In one of those peculiar postmodern ironies that made masculinity what it is today – flamingly metrosexual – George Michael’s “closetedness” for two decades of pop stardom meant that straight women ended up expecting rather more from straight boys and straight boys ended up copying a gay version of themselves. And he was mega rich and famous and getting his leg over. After all, his (white) soul boy image was a tweaked, glammed-up, sexed-up, slightly Princess Di version of what many wedge-sporting, Lacoste-wearing working class London and Essex lads were styling themselves at the time. But also, particularly as his success grew, quite a few straight boys wanted to be him. George was officially very much for the ladies and the ladies were even more for him. OK, the leather jackets, the naked boy-flesh and the blow-dried hair looks très camp to us now, but that wasn’t necessarily the case at the time. Michael presented – but which seems to have been based largely on his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley – looked almost heterosexual.Īlmost. By dazzling-teethed contrast, the disco-dancing, bird-pulling, Mr.
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