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    WILL YOUNG

    Mar 28, 2022 5 minutes

    My main preoccupation at 16 was basketball. I also loved art and music. I started doing a lot of my own art, inspired by what I saw when my grandmother took me to the Royal Academy. And I started watching a lot of MTV, particularly Trevor Nelson’s show. It was all about R&B pop for me – D’Angelo, Mary J Blige, Aaliyah. I would find a place in our sitting room to dance and watch myself in the mirror, singing into a hairbrush. So, I was already a narcissist. And, oh, I was so beautiful. Such a pretty boy.

    I was very content, really, in my own world – I think because I wasn’t engaging with my sexuality. That was definitely a conscious decision.

    Probably because I was at boarding school, so most of my time I was just among boys, and I didn’t feel safe enough to be

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