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As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.

Boy George

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
BOY GEORGE

Good Luck Media Mom
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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Country House Paradise People
A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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Gay Helping People Sexual Thank
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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Boys Jobs Thinking
I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
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.
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Drug Musical Song Writer
The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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Best Personality Things Ugly
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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Alowm Anything Say Trying World
Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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Doors Names Stars
The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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Being Political Yourself
When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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Country Culture Going Out Life Social
I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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Incredibles Old Somebody Years
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.
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Blessed Impart Listen Point Reach
As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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Developments Gay Issue Man Scary Thing
Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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Children Everyone Music Remember Sex
The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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