A Black Gay Music Critic On: How Culture Club Saved My Life
3 min readOct 10, 2020
Culture Club saved my life — or at least helped me make sense of it, which is often the same thing. When Boy George and the gang hit the U.S. shores in 1983, I was 13 years old. The boners that I got looking at the band’s often shirtless drummer Jon Moss convinced me that I liked guys.
