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Article: Oh boy! George Alan O'Dowd is back
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1995
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NEW YORK -- Boy George is a brand-new man. With "you go, girl"
determination sparkling in his blue eyes, pop music's Karma Chameleon
is now a model of 1990s-styled celebrity, as confessional and openly
gay as he was enigmatic and genderless in the 1980s. At 34, a
self-labeled "right-on sister," Boy George is coming out with a
queenly vengeance both on his new gay-themed CD, "Cheapness and
Beauty," and in his autobiography, "Take It Like a Man," in which he
dissily dissects his dysfunctional family, his smack habit and his
plate-smashing affairs with "straight" men. Once banned from the
United States for a 1986 bust in England, Boy George is back to say:
"I'm here, I'm queer, let's ...