Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 372 – June 20, 2018
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
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You have an<br />
overwhelming<br />
reputation of writing<br />
and singing romantic<br />
songs. How’d that<br />
come about?<br />
What, how did the<br />
reputation come about,<br />
or how come I write<br />
romantic songs?<br />
I’m what they<br />
call a hapless<br />
romantic—<br />
many LGBT<br />
people are. The<br />
crave for love,<br />
connection and<br />
acceptance runs<br />
deep and is at<br />
the core of us.<br />
Tell me about<br />
“Extraordinary<br />
People.”<br />
I wrote this<br />
track called<br />
“Extraordinary<br />
People.” It’s<br />
emotional. It<br />
was written<br />
about two dear<br />
friends of mine,<br />
Matt and Jason,<br />
both great DJs<br />
at some of the<br />
best gay nights<br />
in London.<br />
Beautiful<br />
people. So,<br />
here’s the story.<br />
Are you sitting<br />
comfortably?<br />
I met Jason Prince at this<br />
recording studio, and we<br />
chatted about the two<br />
of them and how they’d<br />
been together for some<br />
time through thick and<br />
thin and adored each<br />
other. One session at the<br />
studio I noticed Jason<br />
had a t-shirt on, and<br />
without prying too much,<br />
I asked, “Jason, what’s<br />
that HUGE scar on your<br />
arm, mate?” At first I<br />
thought it was a scar<br />
from surgery. He said,<br />
“Oh, I was attacked.”<br />
He was violently beaten<br />
up and stabbed, almost<br />
killing him. I asked<br />
about it, and he told<br />
me about not just this<br />
event where he was<br />
subjected to a nasty,<br />
violent homophobic<br />
attack, but of many,<br />
many, many occasions<br />
where he and Matt<br />
had been beaten up,<br />
abused physically and<br />
verbally, refused entry<br />
into places, humiliated<br />
and almost murdered<br />
just for being gay and<br />
being together. He was<br />
fine with talking about it<br />
(people do tell me their<br />
secrets), and whilst it<br />
obviously had physically<br />
scarred him, Jason is an<br />
incredibly positive and<br />
lovely person who I think<br />
the world of. His stories<br />
about what he and Matt<br />
endured to be together<br />
at the hands of bigots,<br />
homophobes and the<br />
violence they meted<br />
out was shocking, but<br />
an inspiration.<br />
I went straight<br />
home and in 30<br />
minutes I wrote<br />
“Extraordinary<br />
People” for<br />
Jason and Matt<br />
as a celebration<br />
of their courage<br />
and love for<br />
eachother.<br />
“We’re still<br />
here to testify,<br />
we survived,<br />
this ordinary<br />
world, ‘cos we’re<br />
extraordinary<br />
people,<br />
extraordinary<br />
people, you and<br />
I...”<br />
I’d like to<br />
dedicate<br />
this track to<br />
EVERYONE who<br />
comes to NY<br />
Pride, to share<br />
in the coming<br />
together to<br />
celebrate who we<br />
are and how we<br />
got here and as<br />
an indication that love<br />
conquers all. It really<br />
does.<br />
What’s new on the<br />
horizon for you?<br />
Love, lots of love, lots<br />
of smiling and laughing,<br />
lots of food and drink<br />
and meeting new people<br />
and creating lots of new<br />
sounds and ideas to<br />
share and bring people<br />
together. Happy Pride<br />
everyone!
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