A healthy wariness
Like the TV program seXtv, Pink Planet is something I wish more networks and local stations took notice of and picked up for their channels.
Anyways, on a recent episode they briefly interviewed Boy George who, when asked if he thought “it’s a good time to be gay right now”?, had I thought was a hugly important, simple and important-to-hear-it-again-and-again-and-again response which was basically that society should not be so quick to think that homophobia is in any ways, “over.”
He quickly pointed to a recent hate-crime murder while also remembering Matthew Shepard and cautioned against perceiving the acceptance that popular figures such as himself get as any sort of indication that that’s how it is everywhere. I know it’s a kind of “of course” comment in ways but it was just great to hear a celeb be honest about his own sort of privilege and not go the route of “yea, it’s all great cause it’s great for me!”