George Michael’s Boyfriend Says He Found Singer’s Body: ‘He Was a Beautiful Person’

George Michael’s boyfriend Fadi Fawaz (pictured above with Michael on a 2012 vacation in The Maldives), spoke with the Telegraph about finding the singer’s body on Christmas Day:

“We were supposed to be going for Christmas lunch. I went round there to wake him up and he was just gone, lying peacefully in bed. We don’t know what happened yet. Everything had been very complicated recently, but George was looking forward to Christmas, and so was I. Now everything is ruined. I want people to remember him the way he was – he was a beautiful person.”

RELATED: George Michael and Boyfriend Fadi Fawaz Soak Up the Sun on Maldives Holiday: PHOTOS

He also tweeted:

ITs a xmas i will never forget finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning.. I will never stop missing you xx

— Fadi Fawaz (@fadifawaz) December 26, 2016

It was reported yesterday that Michael was a major behind-the-scenes donor and gave millions to charities:

The man with the reputation for self-indulgence had actually given millions of dollars to charities involved with helping children, cancer victims and people with AIDS.

He was also remembered for small acts of kindness: helping his village in north London get a Christmas tree and volunteering at a homeless shelter.

…Among the groups he supported were the Terrence Higgins Trust, which helps people with AIDS, Macmillan Cancer Support, and Childline, which offers confidential phone counselling for young people.

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Grindr publishes artsy, sexy coffee table book in memory of… Orlando?

This just in: Grindr has launched its very own publishing house and has commissioned a fancy new coffee table book featuring the work of Berlin-based photographer Matt Lambert to go along with its line of sexy athleisure wear released earlier this year.

Home features a series of portraits of gay men who Lambert connected with through the app, as well as other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. In true Grindr form, the models are all young, thin, and naked, with a tendency toward Anglo.

Related: Too Many White Guys On Grindr & Too Many Are Racist, Blogger Laments

“I’d say the average age was probably, like, 21 or 22,” Lambert tells Dazed, adding that the limited-edition, 102-page book is intended to be “a snapshot of about twenty people that I’d met and had a conversation with about the ways digital or virtual spaces have helped them find a sanctuary or solidarity.”

He continues: “A lot of my work deals with intimacy and digital spaces and I’m not trying to present this dystopian view of the world, that romance is dead as a result of the internet, but rather to say ‘hey, we’re here now and digital spaces have done some really fucking incredible things for people over the last couple of years’.”

Related: Grindr Has Ruined Absolutely EVERYTHING, Disgruntled Blogger Laments

According to Grindr’s creative director Landis Smithers, the project was also inspired by the Orlando tragedy.

“After Orlando, we began to look for ways to express this common sense we all had that something had been taken away from us,” Smithers tells Dazed. “A sense of comfort in each other, in the ability to be safe, to walk or speak or simply exist in places we had taken for granted were ‘ours’.”

Lambert adds, “These spaces are incredibly important places to come of age, often before we’re able to come of age and come out in the real world. So the idea was just to document conversations with young gay men and ask them when and where that space was for them.”

It should be noted, however, that none of the book’s proceeds will actually go to any of the victims of the shooting.

Related: Turns Out Grindr Is A Godsend If You’re Gay, Twentysomething, And Disabled

Home is currently available for preorder and will ship after the new year. Here’s a sampling of what’s inside…

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Gay Married Couple Enshrined in Mosaic Mural in NYC’s Newest Subway Station

NYC’s Second Avenue subway, a line that has been planned since the 1910s and under construction since 1972, is finally opening on January 1. Its stations features public art by Chuck Close, Vik Muniz, Jean Shin and Sarah Sze.

At the 72nd street station features a mosaic mural by Vik Muniz called “Perfect Strangers” which depicts “the different people that riders are likely to encounter on their daily commutes” according to the AP, and among them is the above picture of gay love:

That depiction of love between gay men is a rarity in public art, experts say.

“It was like winning the lottery,” Thor Stockman, 60, said of finding out that he and his husband of 3 ½ years, Patrick Kellogg, were going to be part of artist Vik Muniz‘s “Perfect Strangers,” a series of life-size mosaic portraits of everyday New Yorkers gracing the walls of the new subway station at 72nd Street. But “part of me wishes that it wasn’t a rarity, that it wasn’t remarkable.”

…

“They are just people you would expect to see,” Muniz, who divides his time between New York and Brazil, said in phone interview from Rio de Janeiro. “You would expect to see men holding hands.”

More on the new subway stations here and here.

(photo: metropolitan transportation authority)

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George Michael’s 1998 Coming Out Interview: ‘I Don’t Feel Any Shame and Neither Do I Think I Should’ – WATCH

The 1998 CNN interview in which George Michael came out of the closet following his Beverly Hills ‘lewd conduct’ arrest has been posted online. He was never ashamed.

Michael offered up reasons for his sexual ambiguity up until that time:

“It works very successfully in pop culture because it means, especially if you’re trying to communicate something emotional, or sexual, that you’re communicating with both men and women…My sexuality was not cut and dried.”

RELATED: George Michael Dead at 53

He added:

“I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn’t had anything like a gay relationship…So I spent my years growing up being told what my sexuality was … which was kind of confusing.

“I want to say that I have no problem with people knowing that I’m in a relationship with a man right now. I have not been in a relationship with a woman for almost 10 years…I write about my life and I want people to know…”

ALSO: Gay Iconography: Keeping The ‘Faith’ in George Michael

Michael said that what prompted him to come out is because he’d done that “in a way that I hadn’t intended to.”

“I think having done something as stupid as that…I’m a very proud man. I want people to know that I have not been exposed as a gay man in any way that…I don’t feel any shame. I feel stupid and I feel reckless and weak for having allowed my sexuality to be exposed this way. But I don’t feel any shame whatsoever and neither do I think I should.”

Watch:

The Guardian’s Owen Jones praises Michael’s shamelessness:

Yes, it’s true that the manner in which he was outed became a standard playground homophobic trope, a means for bigots to express their revulsion at how sordid and morally corrupt they deemed gay men to be. But haters gonna hate, as the expression goes – homophobes will latch on to anything to confirm their bigoted narrative. For LGBT people consumed with terror at the realisation of who they were, to see the man who sang Last Christmas telling his tormentors where to stick it was liberating….

…We live in an age where bigots are newly emboldened. They treat supporters of anti-racism, feminism and LGBT rights like this: “You’ve had your party, now it’s over, and it’s our turn.” It is tempting to turn and retreat. But, as a closeted teenager back in 1998, it is impossible not to recall the courage and defiance of George Michael. A talented and much adored musician, yes. But also a gay man, and a gay icon, who made the lives of so many LGBT people that little bit easier.

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The Year in Review: The Ten Best Comedians of the Resistance to Trump

Celebrating the comedians who fought their hardest (and funniest) against a Trump presidency.

www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/12/26/year-review-ten-best-comedians-resistance-trump

Why Drag Race's Producers Made a Doc About Depression

Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey discuss how LGBT viewers will relate to their HBO documentary, Every Brilliant Thing, as well as drag’s new relevance in Trumpland.

www.advocate.com/film/2016/12/26/why-drag-races-producers-made-doc-about-depression