LGBTQ mic history is so much more than a timele of who me out when and which songs beme gay anthems -- ’s also about the artists who weren’t aaid to be themselv eras when dog so often had real risks attached.
Contents:
- FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
- 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
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(Image cred: Alamy)As a new box-set of Mercury’s solo work is released, Nick Leve nsirs the Queen legend’s myster inty – and his plex relatnship wh both his race and 1984, two years after the Gay Men’s Health Crisis anisatn was formed New York to bat Aids, Freddie Mercury sred his first solo h wh Love Kills. In his lifetime, Brish newspaper The Sun brand the sger a “bisexual rock star”, and recent years the media has equently referred to him as gay.
35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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” On another ocsn, he answered a siar qutn by sayg playfully: “I’m as gay as a daffodil, my ar! “I thk if Freddie were livg now the way he lived his own lifetime, we’d probably ll him ‘queer’ rather than ‘gay’ or ‘bisexual’, ” says Ryan Butcher, edor of LGBT webse PkNews.
His bandmate Brian May said 2008: “I know that all through his life Fred didn’t thk that whether he was gay or not was important. ” Aston also pots out that we readily embrace Judy Garland as a queer in “even though she didn’t make statements about anythg to do wh homophobia and LGBT acceptance” was so outrageoly mp, was almost like a double bluff – Mart AstonBy 1986, when Mercury and Queen gave their most inic performance at Live Aid, there were some openly gay performers the mastream; the UK’s biggt-sellg sgle that year was Don’t Leave Me This Way by the Communards, whose ontman Jimmy Somerville was proudly gay and highly engaged wh the LGBT-rights movement.
THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
Freddie Mercury and Mary At were engaged before the Queen star me out as gay, however the two remaed very close for the rt of their days, wh Freddie even wrg the famo song 'Love of My Life' about Mary." name="scriptn * singer of queen gay *
Sger Gee Michael remaed the closet, and Culture Club’s Boy Gee had navigated his first flh of fame a few years earlier by tong down his homosexualy.
Ryan Butcher go further, scribg Mercury as “almost a vert agent for the LGBT muny, droppg the ltle seeds of queer culture to the heterosexual mdset” the ‘80s, Mercury was known for his tight whe vts and motache – his take on the Castro Clone look that origated San Francis’s queer Castro district and beme popular the gay unrground, but which was ls faiar to mastream mic fans.