The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
Boy GeorgeRemember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
Boy GeorgeI think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
Boy GeorgeI remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. 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.
Boy George