Boy George joined Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter's Pride Summit on Saturday to have a frank discussion about global protests, gender pronouns and more PrideSummit
on Saturday to have a frank discussion about our current state of affairs. Dressed in a purple hat, glam makeup and an all-black outfit, the Culture Club singer was ready to get real about his past and his present. Part of the reason the star says he can relate so directly to the protesters is because of his own experience with arrest in New York in 2005 on drug-related charges.
As Pride month started this year, many began comparing the current situation to the 1969 Stonewall riots, a comparison that George understands, but doesn't think encapsulates the current situation we're facing. "Anyone who is 'other' ... if you kind of look at it, we're all kind of separate in a funny sort of way," he says. "We've all got our own things that we need to worry about.
But George has made mistakes regarding the movement — he says he tweeted the phrase "all lives matter" about a year ago and was subsequently "ripped apart" online for it. But after having a conversation with a user who explained it to him, he says he came to a new understanding about the phrase. "'It's not about you.' That was point she was trying to make to me, and it didn't take me long to get it," he explains.
"My point when I said the thing about the pronouns was, you will never have a situation, when you encounter me, where you'll have to explain yourself to the degree where it's uncomfortable for you," he says. "I see the world has changed a lot, and that's what I wanted! I wanted people to be able to be free to identify as whoever they want."
However, George also says that he's come to a greater understanding about the new generation of queer people — while he says his generation tends to be more "hard-nosed" about some things, he thinks that this growing generation has plenty of good to offer. "A lot of it is adjusting to now, and realizing that 'You know what, these people don't have your cultural references,'" he says of his generation.
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