Gee Michael: The gay in we didn't know we need.

Contents:

• THE NTROVERSIAL MOMENT THAT LED GEE MICHAEL TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE HE WAS GAY
• GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
• GEE MICHAEL WAS THE GAY IN WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEED
• 'I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WH BEG GAY': GEE MICHAEL, LGBT RIGHTS CHAMPN, REMEMBERED
• GAY SGER GEE MICHAEL WAS FOUND DEAD ON CHRISTMAS OF 2016 & BURIED UNMARKED GRAVE FOR YEARS

THE NTROVERSIAL MOMENT THAT LED GEE MICHAEL TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE HE WAS GAY

Gee Michael appeared on televisn 1998 revealg he was gay for the first time and spirg the world wh the words: "I don’t feel any shame whatsoever.".

GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

Jt go on TV and get sorted."Read: Gee Michael secretly sang to dyg "first love" dience at Freddie Mercury tributeThe landmark terview wh CNN starts wh Jim Moret statg to Gee: "Your sexualy has been a foc of tremendo attentn."Gee rponds: "Yeah, to some gree, wh pop stars or film stars, we bee the object of people’s self-fn, as well as the object of sexual fn.""I thk people like to thk they n spot a gay person as opposed to a straight person bee mak them feel somethg … a ltle more fed themselv.

Watch: Gee Michael's last ncert - his fal words were heartbreakgly poignant"I spent the first half of my reer beg acced of beg gay when I hadn’t had anythg like a gay relatnship.

GEE MICHAEL WAS THE GAY IN WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEED

I want people to know that I have not been exposed as a gay man any way that I feel … I don’t feel any shame for...I feel stupid and I feel reckls and weak for havg allowed my sexualy to be exposed this way, but I don’t feel any shame whatsoever. And neher do I thk I should," he repli.Read: Gee Michael's heartbreakg poetry at 11-years-old prov the star's early talentJim go on to ask Gee about his life-changg reveal, sayg: "Was a difficult cisn for you to e out publicly about beg gay?""No. He adds: "I fe my sexualy terms of the people that I love and my life right now is very happy livg a gay relatnship.

"And I’m perfectly prepared to believe that as long as I am tthful to myself and tthful to the people who are out there wh my mic then I have nothg to fear," he fish.Jim Moret has sce said of the famo terview: "Gee Michael believed the Brish tabloids were gog to out him as gay and he wanted to beat them to the punch and he me out to me, his own words, his own way,"After g out as gay, Gee Michael beme a public activist for HIV and AIDS, shg a light on the plight of sufferers worldwi and donatg lns to charable throughout his life. Was the most fabuloly gay thg that ever happened.

Here 2022 we’d like to thk that pop mic has shed s old prejudic — that a gay mician would no longer have to nont the kds of choic Michael did.

'I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WH BEG GAY': GEE MICHAEL, LGBT RIGHTS CHAMPN, REMEMBERED

“People would ask me if he was gay and I didn’t have the answer, ” Lippman says.

”Acrdg to Gav, “Olr” was Michael’s favore of his albums — and also the one where “gay people knew Gee was speakg to them, ” even if s sometim-d language may have limed s broar standg as a queer sger’s attempt to ntrol the way his work was perceived — to ntrol the way he himself was perceived — was a through le his life, and remas one now that he’s gone. ”“Are you worried about Amerin fans — now even, wh this new album — acceptg you as a gay artist?

GAY SGER GEE MICHAEL WAS FOUND DEAD ON CHRISTMAS OF 2016 & BURIED UNMARKED GRAVE FOR YEARS

“I’m not really terted sellg rerds to people who are homophobic.

Was me as I sudnly thought, 'Oh my God, I’m a massive star and I'm gay. Clost we get is one more terview segment where Michael explaed how he knew he was gay or at least bisexual by the age of 19: "I had stayed over at this guy's hoe, " said Gee.