Boy George doesn’t think queer identity politics have ‘helped anyone’

Boy George opens with his complicated feelings on queer activism.

The singer of the Culture Club, who is gay, explained why he does not support the Modern LGBTQ + Identity Policy. “I don’t think it helped someone,” George told Uk Outlet Time In a new interview, stressing that queer people are not a monolith. “We are not one thing. It’s like” that’s what blacks are, that’s what the Jews are, that’s what trans people are. ” No!”

He then defended his opinions on the issue. “Everyone is diverse because no one looks like anyone else, so you start from the wrong point of view,” said George. “No one can choose the eyes they have, what is the size of their penis, the Mades.”

Earlier in the interview, the singer “Karma Chameleon” discussed online transphobia and how the digital world differs from reality. “Trans people are the new people to hate, but I always say: how many trans people have you met today?” Said George. “There is the world on the internet, which is hideous and full of anger. Then there is the real world, which is entirely different, so in reality, people have nothing to be nervous.”

George faced accusations of transphobia in 2020 after tweeted: “Leave your pronouns at the door!” However, the musician defended the Trans community several times in his social media quarrel with JK Rowling this year, calling the Harry Potter Author “A rich and annoyed tyrant” for her transphobic opinions and saying that she has fun “of the pain of others”.

In his conversation with TimeThe musician said that he believed that his personal life was only a tiny drop in the vast social bucket – and this sexual orientation should not be so important to people anyway.

“If I am really lucky, my own sexuality takes about three hours a month. We all have cats to feed, families to visit, jobs to do,” said George. “I said in an interview when I was 17,” being gay is like eating a bag of chips. It is not so important. “I still think now.

George also discussed how he channeled his opinions on queer identity in his 2002 musical, TabooWho tells the story of his friend Leigh Bowery, legendary queer performance artist who founded the London Taboo Club.

“What I want to explore in the show is the strange relationship between Leigh and his wife, Nicola Bowery,” said the musician about the play, for which he wrote the lyrics and played Leigh on stage. “Long before non -binary, here is a gay who married a straight woman, and there was a real tenderness and love between them. Yes, part of the reason why he married Nicola was to piss off everyone, but I think he really loved him.”

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George, who tries to revive TabooAdded that Bowery would not want to put himself in preexisting concepts of identity or queer expression. “Someone said the other day,” Leigh Bowery was the gay identity plan “”, he recalls Time. “He would have hated that. I hated that!”