[CharlotteSometimes]

The outfit at the start of this thread is worthy of critique, given that he actually wore that in public. There are other pictures around of him in the queue outside a London night club. But as far as the pictures from Attitude magazine are concerned, the outfits would've been provided for him. When he agreed to do a feature for a gay lifestyle magazine, I'm sure the last thing he expected was to see those images plastered across the pages of a sleazy tabloid newspaper. In that context, his appearance was clearly a tad flamboyant. In the original context, it most certainly was not.

Some of the comments in this thread are frankly quite unnerving. Whether Kemal has anything tangible to offer remains to be seen. But popular culture would've been at a profound loss without mavericks such as Quentin Crisp, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Steve Strange, Boy George, Leigh Bowery, et al. As long as an individual isn't hurting others physically, sexually, emotionally, psychologically or spiritually, then live and let live. This is Britain 2005, not Salem 1692, after all.