“When you’re a gay kid other kids make you aware that you’re different. You get picked on and you don’t know why,” he tells The Times Boy George was made aware of the fact that he was “different” by childhood bullies — a reality that in part pushed him down his career path in music. “There comes a time where you either just shrink away or you embrace being different,” he explained in an interview with The Times. “My original inspiration was Siouxsie Sioux,” the performer explained. “From there