Comments on: I’ve decided that I’m average and I’m pretty OK with that

By: Josephine.ranck@gmail.com

Josephine.ranck@gmail.com — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:55:21 +0000

Hello Michael – in my opinion – this article is about u getting your 2 min of fame! And shame on Star observer for milking a dry cow – ie this topic has no meat!
James and Jamie R wonderful gay rights activists!
Please please stop this crazy vendetta against James – and support The Rainbow!
;-) love ya Breko xx

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:10:23 +0000

Michael, if you put as much effort in to understanding the situation that put Jamie in to the situation he’s in now – that is, the lack of understanding and empathy that police and law enforcement have with LGBT youth, not some naive desire for fame – then you’d have been able to write an article that contributed positively to the discussion, rather than simply a vanity piece reminding people that you were once famous too. Let Jamie have his fifteen minutes and be thankful that he has unwittingly probably prevented you and your friends from having their heads slammed in to the ground at next years Mardi Gras.

By: James Breko Brechney

James Breko Brechney — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:23:18 +0000

There was never any intention from myself or Jamie to earn nice big pay cheques out of anything – I tried to make that clear in my FIRST SENTENCE Michael!

Also, I’m not ‘desperately wrong’ – Jamie’s struggles were mentioned in response to Jesse Matheson’s assertions that he had all this ‘community support’ behind him when he did not. It was not about being owed anything. I really think you’ve taken that out of context.

I did, however, enjoy reading no less than 8 paragraphs exclusively about yourself and your showreel. Good luck to you.

I do hope Star’s assurance they won’t be posting another Op-Ed on this does not preclude someone who they should of really asked for a piece weeks ago – Jamie Jackson himself. As an aside, his recording career did not officially start today, somebody has leaked a version of his song on YouTube. If he will release a song you will have to ask him.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:34:15 +0000

You do realise that no one “gets” legal fees, right? That it means that Jamie’s lawyer has been paid but that’s it?

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:22:23 +0000

I’m not comfortable with the statement that Jamie Jackson is a nobody plucked from obscurity, considering what the kid had been thru. It seems to me that the gay community as a whole feels ‘entitled’ if it feels no need to empathize with a young gay teen who was literally bashed by police at the 2013 Mardi Gras parade. Maybe we’ve had it too good for too long, that we’d rather take the police’s viewpoint, and to hell with our fellow community members who ‘step out of line’ and find themselves getting treated disgracefully