I’m as gay as a daffodil, my ar! | Freddie Mercury Quote
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I’M AS GAY AS A DAFFODIL, MY AR!
Gay as a daffodil. - Freddie Mercury quot at * gay as a daffodil *
Gay as a daffodil. On the route to self-disvery for a gay man om a reprsed background, there is often an terlu of havg a girliend.
The ternalised homophobia graed society at the time was highly prevalent and anyone who didn’t subscribe to tradnal masculy & heteronormativy would be hound about their sexual preference. In an terview, when asked about his sexualy, he replied: “I’m as gay as a daffodil, my ar. Beg openly gay and a public figure was taboo, news-worthy and even sndalo.
QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
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This refers to the man he once was, the straight closeted gay man.
Soclogist Gayle Rub’s rearch on the matter looks at how heteronormativy functns the service of stag a patriarchal genr bary. December 19, 2008World Entertament News Network reports that QUEEN guarist Brian May did not realize his bandmate Freddie Mercury was gay for years — bee the flamboyant star had a strg of pair was close durg the early days of the band, but the legendary guarist sists he had no clatn of Mercury's tells Bra's Daily Exprs, "No, I didn't know. I thk there was a slight spicn, but never occurred to me that he was gay.
" And even when the ontman, who died 1991, had e to terms wh his sexual orientatn, he beme well versed at avoidg the issue when asked adds, "I remember Freddie beg asked if he was gay one of his early terviews and he said: 'Y, darlg, of urse. I'm as gay as a daffodil'. "I know that all through his life Fred didn't thk that whether he was gay or not was important.