![]() ![]() One of the best arguments yet for not dropping an all-in-one boxset, the tantalising week’s wait for the penultimate part of the hit post-apocalyptic video-game adaptation is finally over. ![]() While contributions from some of the chief scandalmongers of the time, including the founder of the LA news agency that broke the story (“Our motto was ‘your misfortune is our fortune’”) demonstrate all too clearly the media hypocrisy, opportunism and homophobia that he was up against. Interviews with Michael’s former partner, Kenny Goss, as well as his friend Andros Georgiou and manager Simon Napier-Bell, give this documentary heft. Tonight’s opening episode (of two, both available on All 4 from tonight) looks back to the early days of the singer’s career, when coming out in a world gripped by the 1980s Aids crisis might not have been the best career move for a budding pop star. But instead, the incident became a defining moment for gay liberation. Slickly marketed for years as every young girl’s dream (though, as one contributor puts it, “all the signs were there”), the revelation that Michael was gay could have been career-ending given the tabloid frenzy that followed. In April 1998, the world woke up to lurid headlines that pop superstar George Michael had been arrested for soliciting a “lewd act” in a Los Angeles public toilet. ![]()
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