George w Quote by Andrew Ridgeley

“The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. How anyone could work in the same office for ten years or…

— Mark Haddon

“It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was…

— Christina Westover

“Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.”

— Pete Townshend

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend…

— Boy George

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would…

— Francoise Sagan

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

— Lance Loud

“Maybe he could convince Les that they needed to have sex for cover purposes.”

— Aldous Mercer

“To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others,…

— Edward Carpenter

“Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything”

— Haruki Murakami

“Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that…

— Leora Tanenbaum

“Masturbation was a safe sexual topic while homosexuality was not.”

— Charles Benedict

“In the sexual-liberation movement of the sixties, its ideology and practice, neither force nor the subordinate status of women was an issue. It was…

— Andrea Dworkin