There's an old saying that goes 'An Englishman's home is his castle, and if he ever wants to imprison a Scandinavian male prostitute in his castle against his wishes then that's probably OK'.
But sadly it seems like America, the so-called land of the free, has got some issues about people chaining male prostitutes to their walls and vaguely insulting them for a bit. Just ask Boy George.
Boy George is just about to set off on a tour of America, except that now he can't get a visa because of his upcoming prostitute-chaining trial. Not that Boy George should worry too much, though. We know for a fact that there are plenty of other countries who'll give you visas no matter how many terrified manwhores you've chained up to a wall in your sordid little sex dungeon. Um, we read that in a book or something once. Ahem.
These days you can get banned from America for just about everything. If you punch people you get banned from America, if you're a terminally habitual drug user you get banned from America, and now it seems that if you might have chained a prostitute to a wall once you get banned from America as well.
Weirdly, though, if you're Fearne Cotton you can just breeze through passport control without a care in the world despite your numerous atrocious crimes against humanity. It hardly seems fair at all.
And this utterly illogical immigration system has messed up Boy George's plans something horrible. All he wanted to do was go to New York and give a free concert to all the binmen who he managed to ritually humiliate by spazzing out like a girl that time he was forced to do community service with them, but now even that's been taken from him.
Why? Because there's a possibility that he chained up a Norwegian male prostitute in his house last year. Did we mention that? We did? Oh, whatever.
Although he denies the charges, Boy George's false imprisonment trial is set to start later this year. And because of that, Boy George has been denied an entry visa into America. We can see why – as far as we're able to tell, America is full of fat bald gay men with oddly-painted faces who enjoy nothing more than chaining prostitutes to their wall and threatening them, so there's a chance that Boy George might just blend into the crowd and never return – but Boy George is getting quite worked up about it, as the New York Times reports:
Boy George was “devastated” and that “George is astounded at the decision and is having lawyers here in the States look at it in the hope that someone will change their mind.” … The statement said, “George has not been convicted of anything in London, and there is a presumption in the Western world of innocence until proven guilty.”
Well, that's partly true – the presumption is innocent until proven guilty, unless the accusation involves chains, 1980s popstars and frightened homosexual prostitutes from Norway, in which case it's funny to just mention it as many times as possible regardless of how true it is.
So Boy George won't be going to America any more. And, as rough as Boy George has got it, it's not him we feel most sorry for. No, it's the New York binmen who won't get to see Boy George's concert any more. True, there's a chance that an alternative act who's also done community service with the binmen will be shipped in from overseas to compensate, but if that happens it's likely to be Naomi Campbell, and those poor refuse workers will be lucky to escape with their lives.
Victoria says
To George’s loyal American fans!
Sign the online petition to grant George a visa to enter the US and complete his summer tour- http://www.petitiononline.com/govisa08/petition.html
gir says
What the fuck, no.
Oh boy! says
So, let me try to understand…Boy George is banned from entering the U.S. but the thousands of illegals from Mexico and points south are routinely given sanctuary by U.S. citizens who feel that everyone should be allowed into the U.S. Perhaps these same do-gooders will come to Boy George’s defence? Doesn ‘t seem bloody likely.
Harry says
We were all much better off when Boy George was sweeping up New York. It just gave you a warm feeling all over. Nobody did it better of course, and though they offered him a raise and benefits, he saw that his real mission was in England. Now he wants to come back, having accomplished that mission in a spectacular way, but now here we have all these immigration and visa fuddie-duddies just spoiling everybody’s fun. A few chains and brooms more or less would never be noticed in America, and Boy is really quite harmless once you get past the forcible restraint and psychological devastation.
gir says
The difference is that while we need thousands of construction, service, and landscaping workers, our supplies of washed-up homosexual 80s pop stars are topped off.
adisa says
i love so much boy george but i am a girl . i am so in love to you you are my heart love you bay with love adisa.
Sarah says
whoa.
Boy George says
Go to hell, adisa. I hate your fucking guts!
Unknow says
Okay, he isn’t allowed back into the US.. and it took them ten or so years to learn three women were being held against their will…. and the culprit is doing time thankfully.
Many performers have been seen as freaks while today, we have the Internet.
So a solution for all… Boy George stay home… networks – hook em up via live internet coverage = place a screen / camera on both sides where Boy George can see the crowd and the crowd can see him perform.
May not be the same, but at least both sides achieve a level of appeasment. Not every music artist is loved the world over by every living soul on the planet but they do have their fans.
Maybe it’ll be reduced to mere Skype concert………