UK pop singer George Michael has revealed how years of hiding his homosexuality from the public took a deep psychological toll - but he did it so his mother wouldn't have to worry about AIDS. Speaking on the BBC's Radio 4, he said hiding his sexuality made him feel "fraudulent", and his eventual outing, when he was arrested for soliciting sex in a public toilet in Los Angeles in 1998, was a subconsciously deliberate act. "What people have to acknowledge ... is that there's a level of honesty that's natural to me [and] I'm uncomfortable with anything else," Michael said. "So firstly, understand how much I love my family and that AIDS was the predominant feature of being gay in the 1980s and early 90s as far as any parent was concerned ... My mother was still alive and every single day would have been a nightmare for her thinking what I might have been subjected to." The entire article is on the link below. Ref: Herald on Sunday (m)
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First published: Sunday, 30th September 2007 - 5:55pm