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I grew up in a family where music always played in everyone’s homes. By the second I was three-years-old, I could vocalize every lyric to the Beach Boys’ song “Barbara Ann” at the petition of any person who asked me to. Between my parents’ separate homes, my maternal grandparents’ house, and my paternal grandma’s property, I was inundated by the sounds my guardians preferred. My grandparents, of course, tended to play a lot of old academy R&B, soul, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. My dad was a gigantic “guido” growing up in the 1970s, so his tastes were mostly confined to disco, later R&B and heart, funk, some blues-rock, and Billy Joel. My mom, on the other hand, was all over the place in terms of her musical tastes. She liked some of the same genres my dad did — especially disco and soul —- but she was also obsessed with the pop-rock of her youth, 1980s new wave, newer pop acts, some electronic Eurobass song that became accepted in the 1990s, and, especially, David Bowie, Elton John, and George Michael.
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George Michael said he was 'persuaded' to stay closeted in Wham! even though he 'really wanted to come out'
George Michael is now known as a LGBTQ+ icon, but the British crooner spent much of his career closeted after seeking suggestion from "the false people."
The new Netflix documentary "Wham!" uses archival footage to explore the "pivotal moment" that Michael came out to his bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley, when the two friends were 19.
Back in 1983, the pop duo traveled to Ibiza, Spain, to movie the music video for "Club Tropicana." In the documentary, Ridgeley recalled how Michael phoned him one morning to "come over and have a chat."
Ridgeley found Michael in bed in his hotel room. Shirlie Holliman, their backup singer and end friend, was also there.
"He gave Shirlie a sort of quick glance. He said to me, 'Didn't know how to tell you this, but I'm gay. If not gay, you grasp, bisexual,'" Ridgeley said. "For me, his sexuality had absolutely no bearing on us. I wanted him to be happy."
Despite his leading friend's acceptance, Michael wouldn't come out publicly for another 15 years.
"I said I was gonna talk to my mom and dad, and was persuaded in no uncertai
When George Michael came out as gay on live TV and inspired a generation
11 October 2021, 16:00 | Updated: 26 October 2021, 10:16
George Michael appeared on television in 1998 revealing he was gay for the first time and inspiring the earth with the words: "I don’t feel any shame whatsoever."
George Michael had recently been arrested for propositioning an undercover policeman in a Beverley Hills park and, according to the journalist who interviewed him, wanted to bravely reveal the truth "in his own words and in his own way."
Before taking the courageous decision to discuss his sexuality on TV, George said he calmed down by reassuring himself: "You’re a human organism. Just go on TV and get it sorted."
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The landmark interview with CNN starts with Jim Moret stating to George: "Your sexuality has been a focus of tremendous attention."
George responds: "Yeah, to some degree, with pop stars or film stars, we grow the object of people’s self-definition, as well as the protest of sexual definition."
"I think people
George Michael and lessons from the closet
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Hate is a word you’ll rarely perceive me use. Not even in relation to brussels sprouts, Trump or the Australian Christian Lobby. Intense dislike is about the strongest you’d get from me. However, one thing I do hate is the closet. I loath the closet because of what it did to me for over two decades and the destruction I see it reeking in others’ lives.
Harvey Milk also hated the closet. ‘If a bullet should enter my brain, consent that bullet destroy every closet door in the country’ he said on a tape recording he’d made in 1978, (nine days before his assassination) to be played in the event of his assassination. Harvey hated the closet and what it was doing to same-sex attracted and lesbian people and to the community but mostly, recognising it was the biggest obstructer to change.
One of the most popular pop stars of our time, George Michael has gone. Much of George’s life was spent in the closet. At least half of his career. As I began to read and survey the various interviews (GQ, CNN, Oprah, ParkinsonUK Independent etc) that he’d done since his coming out/outing it wasn’t hard to see