World 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 girliends. The pair was close durg the early days of the band, but the legendary guarist sists he had no cl...
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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
I’m as gay as a daffodil, my ar! | Freddie Mercury Quote * gay as a daffodil *
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.