Singer Boy George has said he believes
Adam Lambert's willingness to be open about his sexuality is the
result of a gay “daisy chain.”
For years the androgynous Boy George
refused to talk about his sexuality. He announced he was gay in his
1996 memoir Take It Like A Man, in which he confessed his love
for Culture Club drummer Jon Moss.
Boy George, who is experiencing a
renaissance, recently
told The
Hollywood Reporter that he doesn't regret staying in the
closet during the height of his career in the 80s.
“I think you do things in your own
time,” he said. “My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long
before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to
your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step.”
And he went on to suggest that Lambert
is standing on the shoulders of performers that came before him,
including Boy George.
“Maybe without me, there wouldn't be
Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin
Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a
big daisy chain. A lot of people come up to me all the time and say
thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't about
sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt
out of place. Being gay was one part of it.”
Boy George added that Lambert has “a
great voice and an incredible range” and “the glam thing …
gives him an edge.”