Boy George.The Culture Club frontman is spilling the tea on his past interactions with fellow celebrities in his new memoir Karma and hitmakers like Janet Jackson, Adele and Prince are not getting away unscathed.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.The 62-year-old recounts having three rude encounters with Janet Jackson over the course of his four-year career.The bad blood started while backstage on the ’80s TV series Solid Gold when George approached the “Control” singer without wearing any makeup and professed what a big fan he was of her music.“She wasn’t friendly and didn’t try to be,” he writes, according to People. “But I just walked off and got myself into my best ‘Boy George’ and was walking around backstage to make sure I was seen by everyone.”When one of Jackson’s entourage asked him to record a video message for her, George didn’t hold back. “Next time you meet someone, be nice,” he recalled saying to the camera.After George’s blunt message got back to Jackson, she “summoned” him to her dressing room and explained she hadn’t recognized him without his makeup.

But that only ticked George off more.“I said, ‘That makes it worse. Are you saying you would have been nice to me if you knew who I was?

What if I’m just a fan?’” he writes, per Page Six. “We parted on awkward terms.”The situation only compounded over the next several decades.George claims Jackson “looked straight through me” while on the British series Top of the Pops and kept her back to him during his performance at the 2019 British Fashion Awards.

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lgbt Rights Courts country Extreme politician Russia: Supreme Court bans 'LGBT movement' for 'extremism'

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday banned the "international LGBT movement" for extremism in the midst of the country's conservative turn, paving the way for legal action against any group defending LGBT+ rights in Russia.Judge Oleg Nefedov ordered that "the international LGBT movement and its subsidiaries be recognised as extremist and their activities banned from the territory of the Russian Federation", according to AFP correspondents on the ground.Mr Nefedov said that the ban would come into force "immediately".The hearing took place without defence counsel, as no organisation bearing the name "international LGBT movement" exists in Russia, and behind closed doors as the case was classified as "secret".In mid-November, the Russian Ministry of Justice called for the "international LGBT movement" to be described as an "extremist organisation" and banned, without clearly saying which organisation it was targeting.Any public activity associated with what Russia considers to be "non-traditional" sexual preferences could now be deemed "extremism", a crime punishable by heavy prison sentences.Until now, LGBT+ people risked heavy fines if they engaged in what the authorities called "propaganda", but not imprisonment.In recent years, Russian propagandists and politicians have increasingly referred to homosexuals as "paedophiles" and claimed they are part of an insidious attempt to "westernise" Russian society.The situation is particularly dire in the Caucasus republic of Chechnya, where gay men in particular face imprisonment, torture and murder at the hands of police.

This gay pop star just unloaded on Janet, Adele, Prince, Tina & … Princess Diana!

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