After I saw my first images of queer people on MTV, the channel was banned in our town, Searcy, a small place in Arkansas. I never thought: so that’s a boy dressed as a girl? Wearing makeup? It was almost like it was home. I remember we’d watch MTV, which was brand new, and that’s where I saw Boy George. My mom had me young (even though I was her fourth kid) and she was a “cool mom” – meaning we had cable TV.
Boy George was really the first explicitly queer person I saw on TV I was four years old. Prince was everywhere, as was Annie Lennox and Culture Club. This was around the time that Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Material Girl came out. I was born in 1981, when it felt like queer culture was just pop culture. M y earliest memories of queerness come from pop culture.
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