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2 responses to “Podcast: Am I Straight or Gay – A Conversation with Snax”

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   gwen mattison

   October 1, 2017

   Great heart to heart conversation. Paul, thanks for being so candid about growing up gay in the 80’s. The 60’s-70’s i am sure were even more difficult, most people didn’t even “know” any gay friends or relatives because it was closeted in the mainstream culture. Prince grew up in the 60’s-70’s. Even though he pushed the boundaries, he still grew up a physically small male, epileptic, minority kid who was often viewed as “weird,” maybe dealing with anything more would have just pushed him over the edge.

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   Nancy P

   April 25, 2018

   At about the 39 minute point Paul mentions the song “Anna Stesia” and the reference to wanting love so much that it doesn’t matter if it is a boy or girl and he asks, “Am I the only one that hears this?” We all bring our own unique viewpoint and because of that we have selective hearing and seeing. So I ask the same question every time I see the MTV awards performance of “Get Off”. After all of the uproar about the “but out” suit I ask, “Doesn’t anybody else see all of the almost nude, humping, entangled bodies performing a mock orgy on the stage who are showing a whole lot more flesh than Prince?” I am left wondering what the fuss was over him showing his posterior when there are a lot of other posteriors showing. But he is showing one thing that all of the thong-laden people are not showing. “Get Off” may have been the opportunity Prince had been waiting for. In 1982, Prince (Nelson) received an award from the Minnesota Black Music Association under the category of Rhythm and Blues (There was no Pop/Rock category.) According to Prince.org(http://prince.org/msg/7/406870) Prince was quoted in his acceptance speech asking the question, “When do they give the award for the best ass?” I’ve looked around on the web for the whole article but haven’t had any luck. Maybe you will have better but it is most likely on microfiche somewhere. With this very deliberate display of the “purple moon,” on international T.V., we do not have to wonder whether he believed he should win the award about which he asked in 1982.

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