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 GEORGEThe 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.
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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.
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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.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
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You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
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I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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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.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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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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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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