORGE

Completely Heartless Moving Voting
What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Musical Song Writer
On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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Body Culture Gay Men Woman
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
BOY GEORGE

Annoyed Party People Real Thinking
Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
BOY GEORGE

Clothes Hair Kids Wonderful
His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
BOY GEORGE

Breath Designing Refreshing Talking
The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
BOY GEORGE

Divorce Forward Mimic More People Straight
As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
BOY GEORGE

Instant Kids People Rivers
And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
BOY GEORGE

Blessed Impart Listen Point Reach
You have to watch what you eat.
BOY GEORGE

Eat Good Health Property Watches
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
BOY GEORGE

Age Gay Parent Sixteen
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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Empty Felt Successful

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.

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My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.

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