New Years Resolution: enrage the bis?
On Monday, as most of the world was trying to piece themselves back together after the long weekend, Boy George started sending an array of Tweets aimed at bisexuals, and he managed to ruffle quite a few bisexual feathers and hurt lots of feelings.
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It all began when the 55-year-old doubted Fadi Fawaz’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked after a series of Tweets suggested his lover George Michael committed suicide.
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“I was in a relationship with George Michael till I found him dead in bed,”read one of the tweets.
Here’s Boy George’s (now deleted) response:
This succeeded in upsetting this self-professed “long-time bisexual fan”:
@BoyGeorge as a long time bisexual fan I'm kind of hurt that you'd reduce my valid sexuality to a lie or joke.
— hannah ?? (@_wadeywiIson) January 2, 2017
To which Boy George retorted: 
To his credit, Boy George did acknowledge that some people are rightly 100% bisexual:
But this was not enough to quell a now-very-cross militia of Tweeting bisexuals, and Boy George is apparently responding to each and every one.
The wider LGBT community has tolerated biphobia for too long. @BoyGeorge will find as @onebiggins found that that is changing.
— ??? thisisbiscuit (@Biscuitmag) January 2, 2017
F***************! You are dull! https://t.co/ckJALjpUMB
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 4, 2017
@BoyGeorge @TheQueerness Hate is never good way to stop hate! So tired of this shit!
— Helena Wiking (@VeraVardig) January 3, 2017
Speak to @LADYBUNNY77 because she is morality guru! https://t.co/YEaM8K4UDe
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 3, 2017
@BoyGeorge 's recent opinion on sexuality is ignorance at its best
— Francesca Reidie (@francescareidie) January 4, 2017
Go write a poem! https://t.co/VbS5wSOISz
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 4, 2017
Absolutely thrilled with the ally-ship @PinkNews has shown the bisexual community in regards to the Boy George story. Thank you!
— Still Bisexual (@StillBisexual) January 3, 2017
Well, like pink news, you have done zero for gay rights. And you are ignorant, humourless and sooo BLOCKED! https://t.co/6NkIGlFsv5
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 4, 2017
This has now been going on for several days and counting:
@BoyGeorge There are a lot of bisexual kids and adults who connect with your music. They look to you and your music for help.
— Legally Irrelevant (@ronster98) January 4, 2017
Grow up and stop being a sheep. I'm about as 'bi-phobic' as you are an Alsatian in sling backs! https://t.co/iKXDL1RrRB
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 4, 2017
I just may have finally put 'bisexuality' on the map! Where's my thanks!
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 4, 2017
I'm Bore-phobic
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) January 4, 2017
On and on…
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Wrong George died. Creepy (convicted?) sex offender
Brian
I can understand why some fake-bisexual women would be offended. It’s always annoying to a woman when you point out to her that she uses sex as a commodity.
Bob LaBlah
Maybe you guys didn’t get the memo but Boy George and George Michael NEVER like each other. As a matter of fact Boy George was notorious for referring to Michael as “she” when ever he mentioned him regardless of the reason. Back in the late 1990’s the had a public spat about their disdain for each other.
OzJosh
Go George!! It’s nice to see a celebrity sticking to their guns in the face of stupid political correctness, rather than issuing the standard “sorry if I offended anyone” statement. Like most gay men, I could count the genuine bisexuals I have met on one hand, but I couldn’t even begin to count the number of men who claim to be bisexual as they peer timidly from the other side of the closet door, or use “straight/bi” because they fear the gay truth will fatally damage their masculinity. Frankly, calling out such homophobic nonsense is far more urgent than not offending the genuinely bi, who should be confident enough and smart enough to see that comments like George’s are not aimed at them.
adam_randall
IMO, things were fine as soon as he said “I wasn’t saying some people aren’t legitimately bi”. That is how the joke came across initially, so outrage is understandable. Maybe saying you’re bi is a first step to coming out for some people, but I think if people criticize that, it only makes it more likely they’ll remain closeted (speaking from personal experience). I’m bisexual, and have a girlfriend, but that doesn’t make me any less bisexual.
dean089
@Brian: LOL! Exactly!
Arconcyyon
Next is he and EltonJonh galery top celestuin angles intern peace .
Miss Understood
He was making a flip joke not attacking bisexuals. This trend of getting outraged about every little thing is getting silly. Joking about something is not an attack. I’m all for joking about every and anything. We have a fascist about to take office, let’s not be attacking each other about some silly words.
BriBri
This kind of petty bullshit is why Trump was elected. The other side is sick of us, straight and gay being victims of some contrived phobia. It’s time to grow up and develop a thicker skin.
BriBri
Unless you want 8 years of Trump.
Oli1023
Can’t believe you put quotation marks around the word biphobic, as if prejudice against bisexual people or bisexuality isn’t a real thing. How many times have we heard people questioning people who are bi if they are really just gay?
Louis
@Miss Understood: Including cancer, people on welfare and mentally gifted Americans ?
After all most republicans think both are absolutely hilarious HUMOR.
Louis
@BriBri: Get over yourself already this is the same insensitivity that homophobes spew towards our community and have spewed towards our community for years in this country.
I bet half the LGBT youth that killed themselves were also given the wise advice to GROW A THICKER SKIN that is never wise advice much less mature or educated advice it is the typical patriarchal neanderthal mentality so many of you possess and project towards others on a daily basis within this so called COMMUNITY.
Louis
@Oli1023: Exactly ty one of the few actually empathetic and wise comments on this ridiculously divisive and incendiary article.
Im so tired of people thinking they can hide behind the word PC over and over just so they can justify their uneducated prejudices and clear insensitivities and lack of actual understanding for that which they are completely incapable of understanding and educating themselves about to begin with.
SonOfKings
I am one of those bleeding heart liberal types who can be easily offended when people use insensitive or bigoted language. But there was absolutely nothing offensive about what Boy George said. His original remark was targeting gay men who have pretended to be bisexual in order as a half-ass gesture at coming out of the closet. He clarified his remark by acknowledging that genuine bisexuals do exist. What more needed to be said? He is not biphobic. People are just oversentive and needed to find something more substantial to be outraged over. No one is going to be driven to suicide because Boy George made a joke about gay men and bisexuality.
robho3
Boy George is so ‘D’ list who even gives a shit about what he says or thinks. He needs to just get a job at McDonald’s and go away.
inbama
She’s certainly wittier than Milo Vomitopolous.
Heywood Jablowme
It’s still common for not-quite-outs to use “bisexual” as a stepping stone, and that’s all he was making fun of. And “bisexual”-as-stepping-stone tends to make life more difficult for the real bisexuals.
“To his credit, Boy George did acknowledge that some people are rightly 100% bisexual.” End of story.
jenbird
Times have changed since the 70s and now more people use gay as a stepping-stone on the way to fully coming out as bi than vice-versa.
Hopefully for the sake of the bi movement Boy George won’t be one of them.