He mentioned, “I keep in mind being at Manchester Satisfaction, going by way of the streets with all my boys, shaking my cha-chas, dwelling it up, after I noticed this girl who seemed precisely like my auntie. She wasn’t – however I knew she was Rwandan…It simply blew my thoughts that she was there. I can really feel myself getting emotional simply occupied with it. We had been holding arms, and he or she mentioned to me, ‘I don’t actually know why I’m right here. I’m simply right here.’ I advised her, ‘Honey, you don’t have to know. You completely. Don’t. Want. To. Know. You’re right here. Be pleased with who you might be.’ I had by no means met one other queer Rwandan individual earlier than. I assumed I used to be the one one on the planet.”
Reflecting on describing himself as queer within the Elle interview three months later, he advised British GQ, “It felt proper within the second. I’ve by no means been within the closet, you already know. I simply by no means talked about it. The work I do is what’s essential.”
