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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Dee Jefferson

Panti Bliss: ‘The gays will never forgive me for that’

Panti Bliss in a skin-tight metallic blue dress and a massive blonde and pink wig, holding her hands on either side of her face and mugging for the camera
Panti Bliss in If These Wigs Could Talk. Photograph: Niall Sweeney/THISISPOPBABY

What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received?

There’s a saying that I first heard said by RuPaul: what other people think of you is none of your business. That is something that has helped me loads over the years. I get a lot of shit from the far right and I think it could have bothered me a lot more at times if I didn’t remind myself of that saying. And I like it because it’s not saying “ignore what other people say”; it’s almost giving you a telling off – it’s just none of your business. I think it makes it much easier to move through the world and not give a shit what other people think.

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